John Arnold Jr. person
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Claims (7)
John Arnold Jr. spied_on
China documented
“Balmer, B-A-U-M-E-R, of Milton, Pennsylvania, was operations chief of the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, which is not an ARC unit. And just for those who don't know, reconnaissance means spy plane. He had flown previous secret miss…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 32:16
John Arnold Jr. headed
581st ARC Wing book_quoted
“Arnold commanded one arm of this clandestine group, which would make him an inviting catch, but it was compartmentalized and he had no idea the environment in which he was actually operating. It was minutes before midnight on January 12th, …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 9:51
China covered_up
John Arnold Jr. book_quoted
“with North Korea, you know, where we're not supposed to be. They made headlines around the world when Washington eventually negotiated their release. But the story behind their ordeal, hidden CIA connection, is only now emerging from behind…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 10:18
John Arnold Jr. headed
ARC Wings book_quoted
“581st Wing provides an excellent example of the relationship between ARC and the CIA. Activated in July of 1951, after 11 months of training in Idaho, about 1,000 airmen moved to Clark Field, commanded by Colonel John Arnold, Jr. The 581st …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 7 @ 31:41
John Arnold Jr. spied_on
Soviet Union documented
“Balmer, B-A-U-M-E-R, of Milton, Pennsylvania, was operations chief of the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, which is not an ARC unit. And just for those who don't know, reconnaissance means spy plane. He had flown previous secret miss…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 32:16
ARC Wings trained
John Arnold Jr. book_quoted
“Arnold and others from his captured crew say that they had trained for such covert missions against China and the Soviet Union, but had not yet concluded any by the time they were shot down. Rain drops splattered on the tarmac at Yokota Air…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 27:55
Dwight D. Eisenhower removed_from_power
John Arnold Jr. documented
“During the three-year Korean War, the Secret Air Force report praised the men's courage and staunchness of resistance, but none ever was given an official accommodation. Some of them were kept on active duty. Some left. Arnold was assigned …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 35:08
Mentions (41)
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The setting is 1952. Hold on a second. Sorry, my dog's trying to eat my toes. John Arnold Jr. was talking to American military headquarters in Tokyo with two undercover CIA officers when one offered a warning. You're a marked man now, he sa…
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And the article goes on, why would the communists bother with him? He learned why just a few weeks later from behind bars in a Chinese prison. And this article, the reason why I picked this goes to the heart of what I have said on here repe…
▶ 9:51
Arnold commanded one arm of this clandestine group, which would make him an inviting catch, but it was compartmentalized and he had no idea the environment in which he was actually operating. It was minutes before midnight on January 12th, …
▶ 10:18
with North Korea, you know, where we're not supposed to be. They made headlines around the world when Washington eventually negotiated their release. But the story behind their ordeal, hidden CIA connection, is only now emerging from behind…
▶ 10:45
operation and he knew enough to make his two and a half years in prison a living hell because he was interrogated, tormented, deprived of sleep, abused and humiliated. It remains unclear how China knew about Arnold and his unit before he wa…
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Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union a few years later in 1960. And by the way, if you ever go back and look at that with your Gladio glasses on, you know damn good and well somebody outed him. Newly declassified governme…
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They had the C-119 flying boxcar transports and C-118 transports with their national markings erased for CIA-supplied crews. The ARC men were sworn to secrecy and some still won't talk. I'm not interested in divulging anything more about th…
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and basically declared killed in action, he recalled being asked to acknowledge in writing before deploying to the Far East in the summer of 1952 in the event of capture by communists, we wouldn't be recognized by our government. And they w…
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At the time, Arnold commanded the unit. He said CIA money helped finance some 581st operations. The CIA officer he recalled only by the name Hall would regularly accompany Darby to the unit's finance office to make cash deliveries. There we…
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had associations with the CIA, but I didn't know which ones. And I didn't want to know, Arnold said. By shielding himself from such details, Arnold believed that he was staying, quote unquote, clean to fly some Ark missions and take risks, …
▶ 25:40
Arnold was born and reared in Washington, D.C., the son of a government bureaucrat. He has a modest manner, a dry wit, and a sharp memory. At 84, he is not eager to discuss the past. Pain is plain in his haunted eyes as he recalls his capti…
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A West Point graduate class of 36, West Point was trained in meteorology and spent the decade of the 40s, including World War II, in the Air Weather Service. He yearned for a chance to command a fighting unit, and although the 581st did not…
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The 581st, with Arnold in command, quietly deployed to the Philippines in July of 1952. Shortly after, a 2nd Wing 580th deployed to Willis Air Base in Libya. It was responsible for operations in the Middle East and the southern flank of the…
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a Royal British Air Force Base, it was responsible for all of Europe, including the satellites of the Baltics in Eastern Europe. The 581st area of responsibility was Asia, including the Russia Far East. In a coerced statement to his captors…
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or at such times as may be directed by higher headquarters, are to introduce special agents and guerrilla units into communist countries and communist-held areas, to supply by air delivery these personnel and guerrilla units originally oper…
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Arnold and others from his captured crew say that they had trained for such covert missions against China and the Soviet Union, but had not yet concluded any by the time they were shot down. Rain drops splattered on the tarmac at Yokota Air…
