?You kike Basterd,
Your not interested in war crimes being committed by Viet Congs. Your only interested in yourself getting out of the draft so you could make a lot of money as a dermatologist. You evil cocksuckers are a known rare of money hungry bas-terds which would pimp for their sisters and get a nigger to pay %'l for a short time. I seen it. Thats why 6.000,000 of you were gassed like rats by Kiehman We hope your found guilty.
Anonymous
Carbondale, Pennsylvania
interview:
In June of 1967, Captain Howard B. Levy, an Army doctor at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, was court-martialed and sentenced to three years hard labor; his crime--refusing to give medical training to Green Berets.   The case drew widespread publicity and, as indicated by the letters above, caused considerable controversy.
With time off for good behavior, Dr. Levy was released from Leavenworth in August.   Since then he has been working with both an activist health organization in New York and the GI coffeehouse movement. He was interviewed last week in Louisville before going to Muldraugh to speak at the coffeehouse there.
btf:  What was it that led you to take your stand against training Special Forces personnel?
Levy: I had begun by training the Special Forces for about two or three months, and then found out what they are really all about, from a medical point of view.   I knew what Special Forces was all about and I had my suspicions when I started to train them, but the normal reaction for most physicians if they're asked to give someone medical training, is to give it.
And I did give it, and gradually learned from them what their mission was all about, specifically with regard to their medical training, and I finally decided I wasn't going to do it anymore.   And what I did originally was nothing very heroic, I just didn't train them. They'd hand around my office and I just wouldn't train them.   That's what most of the physicians were doing, perhaps for other reasons, though. After that, the thing gradually escalated over the course of six months and it culminated in me being given a direct order to train these guys.   At that point I just said 'no'.
btf:  What were the Special Forces using the medical training for?
Levy:  Their basic mission is to militarize villages in Vietnam.   The way they would do it would
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be to send a medic in to treat some sick children, women or elderly people, and in the course of treating them over a period of several weeks or months, they would win the confidence of the people in the village. At that point, once they'd won over their allegiance, they could then proceed to militarize the village, which is really what their mission was all about anyhow.   They were using medicine as kind of a public relations ploy. . . some of the Special Forces corpsmen may have had humanitarian motives, but it's sort of like the Peace Corps:  most of the Peace Corps volunteers I've met have been humanitarian, their mission, however, is counter-insurgency. And I think that, when looked at from the proper perspective, if they are humanitarian, it's a form of misguided humanitarianism.   Some of the Special Forces corpsmen may have been humanitarian, their mission certainly wasn't.
btf:  What was your existence in the Army like prior to the controversy?
Levy:  My attitude at the time--and I realize now that it was a mistake--was that I didn't hassle with the Army.   I kind of rationalized my existence in Columbia, South Carolina, by doing civil rights work.   It was the tail-end of the civil rights movement and I was doing voter registration in the black community.   I put in my seven hours or so on the post, with the intention of getting off the post and doing what was essentially pretty moderate civil rights work. So I didn't go in with the intention of organizing in the Army because back in 1965 there wasn't anybody organizing in the army.
btf:  Were you just out of school at the time?
Levy: No, I had finished my training.   I had interned for a year and then had taken a three-year residency in dermatology.
btf: Wasn't the pressure put on you because of your civil rights work?   Weren't there others who weren't training Special Forces?
November 11,1969