Ngo Dinh Diem person
also: Dem, Diem, DIM, President Diem, Dems, Dinh, Nodin Dem, Ngo Dinh Dem, ZM, No Den Dem
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Claims (18)
Ngo Dinh Diem appointed
Tran Ngoc Chau book_quoted
“In 1962, Dem appointed Mr. Chow as chief of a large province along the Mekong Delta. Mr. Chow spent much of the next three years experimenting with alternative counterinsurgency methods. Mr. Chow quickly saw the government face several over…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 57:35
Ngo Dinh Diem appointed
Tran Ngoc Chau book_quoted
“And this is Tran Ngoc Chau is one of his original army officers that was assigned to the South and has now basically defected. Mr. Chau eventually attracted the attention of President Ngo Dinh Dem, who assigned him to work on the counterins…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 57:07
CIA installed
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“We've went through that before. The one that stands out the most is not current day, but in the history was the Catholic charities where they were involved in the resettlement of Northern Vietnam, people using CIA, PSYOPs, propaganda to for…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 51:55
Ngo Dinh Diem ordered_assassination_of
Can Lao Party book_quoted
“All the Can Lao people there watching me. And in those days, it was just impossible to resign. Many others had tried. They were just let off in the middle of the night by Dems men dressed as Viet Cong. They were taken to P-40 or the prison …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 12:20
United States installed
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“the rest of Southeast Asia, and we were not consulted. You decided again in 1956 that ZM, because he didn't want to have free elections, and you supported him because elections couldn't be free, and I've read all the semantics about what is…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 35:51
United States installed
Ngo Dinh Diem book_quoted
“all about divide and conquer. The American backed Diem, a Catholic bachelor living in Europe, which was probably not a good choice considering the country was overwhelmingly Buddhist, but he was controllable and that ultimately led to the r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 5:10
Edward Lansdale funded
Ngo Dinh Diem documented
“Instead, Lansdale funneled the money to Diem, who took over and made that his first power base. The tab amounted to tens of thousands of dollars a month and steadily increased. Several additional CIA subsidies went directly to Diem's palace…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 40:45
CIA recruited
Ngo Dinh Diem documented
“There, Lansdale established a close friendship with Diem. Then, President Eisenhower sent a new U.S. envoy to Saigon in late 1954, General J. Lawton Collins. He received a briefing from Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, and Pierre Cabal, advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 39:42
CIA carried_out_attack
Ngo Dinh Diem documented
“It noted allegations of CIA assassination efforts against foreign politicians like Castro, Diem, Dominican dictator Trujillo. Kissinger flipped quickly through the pages, but slowed when he came to the part about assassinations. He stopped …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 38:04
James Schlesinger ordered_assassination_of
Ngo Dinh Diem book_quoted
“At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 25:58
Lu Duan carried_out_attack
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“This senior military guy, Le Duan, developed a plan that was called Road to the South. In it, he called for an uprising and gather support to overthrow the propped up leader from the South that the West had designated, who was No Den Dem, D…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie @ 32:30
Edward Lansdale appointed
Ngo Dinh Diem documented
“and provide medical help to villagers, all under the guise of helping but inserting spies along the way. General Lansdale also happened to be an American behind the rise of South Vietnamese President Diem. Despite his...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 40:35
Edward Lansdale funded
Ngo Dinh Diem book_quoted
“sabotage to noise buses and railroad equipment. In South Vietnam, Lansdale bribed religious and political sect leaders to support Diem. The effort in Vietnam mirrored much of the efforts in the early 60s in Cuba. American forces would openl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 7:04
Ngo Dinh Diem appointed
Nguyen Ngoc Ly host_asserted
“in another step to basically get him out of the country. Dem then appointed a guy by Nguyen Ngoc Ly as his first Director General of the National Police. A longtime CIA asset, Ly worked with the Freedom Company to organize the Vietnamese Ve…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:04:24
CIA funded
Ngo Dinh Diem documented
“Instead, Lansdale funneled the money to Diem, who took over and made that his first power base. The tab amounted to tens of thousands of dollars a month and steadily increased. Several additional CIA subsidies went directly to Diem's palace…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 40:45
United States overthrew
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“American advisors in the Kennedy administration, you had your last chance when Diem got knocked down by a bus, or perhaps it was a tank, and you could have got out and said to the generals, well, we'll help you, guns, uniforms, pay for the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 36:28
Michigan State University funded
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“So the contract was approved in 1955, and that was right after the National Security Council had endorsed Dem as the president. And the Michigan State University program ran for at least seven years that we can find documentation for. And t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 4:43
