[IMC-DC] Fwd: FC: CIA's secret Phoenix Project documents on The Memory Hole

[matthew bradley]

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> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> Date: Tue May 27, 2003  1:27:27  PM US/Eastern
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> Subject: FC: CIA's secret Phoenix Project documents on The Memory Hole
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> From: "Russ Kick" <russ at mindpollen.com>
> To: declan at well.com
> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:03:41 -0500
> Subject: Documents on CIA's Phoenix Project posted on The Memory Hole
>
> Hi Declan--
>
> This might be of interest to readers of Politech........
>
> -Russ-
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>
> 27 May 2003
> Russ Kick, pub-editor of the Memory Hole [russ at mindpollen.com]
>
> http://www.thememoryhole.org/phoenix/
>
> Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at
> "neutralizing"--through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic
> torture--the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong
> insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution"
> that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas
> of human morality.
>
> The CIA destroyed its copies of the documents related to this
> program, but the creator of Phoenix gave his personal copies to
> author Douglas Valentine. He, in turn, has given them to The Memory
> Hole. They have never previously been published, online or in print.
>
> These extremely rare and revealing documents are being posted at The
> Memory Hole, a Website dedicated to rescuing knowledge and freeing
> information. The site's publisher and editor, Russ Kick, says: "I had
> worked with Doug before, and I knew that he had lots of documents on
> Phoenix, one of the CIA's most controversial and hushed-up programs.
> When I asked if I could post them, he immediately agreed. He was even
> kind enough to write introductions to each document and to Phoenix in
> general especially for the site."
>
> Kick continues: "This is exactly the type of material I had in mind
> when I created The Memory Hole last July. The mainstream media is
> terrified of this story and won't touch it with a 10-foot pole. I
> think it was during a segment on Senator Bob Kerrey that '60 Minutes'
> made a hit-and-run reference to Phoenix, saying something like, 'The
> full story of this program has yet to be told.' Then the narration
> went on to other things. That was it--one or two sentences, and I'm
> yelling at the TV: 'Then why don't you tell the whole story?' The
> primary documents are available. A lot of the people involved are
> still alive. Several books about it have been written (of course,
> they've been published by independent publishers). This is obviously
> something that frightens the media, and the CIA has tried to erase it
> by destroying the documents. What better subject for The Memory
> Hole?"
>
> Currently, the site contains fourteen multi-page documents, and more
> will be posted in the coming months.
>
> http://www.thememoryhole.org/phoenix/
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