Mustang Report # 12

There
is no other way to look at it. When the enemy is given a place to attack from
and return to with immunity by the very leaders who send their men to fight and
die in battle, those leaders are guilty of aiding and abetting the enemy.

We were fortunate in 1965 in South Vietnam when a real man of courage stepped forward to protect
his people, the 64,000 Hoa Haos who called An Phu District their home. He
carried a demand to the IV Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Quang Van Dang,
that he be allowed to lead his men against the Communist forces, to follow them
in hot pursuit into Cambodia and to effectively deny the enemy sanctuary within
mortar range of irregular forces. These brave fighters were all of the Hoa Hao
Sect of the Buddhist religion. That leader was Major Phoi Van Le, my
counterpart when I was sent in to An Phu to command the first top secret
irregular force operations against the enemy inside their Cambodian
sanctuaries.

President Johnson, perhaps unaware
of what Major Le had achieved in the way of “special permission” to actually
take the war to the enemy, maintained his tough and unequivocal policy of permitting
the enemy safe-havens, a point well proven during an early August, 1966
briefing of Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson by Lieutenant Colonel
Brewer, commander of Special Forces Team B-42 in Chau Doc, South Vietnam. As
Colonel Brewer was briefing General Johnson, with all of Brewer’s staff and A
team commanders present, General Johnson interrupted and demanded to know what
the yellow highlighted areas inside Cambodia represented. “The yellow represents known VC
sanctuaries” Brewer responded. In an angry tone and directing as ridiculous an
order as any of us in that room could imagine, being each one of us had faced
enemy who attacked our areas from those very same sanctuaries, General Johnson
interrupted again, “Remove them from the map, Colonel. The President of the United States has told the American people that Cambodia does not permit its territory to be used by the
enemy.”

An uneasy stillness followed.
Colonel Brewer was stunned. Looking directly at the General, he said, “The
sanctuaries are real, General, and what you see here is based on good
intelligence.” He went on to explain that the officers sitting behind him, of
whom I was one, could verify the sanctuary existence in those areas. General
Johnson, whom we all knew despised those of us who wore the Green Beret,
ignoring the truth, again told Colonel Brewer to remove the sanctuaries from
his operations map, concluding, “The President of the United States has told
the American People that Cambodia has not allowed its territory to be used by
the enemy.” Then, as if to add some sort of verbal “encouragement” (I believe a
threat) General Johnson rose from his chair, walked over to Colonel Brewer and
whispered in his ear.

Enemy sanctuaries were removed from
the map! I was then convinced in my heart and mind that from the White House
down to General Westmoreland, there stood a bunch of weak-kneed military officers
and civilian leaders unable to exercise honorable judgment and lacking the
courage to demand the enemy no longer be given refuge. In my judgment they were directly responsible
for the majority of the Americans, South Vietnamese, and other allies killed or
wounded in that war and there is no doubt in my mind that it was those same
cowardly, unpatriotic military and civilian leaders who caused the nation of
South Vietnam to vanish from the face of the earth. Shame on each and every
one!

In a vain attempt to silence me and
bankrupt me and my publisher the Special Forces Association developed a lawsuit
with six of the seven plaintiffs being obviously intimidated former members of
US Army Special Forces Team A-424 when I was its commander. All of these men
were heroic Green Berets as indeed they were in 1966 when under my command as is
told in my book Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare. Each
had to have succumbed to intimidation by those within the Special Forces
Association, the Special Operations Command or the Central Intelligence Agency
who wanted the truth in my book buried.
The aiding of the enemy, the CIA's plot to assassination a nation's
leader and actual attempts to kill me and those who served with me (Americans
and South Vietnamese alike) was to be hidden from the public. The $700,000.00
plus lawsuit was directed at my publisher, Kris Millegan and myself. Two of the three attorneys for the plaintiffs
had represented Special Forces for a number of years and no doubt hoped we
would not show up in court. We took on the unconventional giants with our Lord
at our side and with the truth as our defense. We won victory over the evil that attempted to
silence us and we published the Victory Edition of Expendable Elite with
more than 100 added pages covering the trial and showing a great deal of
evidence we used in our defense.

I have written the Commanding Generals of the US Army
Combined Arms Center and the US Special Operations Command, the Commandant of
the US Army War College and the Superintendent of the US Military Academy at
West Point asking that they take action to instruct/brief staff and students as
applicable regarding our aiding and abetting of the enemy in their training
and/or education programs. I also asked that they provide me a copy of their
recommendations to their higher commands (DA/DOD) regarding the forbidding of
any aiding or abetting of the enemy and outlawing any actions taken to kill our
own military personnel and thus far have not heard so much as a recognition of
the fact they received my correspondence which included a signed copy of the Victory
Edition of Expendable Elite. I
have also provided Congressman Ron Paul with the complete set of information
and my book, suggesting that he spearhead a drive to demand we no longer aid
the enemy.

I would hope and pray that each of
you who reads this Mustang Report has the courage to write your Congressmen and
Senators and insist they pass the needed laws to assure the safety of our armed
forces, by way of protecting them from what has in the past been illegal and
immoral actions of our own government. If you do, please copy me at P.O. Box 538, Cazenovia, NY 13035.

Please feel free to share this
complete document with any person or organization you so desire. It is the
truth and the truth shall make you free.

©2007 LTC Daniel Marvin, US
Army Special Forces (Retired)