Phoenix Program operation
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Claims (114)
Donald Gregg member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“in Vice President Bush's office that ran the entire Iran-Contra affair. So Donald Gregg is in Vietnam and was part of the management of the Phoenix program. So he goes on to explain a little bit about Donald Gregg, and he says that he was t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 12:15
CIA carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program documented
“that he had witnessed acts of torture, including the prodding of a person's brain with a six-inch dowel through his ear, and that in a year and a half with Phoenix, not a single suspect survived interrogation. After being called before Cong…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 31:29
Phoenix Program targeted_for_regime_change
Viet Cong documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 17:27
CIA funded
Phoenix Program documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 17:27
Tran Ngoc Chau founded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“Mr. Chow's second innovation was the creation of what he called – and see, the New York Times isn't going to tell us these are CIA ideas. They're going to pose these as if they were the indigenous Vietnamese. They were not. These are CIA id…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 1:02:55
William Colby member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“That got a lot of people killed because they knew stuff about the JFK assassination, such as Jimmy Hoffa, for example, Sam Giancana, people who were going to testify on the subject of assassination. Would you agree? Yes, absolutely. I agree…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 45:21
Booz Allen Hamilton carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“There were the new firms popping up to meet the post-Cold War demand. There were a few older companies that had been contracted for military service in past wars. These included Booz Allen, which provided training in South Vietnam as part o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 52:43
Phoenix Program assassinated
Viet Cong host_asserted
“When you zoom out to the 30,000 foot look of it versus what's happening inside the United States right now. The Phoenix program was a massive program to capture and kill the Viet Cong and the use of torture to reveal even more targets. It w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 29:51
Felix Rodriguez carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 41:02
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“that they implemented in Vietnam where they sit down and they basically ask you every single thing about your family, where all of your extended family lives, and they enter that all in a database because they viewed these people as, and th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 1:24:46
Donald Gregg involved_in
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“intensely loyal supporters. One of the loyalists was Donald Gregg, who we've talked about many times. Donald Gregg was in Vietnam and was an intricate person in the administration of the Phoenix program. The man Jimmy Carter is convinced pl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 22:20
Robert Komer founded
Phoenix Program documented
“Helms, who had known nothing about the court's chief request, apologetically told Colby that he had been overridden and he was going to Vietnam. The court's error led to one of the most controversial pacification programs in the Vietnam War…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 44:31
Phoenix Program assassinated
Viet Cong documented
“who could then be neutralized, murdered in this program. And of course, as I said, this was called Phoenix. And since we've spent a lot of time on Phoenix, I'm not going to go through the details of this. Just understand that this program e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 45:02
Everett Bumgartner in_charge_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“like the people in the South, and it became a big contentious effort. So going on with the quote, any person who had the faintest knowledge of the pacification program would know what disasters have visited the Vietnamese people as a result…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 7:31
Frank Scotton founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“is to drive them out of those places into refugee camps, yet again, because they have to demoralize the people to be able to control the people. So, February 1964, Frank Scotton was working on what Ogden Williams, the senior American adviso…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 40:29
Ian Teague member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“type thing. That's the actual quote, a Phoenix type thing. In developing this Phoenix type program, Scott and team with a guy by the name of Ian Teague, T-I-E-G-E. And oddly enough, he's an Australian paramilitary advisor on contract to the…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 41:02
Robert Kerr member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“was a military advisory district advisor. Quote, Kelly was the American on the spot, unquote, Scotton said. He goes on to say, I advised on training and deployment. Teague was the professional soldier deciding how to fight the enemy. Formal…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 41:31
Ralph Johnson funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“They wanted to fight, Scotton said, but they didn't want to lose. Money and supplies were provided by Ralph Johnson. A 15-day accelerated training cycle was set up, and Scotton called it his motivational indoctrination program. Modeled, oh,…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 43:30
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“If you use just the words that they use, you wouldn't see the correlation to the Phoenix program in Vietnam. But once you've discovered the Phoenix program in Vietnam and you use the terminology that made it the equivalent or identified the…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 25:46
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
United States host_asserted
“And it was happening inside the United States. So we'll just leave it there. All right. So hold on. I need to take Stellar off the co-host and bring Frog. And I will do that. And then who's next? Boogie? Harry? Yo, host. Yo. Damn, host. You…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 26:45
Colonel J.R. Newman member_of
Phoenix Program guest_asserted
“And I've got handwritten letters from both those guys talking about the work he did in Vietnam. When he got there, he was there 69 through 71. When he got there, he was the director of Phoenix Intelligence. And when he got there, the price …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:13:18
United States House of Representatives covered_up
Phoenix Program documented
“has criticized the Pentagon for failure to investigate possible war crimes by U.S. soldiers against Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnamese political assassination program. It was learned today. But the Government Operations Committee appa…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 1:19:21
Phoenix Program targeted_for_regime_change
Viet Cong host_asserted
“We don't want you affiliating with the Viet Cong. And so we're going to set this new city up, this hamlet, and we're going to surround it with a moat. And we're not going to let you move in and out of this so we can control your contact. An…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 1:39:33
William Colby headed
Phoenix Program documented
“Colby succeeded to the top job when his boss, Robert Comer, became the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Turkey, the one with the largest stay-behind unit. As a result, it would be Colby who presided over cords in the Phoenix program. Although muc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 15:30
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“miraculously is the first official 15 minute city in Oxford. And whoever posted that this morning, I was like, Milner is like having a heyday in hell right now. He'd be so proud that Oxford would be the first prototype for that because they…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 1:20:14
Operation Gladio front_for
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Costolero is talking about is Operation Gladio. He didn't know the name of it, which most Americans don't because most Americans have never lived in Europe and understand what they went through. And the fact that it was revealed over there …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 1:39:29
