Publisher's Synopsis
"Green Beret team leader Sgt. Howard Upchurch in communist uniform, in front of his hootch at CCC-- the CIA's supersecret MACV-SOG (Special Operations Group) camp outside Kontum City, South Vietnam. He helped design the logo on the wall behind him. Under the auspices of this shield, a small select group of men fought for the CIA in S.E. Asia. For the "Agency", it was never just the Vietnam War, as their operations spilled over into a half dozen other countries, near and far. Extraordinary jungle fighters and spies, their suicidal missions required them to do things that no humans should have to do to other humans. One man, Sergeant Upchurch, broke away and for two years led his own army of Montagnard warriors-- irrespective of the rest of the world's plans-- before being coaxed back into the CIA fold. Here Upchurch, one of the very few survivors of SOG, tells in bold detailed vignettes his story from childhood on through the Korean and