Jeff Stein, a onetime case officer with U.S. Army Intelligence in South Vietnam, is a longtime Washington, D.C.–based national security reporter and the author of A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War. In 2020, he founded SpyTalk: Intelligence for Thinking People, a Substack newsletter and podcast.
Robert McNamara’s subservience to Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.
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