Very Rare Original Patch

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency - ARVN, PRU Command

Phoenix Assassaination Program

Measures - 3.2 inches in diameter (8 cms) - Original and rare Vietnam War Patch

The CIA-backed Phoenix Program (programme) (1967–1972) was a South Vietnamese internal security and counter-insurgency effort designed to identify, neutralise, and dismantle the Viet Cong Infrastructure through intelligence collection, infiltration, arrest, interrogation, defection inducement, and targeted killing, coordinated by the CIA with South Vietnamese police and military units and supported by U.S. advisers; official South Vietnamese figures claimed about 81,700 Viet Cong were “neutralised,” of whom roughly 26,000–28,000 were reported killed, with the remainder captured or defected, but the program became notorious for widespread abuses including misidentification, torture, extrajudicial killings, and the targeting of civilians and local officials, leading critics, journalists, and later congressional inquiries to characterise many of the deaths as political assassinations and to argue that the true civilian toll was likely higher than acknowledged, while defenders contended the figures were inflated by body-count practices and that Phoenix primarily disrupted insurgent networks rather than constituting a systematic assassination campaign.

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