Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam - Softcover

Snepp, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700612130 ISBN 13: 9780700612130

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 2002

Synopsis

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America's final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIA's cause but was disillusioned by the agency's treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quarter-century later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.

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About the Author

Frank Snepp spent eight years in the CIA, five of them as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief CIA strategy analyst in the Saigon embassy. His second book, Irreparable Harm (see page 26), recounts the Supreme Court case that emerged from the CIA's efforts to punish Snepp for publishing Decent Interval. A freelance writer and cable television producer, he currently works as an investigative reporter for ABC's "20/20" television news magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700612130
• ISBN 13: 9780700612130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632