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CIA did_business_with Vietnam documented document

“Between 1962 and 1965 the Agency worked with the South Vietnamese Government to organize police forces and paramilitary units…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.74

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam documented document

“revulsion at the Phoenix program which took at least 20,000 lives in South Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.35

Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam linked_to Vietnam documented document

“It attempts to present a favorable picture of North Vietnamese treatment of American prisoners of war…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.155

Vietnam Veterans Against the War operated_in Vietnam reported document

“They were going to North Vietnam and meeting with the Communist forces…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.145

Voice of America operated_in Vietnam documented document

“Early in the morning of August 26 1963 the Voice of America in South Vietnam placed the blame on Nhu for the August 21 raids…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.233

Robert McNamara operated_in Vietnam documented document

“It was decided to adopt the first proposal and to send Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Taylor on a fact-finding mission to Vietnam…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234

Trump administration ordered_assassination_of Vietnam documented document

“In order to determine the validity of this suspicion the White House instructed the FBI to institute a physical coverage of Mrs Chennault as well as physical and electronic surveillance of the South Vietnamese Embassy.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.320

Maxwell D. Taylor operated_in Vietnam documented document

“It was decided to adopt the first proposal and to send Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Taylor on a fact-finding mission to Vietnam…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234

Project MKNAOMI operated_in Vietnam documented document

“It was to be used in Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.179

CIA operated_in Vietnam documented document

“After 1965 the CIA engaged in a full-scale paramilitary assistance program to South Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.74

Banco de Chile operated_in Vietnam documented document

“His bank had just opened offices in Vietnam and completed a major investment in Pakistan…”

source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.84

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Vietnam documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.320

CIA operated_in Vietnam documented document

“the CIA was unwilling to take on the larger and more important task of assessing the possibility for the success of the overall U.S effort in Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.35

Vietnam operated_in Cambodia documented document

“if Hanoi could be denied the use of base areas and sanctuaries in Cambodia its strategy and objectives in South Vietnam would be endangered…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.88

Vietnam Veterans Against the War did_business_with Vietnam reported document

“Sources had provided information that VVAW was stockpiling weapons VVAWhad been in contact with North Vietnam officialsin Paris France…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.241

United States operated_in Vietnam documented document

“Although the American presence in Vietnam symbolized U.8 adherence to the strictures of the Cold War…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.123

CIA did_business_with Vietnam documented document

“Between 1962 and 1965 the Agency worked with the South Vietnamese government to organize police forces and paramilitary units…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.128

Directorate for Plans operated_in Vietnam documented document

“On the one hand the DDP was supporting a major paramilitary operation which at its peak in 1970 involved 700 people 600 of whom were stationed in Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.128

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam documented document

“the CIA continued to assist the U.S military's covert activities against North Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.155

Pujo Committee operated_in Vietnam documented document

“The Committee studied in detail covert military operations in five countries including Laos Vietnam and Angola…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.162

Eldridge Cleaver operated_in Vietnam documented document

“In July and August 1970 Eldridge Cleaver led a United States delegation to North Korea and North Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.208

Vietnamese institution operated_in Vietnam documented document

“The institution on at least one occasion invited a group of American Congressmen to Vietnam and sponsored their activities on at least part of their trip…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.208

Ramsey Clark spied_on Vietnam documented document

“Electronic surveillance was however directed at the South Vietnamese officials and was approved by Attorney General Ramsey Clark…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.244

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Vietnam documented document

“To determine the validity of this suspicion the White House instructed the FBI to institute... electronic surveillance directed against a South Vietnamese target.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.136

Hugo Chávez met_with Vietnam documented document

“sia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Portugal, Qatar, Syria, Mali, Benin, Angola, Ar- gentina, Brazil, and Jamaica—and has not only forged strong ties with political elites but developed considerable popularity as well.…”

source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.215

Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam met_with Vietnam documented document

“In March 1971 a coalition of leftist individuals including subversives and extremists under the sponsorship of the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam American Friends Service Committee and Fellowship of Reconciliation traveled to Par…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.538

Office of Research and Reports operated_in Vietnam documented document

“Following the initiation of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam in 1965 ORR was called on to provide regular bomb damage assessments…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.87

Vietnam linked_to Richard Nixon alleged document

“the apparent reason the White House was interested in the activities of Mrs Chennault and Spiro Agnew was to determine whether the South Vietnamese had secretly been in touch with supporters of Presidential Candidate Nixon possibly through …”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174

CIA spied_on Vietnam documented document

“the Central Intelligence Agency stated that their intelligence showed that the Chinese and North Vietnamese believe that by intensifying the agitation in this country…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.490

Joseph Kraft met_with Vietnam documented document

“Mr Kraft stated in a 1974 Congressional hearing that he was in contact with North Vietnamese officials while he was overseas in 1969 but he noted that this was a common practice among journalists and that he never knowingly published any cl…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.342

Ngo Dinh Diem headed Vietnam documented document

“Ngo Dinh Diem President of South Vietnam…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.356

CIA operated_in Vietnam documented document

“the CIA continually flew in the face of the Pentagon and the evident desires of the White House by denigrating the effectiveness of the bombing campaigns over North Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.35

Ming dynasty operated_in Vietnam documented document

“to the south a military foray into Vietnam was not going well.…”

source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.123

CIA operated_in Vietnam documented document

“For example as the current Deputy Director for Intelligence maintains the pessimistic CIA estimates on Vietnam had little or no effect on U.S policy decisions there…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.276

William Colby operated_in Vietnam documented document

“In 1970 I was on detached service I was assigned to the Department of State in Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.34

Special Service Staff operated_in Vietnam reported document

“Included are those who... travel to Cuba Algeria and North Vietnam in defiance of existing statutes…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13

