The Uncounted Enemy

The Uncounted Enemy

"The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" was a controversial television program produced by George Crile III and aired by CBS on January 23, 1982.Mascaro n.d.]

The program asserted that intelligence officers under the command of General William Westmoreland had manipulated intelligence estimates in 1967, to show far fewer communist personnel in South Vietnam than were actually there, in order to create an impression that the Vietnam War was being won.

Westmoreland sued for libel. The trial, "Westmoreland v. CBS", was approaching its end in 1985 when Westmoreland suddenly dropped his suit, citing a statement by CBS that Westmoreland interpreted as an apology. CBS did not retract anything that had been said in the broadcast, but said it had "never intended to assert, and does not believe, that General Westmoreland was unpatriotic or disloyal in performing his duties as he saw them." [Evans 1987] CBS subsequently lost its libel insurance over the case.

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*cite news
first = Katerine
last = Evans
title = Declarations of Victory
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DC1131F936A35757C0A961948260&pagewanted=all
work = The New York Times
date = 1987-04-05
accessdate = 2007-11-13
*cite web |url=http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/U/htmlU/uncountedene/uncountedene.htm |title=Uncounted Enemy, The |accessdate=2007-11-14 |author=Tom Mascaro |work=The Encyclopedia of Television |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications


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