Prouty on Lansdale

[Albert Doyle]

Anthony Frank on Lancer sees a more sinister intention to the exodus. He thinks the CIA cabal plotting against JFK and taking over in VietNam brought over a million bodies to South VietNam in order to cause strife between those who had to make room for them and the newcomers. That way many of them would join the Viet Cong (nationalist) insurgents and increase the number of incidents that then justified the American intervention. Deliberate destabilization, in other words, that was then pinned on the communists.