Weatherman linked_to Vietnam documented document

“They identify themselves politically with North Vietnam Cuba and North Korea…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.156

Trump administration spied_on Vietnam documented document

“The Johnson administration also requested information on contacts between members of Congress and certain foreign officials known to oppose the United States presence in Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.245

United States government funded Vietnam documented document

“Although the United States Government supported the coup there is no evidence that American officials favored the assassination…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.19

Mohammad Hatta member_of Vietnam documented

“But when Nashima offered the Indonesian nationalists, the Indies, with NNG, there was some opposition to including the land of the Papians, Mohamed Hatta, who was declared the vice president of Indonesia at the time of the proclamation, str…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:04:45

Crypto AG supplied_arms_to Vietnam book_quoted

“The U.S. and its allies exploited other nations for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. Besides Malaysia and those listed above, crypto clients included Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi …”

▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 28:56

Sukarno member_of Vietnam documented

“The Japanese surrendered in World War II. Sukarno proclaimed Indonesia independence on August 17th, 1945. You know, the same way that happened in Korea and Vietnam and many other places like the Philippines. The territorial extent of the ne…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:01:24

Vietnam defeated France documented

“Fresh troops from Laos and a change in tactics to siege warfare eventually broke the French defense. Unable to be supplied adequately by air, the massive casualties, the French finally capitulated after a final all-out attack by the North o…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 27:07

Frank Tolbert operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“um squadron at grissom and i was at the tech school at chenute um as an instructor um they had all been there yeah yeah yeah it was uh seven uh seven days a week 12 hours yeah hours a day on the flight line so we ran a lot of a lot of bombi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 1:15:34

Vietnam carried_out_attack East Timor documented

“fires a single shot in the air, at which point all the young males must run to the center of the square before the soldier fires a second shot. Then everyone arriving late or not leaving his home is shot on the spot. Oh, that's nice. In 197…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 30:03

Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam documented

“He pardons every Vietnam draft dodger on day one. Now, if you understand that during this period of time for the last 10 years, Vietnam is first and foremost in everyone's brains in the late 60s, early 70s, right? It's the topic of conversa…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 30:20

Operation Ranch Hand carried_out_attack Vietnam documented

“Called Operation Ranch Hand, 11 million gallons of Agent Orange was sprayed over hundreds of square miles of jungle and inland waterways. Unknown to the crews who flew the aircraft, 60,000 ground troops were inadvertently sprayed and breath…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 5 @ 37:40

CIA operated_in Vietnam documented

“which allowed only the French military personnel into Laos and to advise the royal Laotian government. In Laos, the CIA had to field all to itself with the military supporting its actions rather than the other way around, as had been the ca…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 12:44

Maxwell D. Taylor appointed Vietnam documented

“and served as a counterweight to Curtis LeMay, who basically just wanted to bomb everything. Later, Taylor would be named ambassador to South Vietnam, which is critical because he would be overseeing the drug trade from his perch in South V…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 37:23

John Hart operated_in Vietnam documented

“Just throwing that out there. Hart came to Saigon in early 1966. He was 45 at the time. He had a hand in Wisner's Wurlitzer operations, and he was involved in Italy setting up the stay-behind units. He was also very involved in the stay-beh…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 11:27

Japan invaded Vietnam host_asserted

“the post-World War II, there's a couple of different points that I want to make. Vietnam had been invaded by Japan. Vietnam was a one country, not a north and a south, one country, and the Japanese invaded it and kicked the French out.…”

▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 15:01

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“an isolated U.S. Army camp in the southeast, as well as U.S. and South Vietnamese special force operations in that same area. Originally, the chief purpose of these activities was to harass the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but ultimately the fighting…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 34:09

U.S. Navy carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“And according to them, in an annual report in 1969, or excuse me, 68, the Navy's coastal survey ship, which included no less than seven chartered from commercial petroleum survey services, were completely employed in charting operations off…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 15:37

Air America carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“And pilots were involved since Air America officials have admitted to extensive defoliation programs having been flown, you know, in every other country but this one during this one time. They flew them in Thailand. They flew them in Taiwan…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

U.S. Navy carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“So here's a quote. The following magnetic studies were carried out during the fiscal year 1968. A complete low level aeromagnetic survey of South Vietnam, including all of the land surface and at least part of the offshore waters for milita…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 16:57

Doug Valentine exposed Vietnam book_quoted

“As a matter of fact, there is a famous jewelry store that's right around the corner from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam in Saigon slash Ho Chi Minh. And it comes up in a lot of stories. As a matter of fact, it came up twice in Doug Valentine's…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:31:29

Lyndon B. Johnson spied_on Vietnam documented

“It was not a happy outcome, even though a non-communist government was preserved. The war was very unpopular and ended in an armistice, not a peace agreement. America's involvement was plagued by mismanagement and dereliction. The whole aff…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 4 @ 29:03

Philippines supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“Fortress America, however, was securely in place in Southeast Asia at this point. The Philippines would be a launching point for American air and sea actions against Korea, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The Philippine government would send…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 58:13

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“The general's own troops were of very poor quality and the Hmong were very good fighters. So the Hmong held and even gained ground in the face of Cong Ly's forces, who now were augmented by North Vietnamese and their weaponry, which had bee…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 33:52

Phoenix Program carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“But refreshingly, there is a whole section on the Phoenix program, and it actually says that it blames the Phoenix program on neutralizing 81,740 people, mainly citizens. The number of neutral citizens killed, the highest of any other CIA p…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 1:28:05

France supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“The French ran the partisan units behind enemy lines in the north. Again, stay behind units. In the south, there were two religious movements or sects, one called the Kaldai and the other one Hohe. They were basically a band of river pirate…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 23:07

