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Decent interval
Frank Snepp · 初版 1977 年
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“被广泛公认为越战经典的《Decent Interval》，对 CIA 在该冲突中所扮演的角色及其最终撤离进行了严厉的批判。作者曾深信 CIA 的事业，却因该机构背信弃义的撤离而彻底幻灭——这场撤离让数以千计的越南盟友任由愤怒的敌人宰割；作者冒着巨大风险并最终付出巨大牺牲写下了此书。直至今日，它依然是美国历史上最黑暗篇章之一的一部引人入胜且震撼人心的有力见证。”——封套。
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……这些指控并没有什么特别“耸人听闻”的。> 你在没有任何证据的情况下提出了这些指控。证据是间接的，并且基于美国政府过去的行事模式。读读 Frank Snepp 的《Decent Interval》以及续作《Irreparable Harm》，或者 James Risen 的《State of War》（想看更近期的内容的话）来入门这段历史。再次说明，前面的内容根本算不上什么“耸人听闻”……
…particularly "extraordinary" about these claims. > You have made these accusations without any evidence. The evidence is circumstantial and based on past behavior patterns of the US government. Read "Decent Interval" and its follow-up "Irreparable Harm" by Frank Snepp, or "State of War" by James Risen (for something more recent) to get started on this history. Again, there is nothing "extraordinary" about the previous…
这篇文章完全没有提到两部最有影响力的 CIA 内部人士揭秘著作：Philip Agee 的《Inside the Company: CIA Diary》（1975）和 Frank Snepp 的《Decent Interval》（1978）。这两本书中随便哪一本，对 CIA 内部情况的刻画都比文章提到的任何一本书要好。这两份记述给我同龄的一代人留下了深刻的印象，并促成了我们觉得……
The article makes no mention of the two most influential exposés by CIA insiders, Philip Agee's Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975) and Frank Snepp's Decent Interval (1978). Either book would give a better illustration of conditions inside the CIA than any book the article mentions. Those two accounts made a deep impression on my cohorts and contributed to our feeling…
《Decent Interval》是一本挺有意思的书，推荐一读。
Decent Interval was an interesting book, can recommend.
这事的走向大概会跟当年 Frank Snepp 和《Decent Interval》差不多，见 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp
This is going to go pretty much like it went for Frank Snepp and "Decent Interval", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp
CIA 当年对这本书也干过类似的事：> Frank Snepp 的《Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam》，于 1977 年底出版。> 至少 Snepp 写出了一部关于……的权威历史
The CIA did something similar with: > Frank Snepp’s Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam, which was published in late 1977. > At the very least Snepp had written the definitive history of the…
……哪怕在学者中间也是如此。我认为缺乏关注是因为它出版时，大多数真正关心那一幕的那一代人已经离世了。在 1980 年代，我的同龄人们热烈讨论过 Frank Snepp 的《Decent Interval》（1977）及其对情报工作的揭秘。Sam Adams 的书本该是一枚重磅炸弹的。
…even among scholars. I think the lack of attention is because it was published after most of the generation who really cared had passed on. My cohorts in the 1980s talked a good deal about Frank Snepp's Decent Interval (1977) and its revelations about intelligence work. Sam Adams' book would have been a bombshell.