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:"... As part of the U.S. Navy's slice of the action, Admiral [[Elmo Zumwalt]] and his sidekick, Captain Roy (Latch) Hoffmann, had devised 'Operation Sea Lords,' in which the Swift boats would patrol the canals and secondary streams of the Mekong Delta, with particular emphasis on the areas near the Cambodian border. ..." In an [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/04/swift/index_np.html article] for ''Salon'', Joe Conason describes Hoffman as :"a cigar-chomping former Vietnam commander once described as 'the classic body-count guy' who 'wanted hooches destroyed and people killed.'" Hoffmann, he wrote, "first gained notoriety in Vietnam as a strutting, cigar-chewing Navy captain. But it was O'Neill, by now a familiar figure on the Kerry-bashing circuit, who came to Spaeth for assistance." :"Until now," he adds, "Hoffmann has been best known as the commanding officer whose obsession with body counts and 'scorekeeping' may have provoked the February 1969 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at Thanh Phong by a unit led by [[Bob Kerrey]] -- the Medal of Honor winner who lost a leg in Nam, became a U.S. senator from Nebraska and now sits on the [[9-11 Commission]]."