Roger Trinquier spied_on Vietnam documented

“Titled Detachment P, the Army Attaché Unit, another U.S. covert office appeared in Hanoi to furnish combat intelligence for these stay-behind units. Major Roger Tranquil, the French commander, visited Korea to observe American-organized sta…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 25:42

Viet Minh filled_power_vacuum Vietnam host_asserted

“The Americans then accompanied the Viet Minh, now carrying new American weapons, to the capital of Hanoi. And all along their journey, the Vietnamese American forces were welcomed by cheering villagers, waving flags, and offering food. The …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 8:18

United States dropped_ordinance_on Vietnam caller_asserted

“viet men being dragged behind tanks they show interrogations they show the tiger cages um they show agent orange devastation um and they you know have all these different uh displays that basically we drop more ordinance on vietnam that we …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 2:19:18

Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“She went on to defend and justify the American intervention in Vietnam, eventually, as a fight against communism, of course. While continuing to defend Formosa, she publishes a series of brochures against communist China, denouncing any pro…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 27:22

Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02

Phoenix Program carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“that they implemented in Vietnam where they sit down and they basically ask you every single thing about your family, where all of your extended family lives, and they enter that all in a database because they viewed these people as, and th…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 1:24:46

United States trafficked Vietnam host_asserted

“I must have missed that. I apologize. Yeah, no, no. The entire strategy was to do whatever was necessary to maintain the occupation in Vietnam in order to set up the drug trafficking operation. And the whole goal.…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 1:33:04

United States considered Vietnam host_asserted

“And this is it starts with for most of World War Two, the United States considered Vietnam to be a relatively unimportant French colony to someday be reclaimed from the Japanese. But America showed little interest in enlisting Vietnamese ai…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 3:40

United States carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“Earlier, you had mentioned the stuff that they did over in Vietnam that they were doing also in Colombia. Like napalm. Right. Yeah. Yeah. The Agent Orange. And it's just, I mean, it's like they could have done this other way. And they did i…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 47:30

Government of Vietnam carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“constructing entire new cities under a slave labor concept. So when construction had been completed, the South Vietnamese army units leveled the surrounding villages and resettled the inhabitants into these, what they called agro villas. Ho…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 39:25

Government of Vietnam carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“They completely leveled their village. They destroyed it after they enslaved them and made them build these agro villas. And in doing so, basically surrounded them. They're imprisoning the population is what they're doing. They're building …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 41:33

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Vietnam host_asserted

“So in retaliation for selective terror attacks against Americans in South Vietnam, President Johnson ordered in 1965 a bombing campaign of the North. The raids continued until 1968, the idea being to deal with the communists through punishm…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 50:41

William Westmoreland headed Vietnam book_quoted

“And this is all about the pacification program. One of them was from General Westmoreland. The corporate warrior, quote, pacification was the ultimate goal of both the Americans and the South Vietnamese government, a complex task involving …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 46:25

Japan invaded Vietnam host_asserted

“Though the Japanese had invaded Vietnam in 1940, they allowed the French colonial authorities to retain power so as long as they controlled the Vietnamese and maintained the colony as a supply base for the emperor, Japanese emperor, army fi…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 4:03

Vietnam carried_out_attack Lima Sites book_quoted

“Because that was the whole purpose. They want us drugged and stupid. All right. So North Vietnamese dry season offensive of 1969 climaxed with the loss in late June of the Hmong LS-108, the largest airfield in northern Laos, which the royal…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 59:15

Allen Dulles spied_on Vietnam book_quoted

“and the group cover over 30,000 miles in 57 days. They used the director's personal plane, a modified version of a DC-6. Dulles inspected the stations in Europe, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thailand, South Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, the Ph…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 12:11

Ninh reported_to Vietnam host_asserted

“These guys were doing it in the South as well, kind of to countermand what was happening. So introduced into the South Vietnam in the 1960s as an insurgency security service was an entity called NINH, A-N and then a separate word N-I-N-H. I…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 18:35

Phạm Ngọc Thảo had_clandestine_ties_to Vietnam host_asserted

“Ironically, he filled his faction with dissenters he had blacklisted, and he also attracted disgruntled junior officers, almost like they're setting up the coup. He teamed up with a Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao. Unaware that Thao's clandestine co…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 27:18

John F. Kennedy rushed_in Vietnam host_asserted

“got its new headquarters in Langley. All you got to do is fight a war and you get something big as a prize in the military-industrial complex. When September 1961 rolled around, NM Terror Squad decapitated a Catholic priest. President Kenne…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 29:15

111th Military Intelligence Group arrived_in Vietnam host_asserted

“This could have been an agent provocateur that did this in order to get the strength because Kennedy was very much against putting people into Vietnam. So the 704th Military Intelligence Group arrives almost immediately and begins advising …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 30:44

Michigan State University trained Vietnam host_asserted

“What we went over last night as well, where Michigan State University was basically going over there and training the national police to kill their citizens, torture their citizens and all that other stuff, which is basically what the show …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:06:08

France overthrew Vietnam book_quoted

“which was the disaster for the French in Vietnam that finally made them withdraw from recolonizing Vietnam. And it said that General Henry Eugene Nafare had started what he thought was going to be a simple assignment on 28 May, 1953.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 10:25

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Vietnam host_asserted

“It started to mount and mount and mount. But everything came to a peak with the Gulf of Tonkin affair. Suddenly, LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson, appeared on national TV, and he said, I have an earth-shaking announcement to make. We have to become i…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 1:05:09

