294 pages, 4 plates, cloth, dust jacket, 1st edition, very good. From the dust jacket: " Orrin DeForest was by far the United States' most successful spymaster in the struggle for information about the Vietcong's elusive presence in the villages and hamlets of South Vietnam. He and the men he trained proved indispensable for their work in relentlessly ferreting out the Vietcong and penetrating their shadowy organization. Amid the many failures of our doomed effort in Vietnam, DeForest's story is striking for its triumph. Deforest arrived in Saigon in 1968 as chief interrogation officer of Military Region Three. He was appalled by what he saw as he toured the provincial interrogation centers - methods were slipshod and brutal, and the agency had been unable to recruit a single Vietcong spy. Over the next few years DeForest revolutionized the system, putting together a legendary network of spies and counterspies that at one point supplied up to 80 percent of the CIA's hard intelligence in Vietnam."

UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CIA VIETNAM WAR PERSONAL