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7th Triennial Vietnam Symposium

10 March - 12 March 2011
Overton Hotel and Conference Center - Lubbock, Texas

The views and opinions expressed in these papers, presentations, and videos are strictly those of the presenters and authors and do not represent The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, or the State of Texas.

Friday, October 20th

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8:00 AM-8:30 AM Opening Remarks: Reception/Break/Other

Moderator: Dr. James Reckner, Director, The Vietnam Center


  • Dr. Donald Haragan , Interim Chancellor, Texas Tech University


  • David Robarge , Center for the Study of Intelligence

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8:30 am-10:00 am Session 1: The CIA in Vietnam

Moderator: David Robarge, Center for the Study of Intelligence

  • Rural Pacification as a Window on the Outcome of the War
    Tom Ahern

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  • The Intelligence-Policy Interface on Vietnam
    George Allen

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  • The Most Famous Unknown Agents of the Vietnam War
    Merle Pribbenow

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Part 2

10:15 AM-12:00 PM Session 2: The Phoenix Program

Moderator: Dr. Mark Moyar

  • The Phoenix Program - One Member's Prespective from Vietnam to 2006
    General Patrick Hughes

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  • The Phung Hoang (Phoenix) Program
    Col. John Haseman

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  • The Tay Ninh PRU and its Role in the Phoenix Program, 1969-1970
    Col Andrew Finlayson

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12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch: Reception/Break/Other

  • OSS Operations in Indochina
    Rene Defourneaux

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Part 1

Part 2

1:30 PM-3:15 PM Session 3: Early French and US Intelligence Operations and Issues

Moderator: Dr. William Marcy, Provost, Texas Tech University

  • Intelligence Fit for Purpose: French Intelligence in Indochina 1950-1954
    Dr. Alexander Zervoudakis

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  • Terrorism as a Component of Insurgency during the Era of Ngo Dinh Diem
    Dr. Geoffrey Shaw

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  • The Interagency Intelligence Disputes of 1963
    Dr Mark Moyar

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3:30 PM-5:00 PM Session 4: Technology and Intelligence

Moderator: William Williams, NSA

  • Reinventing SIGINT Support to the Cockpit during the Korean and Vietnam Wars
    Sharon Maneki

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  • Fixing Dragon's Eyes: Chinese Anti-aircraft Radar Operations in North Vietnam
    Dr. Xiao-Bing Li

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  • Technology and People's War: U.S. Efforts to Disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1966-1968
    Timothy Castle

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7:00 PM-9:00 PM Banquet: Reception/Break/Other

  • The Soviet Union and Intelligence Activities in the US During the Vietnam War
    Major General Oleg Kalugin

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Saturday, October 21st

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Part 1

Part 2

8:15 AM-10:15 AM Session 5: Strategic and Tactical Intelligence and the Formulation and Execution of Policy

Moderator: George Allen, CIA, Ret.

  • Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam
    John Sullivan

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  • Tet 1968 - Anatomy of an Intelligence Failure
    Dr. James Willbanks

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  • Vietnam Intelligence on Trial: William C. Westmoreland v. CBS et al
    Michael Hiam

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  • Sihanoukville and Cambodia - The Key Intelligence Issue after Tet 1968
    Dr. John Prados

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10:30 AM-12:00 PM Session 6: The Secret War in Laos

Moderator: Tom Ahren, Center for the Study of Intelligence

  • The Thai PARU and the War in Laos
    Bill Lair

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  • The War in Laos
    Hugh Tovar

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  • Special Operations in Laos: Are There Lessons to be Learned Applicable to the Global War on Terrorism?
    Tom Briggs

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12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch: Reception/Break/Other

  • Lost in Translation: American PSYOPS and Intelligence in Vietnam
    Dr. Robert J. Kodosky

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Part 1

Part 2

1:30 PM-3:30 PM Session 7: Vietnamese and Soviet Intelligence Operations - During and After the War

Moderator: James Reckner, Director, Vietnam Center

  • From the PLAF Perspective: Pham Xuan An and the Battle of Ap Bac
    Dr. Larry Berman

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  • Through a Glass Darkly: American and North Vietnamese Intelligence and the Easter Offensive
    Dr. Stephen Randolph

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  • Post-Vietnam War Soviet Intelligence and Counter Intelligence Operations in Asia
    Lt. Col. Konstantin Preobrazhensky

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3:30 PM-4:30 PM Closing: Conference Wrap-up and General Discussion