Ngô Đình Diệm person
also: Diem, Dem, Dems, No, D-I-E-M, Dim, President Diem, anti-DM forces, Diem brothers
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Claims (12)
John Kenneth Galbraith targeted_for_regime_change
Ngô Đình Diệm book_quoted
“When will your army people finally get going? But the Kennedy years had already proven that distinguished liberals given authority overseas could surmount their domestic principles. For example, as early as 1961, John Kenneth Galbraith had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 12:58
David Halberstam targeted_for_regime_change
Ngô Đình Diệm caller_asserted
“In his first book, he really was pro-escalation. And he later kind of lied about it, and this was echoed by the New York Times and the fake left, that, oh, he was always anti-Vietnam War, when in fact he was anything but. He wanted to get r…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 1:29:01
Catholic Church installed
Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted
“of people who they engaged in a psychological operation to migrate forcibly over a million people from North Vietnam into the South in order to skew the support for Diem, who they were about to install. They did that on purpose. They did it…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 1:46:30
Lucien Conein spied_on
Ngô Đình Diệm documented
“of the plotters the next day. Thanks to Koenig, the CIA had a front row seat to the coup planning, if not the precise timing. Now, other authors have actually connected the coup to the CIA, that they were actually involved in it. As for his…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 32:17
Ngô Đình Diệm attacked_opponents_via
Office of Political and Social Studies host_asserted
“also managed political and foreign intelligence operations, and they became the nerve center for the coordination of Phoenix. Knowing that the single-minded Americans would carry the fight against the North, Dem, through his spymaster, Dr. …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 26:20
Ngô Đình Diệm authorized_creation_of
Central Intelligence Organization host_asserted
“the Can Lao, claiming it denied advancement to the majority of Vietnamese and nullified democratic reforms. Unwilling to divest himself of his power base, Dem refused to do it and instead sought to appease the Americans by authorizing a sta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 24:51
Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of
Ngô Đình Diệm guest_asserted
“Ed Lansdale said, I think we should never have done it. We destroyed the Vietnamese constitution. Not we, but the people we were working with. We, not the people you were working with, is correct. Okay. There would be several more coups bef…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 32:40
Central Intelligence Organization hastened_demise_of
Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted
“you know, kind of like communists themselves. Thus, by forcing Dem and New into greater dependence on reactionary programs and a North double agent, the formation of the CIO in 1961 further hastened the demise of the No regime. Meanwhile, i…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 28:16
Catholic Church carried_out_attack
Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted
“of people who they engaged in a psychological operation to migrate forcibly over a million people from North Vietnam into the South in order to skew the support for Diem, who they were about to install. They did that on purpose. They did it…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 1:46:30
United States installed
Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted
“And in Europe. And so you have the prime minister who is a Catholic in the South that we basically installed. No, Dem, Den, Dem. His last name is D-I-E-M, Dem. And so.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 44:03
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted
“from what happened after Dim's assassination. I'll go a little bit about that because there's some interesting aspects to that. And Kennedy was involved in that. Kennedy signed the findings for the CIA to assassinate him. So we'll go into t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:03:11
Zbigniew Brzezinski ordered_assassination_of
Ngô Đình Diệm caller_asserted
“Hi, just a couple of quick questions. So what was Spignu Brzezinski's role in the assassination of the Diem brothers? Because I heard you mentioning that. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Somebody was knocking on the door. Oh, I was saying, what was Sp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:00:12
Mentions (36)
▶ 17:51
Well, they're pissed off. Right. So they go, yeah, we're not going to let you do that. And of course, we know the aftermath of that was to have the French and Ho Chi Minh fight each other. Ho Chi Minh wins. And then again, instead of allowi…
▶ 28:10
It's fascinating, actually, in a really evil way. They had involuntarily trafficked over a million people from the North using the Catholic Church in a psychological operation into the South to try to paint the story that Diem, who was a Ca…
▶ 1:47:52
they being the international syndicate, and they have used the face of religion to orchestrate events that otherwise would never have happened. The Catholic Church forcibly, using psychological operations, relocated one million North Vietna…
▶ 57:30
It's the same pattern as what Henry Cabot Lodge did to Diem in Vietnam back in the 60s. Same story. Then he goes off and he becomes an ambassador to the Vatican. Right. So if this guy becomes the ambassador to the Vatican, we're all going t…
▶ 57:59
This guy didn't die, so he's probably not going to get the Vatican. Oh my gosh. A do-over. You just start reading down these things and you're like, what the hell? I knew you would have fun with that. Oh my gosh. Oh, and by the way, my favo…
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of people who they engaged in a psychological operation to migrate forcibly over a million people from North Vietnam into the South in order to skew the support for Diem, who they were about to install. They did that on purpose. They did it…
▶ 44:03
And in Europe. And so you have the prime minister who is a Catholic in the South that we basically installed. No, Dem, Den, Dem. His last name is D-I-E-M, Dem. And so.…
▶ 44:28
The migration was conventionally supposed to boost Catholic power base for Dem in the South because now, while you may have had, even if it was 50-50, it was not, but let's just say it was. You just imported, you know, like we're doing righ…
▶ 44:56
