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Over 9,000 journalists. Now, is that not exactly what we've described? How the CIA cut out NGOs' work in all these countries around the world? You want to own their news. That's how we did the Arab Spring with social media. Yep. The operati…
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but liked his ramrod straight West Point train professionalism. I thought he was arrogant. He acted like a general when he was a captain, but he was the best officer I ever had. General Singalib ran covert air operations in the entire regio…
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to people as part of the Nugent Hand. Yeah, Bernie Houghton was involved, like probably of the, he was the number three guy at Nugent Hand. You had Nugent and you had Hand and then you had Houghton. So Houghton replaces Paul Helliwell in Ba…
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And that was the code designation for the CIA agent that hired us. Keep an eye on the plane from Ban Howe side. We're sending some goods and someone's going to take care of it. Nobody's allowed to touch anything. Nothing can be unloaded, wa…
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The Asian People's Anti-Communist League sponsored his trip, paying his airfare, lodging meals, and introducing him to state officials and activists. From Tokyo, Liebman traveled to Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bangkok, and finally to Saigon, …
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101 was hit over the plane of jars, but it made it back to Bangkok. The reconnaissance flight continued until May 1964, when they were belatedly authorized by a new administration that had came to power in the United States, meaning LBJ. Th…
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that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading company called Sea Supply. Sea Supply was s…
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quote-unquote, cracking down, which he was not. In Vietnam, he was getting kicked out of Vietnam. He was getting his butt kicked in Vietnam. William Byrd, the Civil Air Transport representative in Bangkok, was said to have coordinated Civil…
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That got the contract to build all of this stuff. William Byrd's alleged brother or cousin in Bangkok, China's OSS veteran, Willis Byrd, headed the Bangkok office of a quote unquote trading company called Sea Supply, which is the one Heliwe…
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also branched into construction area on his own. And in 1959, the vice president of the Universal Construction Company, that was Byrd, he was said by a congressional committee investigating corruption in Laos to have bribed the…
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Udorn, which we talked about yesterday, Bangkok, and Thale. The maintenance was available within the Laos capital as well. And there was a major base for the proprietary airlines inside of Laos. It was there that the transfer of 16 Air Forc…
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The Air America Continental Air got some of the Laotian work. The company built up a fleet of 21 aircraft in Thailand in 1966, rising to 25 three years later. In addition, some contract work was carried out in Bangkok by another airline cal…
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CIA's civil air transport, which could parachute instructors and weapons into the Chinese-occupied, the Chiang Kai-shek-occupied area of Burma. Airplanes flew missions that had been set up in Bangkok, Thailand, with personnel shuttled down …
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So we're occupying the entire damn Asian theater at this point. The whole operation was coordinated by a man called Alfred Cox, C-O-X, who was the chief of station in Hong Kong, and Sherman Joost, J-O-O-S-T, who was chief of station in Bang…
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supply. And we know all about that because that's Paul Helliwell. We've come across this one multiple times. They had a $38 million government contract to supply shit to Taiwan. Taiwan? Yeah, but it all ended up in Burma. In a cable address…
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Some 4,500 Thai soldiers had been trained and equipped to aid them in this operation. Whatever happened to Lee, me, the Thai came out with a bargain because they're going to get a crap load of money. And they ended up with $35 million in mo…
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using those same trails during World War II to smuggle arms to Chiang Kai-shek. They had a very well-established support network, including a warehouse that was now reopened. Recruits traveled in groups to Calcutta by train when the next li…
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both in Tibet and elsewhere, doable. This remarkable plane had the range to make the extended flights more than 2,400 miles flying from Bangkok and still carry significant loads up to 22 tons in a C-130E. The Civil Air Transport did not own…
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Recruits traveled to Calcutta by train, where the link was a contact address. Civil Air Transport planes flew to Taiwan for refueling. Sometimes they landed in Bangkok. Sometimes they landed in Hong Kong. They were all black CIA aircraft. I…
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But in December 1956, the C-130 Hercules was produced by Lockheed. It began flying for the United States Air Force. And more than anything else, it made it possible to expand the CIA's secret warfare. This remarkable airplane could make ext…
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15 Air America aircraft at Bangkok were flying 1,000 tons of supplies a month into Laos. Eisenhower ordered a naval task force bearing Marines into position for intervention in Laos and placed them on high alert. Again, this is two weeks be…
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perception of what Laos was going to be like, I was pleasantly surprised. We spent probably three days in Bangkok, in Thailand. We had taken a whole chest of school supplies for a school that was just outside of Udorn.…
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to a jewelry store in Bangkok that the embassy military attache that was escorting us around, it was a CIA drop location. I actually have two brown...…
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I don't know what the stone is called, but it's the tiger eyes, a necklace and earrings from this jewelry store in downtown Bangkok that was infamous for being a CIA drop location of secret messages. So we also ate at the Hard Rock Cafe the…
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I didn't know what to expect, but you fly into Bangkok and it's like flying into New York City. It is one of the craziest. There's just millions of people everywhere. It is a crazy city. Anyway, okay, I don't see any more hands. We're gonna…
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and air missions. Lair dealt with the U.S. Command and CIA station in Thailand. Through much of this time, the station chief in Bangkok was Red Zansen, J-A-N-T-Z-E-N. Lair had known him for over 10 years. Jansen would be followed by Pierre …
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The Laotian Air Force averaged 400 tons a month in 1966. Air America moved 6,000 tons plus 16,000 passengers. Air America had facilities in Bangkok, Takli, and Udorn with maintenance performed at Udorn, the site of a major proprietary base.…
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accumulated a couple dozen aircraft in Thailand by 1968, including some C-46s and 47 transports. In addition, contract work would be done by Bangkok-based Bird Air, which we came across in our drug research a long time ago, and beginning in…
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property and profits. They were going to use Air America along with the Vang Pao aircraft that we had basically sold to him, which he turned into his own company. It said they would supply the opium to the Pepsi-Cola lab in the capital of L…
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had been established in one branch in Chiang Mai, Vietnam. Chiang Mai, sorry, that's Thailand, handled nothing but drug money. The only bank accounts it had was for the local drug lords. Chiang Mai is located on the edge of the triangle in …
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Drug lord's percentage of the profits returned to the Golden Triangle was flown to them on board of CIA aircraft. What was on the plane? Gold, 10 million bucks at a time and gold. That plane would return loaded with new shipments of opium. …
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The opium was carried south to Bangkok, where it was sold to drug merchants from Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Delhi. The money received was laundered through Nguyen Han. That is what didn't come to the United States. By 75, the Nguyen Han …