Roger Canfield

Dr. Canfield is a founding member of Vietnam Veterans for a Factual History, VVFH.org. Son of a Minnesota sailor and an Indiana farm girl Roger Canfield was born in Long Beach, California and raised in southern Indiana, northern Indiana, and all over California from San Diego to Norwalk and lived thereafter in San Mateo and Sacramento. Like his father, he served in the U. S. Navy as an aviation electronics technician working on missiles and Phantom, F4B, jets.

He traveled widely as a young man hitchhiking across the USA and northern Europe and as a travel writer in Israel, Jordan, Philippines, Macau, Vietnam and Cambodia for International Travel News.

After serving in the Navy (1959-1964), Canfield “fought the Vietnam War on campus and in the California Legislature.”

He earned a PhD degree in Government from the Claremont Graduate School. He was Assistant Professor at the MPA program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Thereafter: the civilian Commander of the Technical Services Division of the San Mateo Police Department; twice Republican nominee for the U.S. Congress; Chief of Staff, Press Secretary and Policy Consultant for California State Senators and Assemblymen; a daily political columnist, “Under the Dome,” for the Sacramento Union; and executive director of the U.S. Intelligence Council, a private public policy group.

He has researched, observed and written on civil disorder, California politics, international travel, and China as well as Vietnam. He wrote four books on the political influence and intelligence operations of China inside the USA, China Doll (with Richard Delgaudio, 2000), Stealth Invasion (2002), China Traders (2000), and China’s Trojan Horses (2002) with 2 million copies in circulation.

Films: Producer/Screenwriter Betrayal: The True Story of Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, in association with Kennan Johnston, producer, forthcoming; Staff Historian, Ride The Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph, Richard Botkin, a Fred Koster Film, 2015.

See: http://www. americong.com, VVFH.org and Military Magazine (monthly), and recently the California Globe, California Political Review and the FlashReport.

What Others Say About His Writings on Vietnam and China:

This guy’s stuff is awesome. Fascinating. Incredible. Every Vietnam vet should have a copy. LT. COL. ROBERT K. BROWN, publisher, Soldier of Fortune, Capt. Army Intelligence, Special Forces, 1st Infantry, Phoenix Program, Vietnam 1968-1971. sofmag.com.

Very detailed and valuable study…MARK MOYAR, author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, and Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam.

Connects America’s left-wingers and the Communist brass of North Viet-Nam. ARMOND NOBLE, Publisher, Military magazine. US Army Signal Corps, Westinghouse Broadcasting, Time Magazine. Vietnam, 1966-67. milmag.com

Awesome, masterful, superb, truly great work. RICHARD BOTKIN, Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph, and Ride the Thunder film, USMC Infantry Officer, 1980-95.

The Filet Mignon of why Vietnam is relevant today. STEPHEN SHERMAN, 1st Lt. Civil Affairs Officer, US Army, 5th Special Forces Group (airborne) 1967-1968. Radix Press.

The most authoritative source…of Gulf of Tonkin issues. ADMIRAL LLOYD R. “JOE” VASEY, chief of staff for commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet during Gulf of Tonkin August 1964.

Some met with our enemies to encourage them…Canfield focuses the spotlight on this …B.G. “JUG” BURKETT, co-author Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History. 1st Lt., US Army, 199th Light Infantry Brigade, Vietnam.

The active conspiracy by some Americans to ensure America’s defeat in Viet Nam has needed to be told. PAT NOLAN, former Republican Leader, California Assembly, 1984-1991, Prison Fellowship.

No other source totally destroys the lies and myths surrounding the leftists and their work to destroy our nation. COL. ANDREW FINLAYSON, USMC, Author, Marine Advisors: With the Vietnamese Provincial Reconnaissance Units 1966-1970; Killer Kane: A Marine Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam 1967-1968; Rice Paddy Recon: A Marine Officer’s Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970.

The ULTIMATE source on Vietnam and the Left. LT. COL. ROBERT “BUZZ” PATTERSON, US Air Force (Ret) Author of Dereliction of Duty, Reckless Disregard, War Crimes.

