None So Blind

A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam

By: George W. Allen

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Hardcover | 28 August 2001

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From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to understand the nature of the fierce Communist-led struggle to create a unified, independent Vietnam. American intelligence played a key role in gathering information on the political and military situation in Vietnam and on the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. But as George Allen shows in this eye-popping memoir, intelligence appraisals were consistently ignored or rejected by policymakers in every administration from Eisenhower through Nixonâ"because these assessments undermined the mistaken assumptions of the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon. From his vantage point as a chief official with the CIA and army intelligence, Mr. Allen reveals specifically how American leaders, unwilling to face up to âbad newsâ from intelligence sources, largely excluded intelligence from important policy deliberations until it was too late. None So Blind is a remarkable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War.

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He tells (what seems like) all in this wide-ranging, illuminating memoir.--Publishers Weekly

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Taste of War	p. 3
The French in Indochina	p. 8
A Growing U.S. Involvement	p. 43
After the Geneva Accords	p. 68
The View from Pearl Harbor	p. 100
At the Center of Policymaking	p. 125
Politics in the Countryside	p. 137
At the CIA	p. 166
Assignment in Saigon	p. 180
Escalation	p. 208
The Public Opinion Campaign	p. 234
Counting the Enemy	p. 243
The Tet Surprise	p. 255
The End of My Tunnel	p. 268
The U.S. Failure in Vietnam	p. 281
Index	p. 287
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