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A peek on how ICE conducts business.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/02/03/eagle-county-ic...
of spades cards left in Eagle County*

*A nonprofit in Eagle County previously said nine men [were captured and taken to detention](https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/ace-of-spades-c...) Jan. 21, including eight who were in four different vehicles pulled over in “fake traffic stops.”*

*The ace of spades cards, printed with the address and phone number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Denver, were found by family and friends who went to retrieve the vehicles left on U.S. 6 near Minturn in Eagle County, the nonprofit said. Ace of spades cards are linked historically to racism, including as [“death cards](https://www.historynet.com/ace-spades-vietnam-psyc...)” left on dead bodies during the Vietnam War.

WARNING! Do NOT click on link below if you do not wish to view photos of Vietnamese dead with Ace of Spades inserted into the mouths of the dead.
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/02/25/donald-trump...

Sitting in the U.S. National Archives building — Archives II — in College Park, Maryland, sometime in the late 2000s or early 2010s, I’d spent parts of several afternoons watching film footage shot by — and of — U.S. troops in Vietnam back in the 1960s. One of those silent military home movies always stuck with me.*

*The film cut to a group of foreign young men — heavily armed U.S. soldiers. They were tanned and gaunt, smoking and talking, standing over the corpses of some young Vietnamese men or boys. We see the dead bodies at a distance, again. Lying together and yet eerily alone.*

*I’ve never forgotten the scene that followed because I was initially shocked that it had been immortalized on film. I was also surprised that the film had never been destroyed.*

*But then I remembered how ubiquitous such activity was at the time. How soldiers bragged about it. How it was covered — positively — in the U.S. press. How it even showed up in the Congressional Record, not as an outrage deserving of investigation but essentially as a [thank you](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP67B004...) to a manufacturer of playing cards.*

*In the next scene, we see a soldier pull an ace of spades from what looks like a big stack of such cards. He’s nonchalant. He’s clearly not worried about an officer seeing what he’s doing. He obviously knows he’s being filmed.

Nick Turse is an American investigative journalist who has written about the Vietnam War. The My Lai massacre was not an aberration but US military policy.

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