He had already canceled elections in the South because he knew he would lose them because nobody liked him. But that's who we picked to be installed, kind of like Pinochet in Chile and all of these people that we picked to put in. There are…
▶ 45:54
where the guy sets himself on fire in 1963. And that basically led to Dem's downfall and actually his assassination because we assassinated him, the CIA did. So the Catholics that had moved to the South was basically used.…
▶ 50:12
accommodate anything that the U.S. is basically orchestrating down there, and everything goes to a hell in a handbasket. And so then the CIA's recommendation to Kennedy is, well, just kill him, the president, and we'll start over. We'll do …
▶ 1:03:11
from what happened after Dim's assassination. I'll go a little bit about that because there's some interesting aspects to that. And Kennedy was involved in that. Kennedy signed the findings for the CIA to assassinate him. So we'll go into t…
▶ 1:29:01
In his first book, he really was pro-escalation. And he later kind of lied about it, and this was echoed by the New York Times and the fake left, that, oh, he was always anti-Vietnam War, when in fact he was anything but. He wanted to get r…
▶ 20:55
as communist puppets. And because the agency asserted that the quote-unquote people were not behind the insurgents, but were mindless peasants who had been coerced by a clever mix of propaganda and terror to actually like the people in the …
▶ 23:53
rationale to develop its own counterterrorism team. Well, they used it anyway. By announcing the formation of the NLF in a bid for political legitimacy, just as the notion of killing off your enemy's civilian leadership was being advanced, …
▶ 24:22
began to be perceived as liabilities. Convinced that William Colby had organized the November 1960 coup attempt, New prohibited his followers from talking to any CIA agent. This edict threw a wrench in the CIA's attempt to organize everythi…
▶ 24:51
the Can Lao, claiming it denied advancement to the majority of Vietnamese and nullified democratic reforms. Unwilling to divest himself of his power base, Dem refused to do it and instead sought to appease the Americans by authorizing a sta…
▶ 25:51
eventually managed Phoenix. And Nguyen Van Thao, an army colonel who eventually became the president of South Vietnam. Not limited. So the guys that are running Phoenix, let's just clarify that, ends up in the leadership after they kill off…
▶ 26:20
also managed political and foreign intelligence operations, and they became the nerve center for the coordination of Phoenix. Knowing that the single-minded Americans would carry the fight against the North, Dem, through his spymaster, Dr. …
▶ 26:51
again, murder all of the people internally that's going to oppose you. And this is exactly what we saw happening in Korea with Ri, right? At the beginning of that whole operation, he killed all of his domestic in the South opponents. That's…
▶ 27:47
His name is spelled C-A-O and his second name K-Y. Believing Thao to be trustworthy, Nua appointed him to manage the Hamlet program. That's like the tiny little village program, which replaced the Agrago program. Remember where they moved e…
▶ 32:33
By the end of 1962, nearly 12,000 American soldiers were in South Vietnam flying helicopters, dropping napalm, spraying Agent Orange, advising battalions, patrolling rivers, the coast, conducting behind-the-line missions, and mounting anti-…
▶ 21:06
On the other hand, it would not have been the first time the CIA was involved in a plot to eliminate an ally that they actually installed, because they did that with Batista in Cuba, Trujillo, Figueres, and Diem out of Vietnam. Mubato, at t…
▶ 8:24
Briefly, he found that the government had increasingly been ineffective in the countryside and was losing the guerrilla warfare. Civilian control over the armed forces was such that Diem, the South Vietnamese fake president that the CIA ins…
▶ 8:52
The U.S. military advisory group with which Lansdell himself had served from 54 to 56 was too small and too hampered by local restrictions. Lansdell spent a little over two weeks in Vietnam. He spoke with Diem and other political and milita…
▶ 20:45
It was evident by 63 that President Diem had lost most of the political support that he had, and his brother began using force to quell demonstrations by the majority Buddhists in the country. They were operating under the auspices of being…
▶ 21:15
about a coup. Those early days in Vietnam were an adventure for Americans, much like Korea had been a few years earlier. In the first days of South Vietnam, it had been Lansdale who had established a close relationship with Diem. When Lansd…
▶ 21:41
In addition to being a liaison, the CIA wished to have its own source among South Vietnamese politicians and interest groups. By 1960, the agency was supplying the best information outside of the presidential palace, save perhaps a few of t…
▶ 26:55
The paramilitary crowd made up one circle. The espionage crew made up another. Since 1961, there had been a communications intelligence circle as well. One of the CIA political action men played a major role in the demise of President Diem,…
▶ 29:26
He was a man who spoke four or five different languages, including French. He was indispensable in Vietnam. Richardson had been a classmate of Richard Nixon at Whittier College in California. Richardson's problem was not the Vietnamese, but…
▶ 29:54
Prime movers in this effort were the Assistant Secretary of State for Far East, a guy by the name of Roger Hilsman, H-I-L-S-M-A-N, and the American ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge. In August 1963, a notorious incident occurred when Hilsman, e…
▶ 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…
▶ 31:48
He insisted on the transfer of the station chief. Richardson was abruptly recalled on October 5th after little more than a year on station. For a time, the Vietnamese generals backed down, but two days before Richardson's hurried recall, Ko…
▶ 12:58
When will your army people finally get going? But the Kennedy years had already proven that distinguished liberals given authority overseas could surmount their domestic principles. For example, as early as 1961, John Kenneth Galbraith had …
▶ 24:42
propaganda against everyone that Trump appoints. Again, they've done this for decades. They're experts at it. McNamara, they even make up terms. McNamara's only other misgiving seemed to concern the success of the coup. Six months earlier, …
▶ 1:00:12
Hi, just a couple of quick questions. So what was Spignu Brzezinski's role in the assassination of the Diem brothers? Because I heard you mentioning that. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Somebody was knocking on the door. Oh, I was saying, what was Sp…