John F. Kennedy traveled_to Vietnam documented

“The two Dulles brothers were slow to realize that if the young Senator Kennedy was their pupil, he was also increasingly rebellious one. Kennedy began questioning the rigid Cold War paradigm that dominated Washington's policymakers as early…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 53:40

United States carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“forcibly put people in them and then made them check IDs to go and come and controlled all of the food that went in, controlled the people, the governments that oversaw the villages that they created. This has all been mapped out. The UK di…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 1:20:42

Phoenix Program carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“miraculously is the first official 15 minute city in Oxford. And whoever posted that this morning, I was like, Milner is like having a heyday in hell right now. He'd be so proud that Oxford would be the first prototype for that because they…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 1:20:14

Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board studied Vietnam book_quoted

“Intelligence Advisory Board to assess the Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifle against the American M-16. Later tasks included examining the capability of the Soviet SA-7, a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, commenting on the U.S. sale …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 27:05

Gordon Gray studied Vietnam book_quoted

“Gordon Gray studied drug use by American soldiers in Vietnam, yet the Presidential Advisory Board remained entirely unaware of the drug running by the U.S. CIA in Laos. A year later, Burke recalls the board never heard of and did not see th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 30:29

CIA funded Vietnam book_quoted

“Back in the 1950s and 60s, where we did it a lot. And in Japan, where the CIA helped the Liberal Democratic Party. Political action failed in Indonesia. The first time, not the second time. In South Vietnam, the agency innovated the less is…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 42:45

Census Grievance Program funded Vietnam book_quoted

“Giving you a hard time. Are the police at the checkpoints charging you a toll every time you take your wares to market? Number three, is there anything you want to tell me about the Viet Cong? If the answer was no, the whole thing wasn't pu…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 38:56

France formed_nationalist_army_in Vietnam documented

“The battle in Vietnam changed from a guerrilla warfare to a conventional one. The French responded by forming a nationalist army in the south and began building up that force with U.S. material aid. The U.S. military assistance program was …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 23:38

Hmong people operated_in Vietnam documented

“Um, and they were found in Laos, China and North Vietnamese hereditarily. And that's basically what I'm telling you. Um, the, they base, they have people on both sides of the border. And so, um, that was used as an excuse, but if you know a…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 42:42

Ho Chi Minh proposed Vietnam host_asserted

“On behalf of the allies, he signed a proclamation of independence for the country of Vietnam. And in it, it says, quote, we hold truths that all men are created equal, that they were endowed by their creator. He basically copied us. It goes…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 3 @ 50:09

Ho Chi Minh operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“was, you know, obviously Vietnam was one entire country. It was a colony of France in which the Japanese invaded and took it over. So during that time that the Japanese were there, Ho Chi Minh was the warlord. He was the guy. He was the mos…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:19:20

Viet Cong overthrew Vietnam host_asserted

“around the time the fall of Saigon happened once the major gateway for the world drug market Saigon had become a dead end once because the Viet Cong imagine that so you've got the Viet Cong which are the big bad baddies called communists an…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 1:15:34

Ted Shackley operated_in Vietnam documented

“Even under Vietnamese law, authorities rapidly retreated to an admission that 87% of the supposed cadre had been killed. From 1969 to 72, Ted Shackley led the CIA station in Saigon. Given the court's purpose that classic definitions of poli…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 23:14

John Singlaub operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“the United States Council for World Freedom. Now, they weren't interested in anybody actually having freedom. And two of the people that you find on almost all of these is General Singlib. And you remember General Singlib because he's the g…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 13 @ 9:35

Roger Trinquier tasked_with_training Vietnam documented

“And they are basically tasked to train indigenous soldiers for highly dangerous infiltration operations into the north. They would carry out direct action missions using sabotage, intelligence gathering, establishment of escape and evasion …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 19:02

John F. Kennedy proposed Vietnam host_asserted

“There's so many. And I, with all due respect to these people who have very simple minds about the whole Kennedy thing, they've not done any research. There is so many facets to how many people wanted Kennedy dead. Kennedy had already said h…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:29:08

Theodore Roosevelt operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“What's that? Where'd he start? Upper Volta. Yeah, and that's basically the CIA. Uh-huh. He was a SEAL in Vietnam. Two years. Know what he was doing. Would you believe me if I told you he was also a member of the CFR? Yes, I would. Uh-huh. H…”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 1:13:43

Japan overthrew Vietnam book_quoted

“of Japan, not just a conquered country. And they eventually overtook Vietnam and kicked the French out. They had basically defeated Mongolia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia. And in doing so, they went in and basically razed the entire country.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 8:05

Japan granted_independence_to Vietnam documented

“And in March of 1945, the Japanese arrested virtually all of the French government administrators and military authorities that was in the French Indochina area. So the Japanese also complicated this situation by granting Vietnam independen…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 6:11

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“So they're going to, they need a whole bunch of Catholics in the South in order to pretend like he's an actually elected president. And they started a psychological campaign in the North where they involuntarily, psychologically traumatized…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:23:53

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“And doing all kinds of other crap. So the French, as we know, gets kicked out. And then, of course, because we want Vietnam because of the whole poppy thing and Chiang Kai-shek and blah, blah, blah. We're going to basically take over where …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:23:03

Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed Vietnam documented

“that the U.S. intended to ensure a legitimate government, whatever the hell that is, and we all know that that means they have to love the West and not be neutral. In the morning of December 31st, 1960, Eisenhower joked in a Laos discussion…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 37:58

CIA operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“and was able to document most of this crap that was going on separately. Another aspect of it was intelligence collections. The CIA maintained a network of spies throughout the country, and it attempted to assemble the master list, which we…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam and the Phoenix Program Part 2 @ 18:50

