This obituary was published in 1996 following the death of the former director of the C.I.A William Colby. Colby was the director of a C.I.A center in Saigon from 1959-1962, and was involved in the Phoenix Program and other covert operations in Vietnam from 1962-1969. This obituary spends about 75% talking about Colby’s work following the war, and only a small portion about his work in covert operations in Vietnam. Most of the obituary talks about Colby’s work after the war and how he helped to reveal information about the covert operations. It goes into great detail about hearings following the war. The obituary talks about Colby’s 693 page report about specific operations and the results of these operations. All of these hearings happened
