Ralph Johnson person
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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
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
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
Ralph Johnson member_of
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“could be traced to one guy, Ralph Johnson. He's from Chicago. He was part of the Flying Tigers that we saw during World War II that worked with Chiang Kai-shek and William Polly, because remember, William Polly was the financial backer to t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 36:01
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
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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 …
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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…
▶ 43:30
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,…
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directly with the National Security Council, the National Security Advisor in the White House. It was, in effect, a blueprint for political warfare conceptualized by Ralph Johnson, adapted to Vietnamese unique things, and formalized by Fran…
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in a joint effort. He was sent to Holkham Training Center near Da Nang, where in 1961, Ralph Johnson had based his Mountain Scout training camp, which we've already went over. And in 1964, the CIA had set up their special operations long-ra…
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and particularly after May 1959, through psychological operations, unquote. In the Phoenix program, there was a book that was written called Phoenix, A Study of Wartime Intelligence Management by CIA officer Ralph Johnson. He calls a thing …
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More than any other branch in the shadow government in the South, the ANNN was responsible for destabilizing the U.S. operations. Ralph Johnson called it the glue that held the North together. The ANNN were the CIA's arch enemy and, ironica…
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could be traced to one guy, Ralph Johnson. He's from Chicago. He was part of the Flying Tigers that we saw during World War II that worked with Chiang Kai-shek and William Polly, because remember, William Polly was the financial backer to t…
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Johnson dubbed his counterterror doctrine as Contre Coup. And in the Phoenix program, there's a document called the Phoenix Program Planned Assassination or Legitimate Conflict Management. And that's the name of the document. And it describ…
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the program that the North was already imposing. CIA officer Johnson formulated his theory in the Philippines in the 50s, which is where Lansdale was, you remember. They also used it in Indonesia in 1957 and 58 prior to the failed Sukarno c…
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Having been blown in Jakarta, Indonesia, he was then posted to Laos and assigned to a northern village bordering the China-North Vietnamese border. So he was working undercover for who? Oh, the AID. He's really a CIA agent, and he was embed…
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And this is another reason why it is so important to read this stuff and understand our history. So when anybody talks to you today about the USAID, your brain needs to go equals CIA in every case. USAID equals CIA. In the mid-1960s, shortl…
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to serve as a CIA officer in charge of the South Vietnamese northern provinces to implement a program like he had created in Laos. In staffing the pilot program they created, Johnson and his CIA colleagues spotted, vetted, and hired qualifi…
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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…
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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…
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felt outside the district capitals, like out in the field. Once inside a village that they felt was under the control of the Viet Cong, the Mountain Scout political officer would denounce the communist and make a pro-GBN speech that had bee…
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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…
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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…
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foundations was set in place. Ralph Johnson defines the counterterrorism team as small teams, particularly well-trained, aggressive, and consisting of a large percentage of former Viet Cong who had become disillusioned and were now violentl…
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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…
▶ 31:52
So there's a lot going on. The they've got, you know, the COVID stuff right now with Ron Johnson. So, again, there's just a lot going on. And I think every day that goes by, we get more and more information. Luckily, and I say this like eve…
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Professional football player Roosevelt Greer and 1968 Olympic gold medalist Raffer Johnson were among the several men who subdued and disarmed Sirhan after a struggle. Now, what's interesting about that, if you look into Rosie Greer, let's …
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What do we find out about all of that? That those are all grooming schools. So let's go back now. So we know a little bit about Rosie Greer and his later fame in Hollywood. And then we have Johnson. Who's Johnson? He was a Summer Olympics c…
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He won the title at the Pan American Games. And let's see if he has any. Johnson played basketball under, I'm actually related to John Wooden. That's my mom's maiden name. And he has his big claim to fame here on his Wikipedia. And he goes …