U.S. Air Force operated_in Vietnam book_quoted

“Clandestine work did consume Air Force resources, but not only for Tibet, but for Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. The Air Force was clearly responding to this workload when March 1961 on Okinawa, it established e-flight within the 21st Troop C…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 @ 51:58

Air America operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“flicker and as soon as he um saw that happen he's like son of a this is the old airplane that was air america um and so anyway just thought i'd add that on x mike hobert air america was pivotal to vietnam and laos absolutely mike um air ame…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 1:09:36

Chiang Kai-shek operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“was given the responsibility for the north area of Vietnam. And the British was giving the responsibility for the south area, which is very interesting because it was not actually China. It was Chiang Kai-shek. And the whole reason they wan…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:20:46

Allen Dulles operated_in Vietnam documented

“Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thailand, South Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Now let me point out for you guys exactly what's going on here. This is in 56. This is as we're getting ready to upend …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 12:34

Chiang Kai-shek moved_to Vietnam host_asserted

“We can sell drugs. And they all collectively agreed that was a great idea. We're going to take care of Chiang Kai-shek. We set him up in Burma, moved him around. He spent a little bit of time in Vietnam. Then he goes to Taiwan and sets up t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 42:33

Ngo Dinh Diem installed Vietnam host_asserted

“When they installed Dem as the dictator, as we talked about at the beginning, he basically, they spent the better part of the first couple of years there crushing all opposition of nationalist influence in the South so that they could promo…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam and the Phoenix Program Part 2 @ 6:37

Gough Whitlam opposed Vietnam host_asserted

“were to be used to purchase arms to be illegally sent to the Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment. Casolaro had amassed further proof of a CIA-backed coup in Australia targeting Prime Minister Gal Whitlam, which we've talked about a…”

▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 36:57

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“The alliance of the Hmong momentarily averted a crisis for the United States. The general's own troops were of very poor quality and the Hmong were very good fighters. So the Hmong held and even gained ground in the face of Cong Ly's forces…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 33:51

China operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:20:46

China sent_military_aid_to Vietnam documented

“These new developments pushed the U.S. to recognize South Vietnamese as a legitimate government, even though they didn't even have a government. They had a bunch of villages. President Harry Truman authorized direct aid to the French in Vie…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 23:10

Phoenix Program carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:28:11

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“the um what do they call them uh there's cells um centers uh fusion centers the fusion centers of the fema are the exact parallel to the area regional cells that were set up in vietnam the restriction of um travel the id checks the the dest…”

▶ INTERVIEW WITH LT COL BROCK - A10 Driver and J6 Patriot @ 53:55

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“They have the same fusion centers that were set up over in Vietnam to control people. They're doing the same forced migration into this area. And then they're going to create all the chaos. And they're going to use that as the excuse on why…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 cont @ 1:44:35

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Only not the kinetic portion, but everything that he's talking about is Operation Gladio, every bit of it. So in the Phoenix program in Vietnam, they actually shot you in very horrific ways. They would disembowel people because they wanted …”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 1:47:52

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“when you zoom out to the 30,000 foot look of it versus what's happening inside the United States right now. The Phoenix program was a massive program to capture and kill the Viet Cong and the use of torture to reveal even more targets. It w…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam and the Phoenix Program Part 2 @ 29:45

Phoenix Program led_to_overthrow_of Vietnam host_asserted

“led eventually to the overthrow of another CIA-installed government in Vietnam. The legacy of the Phoenix program is terror, torture, and death. The Vietnam, obviously for the United States, was scandalous in just about every respect.…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam and the Phoenix Program Part 2 @ 36:59

Chiang Kai-shek operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“This is a great business model for the new CIA that had just been set up. And they're trying to maneuver Chiang Kai-shek back into China because he's now been pushed out. He's in Burma initially, then gets moved over temporarily. He was in …”

▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 7:08

Gene Sharp operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Japan, what? Georgia, Iran, Kurdistan, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. And of course, that's just among ones up until the date that this was published. And this was published quite a while ago, actually. But I tho…”

▶ Albert Einstein Inst's How to Conduct a Revolution through Gladio Glasses @ 45:00

Gene Sharp operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Georgia, Iran, Kurdistan, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. And of course, that's just among ones up until the date that this was published. And this was published quite a while ago, actually. But I thought that was…”

▶ Special Dive Tiananmen Square @ 44:59

Pentagon operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“And that's where we first met General Lyman Lemonsker, who would go on to create the Operation Northwood about blowing up American cities, killing Americans to do a full ground invasion into Cuba. Both the CIA and the Pentagon, through the …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 2 @ 45:16

Michelin invested_in Vietnam host_asserted

“one of the major trades in Vietnam was rubber. Michelin, that was one of their largest rubber sources. And that's the reason why France was there. It was an industry that Firestone very much wanted to take over. And the whole reason we were…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 1:38:18

Frank Lucas trafficked Vietnam host_asserted

“This detective went all out to make sure he was going to find out who was bringing the heroin into New York. And he come to find out that it was getting shipped back and military crafts and the heroin would be in the caskets with either not…”

▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 58:21

11th Parachute Shock Regiment ordered_to Vietnam documented

“were also ordered to Vietnam to carry out training with new unconventional warfare units engaged in assassinations. The 11th Shock attended Skorzeny's training sites in France and in Spain. There, he and his men taught sabotage, demolitions…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 16:22

William P. Bundy operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Well, I mean, he's just obviously intimately involved in Vietnam and all of the chaos. He was intimately involved in the USS Liberty and all of that other stuff based on the jobs that he had during that time. He's definitely not a good guy.…”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 39:12

