Mountain Scouts organization
also: Mountain Scout program
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Claims (5)
Ralph Johnson founded
Mountain Scouts host_asserted
“We talked about Ralph Johnson creating the Mountain Scouts, which were the armed propaganda team, using in many cases criminals let out of prisons, which again is another kind of thing that we're seeing now with the use of prisons all over …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 9:40
Frank Scotton worked_through
Mountain Scouts book_quoted
“and commanded the 4th Special Ops Detachment, Toy's case officer, U.S. Special Forces Captain Howard Walters, who had also spent quite a bit of time in the Korean War and did PSYOPs over there as well, Scotton worked through an extension ca…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 13:45
Ralph Johnson trained
Mountain Scouts host_asserted
“Such as this arrangement enabled Johnson and the Vietnamese Army Captain Le Hon Mai to devise the Mountain Scouts, a political action program employing tactics and techniques that Johnson had copied from other assignments and perfected in L…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 39:26
Stuart Methven recruited
Mountain Scouts 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
Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group funded
Mountain Scouts host_asserted
“and not under the South's control. And because having these teams under their control strengthened the hand of the province chiefs against the central government. The expanding Mountain Scout program, Methvin noted, the military advisory gr…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 45:07
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▶ 9:40
We talked about Ralph Johnson creating the Mountain Scouts, which were the armed propaganda team, using in many cases criminals let out of prisons, which again is another kind of thing that we're seeing now with the use of prisons all over …
▶ 13:45
and commanded the 4th Special Ops Detachment, Toy's case officer, U.S. Special Forces Captain Howard Walters, who had also spent quite a bit of time in the Korean War and did PSYOPs over there as well, Scotton worked through an extension ca…
▶ 39:26
Such as this arrangement enabled Johnson and the Vietnamese Army Captain Le Hon Mai to devise the Mountain Scouts, a political action program employing tactics and techniques that Johnson had copied from other assignments and perfected in L…
▶ 39:53
officers there, Stu Methven, M-E-T-H-V-E-N, who followed Johnson from Laos to Hu in early 1961. The Mountain Scouts were a unilateral CIA operation managed by CIA-funded province and district chiefs. The Scouts were composed of Hong tribesm…
▶ 40:23
In the CIA's, they called them yards and their Vietnamese officers were then organized into 15 man teams. And like the VC armed propaganda teams, they had paramilitary and political action capabilities. Their job was to make the GVN.…
▶ 41:53
and was done by their paramilitary element. Now, a special assistant to the vice president for the Center of Naval Analysis, Methin, the guy that was in charge of all of this, co-managed the Mountain Scout program with Ralph Johnson from 61…
▶ 42:17
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…
▶ 44:10
At that point, Ralph Johnson was transferred to Saigon as an advisor to the government officials down there. And the CIA station chief of covert action, Cliff Strathern, S-T-R-A-T-H-E-R-N, was assigned Methvin to task the selling of this mo…
▶ 44:39
like dozens of CIA contract officers to help with the whole implementation. So selling the Mountain Scout program to province chief, what he called fostering local initiatives was easy. Methvin recalled, quote, because we gave them money an…
▶ 45:07
and not under the South's control. And because having these teams under their control strengthened the hand of the province chiefs against the central government. The expanding Mountain Scout program, Methvin noted, the military advisory gr…
▶ 45:38
than anybody else, the military advisors began transforming the Mountain Scout program and other paramilitary teams from defense to offense. Blame it on the military. Way to go, CIA. The CIA, however, did not forsake its political action an…
▶ 46:31
And gathered intel, conducted kidnapping and assassination, snatch and grab operations. Now, this is what we started the whole thing off with, with that guy telling about his mission. And he killed the wrong people in that. This is the prog…
▶ 46:54
So these hunter teams, which performed the quote-unquote counter-terror missions, stumbled on large enemy troop concentrations. They called in the killer teams in black, unmarked helicopters provided by the CIA. Although they worked in tand…