Nelson Brickham member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“But I'm going to fly through this part. There's a guy in the CIA that's part of Phoenix and that Doug Valentine talks to. And his name is Nelson Brickham, B-R-I-C-K-H-A-M. And so he interviews him quite extensively for this book. And what w…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 4:15
Nelson Brickham founded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“Brigham's notion of a systematic approach served for the conceptual basis for Phoenix. And although in Phoenix, the targets were people, not missile silos. And see, in order to understand this, I hope you guys can appreciate why I had to ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 10:10
Nelson Brickham appointed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“And it says Brickham got assigned to be the chief of special branch field operations in the spring of 66 after this guy that he liked left. And him being installed in that job was basically the go button for laying the foundation for Phoeni…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 18:24
CIA funded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“The well-known CIA adage, plausible deniability, springs to mind when considering the Phoenix program. Yeah, sure, the CIA funded, trained, and guided the Phoenix effort. But when things went really bad, well, like killing the wrong person …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 11:04
CIA trained
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“The well-known CIA adage, plausible deniability, springs to mind when considering the Phoenix program. Yeah, sure, the CIA funded, trained, and guided the Phoenix effort. But when things went really bad, well, like killing the wrong person …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 11:04
CIA founded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“but it was the CIA creating the cells. You know, kind of like they do with domestic terror events under Operation Gladio. They use someone else so they have plausible deniability. After all, it was supposed to be the South Vietnamese who we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 11:32
Tim Weiner exposed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“at over 40,000. But ask the average American about the 20,000 or 40,000 Vietnamese killed by the CIA Phoenix program, and you're likely to get a blank stare. Even in the book Legacies of Ashes, Tim Weiner, about the CIA, said there were onl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 31:58
Ted Shackley headed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“That the CIA has done this for the last 70 plus years and not a single word gets said about it. So it goes on to say the Phoenix program is thus seen not as an aberration, but as an example of the way the CIA works. Shackley left Vietnam in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 33:58
William Colby book_quoted
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“ambushes by police and regional forces and also their special forces elements. The going in and kind of hunting and pecking around to try to find somebody on their list that they had gotten from their informants that they paid. Even though …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:11:45
CIA funded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“The U.S. provided 20 military counterintelligence officers, each of whom served as a desk officer in Saigon to represent the precincts that they had reorganized into. And a guy by the name of Tom Becker supervised that staff. There were als…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:24:26
Tom Becker headed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“The U.S. provided 20 military counterintelligence officers, each of whom served as a desk officer in Saigon to represent the precincts that they had reorganized into. And a guy by the name of Tom Becker supervised that staff. There were als…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:24:26
Phoenix Program assassinated
Viet Cong documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 17:27
CIA carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“50% of the Office of Public Safety that taught national police forces in over 50 countries how to torture dissidents. And there's no better example than the Phoenix program, which we went over extensively, of the CIA participating in tortur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 3:26
CIA trafficked
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“to the same Vietnam interagency committee that he had left in Washington. In Laos, the embassy team was not quite the same. Ted Shackley moved over to Saigon as chief of station there because that's about the time they were fixing up the Ph…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 38:27
CIA funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Like what we used in the Phoenix program all over Latin America. Not one word of that. It's Venezuela, only one doing that, and it's the worst they've ever seen. From a CIA guy that ran black sites in the Middle East, and a guy who grew up …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 27:06
Donald Gregg member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 25:54
Special Operations Group member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“I remember one of the terms used by the Phoenix program assassins was MACV-SOG, study and observation group. They were a twisted version of the last acronym. Yeah, I'm a SOG, a son of the Gestapo. Was this some type of message being sent to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 1:03:09
William Colby headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“There were basically wanted posters that sprung up overnight on the walls all over Washington with an adaptation of the Phoenix program, which, of course, William Colby had ran. And they featured an ace of spades used by Americans in Vietna…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:15:04
United States carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program caller_asserted
“Where'd Bridget go? Sorry, I was multitasking. Yes, they are bringing in, I guess. I mean, these are all Gladio setups. The Phoenix program. Yeah. So I've been screaming, jumping up and down, that they have implemented the Phoenix program i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 1:48:37
U.S. Department of Homeland Security front_for
Phoenix Program caller_asserted
“Why we had 9-11 was so they could slowly implement the Phoenix program. So having military checkpoints and controlling the access in and out of different locations, these quote unquote emergencies are going to keep happening and they're goi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 1:49:08
Federal Emergency Management Agency front_for
Phoenix Program caller_asserted
“FEMA is the Phoenix program. They have the same fusion centers that were set up over in Vietnam to control people. They're doing the same forced migration into this area. And then they're going to create all the chaos. And they're going to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 1:49:38
USA PATRIOT Act founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Obviously, it makes more sense to him now than it did then. But I want to go back, Ron. Thank you. The whole series that I did on Vietnam, you cannot research Vietnam and not understand the Patriot Act was the Phoenix program. You can't not…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 1:19:45
Ellsworth Bunker headed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“You know where we paid the national police their $35 million to ship drugs out of there. Imagine that. He was also the ambassador to Italy. And he was the last ambassador to Vietnam overseeing the Phoenix program while he was there. He work…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 10:44
Lucien Conein spied_on
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“Can't keep track of my own notes. Abuses by corrupt security officers, policemen, politicians, and racketeers, all of whom extorted innocent civilians, as well as the Viet Minh. Legendary CIA officer Lucien Koenig, which is the French guy, …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 18:54
Phoenix Program assassinated
Vietnam book_quoted
“establishing the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, estimated to have killed 40,000 Vietnamese. The Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal, the part he played in the Iran-Contra scandal, which nearly brought down the entire …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 10:25
