Cadillac.

This is coolbert:

Today is conspiracy day on the "The Michael Medved" radio talk show.

You call in and discuss your own favorite conspiracy with Michael.

Here is one that I have not heard about before.

"Operation Cadillac". Something that supposedly occurred during the Vietnam War.

American troops, by the end of the war, had very low morale, becoming very lackadaisical in their military bearing and comportment. Did not always take things so seriously. Were a danger to themselves.

To "stimulate" the troops, it is alleged, according to the caller, American Special Forces [SF], and CIA "assets" attacked, in a deliberate manner, U.S. units to make them REALIZE THAT THEY HAD BETTER TAKE THEIR SOLDIERING SERIOUSLY.

I have googled the Internet and found nothing about "Cadillac". Anyone ever hear of this before, even if in passing??!!

I CAN think that something such as described could be plausible, but only very remotely so.

I would think that CIA "assets" might have included Phoenix operatives, South Vietnamese adept at portraying Viet Cong [VC]. I can too imagine that SF commanded units such as the Nung, might have been ordered to "probe" defensive perimeters of American units at the very end of the war, so as to "test" troop defensive postures, alertness, etc. This COULD BE SO!!

[I one time heard a lecture from a U.S. Army Colonel who described how American counter-intelligence during World War Two would infiltrate VITAL war industry installations and place NON-LETHAL booby traps - - JUST TO KEEP PEOPLE ON THEIR TOES!!]

Deliberate attack to inflict casualties??!! probably NOT SO!!

[from around 1970, American presence in Vietnam consisted almost entirely so of combat support [CS] and combat service support [CSS] units. NOT combat units. CS and CSS units by definition would have only assumed a defensive posture, and WOULD NOT have been trained other than in the most rudimentary degree for combat.]

Morale at the end of the Vietnam War for U.S. troops WAS poor. There might be something to this conspiracy theory, BUT NOT EXACTLY AS STATED!!

coolbert.