Edward Lansdale operated_in Vietnam documented

“was backing the entire time. The elections had nothing to do with democracy. It had everything to do with consolidating the Western power in South Vietnam. For much of this period, Ed Lansdale resided in Saigon in one last incarnation, this…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 14:07

Robert Lehman financed_via Vietnam book_quoted

“employee who, in the company of several spokesmen with intelligence background, called publicly for the overt U.S. intervention in Vietnam affairs that began a year later after the assassination of Dim and JFK. That should be a big foot sto…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 34:33

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“that has had Operation Gladio activity. So if you go to Vietnam specifically, the Phoenix program, which was nothing more than a glorified, massive fascist police state, it was ran by the Michigan State University. The cops there were train…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with War Hamster Brady - The Shadow State Recolonization - The Corporate Side of Operation Gladio @ 42:22

Edward Lansdale operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Lansdale brought in all of his paramilitary Gladio trained people from the Philippines because we just basically overthrew and installed our guy in the Philippines. And so all of his trained guys were brought into Vietnam. And most of the p…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 28:31

Saigon Embassy Bombing carried_out_attack Vietnam documented

“The CIA labored long and hard on quote-unquote building a political base for the Saigon government on pacification, unconventional warfare programs. The guerrillas made the war real at the end of March of 1965 when they detonated a car bomb…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 8:32

Peace and Liberty operated_in Vietnam book_quoted

“designed to highlight the French communists as a Soviet fifth column in France. David directed the group's international committee that synchronized the activities of branches established in other countries, including Belgium, Great Britain…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 37:23

Military Assistant Group operated_in Vietnam book_quoted

“They also had a U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group, or the MAGS, which was kind of an operational cover, if you will, because you saw the MAGS over in Vietnam during that period, too. So that's kind of just an overall umbrella organiza…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 5:35

Gordon Jorgensen moved_to Vietnam documented

“Gordon Jorgensen left for Saigon in 62. Charles Whitehurst presided over the re-ignition of the Laotian War. He brought the Langley perspective, having headed the Far East Division branches for both Cambodia and Laos. But much of his field …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 14:55

Strategic Services Unit operated_in Vietnam book_quoted

“excuse me, former OSS officers who had served with the Jedbergs and elsewhere went back to their homes, to law practices, to school, or some of them went back to their former army jobs. Teams from the OSS SSU were pulled out of Vietnam wher…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 30:02

Winston Lord involved_in Vietnam documented

“Well, Lord was a huge part of restoring relations between the U.S. and China. He was in every single meeting between Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, and Mao Zedong. He was in the room when Henry Kissinger opened up China to the West. He was with Ki…”

▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Wrap Up @ 48:46

Lucien Conein operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“base of operation after World War II, when, like Hunt, he slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He then operated in South and North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, and became the top U.S. expert on that area, because at that time, they were ship…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 39:44

Sheldon Whitehouse operated_in Vietnam documented

“And Sheldon Whitehouse classifies, but his father, Sheldon, just a reminder, joined the CIA in 1947, served in the Congo, Turkey, Belgium, Cambodia, then joins the State Department. So he's still in the CIA. He was the Congo's desk officer …”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 44:08

William McCormick Blair Jr. operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“on the philippines to overcome the indigenous people in the philippines resistance to wanting not to be ruled by america he took to vietnam and um this uh blair jr while he was there um was part of that operation to have them infiltrate int…”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 37:14

NATO operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Then, so Gene Sharp comes back and says, then from Serbia, the news spread to Georgia, which was under a very repressive regime, and then to Ukraine, which again had problems and it spread there. And then in a series of other countries, oh,…”

▶ Albert Einstein Inst's How to Conduct a Revolution through Gladio Glasses @ 38:52

Vietnam took_over_area_in Laos documented

“Despite all of the efforts of their top generals, they were unable to defeat the Norse army. So the North had also taken over a large area of Laos, which at the time was a French ally, permitting cross-border operations into Vietnam. And yo…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 25:09

Vietnam supplied_arms_to Souvanna Phouma documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 33:51

Vietnam carried_out_attack Lima Sites documented

“Belair warned that the Lima site could not be defended against serious attack, but the managers of the air war, who wanted that radar station there, overrode everything. That mountain area did not escape Hanoi's attention. It made a concert…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 30:55

Vietnam carried_out_attack Lima Sites documented

“Two of the CIA advisors as forward air controllers and five of the radar technicians barely escaped in a desperate helicopter evacuation. The battle unfolded with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. On the night of March 10th and 11th, 19…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 32:55

Vietnam carried_out_attack Long Tieng documented

“Soon, roughly two divisions of Hanoi's army regularly fought in northern Laos, quite frequently against the Hmong. They made regular forays against Skyline Ridge and that overlooked Long Tien. The CIA had Laos wired for sound. It filled its…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 33:53

Vietnam carried_out_attack Long Tieng documented

“Thai troops in artillery and infantry roles, all the while denying that there was even any presence of U.S. in Laos. Even after reporters revealed the existence of Long Tien and Sam Tong, they kept denying it. During Devlin's time, enemy tr…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 17:56

Japan carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“that was at the Fed in New York, that's a whole nother scandal because there were documented cases of truckloads of things coming and going out of the New York Fed where the gold depository is. And there was a whole bunch of shenanigans wit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 1:17:58

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“Intermountain furnished B-17 aircraft, a CIA plane first acquired for Indonesia for the attempted overthrow of Sukarno. It was used in a James Bond movie, Thunderball, in a thrilling scene in which the spy is picked up at sea. In 1966, more…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 52:53

Operation Ivory Coast carried_out_attack Vietnam documented

“The last part of the Sante story is the deception of Congress and the American public that was inadvertently revealed by Nixon himself. Airstrikes had been made against North Vietnamese targets that night to divert attention from this rescu…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 38:59

