In 1967, Novelist Robert Merle's The Day of the Dolphin postulated the preposterous: two dolphins were trained to speak, then used to plant underwater mines off Haiphong to stage a nuclear confrontation with China. But last week the Navy reluctantly admitted that black dolphins, trained at a Navy laboratory in San Diego, had been taken to Viet Nam to be used in a classified mission of surveillance and detection, possibly against enemy frogmen.
In his book, Merle fantasizes an interview with a dolphin named Fa:
Reporter: What do you think of Viet Nam?
Fa: We cannot withdraw. That would encourage aggression.
Reporter: Fa, in case...
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