About this episode
April Oliver and Jack Smith discuss their investigation into the US military's use of Sarin gas on deserters in Vietnam and the subsequent media censorship by CNN.
In this rare interview from Show #282 in 2006. April and Jack detail their well researched report on US. Military gassing deserters in Vietnam with Sarin gas. Then CNN caved in to pressure, called the story false, put a gag order on them both, and fired the reporters. The cave in of CNN was almost as bad as the reporter who tries to get them to stop the story. April and Jack sued for wrongful dismissal on the threat that they would make public their research. with a gag order in place the story may be forgotten unless... we study just what they had discovered, that the US government sent assassination squads to gas American military deserters in Vietnam. Hear April Oliver reveal that after the show aired, servicemen called in to reveal other similar missions. These leads were followed and interviews were video taped but CNN will never air them. Don't let this story disappear as CNN would have it forgotten.
People in this episode
Host: Len Osanic
Guests: April Oliver, Jack Smith
Topics covered
- Vietnam War
- military ethics
- media censorship
- journalism
- whistleblowing
Keywords
- Sarin gas
- Vietnam
- military deserters
- CNN
- media censorship
- whistleblower
- journalism
- wrongful dismissal
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CNN
Places: Vietnam
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