Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. Pow Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War - Couverture rigide

Veith, George J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684835142 ISBN 13 : 9780684835143

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1998

Synopsis

A former Army Captain reveals the extensive and risky operations of the U.S. military to identify, locate and recover Vietnam-era American POW/MIAs, through personal diaries, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence and combat officers. 20,000 first printing.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The history of the U.S. POW/MIA intelligence and wartime rescue operations has long remained concealed under the shroud of national security, unknown both to the public and to the families of the missing. George J. Veith has assembled an extensive range of previously unseen material, including recently declassified NSA intercepts, State Department cables, and wartime interrogation reports which reveal how the U.S. military conducted a centralized effort to identify, locate, and rescue its POW/MIAs.

Code-Name Bright Light also traces the development of the various national POW intelligence operations and provides an in-depth look at the activities of the Joint Personnel Recovery Center, a secretive and highly classified unit in South Vietnam responsible for rescuing captives. Further, it uncovers one of the most tightly held POW/MIA secrets, the primary reason why the government did not think any Americans were left behind: a clandestine communication program between the POWs and the U.S. military. This still-sensitive program provided the identities and locations of American prisoners, defeating North Vietnamese efforts to keep their names and locations secret.

The raids and efforts that make up the narrative of Code-Name Bright Light succeeded in freeing hundreds of South Vietnamese soldiers but resulted in the rescue of few Americans. The vast network of efforts, however, is a testament to the U.S. military's unknown commitment to freeing its captive soldiers. Veith concludes that the United States secretly went as far as any army could go in freeing captives in this type of wartime situation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684835142
• ISBN 13: 9780684835143
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible