Frank Snepp

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Frank Snepp  link Amazon Wikileaks (Spook, author, CIA whistleblower, investigative journalist)
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Born	Frank Warren Snepp III May 3, 1943 Kinston, North Carolina, USA
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Colombia University
Exposed	CIA
CIA analyst turned whistleblower

Frank Snepp, "one of the CIA’s first whistle­blowers", stated that "We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators."

Career

Snepp was recruited to the CIA in 1968, by the Associate Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Philip Mosely.

CIA analyst

Snepp was chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Snepp published a Vietnam memoir, Decent Interval in 1977, at great risk to his career. Snepp accused the CIA of ruining his career and violating his First Amendment rights. The CIA, in return, claimed Snepp had violated his employment agreement by speaking out. Snepp enlisted the help of the ACLU in his defense.

TV

He later worked as a producer for KNBC-TV.

Interview

In 1983 he gave an interview on how the CIA plants disinformation in corporate media organizations.