Frank Snepp

Frank Warren Snepp III is an American journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency CIA in Saigon during the Vietnam War For five out of his eight years as a CIA officer he worked as interrogator agent debriefer and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy Saigon he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work Snepp is a former producer for KNBCTV in Los Angeles California He was one of the first whistle blowers who revealed the inner workings secrets and failures of the national security services in the 1970s As a result of a loss in a 1980 court case brought by the CIA all of Snepps publications require prior approval by the CIA