Central Intelligence Organization managed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“also managed political and foreign intelligence operations, and they became the nerve center for the coordination of Phoenix. Knowing that the single-minded Americans would carry the fight against the North, Dem, through his spymaster, Dr. …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 26:20
Everett Bumgartner headed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“and used to oversee pacification efforts in the central provinces of Vietnam. Any person who has the faintest knowledge of the pacification program would know what disasters have visited the Vietnamese people as a result of such programs. B…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:12:25
Ted Shackley founded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“establishing the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, estimated to have killed 40,000 Vietnamese. The Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal, the part he played in the Iran-Contra scandal, which nearly brought down the entire …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 10:25
Robert Komer carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“All of that nasty shit that we've talked about and spent the better part of a week on the Phoenix program and the murder, pacification, burning down of villages, creating another village, put a remote, checkpoints, all of those things. This…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 6:59
James W. Newman member_of
Phoenix Program caller_asserted
“That's pretty accurate. I was curious because my grandfather was the assistant director of the Phoenix program. In Vietnam? In Vietnam for three years. What's his last name? I might be giving a little too much, but honestly, I don't give a …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 1:55:28
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam book_quoted
“But refreshingly, there is a whole section on the Phoenix program, and it actually says that it blames the Phoenix program on neutralizing 81,740 people, mainly citizens. The number of neutral citizens killed, the highest of any other CIA p…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:28:05
Nelson Brickham member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“At least one CIA officer deeply involved in Phoenix was influenced by this guy. That would be Nelson Brickham, B-R-I-C-K-H-A-M, who is generally credited with creating the infrastructure of Phoenix. Reportedly, Brickham was a staunch believ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 32:34
William Colby exposed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“the wires to genital areas, water treatment, which was waterboarding, the use of dogs to attack the prisoners, and inserting rods into people's ear canals, like literally until they died. Phoenix was every bit as brutal as it sounds. In 197…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 24:46
Erik Prince proposed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“but private contractors. During an interview in July 2016, Eric Prince told future White House chief strategist Steve Bannon that Trump's administration should recreate the Phoenix program, but with private contractors. Such a program would…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 39:05
Doug Valentine spied_on
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Who I have all the admiration for in the world as far as her research skills goes the same way that I'm fascinated with Doug Valentine in his research of the CIA and Operation Phoenix and everything to do with the stuff that he writes about…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:57:04
William Colby exposed
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“the wires to genital areas, water treatment, which was waterboarding, the use of dogs to attack the prisoners, and inserting rods into people's ear canals, like literally until they died. Phoenix was every bit as brutal as it sounds. In 197…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 24:46
Erik Prince proposed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“but private contractors. During an interview in July 2016, Eric Prince told future White House chief strategist Steve Bannon that Trump's administration should recreate the Phoenix program, but with private contractors. Such a program would…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 39:05
Donald Gregg member_of
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“SS tactic that the Germans used against the French resistance. I guess he doesn't know about Operation Gladio because that's where all of it comes from. It was standard Phoenix program operating procedures, which they rebranded as their quo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 19:58
Michigan State University trained
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Their criminal justice system went over there and actually set it up. They did all of the training. They created the schools. They wrote the curriculum. And they were basically on the payroll of the CIA while they were doing that. And now, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 1:47:11
Ted Shackley headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“I stumbled across at the secret base where I had been sent, where buried weapons and munitions from the Phoenix program, which Shackley had ran in Vietnam. Had it been a coincidence that Shackley had sent me and my family to that facility w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 33:52
Kennedy Administration founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“In Colombia, the most significant decisions made by Bogota in conjunction with Washington have been about what kind of war will be fought, a decision dictated by long-range goals, and about what kind of weapons will be used. Before Vietnam,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 27:50
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
Michigan State University founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“but these new hires that we indoctrinate into this program for overseas assignments. And that's exactly what we saw happen at Michigan State, where they founded the entity that became the overarching authority under the Office of Public Saf…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:28:10
Lyndon B. Johnson headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“for johnson but maybe he changed later in life i'm not passing judgment on him i was talking about the phoenix program and his role in it as part of the johnson administration i didn't pass judgment on him i'm providing no i was saying that…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 1:31:04
Phoenix Program member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Well, Phoenix is a part of Gladio. So Gladio started back in the mid 1940s with the stand up in 48 of NATO. It had prior to that been called the werewolf program inside of Nazi Germany. And the Phoenix program is an aspect of that that was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 1:54:08
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“Well, Phoenix is a part of Gladio. So Gladio started back in the mid 1940s with the stand up in 48 of NATO. It had prior to that been called the werewolf program inside of Nazi Germany. And the Phoenix program is an aspect of that that was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 1:54:08
USAID funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“So our tax dollars through the military aid program and USAID has been used to fund Operation Gladio. So it says that this group was funded by USAID for technical assistance programs for South Vietnam led by faculty members at Michigan Stat…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 43:44
Catholic Church headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Northern Vietnamese into the South and then use them as part of the Phoenix program, both murdering them and using them to rat on the nationalists in the South. That was the Catholic Church. And who ran the rat lines? The Catholic Church. S…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:13:09
Federal Emergency Management Agency front_for
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“9-11 brought the Phoenix program here. That's what FEMA is. FEMA with their territorial things and the sectors that they set up. And I did a post where I compared all of the things that the FEMA and the legislation after the Patriot Act, af…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 1:54:52
Michigan State University funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“He's another one of those Forrest Gumps. He's been a lot of interesting places. And what really pisses me off is he graduated from Indiana University. And you know what's really interesting about the time frame that he's there? Is Indiana U…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:14:12