Sam Nua spied_on Vietnam documented

“with them, unquote. More significantly, the U.S. Army attaché in Laos himself, Sam Nua, had cabled Army intelligence reports that in a State Department summary, quote, denote a degree of undeniable North Vietnamese supported intervention th…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 33:45

Hugh Tovar chief_of_station_in Vietnam documented

“Yay, more coups there. The OSS veteran Tovar had been parachuted into Laos once already at the end of World War II. The kind of activists the CIA seemed to prefer in Laos. Tovar had been a chief of station in Indonesia in 1965, which would …”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 1:19:45

French Forces removed_from_power Vietnam host_asserted

“Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's spelled D-I-E-N-B-I-E-N-F-H-U. Den Ben Thuv. Okay. Very good. Thank you. And was it, was this the city where it was kind of like the last, this was when the French, is that where they? They lost. They lost and they st…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 1:08:48

Nelson Brickham trained Vietnam book_quoted

“kind of to circle information back to him. It says the special branch advisors should limit himself to his primary duties, which were training Vietnamese special branch case officers to penetrate the Viet Cong, giving them cash for informat…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 24:42

France recruited Vietnam documented

“Vietnamese ports were open to European commerce. Catholic priests were permitted to preach wherever Buddhist and Taoist or Confucian souls were lurking in the darkness. And France was guaranteed unconditional control over all of Indochina. …”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 31:35

France assassinated Vietnam documented

“The pacification of Vietnam began in earnest in 1883. As many nationalists as could be found were rounded up, and the French imported guillotines in order to behead them. The imperial city of Hue, H-U-E, was plundered, and basically they we…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 32:36

France recruited Vietnam documented

“and stole everything that they could find. The French disbanded the Emperor's Council of Mandarins and replaced it with French advisors in a bureaucracy, um, staffed by, this is a French word, but it's, it's, um, sublif, S-U-P-P-L-E-T-I-F-S…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 33:07

France funded Vietnam documented

“to the outer perimeter of the pacified zones, and internal security was turned over to the collaborators, basically, that they're creating. And these bourgeois elite were also installed in the police and security forces where they managed p…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 34:40

Vietnam assassinated France documented

“The Vietnamese responded by confiscating the property of the French Catholics. They drowned a few Jesuits as a result of the hundreds of them being murdered and did a few other horrible things to the Catholic people, the priests that were t…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 29:08

Vietnam carried_out_attack France documented

“trained in guerrilla tactics to do hit and runs in order to be a pain in the butt to the French to get them to leave. It was referred to as selective terrorism. And they decided that they were going to aim at anybody that had been touched a…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 36:12

United States supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“the rest of Southeast Asia, and we were not consulted. You decided again in 1956 that ZM, because he didn't want to have free elections, and you supported him because elections couldn't be free, and I've read all the semantics about what is…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 35:51

Thailand supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“All I can say is, we've got to live with what might have been the day before yesterday. And as of today, the field marshal of Thailand says, when he's saying it to his own people, they are going to fight in Vietnam, not in Thailand. I take …”

▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 37:02

Phoenix Program carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“If you use just the words that they use, you wouldn't see the correlation to the Phoenix program in Vietnam. But once you've discovered the Phoenix program in Vietnam and you use the terminology that made it the equivalent or identified the…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 25:46

John Tilton sent_to Vietnam book_quoted

“He had with him Che Guevara's disguise and his embalmed hands that the CIA and their operatives had cut off. Not long afterwards, John Tilton, the former CIA chief, was sent to Vietnam as the last director of the Phoenix program. The long s…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 35:19

NSA spied_on Vietnam host_asserted

“From the NSA, which confirms the capture of U.S. servicemen from incidents in Laos and Vietnam, where the individuals had previously been simply listed as missing by our government, these men are still unaccounted for, yet we know many of t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 1:01:18

Lucien Conein trafficked Vietnam caller_asserted

“And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:00:23

Sisavang Vong recruited Vietnam book_quoted

“faced with U.S. encouragement of a rebellion against it, did in response invite Russian, North Vietnamese, and Chinese advisors, thus creating the first known North Vietnamese military presence in Laos since the 1954 Geneva Agreement. Howev…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 44:06

United States carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“At royal Lao government request began flying certain interdictionary missions against invaders who were violating Laos neutrality. Laos has no neutrality. We're basically running the country for their opium. The author says in response, by …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:04:26

Air America carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“assumed a combat role in Laos in May of 1964, at a time when the North Vietnamese Army was still engaged in a support role comparable to that of the Air America. North Vietnam was not formally accused by the U.S. of violating the Geneva Agr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:04:53

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Vietnam book_quoted

“At the insistence of the chief of naval operations, he also authorized accompanying escorts of fighters. These were ordered not to bomb or strafe Laotian installations until or unless U.S. planes were fired upon. When a Navy RF-8 was shot d…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:06:50

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“foreign involvement reemphasized the central coordinating role of U.S. intelligence, especially paramilitary factions of the CIA, and that they used these front companies like Civil Air Transport and Air America, that the Civil Air Transpor…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 43:19

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“also came first with the initiation of operations against North Vietnam in February 64 with bombing raids with Thai and Air America pilots in Laos. In both cases, these provocations, although inadequate by themselves to prove the U.S. milit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 46:13

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“Set C-130s that flew in the Far East belonged to the Air Force's 315th Air Division based in Korea and Okinawa. Their use was controlled by General Erskine's office in Washington. Clandestine work did consume Air Force resources, but not on…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 52:55