United States installed
Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted
“when they were trying to kill all of the people in the beginning stages of the U.S. being in Vietnam, well before the war ever even got started, and before they started the military advisory group. We had assassins in there laying the groun…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 12:29
Mentions (80)
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known to JFK. He's undermining every single thing Alan Dulles has spent the last 50 years orchestrating. Right. He's he's literally shattering the CIA and no one has put this all together. So you've got Dem coming to power in Vietnam. Right…
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when they were trying to kill all of the people in the beginning stages of the U.S. being in Vietnam, well before the war ever even got started, and before they started the military advisory group. We had assassins in there laying the groun…
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the rest of Southeast Asia, and we were not consulted. You decided again in 1956 that ZM, because he didn't want to have free elections, and you supported him because elections couldn't be free, and I've read all the semantics about what is…
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American advisors in the Kennedy administration, you had your last chance when Diem got knocked down by a bus, or perhaps it was a tank, and you could have got out and said to the generals, well, we'll help you, guns, uniforms, pay for the …
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So basically he's just thumbing his thumb in the eye of the U.S. by saying that it shouldn't be him talking about what's good for South Vietnam. It should have been someone from South Vietnam. And their most important qualities would be rep…
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When they installed Dem as the dictator, as we talked about at the beginning, he basically, they spent the better part of the first couple of years there crushing all opposition of nationalist influence in the South so that they could promo…
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And circumventing all of that by importing the million people from the North that forced migration program where they use psychological operations to scare the hell out of Catholics in the North with voodoo weirdo things, basically interfer…
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the very best, most lucrative intelligence, they kept ferreted away for their own use. And after the fall of President Diem, Vietnam experienced several different coups, both at the leadership level of the country, but in their military too…
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although Michigan State University faculty also advised on other matters. The program ran from 1955 to 1962 and ended largely due to friction between Michigan State and the government of Nodin Dem, D-I-E-M, which was the current president a…
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And this is Tran Ngoc Chau is one of his original army officers that was assigned to the South and has now basically defected. Mr. Chau eventually attracted the attention of President Ngo Dinh Dem, who assigned him to work on the counterins…
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In 1962, Dem appointed Mr. Chow as chief of a large province along the Mekong Delta. Mr. Chow spent much of the next three years experimenting with alternative counterinsurgency methods. Mr. Chow quickly saw the government face several over…
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nationalist in the South that did not want the US CIA-backed government of Dem. He was not viewed as a legitimate president by the majority of the people, even in the South. He was viewed very much as a CIA stooge. And so these people don't…
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So the contract was approved in 1955, and that was right after the National Security Council had endorsed Dem as the president. And the Michigan State University program ran for at least seven years that we can find documentation for. And t…
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And he called it his military coup insurance. And there was, let's see, early attempts at bureaucratic streamlining was undermined by Dem. And because he really didn't want it to be organized, he preferred the chaos because he used the chao…
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They advised the BBI and trained Dems Secret Service along with the CIA officers on or agents. And they they all were hired under the label of a professor. So you have an entire school population of professors deployed to.…
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All the Can Lao people there watching me. And in those days, it was just impossible to resign. Many others had tried. They were just let off in the middle of the night by Dems men dressed as Viet Cong. They were taken to P-40 or the prison …
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as a bludgeon for stuff that they're doing themselves. So in 1959, Dem held another sham election. And this is a quote from one of the Vietnamese officials. In 1959, the...…
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beat people and used water treatment, literally waterboarding because the CIA had taught them how to do that. But there was nothing anyone could do. Everyone was terrified, unquote. Another official went on the record saying, quote, during …
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Because that, for them, was the last straw. Viet Minh cadres moved into villages from secluded base camps in central highlands. And after four years of Dems-style, quote-unquote, democracy, the rural population had basically embraced insurg…
