Merle Pribbenow
Guest Speaker
Expert Bio
Merle L. Pribbenow II graduated from the University of Washington in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in political science. After serving in the CIA for 27 years, he retired in 1995 and is now an independent researcher/author specializing in the Vietnam War. Pribbenow is a longtime partner with the Cold War International History Project and has authored numerous papers with CWIHP including, e-Dossier No. 33 - North Vietnam's "Talk-Fight" Strategy and the 1968 Peace Negotiations with the United States; e-Dossier No. 30 - Treatment of American POWs in North Vietnam; e-Dossier No. 28 - Vietnam Trained Commando Forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America; and Working Paper No. 73 - The Soviet-Vietnamese Intelligence Relationship during the Vietnam War: Cooperation and Conflict.
Insight & Analysis by Merle Pribbenow
- Blog post
- Cold War
The Tran Quang Co Memoir: A Translator’s Introduction
- Blog post
- Cold War
Vietnam’s Struggles against Chinese Spies, American Spies, and Enemy Ideological Attacks
- Blog post
- Cold War
Top Secret Vietnamese Ministry of Interior Transcript of Speech Given by Minister of Interior Tran Quoc Hoan to a National Conference on Investigating Political Targets
- Blog post
- Cold War
1988 Vietnamese Public Security Magazine Article Defends Vietnam’s New “Renovation” Policy on Immigration/Emigration Policy against Resistance from within Public Security’s Own Ranks
- Blog post
- Cold War
1988 Vietnamese Public Security Article on Recommended Interrogation Techniques for Use in the Interrogation of Suspected Chinese Spies
- Blog post
- Cold War
North Vietnamese Public Security Policy toward the Vatican and the North Vietnamese Catholic Church, 1971
- Blog post
- Modern Korean History
North Korean Military Engineer Regiment Helped Build Secret Underground Headquarters Complex during the Vietnam War
- Blog post
- Modern Korean History
North Korean Psychological Warfare Operations in South Vietnam