Very impressed. NGUYEN NGOC TAN, Ph.D. Reeducation camp survivor, refugee 1978, Australia, Author The Vietnam War Revisited: A Revolutionary View of U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnamese Nationalists in Diaspora, 2012.

Wow! …an invaluable reference…monumental achievement. FEDORA, Free Republic.

Dissects…US fronts for Hanoi, BRUCE KESLER, Sgt., USMC, Intelligence, Vietnam 1969-70, founder of Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, 1971, familysecuritymatters.org, Maggie’s Farm.

Great…facts we will never see in the liberal media DAN NGUYEN, Boat People

Intriguing…raises never-before asked questions. MELODY CONROY, W.W. Norton.

GREAT…impressive. …Comments on VOA from Viet Kieu are positive. NGHIA “PAUL” VO, Saigon Arts, Culture & Education Institute, SACEI, author Bamboo Gulag, The Viet Kieu in America and The Vietnamese Boat People. SACEI07.org.

Utterly amazed...Astounding research. Outstanding…Should drive a stake in the heart of the grand myths. BILL LAURIE, Co-author Whitewash Blackwash: Myths of the Vietnam War, 1st Lt. US Army (Ret) and defense attaché (1971-1975).

A damn good piece of work. MIKE BENGE, contributor to History Channel, POW (1968-73), Vietnam: US Marines, 1956-1959, International Voluntary Services (IVS), 1963-65; Foreign Service Officer, USAID, 1963-68.

Wow. Impressive...tour de force. …LT. COL. JAMES K. BRUTON, US Army SGT, Counterinsurgency Vietnam 1972.

A tremendous project. SCOTT SWETT, co-author To Set the Record Straight Webmaster, Swift Boats Veterans and POWs for Truth, wintersoldier.com, tosettherecordstraight.com

Massive study of the Hanoi Lobby. MAX FRIEDMAN, National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, New Mobilization, Student Mobe, Washington Mobe. Co-author The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam, 1972.

Monumental work of original historical research, a gold mine for future …historians. JAMES McLEROY, 1st Lt., Army Special Forces, I Corps, 1967-68, co-author, Bait: The Battle of Kham Duc.

I have been waiting for this book for 40 years. JACK J. GOERHRING III, Psychological War, Capt. USA, Vietnam 1968-69.

Truly a fantastic masterpiece. Takes the whole antiwar-activists-as-sincere-liberators myth and trashes it… sets fire to the pile of pieces. Wow. … truly monumental achievement. R. J. DEL VECCHIO, Co-author Whitewash Blackwash: Myths of the Vietnam War, Cpl. Marine combat photographer, 1st Marine Div. Vietnam (1967-8),

Amazing…dig so deep and see so far ahead. THU-MINH HUYNH, daughter of Gen. Huynh Cao.

Recorded as the author has written. GEN. HUYNH VAN CAO, Cdr. ARVN, 7th Division, 1961-63.

Unfolds the ugly, shameful and mischievous acts of the anti-war liberals and leftists in the USA. JOACHIM THONG LE, The Vietnamese-American Nationalists in Diaspora, Ngo Dinh Diem Foundation.

Your Masterpiece has been making the Vietnamese diaspora boil. HUNG LE, translator into Vietnamese of Comrades in Arms.

A library of the mind clear and clean. Thank You. Thank You. VIET TRAN, Refugee August 1975.

Great work. Harsh. Painfully honest. Looking forward to your next installment in Military magazine. JIM BREEN, machine gunner, Cav. First Air Cavalry Division...RVN, 1966-67.

Reviews of on author’s works on Chinese Operations in USA [1996-2002]

Congratulations on your book---you are a patriot and a great American. JUDGE WILLIAM P. CLARK, former Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor to Governor and President Ronald Reagan.

It’s really scary. God bless you. JANE RUSSELL, film star

A wake up call… a must read for every American…. The People's Republic of China [has] launched an all-out underground war with the U.S. to invade our technology and [increase their] influence around the world…. CLIVE CUSSLER, novelist and sea hunter.

The so-called ‘Stealth Invasion’ by ‘Red’ China [is] false and groundless…absurd…farce... WANG YUNXIANG, Consul General, People’s Republic of China, San Francisco.