Vietnamese Special Branch organization
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Vietnamese Special Branch member_of
ICEX host_asserted
“became kind of the emblem of this program. They set up things called ICEX, I-C-E-X, in an attempt to coordinate intelligence from the CIA and the Vietnamese Special Branch, which ran the infiltrations into the North. It also combined the fi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 19:24
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▶ 19:24
became kind of the emblem of this program. They set up things called ICEX, I-C-E-X, in an attempt to coordinate intelligence from the CIA and the Vietnamese Special Branch, which ran the infiltrations into the North. It also combined the fi…
▶ 22:10
This caused some difficulty for the CIA's station chief, who at the time just happened to be William Colby. Another task put on the CIA's list at this time was assistance to infiltrate North Vietnam using Vietnamese special forces, which ha…
▶ 28:59
and also to the Philippines that Lansdale brought over to Vietnam. Of course, the biggest empire within the CIA was Richardson's own. It was customary for station chiefs to maintain certain relationships, in particular with the chiefs of th…
▶ 30:23
Nguyen must go. If Diem would not fire his brother, then the United States was going to have to look for alternatives. Nguyen's special forces had just carried out a series of bloody attacks on the Buddhist pagodas that was widely condemned…