The Vietnam/Southeast Asian Experience: A Case Study

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Moderator

Matthew Thomas
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Panelists

The CIA in Southeast Asia
Mr. William Colby
Reid & Priest; Director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1973-76; author, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA

The Vietnam War as a Covert Operation
Mr. Daniel Ellsberg
Center for the Study of Covert Action (ARDIS); Senior liaison, American Embassy, South Vietnam, 1965-66; provided the pentagon papers to the Senate Foreign relations Committee and the New York Times in 1969

Beyond Vietnam: Other Covert Operations in Southeast Asia
Professor George McT. Kahin
Cornell University; Director, Cornell Modern Indonesia Project; author, Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam; Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia

The Phoenix Comes Home to Roost
Professor Ngo Vinh Long
University of Maine, Asian studies; fled Vietnam, 1964; currently researching a book on peasant revolutionary activities in Vietnam; author, Before the Revolution

You Got To Know Your Territory
Mr. Tom Polgar
Special Consultant, Intelligence and Covert Action, the Senate Select Committee on Iran/Contra; Chief of Station, CIA, South Vietnam, 1972-75

Interlocutors

Professor Paul Joseph
Tufts University; author, Cracks in the Empire: State Politics and the Vietnam War; co-editor, Search for Sanity: Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament

Mr. Charles Mohr
Reporter,New York Times, Washington Bureau; 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner, explanatory journalism; Vietnam correspondent, New York Times, Time Magazine 1962-73

Col. Nestor Pino-Marina
Staff officer, International Staff, Inter-American Defense Board; paratrooper commander, Bay of Pigs; former Special Forces officer, Vietnam and Laos