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The mission plan for the Monday night called for Arnold's crew to spend a total of 28 minutes over six leaf drop areas in North Korea, then flip out of Korean airspace and return to Yokota. Arnold intended to fly back the next morning to th…
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on each of their first five targets and were at 22,000 feet, approaching the sixth, just south of the Yalu River, dividing China and North Korea when searchlights from the ground suddenly lit up their bomber. With no fighter escort and only…
▶ 29:22
the plane had lost radio transmission and made a mayday call. With the engines aflame, Arnold rushed to the rear to grab his parachute. Then he spotted the tail gunner shot and apparently dead. The others managed to bail out as the plane pl…
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were CIA officials because, of course, they want to debrief them. A few days later in Japan, the men were interviewed by Air Force team, including a CIA psychologist, John Gittinger, G-I-T-T-I-N-G-E-R. Arnold later was debriefed at CIA head…
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You bail out, you spend two years in a prison, and your fucking government interrogates you like you're the enemy. For China, the Arnold crew offered a propaganda bonanza. They could be used not only to expose sensitive U.S. secrets, but al…
▶ 32:16
Balmer, B-A-U-M-E-R, of Milton, Pennsylvania, was operations chief of the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, which is not an ARC unit. And just for those who don't know, reconnaissance means spy plane. He had flown previous secret miss…
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informed the Soviet air chief in Moscow that he was receiving English texts of Arnold's interrogation and other material. We managed to take these items from the Chinese comrades, the note said. So, again, very interesting. As a colonel and…
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Arnold says the Chinese presser was mainly psychological. Most effective was solitary confinement, which of course is why they did that to the January 6th, because these bastards know all about this. They've done it before. He was isolated …
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He was fed only minimally for a time, held in chains, and slowly forced both shoulder joints out of their sockets from being in the chains. In the early weeks of his confinement, guards aimed cock pistols at him during his interrogation. Th…
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One of the things that they did come up behind me and press my fingers in the motion of milking a cow, and I can't even describe the pain. The abuse became too much. I was in this state that I could classify as a complete nervous breakdown.…
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During the three-year Korean War, the Secret Air Force report praised the men's courage and staunchness of resistance, but none ever was given an official accommodation. Some of them were kept on active duty. Some left. Arnold was assigned …
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offered little more than all good wishes in a reply to a private letter Arnold wrote one year after his return from China in which he thanked the president for gaining the release of his crew. In drafting the reply for Eisenhower, an aide c…
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Arnold is not bitter, but he and his men paid a steep price to keep secret some of the Cold War secrets. A fate of three crew members, Lieutenant Henry Wiest, W-E-E-S-E, of San Bernardino, California, First Lieutenant Paul Van Vorhis, B-O-O…
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has never been determined. China claimed they died in the shoot-down, although it never returned their bodies. Arnold believes Hart died on board, because that was the bomber guy, or the gun guy. One surviving crew member, Steve Kiba, K-I-B…
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and Van Voorhis, the plane's radar operators, were given to the Soviets. In a letter to Van Voorhis' parents after Arnold and the others returned to the U.S., the Air Force said Van Voorhis, although he was absorbed to bail out of the aircr…
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It lists the other people, which I think we need to recognize. The 11 U.S. airmen who returned from captivity is Colonel John Arnold, Major William Balmer, Captain Eugene Valdi, Captain Elmer Llewellyn, First Lieutenant John Buck, First Lie…
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581st Wing provides an excellent example of the relationship between ARC and the CIA. Activated in July of 1951, after 11 months of training in Idaho, about 1,000 airmen moved to Clark Field, commanded by Colonel John Arnold, Jr. The 581st …
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Black painted B-29 bombers in a model configured for long-range airdrops. Not long after reaching the Philippines, Colonel Arnold found himself summoned to the Far East Air Force headquarters in Tokyo. Officers briefed Arnold on his unit's …
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technically CIA, revealing themselves to comrades only many years later. So no one knew they weren't actual, just regular military people. Colonel Arnold knew who the CIA people were in his unit, but made no effort to find out anything more…
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On January 12, 1953, the wing commander and a crew of 13 flew one of their B-29s to Yokota, another Air Force base, where they picked up leaflets to drop over North Korea. These would be the 581st first PSYOPs mission into the war. Stardust…
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because chinese was involved in everything they're going on an assumption that chinese did not have night flying fighters interrogation of prisoners um let's see three of arnold's men remained unaccounted for comrades believe they saw that …
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Might know more, as might Major William Balmer, the ops officer for the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, who had hitched a ride to see for himself what was going on. Balmer had definitely picked the wrong flight. After the Cold War, …
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The American airmen were moved by train and kept there for two weeks, then taken to Beijing. Chinese security kept the whole affair under wraps until November of 1954, when Beijing decided to score a propaganda coup, holding a show trial fo…
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let's see, that they had been tasked besides psychological warfare missions and were supply, resupply, evacuation, and recovery of underground personnel. Colonel Arnold was sentenced to 10 years in prison, major bomber to eight, and other a…
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CIA officers were right behind the Air Force. The CIA people were principals in the debriefing of the returned airmen in Japan. Colonel Arnold was later sent to CIA headquarters to repeat his story. John Gittinger, a CIA psychologist, obser…