Rufus Phillips
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Rufus Phillips, Born in rural Virginia
and educated at Yale
, was a young C.I.A. officer in Saigon in the 1950s. He was a protege of the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale
. Phillips was one af the architects of the Chieu Hoi program to persuade Vietcong fighters to defect.
Phillips is the author of Why Vietnam matters: an eyewitness account of lessons not learned. He is a regular guest on The John Batchelor Show and discusses topics on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
and educated at Yale
YALE
RapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications...
, was a young C.I.A. officer in Saigon in the 1950s. He was a protege of the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale
Edward Lansdale
Edward Geary Lansdale was a United States Air Force officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency. He rose to the rank of Major General and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1963. He was an early proponent of more aggressive US actions in...
. Phillips was one af the architects of the Chieu Hoi program to persuade Vietcong fighters to defect.
Phillips is the author of Why Vietnam matters: an eyewitness account of lessons not learned. He is a regular guest on The John Batchelor Show and discusses topics on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.