In July 1974 and April 1975 I testified before two congressional committees about the plans that Khmer Rouge had for political genocide in Cambodia based on a “Secret” intelligence report I was shown by the NSC and then had declassified by the State Department.
I read a lot like Hitler/Himmler’s plans for Jews and other undesirables in the lands that Germany conquered.
The news media never reported on what I had gotten, but it does appear in Prof. Louis Fanning’s book “Betrayal in Vietnam”, Arlington House, New Rochelle, NY, 1976, perhaps the only book to mention it.
A previous congressional study that I did with the late David Martin, “The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam”, 1972, Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Committee, also got deep-sized by the mainstream media including the Wash. Post and NY Times. Only David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist published in the W.P. mentioned the study in general terms.
The liberals/leftists never wanted to admit that their favorite side in the Vietnam/Indochina War, the communists, were just genocidal conquerors and destroyers of freedom.
You’re right about that; the masses of people escaping from post-1975 Indochina are a scathing indictment of the American left’s embrace of those butchers. I’m sure they rationalized it by saying those people shouldn’t have collaborated with the Americans, but many victims never did...