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“to include the Phoenix program, was part of a Gladio operation. Does that help? Yeah, I was, I met a, and Miles will tell you this, I met a CIA officer that was in Laos, and that's where they ran Igloo White out of. And I didn't know if Gla…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 1:44:33
U.S. Department of Homeland Security carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“The Homeland Security has been implementing behind the scenes for the last, well, ever since 9-11. That is when this jumped into high gear. It's not that it hadn't been going on before that, but it definitely shifted into a much higher gear…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 1:39:55
USAID trained
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“under the auspices of the Office of Public Safety. That actually was the precursor that trained the national police over there to implement the Phoenix program. That same Office of Public Safety was, it's part of USAID, was deployed.…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 1:15:04
Michigan State University carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“He also created the polygraph. He was the chair of the department. He was the chair of the department from 1936 until 1976. And they trained all Indiana State Police. And when you research them, you also find out that Indiana University had…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 18:31
Erik Prince funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“and was later pimped by the U.S. intelligence official John Brennan and James Clapper, both of whom have ties to private security rackets. On the other hand, Trump's backer, Eric Prince and Steven Feinberg, may be creating infrastructure fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 44:10
Steven Feinberg funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“and was later pimped by the U.S. intelligence official John Brennan and James Clapper, both of whom have ties to private security rackets. On the other hand, Trump's backer, Eric Prince and Steven Feinberg, may be creating infrastructure fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 44:10
Catholic Church carried_out_attack
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“they being the international syndicate, and they have used the face of religion to orchestrate events that otherwise would never have happened. The Catholic Church forcibly, using psychological operations, relocated one million North Vietna…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 1:47:52
Felix Rodriguez trained
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“kind of an operative at a really young age to pout these. Do you know the story about Soros? Yes, I'm very familiar with it. That is not any different than the Phoenix program that was used in Vietnam or Felix Rodriguez when he was sent to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:15:37
Pacific Architects and Engineers funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“using a CIA front company called Pacific Architects and Engineers. And I just found that. I haven't had a chance to dig on them yet, but that was another CIA front company. They were used to build the CIA prisons all over the country. And t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 13:52
USAID supplied_arms_to
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“And front and center of all of this was USAID, another CIA front, as we've learned, that basically brought in, through the diplomatic pouches, as we talked about, both in South America and Central America, the telephone generators that the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 16:59
Indiana University funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“He's another one of those Forrest Gumps. He's been a lot of interesting places. And what really pisses me off is he graduated from Indiana University. And you know what's really interesting about the time frame that he's there? Is Indiana U…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:14:12
CIA trained
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“They have drug in the dregs of society from all over Asia to include people from the United States as hired mercenaries. And they've turned local people into trained assassins. And their number one priority is how to get those trained assas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 32:57
Ralph Johnson founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Methven began extracting the most aggressive individuals from mountain scout teams and hiring mercenaries, often Vietnamese criminals or Chinese criminals, to act as counter-terrorists and to do to the Viet Cong and their propaganda teams w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 42:17
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam War host_asserted
“We would not be able to look at it. And now we've got enough behind us, enough knowledge of these operations and how they work to be able to walk through this in an objective manner. And then, of course, you will go from the knowledge of wh…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:50:21
Ted Shackley funded
Phoenix Program book_quoted
“Once that was accomplished, Shackley and Saigon Station Chief ran the Phoenix program and financed it with drug money from Vang Pao. And actually, it's the CIA's drug money, not Vang Pao. I understand how they like to make him the villain, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 26:13
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“to go to the other part of your question in motivation. I do believe the Phoenix program was originally set up in Vietnam in order to quote unquote practice the use of it. And then it was used in Chile and it was used in Paraguay and Urugua…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 2:01:46
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Chile host_asserted
“to go to the other part of your question in motivation. I do believe the Phoenix program was originally set up in Vietnam in order to quote unquote practice the use of it. And then it was used in Chile and it was used in Paraguay and Urugua…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 2:01:46
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Paraguay host_asserted
“to go to the other part of your question in motivation. I do believe the Phoenix program was originally set up in Vietnam in order to quote unquote practice the use of it. And then it was used in Chile and it was used in Paraguay and Urugua…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 2:01:46
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Chile host_asserted
“All of those different things that happened after Vietnam was modeled off of the Vietnam Phoenix program. So, I mean, we could probably spend two or three days just on the Phoenix program. And hopefully y'all watched the show last night wit…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:05:44
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Uruguay host_asserted
“That we've covered kind of briefly, not like the details of it, but you're going to see how like the coup that happened in Chile and the installation of the chief of national police training in Uruguay.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:05:22
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 29:45
Phoenix Program attempted_coup_against
Vietnam host_asserted
“led eventually to the overthrow of another CIA-installed government in Vietnam. The legacy of the Phoenix program is terror, torture, and death. The Vietnam, obviously for the United States, was scandalous in just about every respect.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 37:04
Phoenix Program used_as_model_by
Malaysia host_asserted
“I think it was used as a model and it was perfected both by the UK and Malaysia and then or Malay at the time. And then because they basically did everything that was done in the Phoenix program. And then I think the US kind of used the Pho…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 5:50
Phoenix Program used_as_model_by
United States host_asserted
“I think it was used as a model and it was perfected both by the UK and Malaysia and then or Malay at the time. And then because they basically did everything that was done in the Phoenix program. And then I think the US kind of used the Pho…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 5:50
Michigan State University headed
Phoenix Program guest_asserted
“So Operation Phoenix was ran by the Michigan State University. A lot of people don't know that.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 38:16
