Frank Snepp

Who is Frank Snepp?

Frank Warren Snepp is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency in Saigon during the Vietnam War. For five out of his eight years as a CIA agent, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the US Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. He is currently a producer for KNBC-TV 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 losing a 1980 court case brought by the CIA, all of Snepp's publications require prior approval by the CIA.