Westmoreland V. CBS
Westmoreland V. CBS (1985).On 22 January 1982, CBS Television broadcast a 90‐minute documentary, CBS Reports: The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. The program was produced by George Crile and based in large part on reporting by Sam Adams. Crile was the co‐author. The narrator—who also conducted some of the interviews—was Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes.
The program charged that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, while U.S. military commander during the Vietnam War, had led a conspiracy prior to the surprise Tet Offensive (1968) to keep down official intelligence estimates of enemy strength, thereby deceiving President Lyndon B. Johnson, the rest of the military, and the American public. Further, such a “reduction” in enemy strength resulted in the surprise at Tet, with greater troops losses. Most...
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