Taken from Remembering Jeff Sharlet and Vietnam GI by Marc Levy:
Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969), a Vietnam veteran, was a leader of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War and the founding editor of Vietnam GI, considered the most influential early anti-war paper, distributed to tens of thousands of GIs, many in Vietnam.
In 1961, Sharlet enlisted in the Army and requested training at the Army Security Agency (ASA), a communications intelligence outfit. However at the Army Language School, he was bumped into the Vietnamese language course, and in 1963 Sharlet was sent to the Philippines as a Vietnamese translator/interpreter monitoring Vietnam People's Army radio traffic.
Through an FOIA request, I obtained two pages from Sharlet's Official Military Personnel File. One page is partially redacted. It's likely that much in his record is classified.
In Vietnam, Sharlet was part of a secret team which monitored signals related to the US-backed South Vietnamese Army coup against Ngo Dinh Diem.... Read More