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Being orchestrated in different venues throughout South America, Latin America, like with the Sandinistas and the Contra conflict. Well, and so now I have I have made it perfectly clear a multitude of times that and I'm sure if you're into …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 1:54:32
Standard Oil funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“That had nothing to do with Israel, Mossad or anything else. It was evil. It had to do with the oil off the coast of Vietnam and Standard Oil wanted it. And the CIA was trying to facilitate that along with the drug trade in Laos. Again, tha…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 1:48:20
Erik Prince funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“and was later pimped by the U.S. intelligence official John Brennan and James Clapper, both of whom have ties to private security rackets. On the other hand, Trump's backer, Eric Prince and Steven Feinberg, may be creating infrastructure fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 44:10
Steven Feinberg funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“and was later pimped by the U.S. intelligence official John Brennan and James Clapper, both of whom have ties to private security rackets. On the other hand, Trump's backer, Eric Prince and Steven Feinberg, may be creating infrastructure fo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 44:10
Bella Gray member_of
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“So, you know, it's kind of funny how there is this overlap at the very upper echelons of... All of these different scandals. And the Franklin scandal. The last thing is that Bella Gray was, you know, listed being heavily involved in the Pho…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 49:59
CIA funded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“And we have read about it. We read about it in the Phoenix program. So it is a big, big part of who the CIA is. And another way to gauge whether or not they're telling the truth, just like that dumbass Bernson guy that supposedly is the whi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:01:24
Phoenix Program front_for
Federal Emergency Management Agency host_asserted
“The fusion centers of the FEMA are the exact parallel to the area regional cells that were set up in Vietnam. The restriction of travel, the ID checks, the destruction of villages and moving people into. So all of those things are playing o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Lt Col Larry Brock Jr @ 54:04
Phoenix Program used_as_model_by
United Kingdom host_asserted
“I think it was used as a model and it was perfected both by the UK and Malaysia and then or Malay at the time. And then because they basically did everything that was done in the Phoenix program. And then I think the US kind of used the Pho…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 5:50
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Viet Cong host_asserted
“And in the Phoenix program, you had to have an enemy, and that became the Viet Cong.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists @ 4:14
Michigan State University founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“It has all of the on their wiki page, all of the problems that has been identified. But one of the funny things, because, again, we look for patterns is I came down here and the first thing I saw was, oh, crap. Michigan State University pro…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:59:49
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Argentina host_asserted
“Interesting that you say that because one of the things in Argentina that they were doing, so you said a whole bunch there. And I'm going to go back to your original comment about bringing people in and then ratting out other people. That's…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 1:18:33
William Casey headed
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 29:45
Eric Hubeck founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“And using alleged abuse of children like Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby as kind of the front facing face of that. In a 2001 paper commissioned by fourth generation architect Paul Wyrick and William Lynn and authored by Cath…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 45:32
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▶ 54:19
It had population and house reporting systems. National tax collection system was in here and village information systems. That's like the Phoenix program in Vietnam. It had a public opinion tracking system. It had criminal investigation sy…
▶ 1:08:00
That's all I've got to say tonight. I'll try to listen on the rest. I got some work to get done. Good night, everyone. See you later. Bridget, go ahead. And FEMA was also created or named at that time. Anyway, the... Oh, wait a minute. Wait…
▶ 29:45
like a commanding member of the Brigade 2506, which is basically a death squad. He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director. He was training people in El Salvador. He was train…
▶ 3:48
While another Fort Bragg guy is committing another domestic terror event on the anniversary of him being put to death. All right. So I have said all along that there's a narrative building in the United States by our government, namely the …
▶ 4:14
And in the Phoenix program, you had to have an enemy, and that became the Viet Cong. Not because the Viet Cong was communist, because they were not. They were nationalist. Ho Chi Minh was fine when the OSS was helping him during World War I…
▶ 27:25
us doing it in Vietnam, the UK did a very similar operation in Malaya. And it was the pre-Phoenix program, Phoenix program. It looked just like the Phoenix program. And when you start researching,…
▶ 27:43
Vietnam, one of the most notorious things that came out of Vietnam was the Phoenix program. And when you start dissecting the Phoenix program, it is a surveillance program. They even, in the 1960s, was using IBM computers deployed to Vietna…
▶ 29:57
Fast forwarding to the 1970s and late 60s and 70s, primarily Operation Condor, which is Gladio's cousin in South America, Latin America, actually, they created a computer system to do that exact same thing again. And that computer system wa…
▶ 1:15:04
under the auspices of the Office of Public Safety. That actually was the precursor that trained the national police over there to implement the Phoenix program. That same Office of Public Safety was, it's part of USAID, was deployed.…
▶ 1:47:52
they being the international syndicate, and they have used the face of religion to orchestrate events that otherwise would never have happened. The Catholic Church forcibly, using psychological operations, relocated one million North Vietna…
▶ 14:11
That is describing, as we've all come to recognize, is Operation Gladio. And this is done repeatedly, and it's done via the police. And it is basically the Phoenix program replicated in country after country after country that we used in Vi…
▶ 1:13:42
It is so disturbing what they have done all in the name of power and money and control. I don't know if I really have much to say. So it isn't more savage, to answer your point. If you go back and you read any of the books about the Phoenix…
▶ 1:15:12
I was an SF back in the late 70s or early mid-80s. And my team sergeant had been in Vietnam with SF Combat Patch. We used to ask him what he did in Vietnam, and he'd always say recon. Recon. Someone finally asked him, oh, you mean like MACV…
▶ 1:39:27
Not the illegals. We've already seen this happen. You have the Marine up in New York City who, defending people on a subway, is now in jail. They are turning our system on the citizens and they are using illegals and the chaos that ensues i…
▶ 1:18:33
Interesting that you say that because one of the things in Argentina that they were doing, so you said a whole bunch there. And I'm going to go back to your original comment about bringing people in and then ratting out other people. That's…
▶ 1:36:24
has led us to where we're at right now. And those of you who have heard me, this is a foot stomper for me and actually even got the notice of Mike Benz today. I don't know if you guys noticed that. This is the Phoenix program. 9-11 ushered …
▶ 1:37:19
the people that are at the airports and all of that. That is the Phoenix program. We are under a Phoenix program right now. You cannot do anything in the United States without, you know, checking your papers, basically.…
▶ 50:42
that there were islands off the coast of Korea that was used as the paramilitary training capability for the CIA to send in very much like the Phoenix program. It was like the first rendition of the Phoenix program. They used it throughout …
▶ 2:01:46
