Αυθεντικό κείμενο - Αγγλικά - Harkins

At the beginning of his command of MACV, Harkins and his staff had repeatedly expressed optimism about the course of the war. As the violence escalated however, many reporters began to feel that what they were seeing in the field and being told confidentially by officers such as Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann did not match the information released by MACV.