CIA Ordered Berets to Save Spy Too Late
A Vietnamese covert story reports Thai Khae Chuyen, a double agent tied to a Cambodia network, was killed by Green Berets in Nhatrang Bay after CIA officials discussed options to spare or use him. The Army later dropped charges against six Berets. The article details solitary confinement, drugged interrogation, a morphine dose, and a fatal drowning-like disposal, with final CIA orders to return him to duty arriving too late.
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Chuyen
CIA
Berets
Homer Bigart
New York
Abrams
Bunker
Saigon
Special Forces
Green Berets
Nhatrang
Thai Khae Chuyen
The
Cambodia
Green Bret
United States
Widow Paid 6472 in Green Beret Case Fallout
Saigon reports the United States paid 6472 to Phan Kim Lien, widow of Thai Khan Chuyen, amid claims eight U.S. Special Forces men killed him. The settlement via the Foreign Claims Commission follows murder charges being dropped, and the widow protested at the U.S. Embassy.
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Saigon
U.S
Green Beret
Phan Kim Lien
U.S. Foreign Claims Commission
Rivers Defended Accused Threatened Public Hearing
New York reports that eight Green Berets faced murder charges are dropped after Rep. Mendel Rivers pressed for public testimony before his House Armed Services Committee. Time magazine notes Rivers pressured top officials and threatened hearings while urging a court martial would be a mockery.
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Rivers
New York
Green Berets
Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
House Armed Services Committee
Time Magazine
Nixon
Bryce Harlow
The
Berets
Time
Harlow
House
Rheault Won't Talk to Press
Green Beret Col. Robert B. Rheault spent a quiet weekend with his family and declined to speak to reporters. He said he would travel to Washington soon to discuss the events that led to his arrest with officials.
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Brookline, Maza
UPI
Green Beret
Robert B. Rheault
Washington
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Resor
Packard
Laird
East Artes
West
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Schieffel
Rheault
Dale Carnegie
the Pacific Insitute
Portreat Studio
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Baliflower
Siscmne
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Losee
Honolulu
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