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>>> Explanation of this document, by Douglas Valentine:

Dated 11 December 1967, "Evaluation Report: Processing of Viet Cong Suspects" by John G. Lybrand is a 14-page document (with two pages tacked on at the end, one citing people contacted, the other an organizational chart) that summarizes Lybrand's field study of people caught up in the Phoenix dragnet. (Again, it is a blueprint for the processing of "terrorist suspects" by Ashcroft's goon squads under the Bush regime.) Please note the reference to the critical role of military tribunals, which have been discussed as ways of dispensing with the terrorist suspects now being indefinitely detained in Cuba, at the CIA's macabre concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay. As was the case with prisoners held under the Phoenix "An Tri" administrative detention laws, these terrorist suspects (aka "illegal combatants") are held without any legal rights.

This report discusses the apprehension of suspects and their interrogation--it specifically notes that the processing phase has no coherence and is fraught with corruption. It describes the role of regular militart courts, military field courts, and Stalinesque "Provincial Security Committees," which is where the CIA resided.

The case studies are particularly illuminating and forecast what is and will be happening under the Bush Regime's Homeland Security apparatus. A very important document. Please note the recommendations at the end.

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