File:Dissent Channel used by Alexander L. Peaslee to decry My Lai massacre.pdf

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English: In this dissent cable, Alexander Peaslee, one of the few officials whose name was not redacted in these documents' release, transmits his opposition to the U.S. military's murder of hundreds of civilians at My Lai, Vietnam. Peaslee writes that he is retiring from the Foreign Service after 29 years because of his "unwillingness to be further associated with the actions of the executive branch that initiated no steps to discipline a military unit that took action at My Lai." Furthermore, he compares the "systematic use of electrical torture, beatings, and in some cases, murder, of men, women, and children by [U.S.] military units in Vietnam" to "atrocities too similar to those of Nazis."
Date 17 and 28 June 1972
Source FOIA lawsuit, National Security Archive v. Department of State (17-cv-0770); available online at https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16352-document-07-u-s-government-responsibility-my
Author Alexander L. Peaslee; William Cargo
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