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And at the Geneva Conference, Vietnam was divided along the 17th parallel, pending a nationwide election to be held in 1956. The French were to withdraw from the North and the Viet Minh from the South, where the U.S. was set to displace the…
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The CIA did this by organizing a cross-section of Vietnamese labor leaders and intellectuals and created the Personalist Labor Party. That was the party's name that they chose to put Dem in to pretend like he was actually a candidate. Kind …
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They were able to control that area. Nunn, a politician who was exiled by Dem in 1954, says about the Dem regime, quote, they persecuted those who did not accept their orders without discussion and tolerated or even encouraged their followe…
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must be loyal to them out of fear of punishment. To obtain an interesting position, one had to fulfill three D conditions. Dang, D-A-N-G, which was be a part of his party. Dao, which was the Catholic church, and Dai was the region from cent…
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If you did that, it says, from 1955 on, you were given all kinds of great deals. Dim did not issue from or have the support of any of the Buddhist community, which, by the way, was the largest majority in the country, especially in the Sout…
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He was, however, a nationalist whose anti-French reputation had enabled the U.S. to sell him as a plausible candidate. Dem arranged for Ken Lau, businessmen, and their American associates to get government contracts and commercial interests…
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were the French and their elite society, as well as the Vietnamese mafia. Together with the Cao Dai religious sects, these groups formed the United Sect Front and conspired against the U.S. and its candidate, Dem. So by January 1954, it's a…
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Let's see. Lansdale managed several programs once he got to Vietnam that were designed to ensure Dem's internal security, which would later evolve into incorporate the Phoenix program. In 1954, when posing as an assistant Air Force attache …
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Kevin Generous in Vietnam, Kevin Generous is the name of a guy, and he wrote a book called Vietnam, The Secret War. Here's a quote. They were always available for special details dreamt up by President Dem and his brother knew. Those quote …
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Kevin Generous in Vietnam, Kevin Generous is the name of a guy, and he wrote a book called Vietnam, The Secret War. Here's a quote. They were always available for special details dreamt up by President Dem and his brother knew. Those quote …
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who, while building roads and dispensing medicine, assisted Dem security forces of identifying and eliminating Viet Minh agents. So, you see how that works? In 1955, using resettled Catholic refugees trained by the Freedom Company as cadre,…
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induce enemy soldiers to defect, to organize rural people into self-defense forces to insulate their villages from the dreaded Viet Cong, to create political cadres who would sell the idea that Dem, not the Viet Minh, represented national a…
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Middle class Northern Catholics sent to the villages didn't speak the same language. So they were all alienated from each other. So not only did the civic actions fail to win the hearts and minds of the local Vietnamese, it was a unilateral…
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Lansdale's words, quote, were afraid that it was some scheme of mine to flood the country with secret agents, which it probably was. In May 1955, Dem formed a new government and banished the French, who kept 80,000 troops in the South right…
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One month later, Can Lao introduced a political front called National Revolution Movement. In 1955, knowing that the Buddhist population would vote overwhelmingly for Viet Minh in the national election, still talking the unified election, D…
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National referendum that had nothing to do with a national election and gave people like two weeks and said that was going to count as the Geneva Convention, quote unquote, election. Candidates were chosen to be elected had that were chosen…
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In case, after the election, he didn't like you, he would just make you resign. He'd fill in the date for you. Dim, in 1956, issued Ordinance 57A, marketed by Lansdell as an agrarian reform. It replaced the centuries-old custom of local vil…
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with districts and provinces chief, which nobody liked because Dem got to appoint all of the district chiefs. They also were the ones that hired all the security forces. So basically they installed a dictatorship. None of the local villages…
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But it was easy to do because you've got the U.S. behind you to go in and assassinate everybody that won't do what you want them to do. So, Dem could literally do anything as far as dictatorship, kill people, whatever, and the U.S. was behi…
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assignment. Rather, communist cadres were told to return to their home provinces and were instructed to limit their activities to propaganda tasks. No violence. However, on the basis of CIA reports saying otherwise, Dem initiated the notori…
