The Longest War: The Assassination Plan on General Westmoreland

The Longest War: The Assassination Plan on General Westmoreland

Shortly after certain official offices became aware of a plan to
assassinate then United States Army Chief of Staff, four star General
William C. Westmoreland -- during a 'fact-finding mission' for
President Richard M. Nixon in June, 1970 -- officially sponsored and
funded machinations began to discredit, decertify and denounce the
soldiers who were either involved in the plan or knowledgeable of the
plan.

"De-certification" of top-secret military operations and the men who
served, whether sanctioned or unsanctioned, is common knowledge to
those Americans who performed highly classified duties or missions in
Vietnam... a war that was not just a 'grunt' conflict dotted with
'Hamburger Hills' or 'LZ X-Ray's, but the democratic Western world's
HQ for Euro-Asian anti-communist operations. Only recently are some of
those ops being made public.

On his route to meet with the ARVN commanding general of South
Vietnam's capitol zone, General William C. Westmoreland smartly
returned salute to a small group of American soldiers as he paraded,
solitarily, thru a spaciously, inept ARVN guard personally assembled
by ARVN IIICTZ commanding (LtGen) general Bao Tri to 'protect' him.

At the time, General Westmoreland was not aware that one of the young,
twenty-year old Army enlisted men to whom he returned his salute was
the same communications specialist his ACOS office had, several months
earlier, forwarded a Presidential 'find and secure' order to MACV. On
order from the Commander-in-Chief, through H.R. Haldemann, the Dept of
the Army was commanded to secure the whereabouts and safety of that
Army specialist (who, at the time had been re-located to a Green Beret
camp in Xuan Loc serving with IIICTZ Command HQ resulting from a death
order by ARVN IICTZ commander Tri.)

During the remainder of that Army specialist's tour General Tri
survived. However, shortly after the specialist's DEROS Tri was
assassinated... an event the General had somberly forecast on the same
day he demanded that MACV assign the Army specialist to certain death
hazardous duty for accidentally 'injuring' his protective shrine.

The Westmoreland assassination plan can be reviewed in Chapter Twelve
of "Cannon Fodder: Growing Up For Vietnam" at URL:

http://members.aol.com/WarLib/cf.htm

Then the headquarters for Pacific region anti-communist intelligence
operations directed to thwart and contain the empirialistic goals led
and financed by Red China and the Soviet Union, hundreds of allied and
American military and intelligence activities conducted during the
Vietnam War fell within a complex myriad of deception, cloak and
dagger, and 'black bag' operations well outside the knowledge or
awareness of those who knew only what little they saw or came into
contact with. The men involved in those secret affairs -- many of them
specially selected and trained-- will forever remain the
well-financed, concentrated target of efforts to silence that aspect
of the war and the men involved... termed 'de-certification'.


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Otis Willie
Associate Librarian
The American War Library
http://www.americanwarlibrary.com