Were There any real Colonel Kurtz , as in the movie Apocalypse Now , during the Vietnam War ??

[52ndStreet]

My question, were there any real Colonel Kurtz, as in Apocalypse Now, during the Vietnam War.? That a military hit team had to go into Cambodia to take out.?!??! Did what happened in the movie ever take place.?? Your responses??!!

 

[1srelluc]

Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now is loosely based on real-life Special Forces officer Robert Rheault, who was the commander of the secretive MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War

 

[52ndStreet]

Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now is loosely based on real-life Special Forces officer Robert Rheault, who was the commander of the secretive MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War

So the character in the movie, was based on a real person.?? Robert Rheault, is that what you are saying. ? My question now is did the CIA or the U.S. Army send a hit team to take him out.??!!

 

[Sunni Man]

So the character in the movie, was based on a real person.?? Robert Rheault, is that what you are saying. ? My question now is did the CIA or the U.S. Army send a hit team to take him out.??!!

Hollywood nonsense.

 

[Sunni Man]

Jerry Shriver was considered the most bad ass MACV-SOG soldier during the Vietnam war.
The NVA feared him and sent killer hit team's to comb the jungle and take him out.
Even placing a large cash bounty on his head.
This is the guy to look up and read about.

 

[whitehall]

The only crazies in LBJ's war were in the Hollywood studios that created the myth of the psycho Soldier.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There is no known record of the U.S. sending a hit team into Cambodia to kill Colonel Reault. However, there was a controversial incident involving Colonel Robert Rheault, a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, during the Vietnam War. He was implicated in the Green Beret Affair, where U.S. Special Forces executed a suspected double agent, Thai Khac Chuyen, in 1969.


This operation was part of Project GAMMA, a covert intelligence program that operated in Cambodia and Vietnam. The program was highly effective in gathering intelligence on North Vietnamese activities, but it was shut down after the execution incident.