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Once You've Broken Him down
Sahlins, Marshall | October 25, 1965 issue

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The final stages of American dissolution in Vietnam will be marked by imitation of the enemy's techniques. According to the author, he found two Americans who had appropriated to their use draconic Chinese methods of interrogation and indoctrination. The two Americans were leaders of a motivation team working among Vietnamese Popular Forces. Its program was anti-Communist revolution, and to train Popular Forces as revolutionary cadres. In this article the author discusses his conversation with the two Americans about torture and the transformation of Vietcong prisoners to anti-communism.

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VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners & prisons, North Vietnamese; QUESTIONING; ANTI-communist movements; TORTURE; COMMUNISM; VIETNAM; UNITED States
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