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CIA officer (1929–2021)
Rufus Colfax Phillips III
Born(1929-08-10)August 10, 1929
Middletown, Ohio
DiedDecember 29, 2021 (aged 92)
Arlington, Virginia
Alma materYale University

Rufus Colfax Phillips III (August 10, 1929 – December 29, 2021) was an American writer, businessman, politician, and Central Intelligence Agency employee.

Life

Phillips was born in Middletown, Ohio and was raised in rural Charlotte County, Virginia. He attended Woodberry Forest School and then Yale College from 1947 to 1951. He was a Central Intelligence Agency officer in Saigon in the 1950s.

In 1954, Phillips joined the United States Army and became an officer. He served as a military advisor to the South Vietnam government. Phillips was a protégé of General Edward Lansdale and participated in the 1962 RAND Counterinsurgency Symposium alongside other counterinsurgency experts such as David Galula and Frank Kitson. In Vietnam, Phillips was one of the architects of the Chieu Hoi program to persuade Vietcong fighters to defect. Phillips then lived in Fairfax County, Virginia and was president of the Inter-Continental Consultants, Inc. He served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and was a Democrat. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1974, and lost the primary election.

Phillips is the author of Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned. He was a regular guest on The John Batchelor Show and discusses topics on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Works

References

  1. Boot, Max (2022-01-11). "I lost my oldest friend in 2021. Rufus Phillips was the 'good American.'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  2. "RUFUS C. PHILLIPS III". Washington Post. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  3. Kennedy, Charles Stuart. "Interview with Rufus C. Phillips, III". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  4. 'Fairfax Democrat Joins Senate Race,' The Washington Post, Ken Ringle, November 20, 1977
  5. Hosmer, Stephen T.; Crane, S. O. (2006). Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  6. Gerwehr, Scott; Hachigian, Nina (2005-08-26). "In Iraq's prisons: A little tenderness can turn around insurgents". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  7. Ringle, Ken (1977-11-20). "Faifax Democrat Joins Senate Race". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  8. "Candidate - Rufus Phillips". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  9. "Vietnam, Allied invasion of Italy". The Washington Times. February 22, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2010.

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