Somestimes you're wrong sometimes you're right!

Case 9:

“A young NOC officer who once worked with me had a developmental contact who loved western porn movies. We thought at first that this would be a vulnerability we could exploit. We set up a purchase mechanism to procure porn movies in the US, ship them to the Case Officer and then “sell” them to the contact. We hoped to discover that he was doing something elicit with these movies and then take advantage of some opportunity to have his Case Officer ostensibly collude with him, then use a second Case Officer to threaten to expose “them” if “they” did not cooperate.

“The first Case Officer would take the initiative to favorably resolve the matter for himself and the contact. We wanted to put the first Case Officer in the same position with the contact in the hope that the contact may then be obliged to the first Case Officer for getting him out of a potentially serious situation. Our plan, however, fell flat on its face when we learned that the contact was giving the porn movies to a general who was a Senior Defense Attache at his Embassy. The general, in turn, was showing them to the Ambassador and other senior diplomats. Looking at the situation comically the CIA was a porn provider to the staff of a foreign embassy”.

Case 10:

“While stationed in Vietnam as a Special Operations counterinsurgency officer, a Montagnard courier I had servicing a dead drop failed to make contact with me for a period of several weeks. Worried, I decided to go to his hamlet to check with his mother as to his whereabouts. My Montagnard interpreter knew the courier and his family, so I had him accompany me. I loaded a truck with rice and blankets and we struck out for the hamlet that was in no-man’s land, an area right on the verge of Viet Cong controlled territory. Unfortunately, we learned the courier had been killed by the communist.

So we soon started our drive back. A few hundred yards outside the hamlet we were suddenly stopped by an old Montagnard man with an SKS carbine, the type used by the communist. I felt terror in the pit of my stomach!

“My interpreter started to reach for his weapon to shoot the man but I stopped him, told him not to act suspiciously, just to ask the man what he wanted. Meanwhile I slid my 45 caliber pistol into position to shot the man if he exhibited any hostility. Here you have to understand the Montagnard people, especially the older ones. They lack any formal education. They are a simple people caught in the middle of the political struggle and had no love for either the Vietnamese government or the communist. They do what is necessary to survive.

The old man just simply responded to our questions that he was the road guard for the revolutionary (communist) soldiers who were in a valley not far away having a meeting. He was supposed to keep watch for government soldiers and fire his weapon in the air if he saw any. He asked us if we had seen any government soldiers to which we responded that we had not but that as we drove on down the road we would blow our horn to warn him if government soldiers were in the area. He was thankful for our offer to help. We drove on around the bend in the road, sounded the horn and hit the accelerator to get out of there. Shortly, we heard his warning shots”.