American Journalists Held Captive by the Vc/nva in Kompong Cham Province
Central Intelligence Agency · 1971
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Description
American journalists held captive by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in Kompong Cham province fill a September 1971 report. Kompong Cham lies in Cambodia, where the war had spread the year before. Correspondents covering that fighting faced capture alongside soldiers' risks.
The report records what was known of the newsmen's capture and condition. Journalists were valuable prisoners: known names with employers and families pressing for news. Their cases drew attention that anonymous captives rarely got. The file documents that attention at the agency level, tracking reporters who had gone to cover the war and became its story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Central Intelligence Agency |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1971 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2155 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive — CIA Reading Room mirror |
Source: https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-0000009443