Lessons of Vietnam/Southeast Asia for the 1980s

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Moderator

Paul Holcomb
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Panelists

Mr. Douglas Blaufarb
Former Chief of Station, CIA, Vietnam; author, The Counterinsurgency Era: U.S. Doctrine & Performance, 1950 to the Present; Organizing and Managing Unconventional Warfare in Laos, 1960-70

From Counterinsurgency to Low-Intensity Conflict
Professor Noam Chomsky
M.I.T.; co-author, After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology

Lt. Gen. Robert Schweitzer
Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, 1983-86; Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations/Joint Affairs, the Pentagon, 1982-83; Staff Director, Defense Group, National Security Council, 1981

Mr. Frank Snepp
Chief of Strategy Analyst, CIA, Vietnam 1972-75; CIA operative, Europe, 1969-72; author, Decent Interval

The Counterproductivity of Covert Action for U.S. Interests and World Security
Mr. John Stockwell
Founder, Center for the Study of Covert Action (ARDIS); former head of Angolan Task Force, CIA; CIA case officer, Vietnam; author, In Search of Enemies: The CIA Story

Interlocutors:

Mr. Richard Betts
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; author, Soldiers, Statesmen and Cold War Crises; co-author, The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked; former staff member, the Church Committee on Intelligence

Investigative journalist; 1970 Pulitzer Prize, the My Lai massacre; Polk Awards - the secret bombing of Cambodia; the CIA and Chile; secret arms sales to Libya; author,

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