Ridge Camp place
also: camp, training base
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CIAintelligence service · 1United Statescountry · 1Viet Congorganization · 1Frank Scottonperson · 1Tom Donahueperson · 1R.W. Appleperson · 1Revolutionary Development Programoperation · 1Chauperson · 1
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Ridge Camp book_quoted
“buildings for our training. This ends up being called Ridge Camp, R-I-D-G-E, and was five miles beyond the airport. So we built roads, we built barracks, mess halls, classrooms, armories, offices, the whole nine yards. So they're setting up…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 34:29
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Vigor, he shot a flare into the night sky and hollered, walked towards the light. To his surprise, two defectors did walk in, convincing him and his CIA sponsors that a determined unit could contest the Viet Cong in terms of combat and prop…
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buildings for our training. This ends up being called Ridge Camp, R-I-D-G-E, and was five miles beyond the airport. So we built roads, we built barracks, mess halls, classrooms, armories, offices, the whole nine yards. So they're setting up…
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It says we put them on an airplane and send them down to that training base they set up in the south, get them some training for the village chief to try to teach them how to take care of the infrastructure at the senior level that the CIA …
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They also rendered medical care out of that camp. A New York Times reporter by the name of R.W. Apple described in 1965 the Ridge Camp graduation ceremony of one of these groups of paramilitary people. They had an amphitheater, it said, the…
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And this is from one of the CIA guys. It's a quote from the CIA guy doing it, by the way. Its cadre studied the 98 duties and 11 point criteria and the 12 phases of action. They sang the, and this is a quote, new life Hamlet construction un…
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He ends up getting transferred to the training camp so that they can keep him under watch because they're not sure what to think of him, whether or not he was crooked like them or not. So they're going to put him down on charge of the Vietn…