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denunciation of the communist campaign in 1956. The campaign was managed by security committees, which were chaired by CIA-advised security officers who had the authority to arrest, confiscate land, and execute anybody they labeled as a com…
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In 1956, in the Highland area, 14,000 people were arrested without evidence or trial. The people were jailed simply for having visited a district that had been deemed having communists in it. And by the year's end, there was an estimated 20…
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Dem's family dealt with this problem, Hoy said, by a repressive policy applied through its Secret Service. This organ bore the very innocent name of Political and Social Research Services. It was led by a Dr. Tran Kim Thuan, a devoted Catho…
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This senior military guy, Le Duan, developed a plan that was called Road to the South. In it, he called for an uprising and gather support to overthrow the propped up leader from the South that the West had designated, who was No Den Dem, D…
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A State Department spokesman denied the story and others suggest that the subsidy may have been paid by someone in Thailand or even by President Diem. But again, Thailand is completely occupied by the United States. CIA had set up bases. Th…
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country that we spent $35 million buying the national police so that we could fly all of the drugs in and out of the seaports and the airports, that Thailand. And of course, Diem, it was installed by the CIA. So by suggesting that the money…
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This provisional detachment became the nucleus of the first special forces group established on Okinawa in June of 1957. Men from special forces conducted certain missions into Laos as early as 59 and were included in the assistance command…
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At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …
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There, Lansdale established a close friendship with Diem. Then, President Eisenhower sent a new U.S. envoy to Saigon in late 1954, General J. Lawton Collins. He received a briefing from Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, and Pierre Cabal, advis…
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Instead, Lansdale funneled the money to Diem, who took over and made that his first power base. The tab amounted to tens of thousands of dollars a month and steadily increased. Several additional CIA subsidies went directly to Diem's palace…
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A visiting agency officer saw so much cash passed around the station that he told a colleague in Singapore that this kind of money in Malaya could have ended the entire resistance movement simply by handing every ethnic Chinese a first clas…
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stood with him every step of the way, basically directing the effort. Lansdale would arrange for the different sects to basically pay for anybody that didn't want to work with the CIA to be cued, handing out money along the way. Lansdale ad…
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Eisenhower's envoy and friend, General Collins, finally decided to end U.S. support, at which point Lansdell used a CIA back channel to alert his bosses. In Washington, Allen and John Foster Dulles conspired to undercut General Collins. It …
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So that they could neutralize any role that the Laos government would play in the conflict. This included Pacific Fleet raids and special warfare units to harass everybody. But when war returned to Vietnam, it took the form of an uprising. …
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Because already the indigenous people in Vietnam was fighting back against Diem because they saw him as another Western puppet. All of this was a piece with the evolution of the CIA secret war in Asia, which grew far beyond the Korean confl…
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A fresh briefing in September featured CIA big guns, not just Cord Meyer, but Richard Helms and Desmond Fitzgerald. In September and November, John McCone at the Intelligence Board defended the CIA's role in South Vietnam against publicly r…
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and provide medical help to villagers, all under the guise of helping but inserting spies along the way. General Lansdale also happened to be an American behind the rise of South Vietnamese President Diem. Despite his...…
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excitement, Lansdale remained a controversial strategy until the advent of JFK. Even within the CIA, where political action had become a credo, many preferred direct measures. At the beginning of 61, a few weeks before Kennedy's inauguratio…
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favor in the countryside where guerrilla warfare spread and the army floundered. Diem had barely survived a coup too much earlier. The US military advisory group with which Lansdell had once served remained too hampered by restrictions. The…
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He spoke with Diem and other Vietnamese as well as embassy people. Compiling in his report on the plane to Washington, he submitted it. Oh my gosh, that famous date again, January 17th. You know, the date Eisenhower told us all about the mi…
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continued to deteriorate. The Vietnamese never seemed to catch the National Liberation Front rebels. It was evident by 1963 that Diem had lost most of his remaining political support, in particular when his brother, Ngo Dan Nhu, began using…
