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Phoenix Program

FILE DATE 1965
CROSS-REFS 03
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
Neutralization by quota in Vietnam. The word 'neutralize' did heavy lifting in the reports.
FULL DOSSIER
The Phoenix Program (1965-72): CIA-coordinated 'neutralization' of the Viet Cong infrastructure — Colby testified to Congress (1971) to 20,587 killed under the program by that point; South Vietnamese figures ran higher. Documented abuses (quota-driven detentions, torture at provincial interrogation centers) appear in the hearings record and participant accounts (Valentine's interviews). The node grounds the archive's assassination-program thread: the vocabulary ('neutralize'), the metrics, and the congressional paper trail all exist.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Colby testimony (1971)
02Valentine, 'The Phoenix Program' (1990)
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
CIAGULF OF TONKINOPERATION WANDERING SOUL
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