Peers Inquiry - My Lai Incident - Released, Finally
In November 1969, Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, directed Lieutenant General William R. Peers, U.S. Army, to “explore the nature and scope of the original Army investigations of what occurred on 16 March 1968 in Son My Village, Quang Ngai Province, Republic of Vietnam.” This collection of materials, commonly known as the “Peers Inquiry,” which provides the results of General Peers’ investigation of the “My Lai incident”— later also known as the “My Lai massacre”— is divided into four volumes: the report, witness testimonies, exhibit materials, and CID [U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command] statements. (Library of Congress Call Number DS557.8.M9 U54 1974 and OCLC Number 1646516 [Volume I only, declassified and released]; OCLC Number 23720589 (Complete collection, comprised of volumes I through IV)
Volume I - The Report of the Investigation
Volume II - Testimony
Volume III - Exhibits
Volume IV - CID Statements
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So Jim...
am I understanding this correctly, they just declassified Volumes 2 through 4?
That's
My take.
I received the info, passed out to a few Vets boards, than saw a couple of posts about it on KOS, haven't had a chance to dig into it, but quick glancing seems to show, except for the snippets over the years, that these are the entire package.
I am wondering the Why? at this point it's being released, but speculate there's no hidden agenda by anyone, we didn't learn the lessons over these years anyway.
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