to go to the other part of your question in motivation. I do believe the Phoenix program was originally set up in Vietnam in order to quote unquote practice the use of it. And then it was used in Chile and it was used in Paraguay and Urugua…
▶ 2:11:57
Lord, go ahead. Are we experiencing a digital Operation Phoenix? I don't want to get overly dramatic. I mean, I think Operation Phoenix is such a horrific thing. I would not use those words.…
▶ 26:52
element in the United States and was for decades. Brigade 2506. Felix Rodriguez, the guy that Tucker interviewed about six months ago, he's an assassin. He was part of Brigade 2506. If you go back and look at that interview, he's wearing th…
▶ 38:16
Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, which we know to be basically the same thing, it was torturing, kidnapping and assassinating anyone that went against the puppet government that had been installed in the South. So Operation Phoenix was ran by …
▶ 38:37
Michigan State University hired CIA agents, literal agents, not fronts, not assets, agents. They dressed them up as professors and they deployed them to Vietnam basically to set up the Phoenix program. What I just recently learned is Indian…
▶ 39:01
And they deployed over to Operation Phoenix under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety, and set up this apparatus of training. They set up tortured prisons. And you find a guy by the name of Dan Meterone, who I've covered extensively…
▶ 52:40
um all of the pieces because a lot of what we saw in vietnam being uh uh set up like the phoenix program you're seeing here today um in the united states um so we will spend um quite a bit of time on that and there's a few other ones over t…
▶ 1:39:23
then you're not having an insurrection. Sorry, you're just not. That's another one of those struggle sessions where they're telling you something to your face that is a bold-faced lie and daring you to question their bold-faced lie. And if …
▶ 25:46
If you use just the words that they use, you wouldn't see the correlation to the Phoenix program in Vietnam. But once you've discovered the Phoenix program in Vietnam and you use the terminology that made it the equivalent or identified the…
▶ 26:15
The pattern identification is critical. And that's how you. So when we bring this other story to you and it's about the United States, you any of you who have not went back and looked or were not part of our Phoenix program expose here, you…
▶ 29:59
Thanks, Colonel. I just got done with a space, the front porch. We were talking about politics, obviously. That's what we always talk about. So some people were talking about certain things that they were noticing and I went, oh, are you ta…
▶ 1:55:01
And it goes on to say that it's a parallel to its certification program. It develops long-term quote-unquote conservation programs to ensure anything that threatens the ecosystem of health and well-being of rural communities. That sounds so…
▶ 1:59:49
It has all of the on their wiki page, all of the problems that has been identified. But one of the funny things, because, again, we look for patterns is I came down here and the first thing I saw was, oh, crap. Michigan State University pro…
▶ 16:43
Some of them in the precursor to the Phoenix program was tortured for information on their neighbor. And this created the foundation for an economic exploitation slash imperialism. And mainly because the inside the Beltway reason.…
▶ 25:54
the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …
▶ 16:04
that he now feared for his security. Wilson had not heard great reports about Rodriguez from Quintero. Quintero had worked with Felix Rodriguez on both Operation Mongoose and on the Phoenix program in Vietnam, but he still thought Tom Cline…
▶ 25:40
Now, the military assistance group is like those mags that started the Phoenix program in Vietnam, just FYI. This is at the same time that we're going to find Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, our Schwarzkopf from Desert Storm's dad, over i…
▶ 51:54
be the liaison for the contract. Wilson says that he and Klein's were trying to set up for Nicaragua was a for-profit version of the Vietnam Phoenix program assassination program. Wilson offered Somoza a small initial contract for $700,000.…
▶ 1:53:25
The Rockefellers bought these entities and they are using them throughout Latin America to infiltrate indigenous Indians to slaughter them, just wipe them out in mass. And again, that is very much like the Phoenix program that we found in V…
▶ 1:53:53
We focus a lot on patterns and this is a pattern. They're not picky about which religion that they're going to infiltrate and use because they do it regardless of which religion it is. And they use it in order to, bottom line, steal all of …
▶ 1:08
primarily from the Vietnam segment in the Phoenix program. But to go back, and we talked about this guy that we're going to talk about today, Robert Comer, during our Vietnam segment. But I think it makes it more relative. And you guys reme…
▶ 6:35
part of the executive branch problem that we've had in the past. He's definitely part of the international syndicate. All right. So it says after Bundy's departure, Comer briefly served as the national security advisor before he was then re…
▶ 6:59
All of that nasty shit that we've talked about and spent the better part of a week on the Phoenix program and the murder, pacification, burning down of villages, creating another village, put a remote, checkpoints, all of those things. This…
▶ 11:21
President Lyndon Johnson had sent Comer to South Vietnam to provide an impetus to nation building efforts. Comer was known for his broke management style. I mean, he was a bully. That's the best way to say it, which endeared himself to the …
▶ 16:53
This is going that they have these two people over there in Vietnam, and they're basically running the Phoenix program to iron out all of the kinks of this pacification program, because from a psychological operations perspective, they've b…
▶ 26:08
writing about his activities in South Vietnam, basically his experience with the Phoenix program, no doubt writing doctrine that was going to be then utilized in other pacification programs that occurred after Vietnam. And there was a slew …
▶ 29:22
So I want you to, he's worked in all kinds of different Department of Defense jobs. He also worked in policy for special operations. And his last job was working in Homeland Security. Now, I'm going to say this as non-screaming as I can.…
▶ 29:53
The guy that implemented the Phoenix program, which is a civilian pacification program, held a job at the senior levels of Homeland Security. Let that just rattle around in the air for a little bit, okay? So here's this guy's paper.…
▶ 1:24:48
of the, for lack of a better word, the pacification program. I mean, bringing it back to our conversation today, they run the Phoenix program in the country while the oligarchs are getting rich off of the slave labor. And you don't get the …
▶ 1:31:04
for johnson but maybe he changed later in life i'm not passing judgment on him i was talking about the phoenix program and his role in it as part of the johnson administration i didn't pass judgment on him i'm providing no i was saying that…
▶ 55:35
as retired generals, not a single one of which had ever had any baking experience at all. And not only was the board of directors that mixed with a few CIA assets, but all of the branch chiefs of all of their strategic areas, like the one i…
▶ 1:53:45
Basically, kind of going through the kinetic aspects of them actually getting assassinated or boiled in acid or whatever the CIA uses as their method of death. Go ahead. Yeah, it's hard to interrupt you, but I guess just for a quick, just s…
▶ 1:54:08
Well, Phoenix is a part of Gladio. So Gladio started back in the mid 1940s with the stand up in 48 of NATO. It had prior to that been called the werewolf program inside of Nazi Germany. And the Phoenix program is an aspect of that that was …
▶ 1:54:32
Being orchestrated in different venues throughout South America, Latin America, like with the Sandinistas and the Contra conflict. Well, and so now I have I have made it perfectly clear a multitude of times that and I'm sure if you're into …
▶ 1:54:59
conversation around the cyber aspects of what he's talking about and how the State Department and CIA uses it, he is talking about kind of a modern day disappearing. To me, the way I phrase it is the cyber censorship industry, as he calls i…
▶ 1:55:28
That's pretty accurate. I was curious because my grandfather was the assistant director of the Phoenix program. In Vietnam? In Vietnam for three years. What's his last name? I might be giving a little too much, but honestly, I don't give a …
▶ 2:07:45
So I was just going to say, I think it was, I'm not sure the gentleman's name, but Trumpfrog, it looks like it was Trumpfrog. He said something that was very, very important. So as cryptically as I can, I'm going to tell a joke of a story o…
