operation ELDEST SON terminated information
for SF
MACV-SOG
For date 700223
SF was a US Army unit
MACV-SOG was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation ELDEST SON
South Vietnam
Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered MACV-SOG to cease operations under the code name ELDEST SON, ITALIAN GREEN, and POLE BEAN. Under these programs teams inserted faulty and rigged ammunition into the North Vietnamese munitions system on a selected basis throughout Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The contaminated ammunition exploded firing riles, killed mortar crews, jammed machine guns, and was beginning to affect North Vietnamese morale. This had been a very successful series of operations.
The source for this information was Green Berets at War P: 234
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