The Phoenix Program
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The Phoenix Program
| Project Name : | The Phoenix Program |
|---|---|
| Inception Date: | 1967 |
The Phoenix Program was just one of the stories to come out of The Vietnam War, an operation initially kicked off by the CIA (in collaboration with Australia and South Vietnam) in 1967. Although U.S. involvement was abandoned only two years after being implemented, The Phoenix Program is remembered today for its laser-focused mission statement: to destroy the Viet Cong. Targeted killings, torture, terrorism, and more were all on the table during The Phoenix Program, and the project faced intense criticism, once details of its implantation were finally made public. It was “officially” shut down in 1972, but continued under a new name, Plan F-6, by the South Vietnamese government.
