FALSIFIED DATA HELPED LOSE VIET: EX-CIAER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707150093-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: January 15, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
.^T!CLE APPEARED A 15 January 1985
G.. PA;"E C'
falsified data helped
lose
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V that "a massive` falsification of
_' ?L At_-' Deception,"-which aired Jan. 23;1981,
Manhattan"Federal.-Court trial-of .: a Y :
$120 million libel .suit brought b The documen
that
h maicommanded
retired'
Y Wessmoreland .who dGen .William. Westmoreland
against CBS-and-the-producers of a... ad s m vie am rom o
documentary about the Vietnam a in a cti ee it m o
War. on ante IQence ect.n,ar?c
Adams, one of three individual e? ene ~s strewn th. Adams and
defendants in the suit, was largely-: of as ysts had insisted that the
responsible_ for ,launching e ^.Pstrength was about 500,000. -
In
documentary project, which accused response to questions from-CB t
Westmoreland of having, participated. if --thee hiy highher Boles, reams said that 1
in a conspiracy to suppress. the true accepted figures had been
I
strength of the enemy by Westmoreland, the U.S.
in Vietnam for -would have had to change its policy;
political reasons. Adams-was a paid in Vietnam prior to, the 1968 enemy
consultant. for the documentary pro- -:Tet.offensive. He said the President
ject and was also an on-camera ;' and others would have been faced
source for the allegations of an in- ` with either "brines
telligence conspiracy.:" P Bing up the reserv%
"We in intelii ence tried to fool or pulling out."
the Z`-on- ss tie erican a ADAMS SAID Westmoreland may an m art a ndon Johnson have .unposed the ceiling because of-
ad min~stra ion ams test e'ed "Political pressure" from Washington
esterda as a defense witness. "And to show that the enemy was being
we en up, in oo mg our- reduced by the massive American.
selves. ..That in part explained why effort. The higher intelligence stabs.
we lost that war." tics would have demonstrated that -
ADAMS FORCEFULLY su a cosy u up and loss o Amer-
ADAMS scan lives had not shrunk
portedth ene_m
- the accuracy of the broadcast the documen had
and said "it demonstrated how to $ as
tics Poll .~+aams added at he was "
could . affect military u~l disturbed" partfi.
intelligence." Y that while U.S. offi-
He said he was "proud" of his cials were "playing numbers," Amer:
association with the documentary scan soldiers "were getting shot and
"The Uncounted Ene , kids were stepping on booby traps
my, a Vietnam -fighting that war."
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