"Internal Security in South Vietnam - Phoenix"
The Vietnamese finally got behind Phoenix with the Tet Offensive of February 1968. A directive (No. 89-Th.T/VP/M) had been prepared by the Prime Minister on 20 December 1967, and following the first Tet Offensive it was signed by Dang Van Minh on 5 March 1968. As noted, many VCI were captured or killed by the ICEX/Phoenix apparatus during this general uprising, including many of President Nguyen Van Thieu's political opponents.
After the dust had settled, In November 1968, CORDS Director William Colby launched his Accelerated Pacification Campaign, the centerpiece of Nixon and Kissinger's "Vietnamization" policy, in which responsibility for the counterinsurgency was ostensibly passed to the Republic of Vietnam. Accelerated Pacification was subdivided into military security (combating main force operations), territorial security (organizing the Vietnamese locally to fight VC guerrillas), and political security, which meant Phoenix, the CIA's two-track program to 1) destroy the VCI and 2) ensure the political stability of the Thieu regime by insulating him from the backlash of his repressive policies. The Accelerated Pacification purpose of Phoenix was to weaken the link between the people and the VCI, while the political Phoenix was designed to exploit that link.
Concurrent with Accelerated Pacification, Phoenix advisers were assigned a nationwide quota of 1,800 VCI neutralizations a month, which were tabulated through the Viet Cong Infrastructure Information System. VCIIS compiled information gathered from all US, Republic of Vietnam, and Free World units on VCI boundaries, locations, organizational structures, personalities, and activities. (In January 1969, VCIIS was renamed the Phung Hoang Management Information System. Phung Hoang was how the South Vietnamese referred to their facet of the CIA's Phoenix Program.)
With the advent of Accelerated Pacification and Vietnamization, and the acceptance of the Phoenix Program by the Vietnamese, two things happened. First, the CIA decided to withdraw its programs from the Phoenix, and formally did so in June 1969, although anyone the CIA could use as a penetration agent into the upper echelons of the VCI was spun out of the Phoenix Program and handed over to the CIA. The CIA created a special unit of analysts under the management of CIA officer George Weisz specifically for this purpose, and thus Phoenix became a massive screening operation for the CIA. Second, the Phoenix Program went public in August 1969, and in October the Phoenix Directorate launched its Popular Information Program, a psychological warfare campaign to recruit informants, make Phoenix seem popular, and attack the VCI, all under the banner of "Protecting the People from Terrorism." Psychological warfare operations in support of Phoenix were such a potent weapon that in August 1970, the Pentagon described Phoenix as its "number one Psyops priority."
Peace negotiations were in process, however, and despite the propaganda, at the local level district and village chiefs were reluctant to target and kill members of the VCI, because, if a settlement was reached with the Provisional Revolutionary Government (which had been formed in June 1969 to represent the Communists in the peace negotiations), the VCI would soon have legal status. Thus, the CIA used Phoenix to ensure the political stability of the Thieu regime by insulating him from the backlash of his repressive policies, and his reluctance to negotiate in good faith with the Communists.
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http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:gdsidnjq30IJ:www.thememoryhole.org/phoenix/internal-security.htm+Operation+phoenix&hl=en"Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino
Mr. Aquino is, as Jonathan Vankin puts it with major understatement in Conspiracies, Cover-ups, and Crimes, "an odd bird with thought-provoking connections." A former member of the Church of Satan, he even freaked out Anton LaVey so much that he wisely booted his ass out. That was hardly a setback for Aquino, who formed his more secretive (and more disturbingly serious) Temple of Set soon after. Perhaps what disturbed LaVey so much was Aquino's fixation on Nazism, an obsession so great that he carried out a black magic ceremony at Wewelsburg Castle, which Himmler was using as a home base for a planned mystical order. Aquino soon became part of conspiracy lore when he became the center of a child molestation investigation at a military day care center at San Francisco's Presidio (which is now, suspiciously enough, run by former KGB-man and current NWO cheerleader Mikhail Gorbachev.)
Officially, the investigation failed to turn up any evidence that he or his "Temple" was involved in child molestation, and he sued the city for defamation of character. The reality is the investigation turned up lots of evidence, and there is little doubt of his guilt by many who have actually looked into it. So then, why were no charges filed against him?
To answer that question, another question has to be asked: what the hell is a Satanic priest doing at a military base in the first place, to even be accused of the crimes alleged? Despite Pentagon denials of him even being in the Army when the Presidio scandal hit, it turns out that Mr. Aquino had Top Secret security clearance, and had been a psychological warfare specialist for military intelligence at least since the time of the Vietnam War. In fact, he was co-author of a report titled "From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory", which advocates the usage of Electromagnetic fields, ionized air, and ELF waves to control mass populations. Of course, this is but a hint of his influence: according to The Franklin Coverup, by John DeCamp, he is one of the masterminds of Project Monarch, a mind kontrol operation that involves satanic cults and brainwashing of children. In fact, it is very likely that whatever was going on at Presidio is precisely linked to this operation."
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