How CIA manipulated press coverage of Vietnam

Frank Snepp was a CIA agent who arrived in Vietnam in 1969 and stayed on until he was evacuated as Saigon fell in 1975.  He spent a good deal of time working with the press while there and developed the ability to plant stories in major media outlets like the New York Times, the New Yorker, the LA Times, Chicago Daily News and others that supported the Agency’s goals.

He revealed how he did it in a book, Decent Interval, and in the above 1983 interview.

Does the CIA still do this?  The interview doesn’t prove that they do.  But why would they stop?

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Does the CIA Still Do That? by Thomas Neuburger for God’s Spies.

Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Frank Snepp, Vietnam War