▶ 2:17:49
But I care about what's going on with our country right now. That's all I care about. And, of course, I'll let Marie do her spaces whenever she wants. You want to open up a space about Operation Phoenix? We will when we get to Vietnam. I'm …
▶ 32:05
I want to label some of the entities that, well, let me give you a little bit about Shackley for those who may be new. He basically is the one that helped Paul Helliwell set up the heroin network in Vietnam. He oversaw the Operation Phoenix…
▶ 47:46
I've read a lot about the long-term results of this. And what you're going to find is eventually these people are going to be used in an apparatchik. And we'll talk about this either tomorrow or the day after about the Phoenix program. Thes…
▶ 48:16
that are then kidnapped and assassinated through the Phoenix program that I talked about on Alpha Warriors program ran through Michigan State University's program for their national police. These people become used in a way that for us sitt…
▶ 1:03:11
from what happened after Dim's assassination. I'll go a little bit about that because there's some interesting aspects to that. And Kennedy was involved in that. Kennedy signed the findings for the CIA to assassinate him. So we'll go into t…
▶ 1:04:33
uh, getting censored, you know, I, you know, if, if there's still an attack on the first amendment and unfortunately there is. So, uh, just for prefacing this for everyone, um, I have my father here with me. His father was the assistant dir…
▶ 1:13:18
And I've got handwritten letters from both those guys talking about the work he did in Vietnam. When he got there, he was there 69 through 71. When he got there, he was the director of Phoenix Intelligence. And when he got there, the price …
▶ 1:15:15
The point of the matter is, look, this is my dad, and I loved him, and I respected him. He had a soft spot for little old ladies, puppy dogs, women, and children. But if you were a male between 7 and 70, God help you. He would say, you know…
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As I run across anything that I think is of interest to everybody for the group, to include you, I will pass that on. And just for fun, a couple years back, I Googled my dad just to see what would come up. And it was Colonel Newman, Phoenix…
▶ 1:50:21
We would not be able to look at it. And now we've got enough behind us, enough knowledge of these operations and how they work to be able to walk through this in an objective manner. And then, of course, you will go from the knowledge of wh…
▶ 0:39
and then go through and I thought the best way to finish this segment, since I've made the comments repeatedly throughout this entire thing about how the Phoenix program applies today is kind of run through the overview and basically do tha…
▶ 2:45
data pools, whether it's 23andMe or our social media or whatever, that is exactly what they did with these survey teams. And I think it's plausible to even say that most of the social media that has been developed is a modern day version of…
▶ 3:15
Basically did a fingerprint of them because, of course, we know all of our fingerprints were taken by these little stupid kids they give in elementary school. So over the course of time, in a very slow drip kind of way, they have put all of…
▶ 3:40
Also, one of the major elements of the Phoenix program was the torture and assassination program. And, of course, we know that they said that they were doing it to copy the Viet Cong. And when we find out by looking at the details, as we've…
▶ 11:49
Most forces like the Contras and the Nicaragua in Nicaragua that we talked about, which, by the way, if you compare names, all as we pointed out with Felix Rodriguez, quite a few of the people that were in Vietnam all show and in the Phoeni…
▶ 13:17
I think it's quite evident that they were. And because the same thing happened where they were sneaking in and assassinating the mayors in several of those cities in eastern Ukraine. Another element of the Phoenix program that we talked abo…
▶ 18:56
and was able to document most of this crap that was going on separately. Another aspect of it was intelligence collections. The CIA maintained a network of spies throughout the country, and it attempted to assemble the master list, which we…
▶ 26:52
which is kind of, again, what we find in some of our police departments back here. That corrupt element having worked its way into, especially the larger ones. The Phoenix program was also an attempt to coordinate various elements to, what'…
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When you zoom out to the 30,000 foot look of it versus what's happening inside the United States right now. The Phoenix program was a massive program to capture and kill the Viet Cong and the use of torture to reveal even more targets. It w…
▶ 32:59
government. When this individual arrived at these local villages, they knew who he was and hated him. So a lot of, what's the word, dysfunctionalness and inaccurate information was gathered as a result of that. Also involved in the Phoenix …
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the U.S. had just assumed the vehemently hated French position of occupation. Let's see. While 40,000 people were killed by specifically the Phoenix program, the CIA failed to destroy the Viet Cong, and basically the turmoil of the executio…
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What we did in either one of those conflicts remotely honors the intent, not the letter of the law, but not even the intent of the Geneva Convention. We know that Colby eventually, we talked about it, was called before Congress. He denied t…
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And as far as death rates, much more significant. The tactics of the Phoenix program are common to just about any what they refer to as counterinsurgency. I refer to as an insurgency program. And they go back as far as the beginning of the …
▶ 40:02
Cuba after the Spanish-American War, as we've talked about. They've just kind of perfected this as they go forward. The connection between the Phoenix program and later events are clearly evident to include El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Ho…
▶ 41:02
Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …
▶ 41:32
You can track him right back to the Phoenix program where he learned how to do all of that. And, you know, crazy enough, his ties to Bush in the CIA kind of overshadows all of that. And kind of and, you know, then he shows up.…
▶ 42:31
correlation there. He was the CIA director for Ford in 76 and 77. And that's right around this same time. And so he kind of scooped up all of the Operation Phoenix people to incorporate…
▶ 44:32
to traffic the guns, traffic the drugs, and fund the attack on the Sandinistas, which basically became the Viet Cong of Central America. Named the target, set up the Phoenix program, and turned the same people loose that had ran the Phoenix…
▶ 45:05
Death squads are a major element of these programs. We know that from looking not just at the Phoenix program in Vietnam, but also in Nicaragua, where they trained people in assassination using initially the schools of America and then the …
▶ 46:33
had been targeted quite literally as the CIA-backed death squads attempt to destroy food production, hospitals, schools, water, electrical power, as well as cultural sites. Of course, they also try to kill as many people as possible. Like t…
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Like the chemical weapons, that's probably one of the most well-known ones. And then again, you have the Phoenix program rear its head in Ukraine with the death squads that they unleashed in eastern Ukraine. But if you go back and you look …
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Congress authorized and the administration executed the destruction of cultural sites all around the United States and used our taxpayer dollars to do it. So there's literally no part of the Phoenix program that is not in operation right no…
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The Phoenix program was the foundational test in Vietnam of an apparatus that has been used consistently since then in multiple countries alongside a very slow and meticulous implementation of it here.…
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sharing it is another tracking mechanism again it's it's so if you were to implement um a all-inclusive um big brother apparatchik um that would be the equivalent of the rudimentary phoenix program um survey program…
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All of those different things that happened after Vietnam was modeled off of the Vietnam Phoenix program. So, I mean, we could probably spend two or three days just on the Phoenix program. And hopefully y'all watched the show last night wit…
