An Overview of Domestic Army Counterintelligence during the Vietnam War
U.S. Army Intelligence Command and the Home Front Editor's Note: In a look back at the engagement of U.S. Army Counterintelligence during the Vietnam War, the research group Global Security had this to say: Even while the fighting went [...]
Law School to Army Intelligence Training (1967-1968)
Law School to Army Intelligence Training (1967-1968) In talking about his post college years with Tony Bowe, Bill Bowe recalls how the Vietnam War and the draft began to change the student environment in both colleges and law schools. [...]
From the Pentagon to Lunch with Gen. Westmoreland (1968-1975)
From the Pentagon to Lunch with Gen. Westmoreland (1968-1975) Tony Bowe begins his interview with Bill Bowe about his Army service by asking about his assignment after graduating from the U.S. Army Intelligence School at Ft. Holabird in Baltimore, [...]
Introduction
The month after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968, I enlisted in the Army’s Intelligence Branch for three years. President Lyndon Johnson had just sent the Regular Army simultaneously to Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago to help control the ensuing violence and riots that had overwhelmed police and National Guard. This was a very strange and violent time. We’ve been lucky the country has largely been free of this kind of large-scale mayhem and destruction until the recent looting and riots we saw during the pandemic in the summer of 2020.
Riots and Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)
Riots and Rockets Army Days (1968-1971) Introduction The month after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968, I enlisted in the Army’s Intelligence Branch for three years. President Lyndon Johnson had just sent the Regular Army simultaneously [...]
Lunch with General William Westmoreland (USA Ret.)
In June 1968, while I was in basic training, Gen. William Westmorland, had been kicked upstairs by President Johnson. He was promoted out of his job as commander of our troops in Vietnam, and into the job of heading up the Army as its Chief of Staff.
The 1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
After I had left the Army on May 12, 1971, Sen. Sam Ervin had continued to work on making sure the military stayed out of the business of collecting intelligence on civilians.
Getting Short – The 1971 “Stop the Government” Protests
My three-year enlistment was coming up in the spring of 1971, with my last day of active duty being May 12. In Army parlance, I was “getting short.”
The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
In January 1970, Christopher Pyle, a former captain in Army intelligence, wrote an article in the Washington Monthly magazine criticizing the Army for going beyond proper bounds in collecting information on civil disturbances.
