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Title: CNN's Tailwind Tale
Author : Jerry Lembcke
Release Date : January 01, 2003
Genre: Military,Books,History,Politics & Current Events,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1100 KB

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On June 7, 1998 CNN broadcast Valley of Death, the story of a 1970 raid into Laos by U.S. Special Forces. According to the report, Operation Tailwind had used sarin nerve gas to kill U.S. soldiers who had defected to the North Vietnamese. After a firestorm of controversy, CNN retracted the report, ruining the career of rising star April Oliver and compromising the network's credibility. Called "the TV news story of the year" by TV Guide, CNN's Operation Tailwind fiasco was the biggest news scandal of the 19