The Fleeting Euphoria of Intelligence Ops

Does Israel have a peace plan for Lebanon war in the wake of its electronic triumphs and devastating air strikes?

IN LATE NOVEMBER 1968 I ARRIVED IN SAIGON and a few days later walked through the looking glass of the U.S. military command’s intelligence headquarters in South Vietnam. There, in an airconditioned briefing room several stories up, I was told that we had the communists on the run.

Winking, Blinken and Nah.

This was news to me. The consensus I’d carried f…