In testimony to the senate subcommittee on preparedness investigations, Robert Strange McNamara expresses his doubts that the Vietnamese-American War can be won.
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While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Vietnam, “united in … determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom,” J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, orders COINTELPRO expanded to include civil rights groups and African-American nationalist groups.
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James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 309.
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