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Anthony Herbert person

also: Captain Herbert, First Lieutenant Anthony Herbert, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert, the colonel

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Anthony Herbert member_of Special Operations Group book_quoted
“Anthony Herbert, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, tells how he reported for duty with the Special Operations Group in Saigon in November 65 and was asked to join a top secret PSYOPs war program. Quote, what they wanted me to do was to take charge of executio…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 36:29
Anthony Herbert carried_out_attack Viet Cong book_quoted
“Anthony Herbert, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, tells how he reported for duty with the Special Operations Group in Saigon in November 65 and was asked to join a top secret PSYOPs war program. Quote, what they wanted me to do was to take charge of executio…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 36:29
Anthony Herbert relationship_with Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
“assassinations. The MAG interacted with Skorzeny at paramilitary commando training sites set up in Spain and other places. There was a Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert who attended several of these training camps in 1960. He referred to t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 7:22
Anthony Herbert trained Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
“He took the idea to Colonel Metaxas, who liked it, and gave him basically the run of the place to be able to put this ranger outfit together. His first task was to train the best standards of the day. And who was he going to get? Oh, he's g…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 47:38
Anthony Herbert member_of 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment book_quoted
“That guy had been a trainer at Fort Benning and had all of these other different assignments, rising to the rank of colonel. And Fort Benning and Fort Bragg are two of the locations that these commandos are going to be sent to in the U.S. f…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 46:43
Anthony Herbert studied_at Skorzeny School of Commando Tactics book_quoted
“There were international complications and considerations, and the civilian commander-in-chief had given an order. Ironically, Captain Herbert had earlier attended Skorzeny School of Commando Tactics. Now, let me just say this. I, having sp…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:35:10
Otto Skorzeny trained Anthony Herbert book_quoted
“So, anyway, I'm going to skip through the details of the army training. One of the things that does come up out of this is the lieutenant had mentioned that he was trained by Skorzeny's men and a small group of German soldiers. Who were the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 48:38

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Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program
▶ 36:00 Indeed, these teams did disguise as enemy, killing and otherwise abusing nationalist Vietnamese, not communists, and used that as part of the psychological warfare. It reinforced negative stereotypes about the Viet Cong, while at the same t…
Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program
▶ 36:29 Anthony Herbert, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, tells how he reported for duty with the Special Operations Group in Saigon in November 65 and was asked to join a top secret PSYOPs war program. Quote, what they wanted me to do was to take charge of executio…
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