During the Vietnam War, the CIA's Operation Phoenix (1967-1971) implemented a bureaucratic system where American advisers were required to meet monthly kill quotas, leading to the torture of random villages to extract names and the execution of civilians, resulting in over 20,000 civilian deaths based on confessions obtained through torture; this was not a rogue operation but official policy with paperwork, performance reviews, and promotion bonuses for the most efficient killers.
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CIA's Secret Kill Quota Program Murdered 20,000 Vietnamese CiviliansAdded:
Did you know the CIA once had death quotas for Vietnamese villages?
Operation Phoenix ran from 1967 to 1971 and it was basically a bureaucratic murder machine. American advisers had to meet monthly kill targets so they tortured random villages for names then execute whoever got mentioned. Entire village councils disappeared overnight.
Over 20,000 civilians died based on confessions beaten out of terrified farmers. The scariest part? This wasn't some rogue operation. It was official policy with paperwork, performance reviews, and promotion bonuses for the most efficient killers.
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