THE ANDERSON FILES

was chaos, slaughter and authoritarian governments that finally, over time, have emerged from that hell.”

The Paris peace deal that Kissinger helped negotiate in 1973 was similar to what was offered in 1968 before Nixon became president. Nixon prolonged the war at the cost of tens of thousands of American lives as well as untold numbers of southeast Asians.

Historian Jeffrey Kimball, in his book The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy, delved into numerous declassified files to conclude that Kissinger’s record “is one of persisting in a deadlocked war for the sake of appearances — i.e. salvaging an elusive and false U.S. credibility.”

The National Security Archive (NSA) recently published a very lengthy “Declassified Obituary” of Kissinger. The NSA is a research and archival institution at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and is the largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government. Founded in 1985 by journalists and his-