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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Memory -- Becoming an Intelligence Agent -- Honolulu and the Waikikian -- Arrival in Vietnam -- The Continental Palace -- Reporting for Duty -- The Case of the Purloined Penicillin -- Saigon -- Major Kumar -- Central Registry -- Rest and Relaxation in Hong Kong -- Assignment Pleiku -- Intelligence Work in the Highlands -- Dope, Drink and Sex -- The Montagnards -- Pleiku's Missionaries -- Travels Beyond Pleiku -- A Week in Saigon -- Life in Pleiku -- Plei Mrong Is Dedicated -- Plei Mrong Is Attacked -- Bangkok -- Ban Me Thuot -- Final Months in Pleiku -- The War at Home -- Epilogue -- Author's Service History. |
| Summary |
"Stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the first covert intelligence-gathering operation in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Living among the Montagnard-the region's indigenous tribal people, deemed critical to winning the war-Noble documented their training, as American Green Berets taught them to use rifles rather than crossbows and spears, while confronting his own challenges in the field. Part memoir, part photojournal, his compelling narrative throws light on a little-known corner of the Vietnam War in its early years-before the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the deployment of combat units-and traces his transformation from novice intelligence agent and believer in the war to political dissenter and active protester."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Noble, David Grant.
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Noble, David Grant. |
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United States. Army. Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment, 704th -- Biography.
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United States. Army. |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Military intelligence -- United States -- History.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Vietnam War (1961-1975) |
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Personal narratives -- American.
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Pleiku (Vietnam) -- History -- 20th century.
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Military intelligence. |
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United States. |
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Vietnam -- Pleiku. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Biographies.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Title |
Counterintelligence agent in Vietnam's central highlands, 1962-1963 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Noble, David Grant. Saigon to Pleiku. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020] 9781476683737 (DLC) 2020040253 (OCoLC)1155543645 |
| ISBN |
9781476641492 (electronic book) |
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1476641498 (electronic book) |
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9781476683737 |
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1476683735 |
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