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Moles vs traitors
No way could we, the boots on the ground "deep within enemy controlled, denied territopry" could know.
The downfall of recon teams operations were due to the enemy being warned by the Soviets. It was a circuitous route, traitors to Soviets to North Korea to Moscow to North Vietnam.
The Soviets were behind the North Korean seizure of the "Pueblo"intelligence ship.
They sent the seized hardware and software to Moscow on the first thing smoking. They had info from a traitorous ring of navy spies (Their names elude me), all of which were in the intelligence field (The lead shithead recruited his son, his brother, etc for a total of 4 or 5 other navy intel MOS, and able to keep up with current codes and cyphers. They passed to Soviets which then sent all data to North Vietnam.
Northg Vietnam were then able to read everything used by U.S. military. It was like "Ultra" version of allies iin WW II. They read our traffic in real time. So every mission of MACVSOG was known well before the team's insertion including names of team.
There were times when wenat CCN went into LZs and were greeted by bullhorns which were specific as to team leader. I an sure it was the same throuout missions in the other projects.
That had us running in circles trying to find the "moles" which did not exst. The "moles" wre the U S Navy pukes feeding the enemy.
I assume the Air Force had similar trouble with their scheduled attack missions. Their successes were those done extemporaneously.
We didn't have a chance.
J R sends
SOACCN (69-70)
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