ORDERS are ORDERS

di Edmund Aiken (Autore)

Elliot Actor, 2023

Most of us have heard about “Black Operations” where our servicemen engage in covert missions around the globe such as the Seal Team 6 takedown of Osama Bin Laden. The reason we hear about these missions is that there are almost always press leaks. One mission that amazingly was not leaked and has remained secret for over 50 years is the Marine Corps Recon involvement in “Operation Phoenix” in North Vietnam back in 1958-59. That was six years before the start of the Vietnamese War, and in fact, this unlawful action might even have been the trigger for the Vietnam War. “Operation Phoenix” was the inane creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When first implemented before the War, it was their solution to stopping the spread of communism in Vietnam. Based on their distorted logic, they concluded the best method to use was to parachute Marines into the larger towns and villages in North Vietnam and have them kill all the people there that were teaching the communist doctrine. This book is in two distinctive parts. The first part is the story of a boy and girl that have just graduated from Stanford, who ended up traveling to North Vietnam due to the boy’s dying mother’s urgings to investigate the mysterious death of her father, a Marine, who died there in 1959. During their investigation, they accidentally discover the amazing memoir of a young Marine executed for multiple counts of murder in Hanoi 48 years earlier The second part is the document they found. It is based on the actual memoir of a Marine Sharpshooter (Sniper) and provides his detailed accounting of those covert black operations in North Vietnam. It starts with a glimpse of this young man's childhood that led up to his joining the Marines and his training and progression eventually becoming a Sharpshooter in Marine Corps Recon. It then follows his later personal experiences conducting those illegal “Black Operations” with his Recon Team.

• Autore: Edmund Aiken
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 06:13:47
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: Elliot Actor
• EAN: 1230006451110

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