A Mission to Kill

Thousands were called, but only two hundred were chosen. One hundred and eighty four perished, sixteen survived and three came home. These two hundred hardened combat vets have been psychologically programmed to be U.S. kill machines.

The robert-like warriors were actually the American version of the kamikaze. Their mission: the extermination of the Communist hierarchy, meaning the selected provincial leaders in Laos and Cambodia, countries we claimed not to be at war with.

From the beginning, each was molded and charged with one mission of extermination. None would survive to see the cessation of hostilities, none would endure to acknowledge or be witness to what he had done or seen - so thought their designers, The Central Intelligence Agency.