Feb 26-28: Hearts and Minds and the Vietnam Legacy

View: “Hearts and Minds” in class

Read for Feb 26:

· America Divided, 261-271, 282-285

· Vietnam and its Legacy, part 2 Outline

· Conspiracy to Oppose the War in Vietnam & Excerpt from “It Did Happen Here”

· Fort Hood Three

· Winter Soldier Investigation

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_13_3Marine.html

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_14_3Marine.html

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_15_3Marine.html

For Feb 28:

• Vietnam and its Legacy outline, part 3
• CIA acknowledgement (limited) of what it did in Chile and ties to repressive Pinochet regime http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20000919/index.html
• Chilean coup - brief summary http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19980911.htm click on the bottom of that page to go to http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm read that summary, then click on the bottom of that page to go to http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8.htm , read content of FBI report to National Security Council, National Security Decision Memorandum 93, Policy Towards Chile, November 9, 1970 and p. 4 of National Security Council, Options Paper on Chile (NSSM 97), November 3, 1970:
• Guardian story on corporate influence on Chilean policy http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3846394,00.html
• Documents with implications that the CIA was involved in killing of American citizen Charles Horman because of what he knew http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991008/index.html

• Kissinger & Indonesia/East Timor-Documents showing US complicity in the murderous Indonesian invasion of East Timor (see summary of document 4 and p. 9-12 of document 4 especially) http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/

• Kissinger and Suharto- Indonesia http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/Kissinger_Indonesia.html
• Kissinger, Pinochet and the obfuscation of history

http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010222.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/KissingerPinochet_Nation.html

RECOMMENDED

· All of the Winter Soldier testimony is recommended, but these are especially relevant:

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_06_1Marine.html and http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_07_1AirCav.html

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_08_1AirCav.html

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_entry.html

· SNCC position paper on VW http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_VN.html

· CIA in Cambodia http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Cambodia_KH.html

· When Nixon met Elvis http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/elvis/elnix.html

· The case for Kissinger as a War Criminal http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/PolPotKissinger_Herman.html

· Henry Kissinger Page http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/HKissinger.html

· Kissinger and East Timor http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/Kissinger_Indonesia.html

· For more on what we now know about the CIA's involvement in the dictatorship that developed after the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected government of Allende in Chile http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm

· Right-wing views on the Vietnam War-John Birch Society http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/index.htm