1. Richaud identified him as Paul Kirchmair of VCI travel agency.

2. Under CORDS, however, the United States implemented the much–maligned Phoenix program, which targeted VCI and resulted in the capture or killing (mostly capture) of more than 80,000 VCI guerrillas.

3. U.S. planners were aware of VCI, but until 1'68 only the CIA paid it much attention.

4. An insurgency thrives only if it can maintain a permanent presence among the population, which in Vietnam was called the Viet Cong infrastructure, or VCI.

5. STATE DEPARTMENT ROLE First, you might be asking yourself why the Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation is here talking to you about missile defense.
'4; The reason is that âЂ«– as a result of a reorganization within the "T" family of Bureaus âЂ«– Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary Robert Joseph recently transferred the Missile Defense portfolio to my Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation, hereafter "VCI" for short, in October 2005.
'4; I find this to be a rather easy fit, since much of my job and the work of my Bureau is seeking to strengthen deterrence and to enforce commitments.
'4; Missile defense is a natural fit, in my opinion, because it not only enables us to strengthen deterrence, but also, should deterrence fail, to assertively strengthen it.