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continued to deteriorate. The Vietnamese never seemed to catch the National Liberation Front rebels. It was evident by 1963 that Diem had lost most of his remaining political support, in particular when his brother, Ngo Dan Nhu, began using…
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The liaison role remained a major activity of the CIA station in Saigon. Later, that role grew. The CIA wanted its own sources among the South Vietnamese politicians. By 1960, the agency had the best information outside the presidential pal…
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He had worked in Vienna and Therese and moved to Saigon from Manila, Philippines. You know, another terrorist training place. Colby introduced Richardson to Nguyen Dinh Ngu, now head of Diem's intelligence services. Richardson had been a cl…
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He had worked in Vienna and Therese and moved to Saigon from Manila, Philippines. You know, another terrorist training place. Colby introduced Richardson to Nguyen Dinh Ngu, now head of Diem's intelligence services. Richardson had been a cl…
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college. Isn't that interesting? His nickname was Jocko. And like Leighton, spoke four or five languages, including French, which was indispensable in Saigon since everybody there spoke French because they'd been a French colony for so long…
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The greatest empire within the CIA station was Richardson's own. His problem lay not with the Saigon, but with the U.S. authorities. Convinced that Diem's time had run out, Washington tried desperately to get him to broaden his government. …
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and CIA officer Alfonso G. Sparrow to tell the generals the U.S. was fine with the coup. Richardson reported the maneuver through CIA channels. McCone went on to oppose, supposedly, the coup initiative. Washington scuttled the Hillsman Cabl…
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and CIA officer Alfonso G. Sparrow to tell the generals the U.S. was fine with the coup. Richardson reported the maneuver through CIA channels. McCone went on to oppose, supposedly, the coup initiative. Washington scuttled the Hillsman Cabl…
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For a time, the Vietnamese generals backed down. But two days before Richardson's hurried recall, they told Koenig of a new coup plan. That coup took place on November 1st, 1963. The CIA put up $40,000 to pay for it. You know, because they …
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For a time, the Vietnamese generals backed down. But two days before Richardson's hurried recall, they told Koenig of a new coup plan. That coup took place on November 1st, 1963. The CIA put up $40,000 to pay for it. You know, because they …
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Policy roles rather than discoverable ones of its agents on the street in Saigon. As a practical matter, public and world opinion would be dictated by the discoverable record, not the secret one. Several more coups occurred before 1967 when…
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such as the Congo's Patrice Lumumba, South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, and Fidel Castro, its assassins had proved inept or were beaten to the punch, i.e. they weren't responsible, which is a bold-face…
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We've went through that before. The one that stands out the most is not current day, but in the history was the Catholic charities where they were involved in the resettlement of Northern Vietnam, people using CIA, PSYOPs, propaganda to for…
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all about divide and conquer. The American backed Diem, a Catholic bachelor living in Europe, which was probably not a good choice considering the country was overwhelmingly Buddhist, but he was controllable and that ultimately led to the r…
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That basically fits the definition of what was going on with Diem. He was controlled. He was their person. And so even though they agreed to have a unified election, that was never going to happen. Another quote, quote, Washington was not c…
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sabotage to noise buses and railroad equipment. In South Vietnam, Lansdale bribed religious and political sect leaders to support Diem. The effort in Vietnam mirrored much of the efforts in the early 60s in Cuba. American forces would openl…
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compounds because they basically burnt down entire villages and created new huts surrounded by moats so that people had to check in and out, kind of like the early version of a smart city. And they used a computer system to track the moveme…
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It noted allegations of CIA assassination efforts against foreign politicians like Castro, Diem, Dominican dictator Trujillo. Kissinger flipped quickly through the pages, but slowed when he came to the part about assassinations. He stopped …
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TypeScript pages ended up on the cutting floor. Its discussion of CIA plots against Castro, Trujillo, Lumumba, and Diem kept from the public. President Ford had the source materials all turned over to him. Like Bill Colby with the family je…
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And the reason they did that, over a million people, the reason why they did that is because they wanted to give the impression that there was an overwhelming amount of Catholics in the South because they were about ready to install a Catho…