FC: Thomas Lipscomb on CIA Phoenix Project, U.S. history

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Thomas Lipscomb" <tomlipscomb () mindspring com>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: CIA's secret Phoenix Project documents on The Memory Hole
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 03:04:50 -0400

Declan.....

Kindly don't get too excited at this kind of over the hill Marxist
museum crap.

There was a Phoenix program...and compared to what Castro has going on
every day it is 3.2 beer. And compared to the VC village destabilization
program it was like Disneyland in comparative toxicity.

And it was a war, now, wasn't it? And the VC were killing civilians like
there was no tomorrow in that war.

So destabilizing the VC led to their final destruction in Tet in 68.

It has NOTHING to do with the Homeland Security laws today. Just a nice
old Red-diaper delusion.... that this silly ass clearly has fallen for.

Phoenix had its excesses...so did the Clinton Administration with Waco
and Ruby Ridge....

But the idea there is some consistent plot is lunatic.

You shouldn't be putting this hysterical nonsense out without context

Xin loi

Tom

Thomas H. Lipscomb
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Suite 3D
New York NY 10021
212-794-3636

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From: "Thomas Lipscomb" <tomlipscomb () mindspring com>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: More on CIA's secret Phoenix Project
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:27:46 -0400

Declan--

I don't know what Politech is doing hosting this kind of historical
nonsense. This is just rancid red ranting left over from the last
century.

One might as well be "shocked, shocked..." at the activities of the OSS
in WWII.

Of course the reason the Phoenix program has your last two
correspondents' knickers all twisted is that it was directed at THEIR
heroes... the Communists who murdered a mere 100 million people in the
last century, according to The Black Book published in France last year,
and made the Nazis look like small time hoods.

I really think you should post some notice of this rather than run a
one-sided account of the sameold sameold charges we have heard hundreds
of times on every occasion the United States exercised power.



Thomas H. Lipscomb




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