Robert Slater person
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target the Phoenix program that was being set up by the U.S. CIA and the military. So the VCI duty expert had the name of Robert Slater, S-L-A-T-E-R. He was a Marine captain on a contract to the CIA from 1967 to 1969.…
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And he wrote, quote, in over three years in Vietnam, I knew of no province party secretary ever being captured, unquote. Why were they so hard to kill? And then he says, quote, since he is the most important Viet Cong slash Viet Minh commit…
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Access to him is limited to province and district committee members only. This is to prevent any attempted assassination by the U.S., unquote. High on the list of these district party secretaries in Slater's words were, quote, the indispens…
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Armed and always on the move, the DPS usually does not sleep in the same house or even the same hamlet where his family lives. This precludes injury to his family during assassination attempts or U.S. raids. Such precautions did not always …
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Slater goes on to say, quote, the allies have frequently found out where district party secretaries live and raided their homes. In an ensuing firefight, the secretary's wife and children are slaughtered, unquote. The village party secretar…