Elton Manzoni person
also: Manzoni, M-A-N-Z-I-O-N-E
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Claims (4)
Elton Manzoni member_of
Special Operations Group host_asserted
“and was met by Special Forces Colonel who briefed him on his mission. Manzoni was told that he would be working for the Special Operations Group under a number of directives called O-Plans, which is operational plans, which had been drawn o…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 58:42
Elton Manzoni carried_out_attack
Viet Cong host_asserted
“trail, counting enemy troops and trucks. Other times they moved from one set of coordinates to another, and they also shot field-grade northern officers, kidnapped prisoners, escorted defectors from the north to the south, and demolished do…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:01:39
Elton Manzoni member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“For example, this guy, his name was Elton Manzoni, M-A-N-Z-I-O-N-E. When Doug met him, he was telling Doug they basically erased his entire history of him even being in Vietnam. And in many cases, these people that were on these hit squads …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 15:07
Elton Manzoni assassinated
Viet Cong book_quoted
“suspected of supporting North Vietnamese or Viet Cong soldiers like the ones targeted by Elton in his final operation. Targeting civilians is against Geneva Convention, and they did it anyway. Under Phoenix, the due process was nonexistent.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 17:54
Mentions (18)
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Elton Mazzoni and Kenny Van Lesser led 20 South Vietnamese Marines in a raid against Hung My Island, H-O-N-M-E Island. Dropped on the wrong side of the island, Mazzoni and Van Lesser failed to knock out their target, which was a North Vietn…
▶ 57:26
how they were going to do this. One of the soldiers who participated in Da Silva's counter-terror program was Elton Manzoni, a self-described super soldier. Manzoni received extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, combat swimming, snipin…
▶ 57:55
of Panama with a knife and a compass and told to find his way out. And he did. By then, he noted, with no small degree of understatement, I was fairly competent. By December 1964, Manzoni left California aboard an oil tanker and 10 days lat…
▶ 58:22
This ensured plausible deniability and Manzoni's service records were sheep dipped to indicate he never got off the Lawrence. Manzoni stepped ashore in Cam Ranh Bay in January 1964. So this guy has no trace of being in Vietnam at all.…
▶ 58:42
and was met by Special Forces Colonel who briefed him on his mission. Manzoni was told that he would be working for the Special Operations Group under a number of directives called O-Plans, which is operational plans, which had been drawn o…
▶ 59:38
Manzoni completed an intensive orientation course. He was taught advanced tracking, camouflage techniques, made familiar with Soviet and Chinese weapons, put on a steady diet of oriental food, told not to bathe and not to shave. And he was …
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Another goal was to deal with the enemy violations of the international accords. This is hilarious. That meant taking out command centers in Laos. They weren't supposed to be there at all. Manzoni was next assigned to Nam Dong in the Centra…
▶ 1:01:39
trail, counting enemy troops and trucks. Other times they moved from one set of coordinates to another, and they also shot field-grade northern officers, kidnapped prisoners, escorted defectors from the north to the south, and demolished do…
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counter-terrorist units whom Manzoni described as a combination of deserters, Viet Cong turncoats, and bad MF-er criminals from the South who they couldn't deal with in prison, so they put them under the command of these guys to kill people…
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If they killed so many designated Viet Cong, they actually got years off of their prison sentence. Not kidding. The counter-terrorists taught Manzoni and his SEAL comrades the secrets of PSYOP's campaigns, which in practice meant exploiting…
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One technique was based on the Buddhist belief that a person cannot enter heaven unless his liver is intact. So Manzoni would snitch a North Vietnamese courier off the Ho Chi Minh Trail, sneak him into a tent at night, crush the man's laryn…
▶ 9:59
with these counter-terrorist cells basically going into these villages, assassinating people and removing their liver because of the significance to their religious Buddhist beliefs, and then in some cases, eating it. So, along those lines,…
▶ 10:56
hamlets or villages. And the border between the North and South was so open to people sneaking back and forth that Americans literally had no idea who was who. So Manzoni goes on in a different light and begins talking to…
▶ 18:22
has descended upon the United States. This is not a mad rush out and do this kind of horrific crimes. But by opening the border and allowing people who have been trained in these terror tactics into the United States, you can see it slowly …
▶ 18:52
developed by the ugly American to beat the enemy at his own game. But the communists were not doing this. Not this kind of stuff. Quote, our camp was always separate, talking about the special forces and the CIA. Sometimes a special forces …
▶ 19:50
Having these particular hit teams, like Manzoni's talking about, amongst other nonviolent people is part of the psychological approach to this whole thing. Because when one of these teams showed up, you are always kept out off balance becau…
▶ 15:07
For example, this guy, his name was Elton Manzoni, M-A-N-Z-I-O-N-E. When Doug met him, he was telling Doug they basically erased his entire history of him even being in Vietnam. And in many cases, these people that were on these hit squads …
▶ 17:27
So developed in 1967 by the CIA, Phoenix combined existing counterinsurgency programs in a concerted effort to, quote unquote, neutralize the Viet Cong infrastructure. The euphemism for neutralize means to kill, capture or make defective. A…