Decent Interval
An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

Frank Snepp (Author)

9780700612130

Paperback / softback, published 30 November 2002

632 pages
23.3 x 15.3 x 4.4 cm, 0.896 kg

“A great service to everyone’s understanding of what happened in Vietnam in the spring of 1975. . . . Other accounts of that time will have to be measured against what Snepp, from his unique and highly informed vantage point, has produced.” —Kevin Buckley, New York Times Book Review

“By far the richest document yet produced on the American and South Vietnamese end game.” —Laurence Stern, Washington Post Book World

Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America’s final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIA’s cause but was disillusioned by the agency’s treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quarter-century later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.