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The high tech version of Phoenix program is basically what he is doing. If we wanted to use common terminology, because what is happening is that they are in modern day technology, making people disappear by taking them out of banking, taki…
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So, and then that's just for context for everyone. If you're new to the space, my grandfather was the assistant director of the Phoenix program in Vietnam. When he got back to the States, they offered him the assistant director position in …
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former territory because they were all afraid that his grave would be decimated. And they're likely correct in that assessment because he was very not well liked afterwards. Okay, so now that you understand that part of it, we're going to t…
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But I do want to bring it up because it is the precursor in how these Phoenix programs are set up. And this is not the only one of them. At some point, when we get a little broader in the Operation Gladio, I'll go through a few more of the …
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They all have something in common, but they all end up looking like Operation Gladio agents because they are agents of chaos that throws the entire country into turmoil. And that's exactly what happened via the Phoenix program in Vietnam. S…
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They all have something in common, but they all end up looking like Operation Gladio agents because they are agents of chaos that throws the entire country into turmoil. And that's exactly what happened via the Phoenix program in Vietnam. S…
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launching operations out of Ukraine into the Donbass region was the reason why Putin did what he did. Just in case you all didn't know that. So I'm going to, we're already at an hour, but I have to tell you guys that for us to start this we…
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launching operations out of Ukraine into the Donbass region was the reason why Putin did what he did. Just in case you all didn't know that. So I'm going to, we're already at an hour, but I have to tell you guys that for us to start this we…
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a reference to a magical bird associated with royalty and power in Vietnamese and Chinese culture. In response to the South Vietnamese move, American officials in Vietnam began referring to their own counterinsurgency coordination efforts b…
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a reference to a magical bird associated with royalty and power in Vietnamese and Chinese culture. In response to the South Vietnamese move, American officials in Vietnam began referring to their own counterinsurgency coordination efforts b…
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would become one of the most controversial aspects of America's war in Vietnam. Sponsored by the CIA, Phoenix used paramilitary teams to target and uncover communist operatives in villages throughout South Vietnam. Witnesses claimed that me…
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would become one of the most controversial aspects of America's war in Vietnam. Sponsored by the CIA, Phoenix used paramilitary teams to target and uncover communist operatives in villages throughout South Vietnam. Witnesses claimed that me…
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assassination, all of which the American officials deny. But again, if you go back to patterns, this was done through every country that we've studied so far. So, patterns. To date, the debate over Phoenix has focused mainly on the roles pl…
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assassination, all of which the American officials deny. But again, if you go back to patterns, this was done through every country that we've studied so far. So, patterns. To date, the debate over Phoenix has focused mainly on the roles pl…
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Mr. Chow's second innovation was the creation of what he called – and see, the New York Times isn't going to tell us these are CIA ideas. They're going to pose these as if they were the indigenous Vietnamese. They were not. These are CIA id…
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Mr. Chow's second innovation was the creation of what he called – and see, the New York Times isn't going to tell us these are CIA ideas. They're going to pose these as if they were the indigenous Vietnamese. They were not. These are CIA id…
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Thanks partly to the support of his American friends, i.e. the CIA, Mr. Chow was assigned in the late 1965 to lead the new counterinsurgency trading program for the South Vietnamese cadre. His promotion was part of a CIA push to devise a na…
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Thanks partly to the support of his American friends, i.e. the CIA, Mr. Chow was assigned in the late 1965 to lead the new counterinsurgency trading program for the South Vietnamese cadre. His promotion was part of a CIA push to devise a na…
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to collect intelligence from the villagers. Mr. Chow's influence was also evident in what became the most controversial element of Phoenix, the elite counterterrorism teams known as Provincial Recon Units. Recruited and trained by the CIA, …
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to collect intelligence from the villagers. Mr. Chow's influence was also evident in what became the most controversial element of Phoenix, the elite counterterrorism teams known as Provincial Recon Units. Recruited and trained by the CIA, …
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Whatever unexpectedly, or somewhat unexpectedly, however, Mr. Chow did not participate in the actual design or fulfillment of Phoenix. As head of the South Vietnamese National Cadre Training Program, he soon became frustrated with the endle…
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Whatever unexpectedly, or somewhat unexpectedly, however, Mr. Chow did not participate in the actual design or fulfillment of Phoenix. As head of the South Vietnamese National Cadre Training Program, he soon became frustrated with the endle…
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He was released in 1978 and immigrated to the United States. In the decade since the end of the war, Mr. Chow and his American supporters basically called what happened to him a betrayal. And that's basically it. So that gives us kind of ou…
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He was released in 1978 and immigrated to the United States. In the decade since the end of the war, Mr. Chow and his American supporters basically called what happened to him a betrayal. And that's basically it. So that gives us kind of ou…
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excuse me, charged a complete double cross by both Democrats and Republicans on the committee because they had originally told him they were going to be there to investigate this. A copy of the secret report was obtained earlier by the UPI …
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moral considerations of U.S. support for a program that was allegedly including torture, murder, and inhumane treatment of South Vietnamese civilians, unquote. The Phoenix program began in 1968, is aimed at identifying the members of the so…
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had been the chief of psychological operations for the Southern Vietnamese Army. So during a period of about 10 years, Chau, spelt C-H-A-U, and Scott and Bumgartner and Van all became, in many ways, the face of the Phoenix program in South …
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In a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle, this is a quote. Frank Scotton was the originator of the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit Program, the predecessor to the Phoenix Program. For years, he worked closely with John Paul Vann.…
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like the people in the South, and it became a big contentious effort. So going on with the quote, any person who had the faintest knowledge of the pacification program would know what disasters have visited the Vietnamese people as a result…
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and also simultaneously continue what had started in Korea as both psychological operations and experiments on torture and things like that that was all done under the Phoenix program, the creation of the National Police through the Michiga…