Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 1574889702
- ISBN-13
- 9781574889703
- Category
- History / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Potomac Books
- Author
- Douglass H. Hubbard
Description
Civilian special agents, despite their rather uncertain status as noncombatants, left secure stateside jobs and families behind, donned military uniforms, and carried weapons. They lived and worked in the field alongside sailors and Marines. They shared the same dangers and discomforts as military personnel, and, sometimes cooperating with their Vietnamese counterparts, supplied the naval services with counterintelligence and criminal investigative support. From communist infiltrators and fragging incidents to the murder of a visiting singer, Hubbard skillfully portrays the underlying chaos of a tour in Vietnam.
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