Robert Komer
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Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer was an American national security adviser known for managing Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support during the Vietnam War.
Komer meeting with Lyndon Johnson
William Colby
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William Egan Colby was an American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence from September 1973 to January 1976. During World War II, Colby served with the Office of Strateg
Robert Komer
…the newly created Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support program, the most controversial aspect of which was the Phoenix program, which William Colby later testified resulted in 20,587 deaths. CORDS was an agency with a staff of both civilians and military personnel, but it fell under the authority…
Colby in 1975
Colby in the Princeton University yearbook, 1940
Major William Colby (front left) & the Norwegian Special Operations Group parading in Trondheim on the 17th of May 1945.