New evidence indicates that the U.S. government was aware of the hand a Vietnamese military group had in the killings of five Vietnamese-American journalists from 1981 to 1990 but failed to act, ProPublica and Frontline report. Federal investigators had speculated that the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam was involved in the murders of the journalists, who “worked for small publications serving the refugee population that sought shelter in the U.S after the fall of Saigon in 1975,” but the FBI did not make a single arrest in connection with the crimes. Reporters from ProPublica and Frontline, who reopened the investigation in 2014, “tell the story of a reign of intimidation and murder for which no one has been held to account.”
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