There are 31 action-packed chapters in the book, each a detailed story in which readers will find themselves in awe as they learn about specific operations, incidents, and battles that involved ASA personnel while conducting their remarkable, game-changing and successful work. The unitвЂ™s operation was housed in a heavily-guarded compound near Saigon.

It was given a codename, a cover identity to hide the true nature of its mission. diplomatic passports and manila envelopes containing their orders and medical records stamped with the words, вЂњIf injured or killed in combat, report as training accident in the Philippines.вЂќ The unit was so highly classified even its name was top-secret. So when the very first ASA team arrived in South Vietnam at Tan Son Nhut AFB in May 1961, the ninety-two team members did not wear uniforms but rather indistinguishable dark suits, white shirts, and dark ties. The mission was assigned a top-secret category, and every effort was made to hide their identity. That, however, changed over the last few years, allowing two ASA veteran authors, Lonnie Long and Gary Blackburn, to chart the years that ASA operated in Vietnam вЂ“ occurring from 1961 to 1973.ДЄSA is first ordered to Vietnam in 1961 by President John Kennedy to assist the Vietnamese government in correcting their dismal intelligence-gathering operations.

They were sworn to secrecy and, for the most part, never receiving any recognition for the magnificent job they did. At the peak of the war, over 6,000 Army Security Agency (ASA) soldiers were assigned to every major U.S.

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