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“Korea, Laos, I mean, millions if you bring in Cambodia, all along that. But if you just focused on North Vietnam, North Korea, and Tibet, you've got hundreds of thousands of people that ended up dead, all so that they could insert Chiang Ka…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:07:29

United States operated_in Vietnam documented

“Narcotics management was in the president's hands, not narcotics deletion, just its management. In August of 72, U.S. troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam. The country was turned over to the CIA and a narcotics trafficking South Vietnam…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 44:32

Ho Chi Minh elected Vietnam book_quoted

“spoke favorably of the Viet Minh, and that's the people of the North, and critically of the French atrocities in the post-war period. It observed that Ho Chi Minh was formally elected by a vast majority in an election of January 1946 and ad…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 37:02

Felix Rodriguez operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Felix Rodriguez, the guy that Tucker just had on. And he's like he's an assassin. And I'm we know all about Felix Rodriguez. And so I'm watching on my computer and he's in Tucker's house. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? How did he get…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Ivan Raiklin @ 5:43

20th Special Forces Group trained Vietnam book_quoted

“became the nucleus of the first special forces group established on Okinawa in June of 1957. Men from special forces conducted certain missions into Laos as early as 59 and were included in the assistance command of South Vietnam in May of …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 @ 31:03

Chiang Kai-shek operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“And then we faked one after we got all the bad guys out of the South as if it was the real unification election and Kim lost. It was not. That was all just propaganda. Now, transition over to Vietnam. The exact same thing happens. We go and…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 7:27

Phoenix Program operated_in Vietnam documented

“that indicates the phoenix program that was used for pacification in vietnam is here in the united states and it's been here a long time i believe that thousand so yeah it's is it would you would you say it's it's the ultimate objective is …”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 18:11

Operation Gladio operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Telling people that there's ghosts, phantoms, the communists are going to overrun them any minute and cut babies out of women's stomachs. They're going to put them on spikes. So they have to get out of the North. And they load up over one m…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 11:00

CIA operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 2 @ 45:16

France installed Vietnam documented

“resulted in open warfare between the French and the Vietnamese. And by 1859, French foreign legionnaires had arrived in mass and had established fortified positions in major cities, which they defended against poorly armed nationalists stag…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 30:42

Vietnam overthrew South Vietnam documented

“but the war was too far gone. Hanoi staged a huge offensive that year, finally driving the U.S. out of the conflict, at least in terms of military involvement. The Paris ceasefire agreement sealed the fate of Saigon. Polgar presided over 30…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 24:15

Allen Dulles supported Vietnam documented

“The Pentagon Papers indicated that the Hawks had the support of Director McComb, but kept other key administration in the dark. McNamara in particular claimed he was ignorant, which I find ridiculous. Even while he released the order for Au…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 46:41

John F. Kennedy proposed Vietnam documented

“of the implementation of plans to withdraw 1,000 U.S. military personnel by the end of 63. Kennedy's planned for an additional 1,000 personnel to be withdrawn every month until 1965 and the last one came home. At that time, all U.S. militar…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner KILL ZONE Part 2 @ 44:54

Henry Kissinger promised Vietnam documented

“to North Vietnam Prime Minister Le Duc Thao, which promised the U.S. would assist the government of Vietnam in post-war reconstruction. In the body of the letter, two paragraphs were of particular importance. The government of the U.S. will…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 8 @ 40:40

CIA trained Vietnam book_quoted

“wait for it, Filipino trainers, like the ones brought over by Lansdell, to train these people how to be basically gladio operators, for lack of a better word, or Phoenix program operators. They had flags, they had, I mean, it was all pagean…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 44:35

Oliver North served_in Vietnam book_quoted

“He achieved his dream of going to Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer while Shackley and his cronies were running the intel war in Vietnam. After that first contact at the Navy Academy, the clandestine services had kept an eye on North. …”

▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 15:41

Ho Chi Minh declared_independence Vietnam host_asserted

“and were preaching the gospel according to Ho to anyone interested in independence. Viet Minh held six provinces near Hanoi and was working with the forerunner to the CIA, the OSS, recovering downed pilots as a part of 14th Air Force. A stu…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 41:22

Edward Lansdale rotated_out_of Vietnam host_asserted

“It had, in fact, obtained some results in the field, but soon it became a repressive tool to liquidate any opponent. Ed Lansdell had served his purpose and was being unceremoniously rotated out of Vietnam, leaving behind the civic action pr…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:11:35

Edward Lansdale recruited Vietnam host_asserted

“who were in regular liaison with the Dem government, had been influencing the Vietnamese towards a more ominous environment. We Americans were to give what assistance we could to the building of a strong nationalistic party that would suppo…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:12:29

CIA trafficked Vietnam book_quoted

“It was the product of ongoing war-creating energies located chiefly in the United States, which to this day have not yet been properly identified or countered, which is why Operation Gladio is still ongoing. Of these forces, none is deeper …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 34:04

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“Different from the CIA that assassinated him, this is kind of like the core unifying concept of those differences, whether it be Cuba, Vietnam, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, that, you know, economic nationalism would not be automatically confla…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 1:08:32

Sandinistas member_of Vietnam host_asserted

“At the top of the VCI organizational chart was a central office in South Vietnam. There was an executive committee that answered to a quote-unquote unification department in Hanoi. From its headquarters along the Cambodian border, this orga…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 13:04

Vietnam targeted_for_regime_change Sukarno host_asserted

“whose clandestine activities would eventually oust the Dutch colonial presence from the territory completely. At the same time, Sukarno was officially claiming the territory after the Dutch departure in May 1963. Dulles was preparing for re…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 29:25

Suharto overthrew Vietnam host_asserted

“that he had ties to the overthrow of the government and that all of the media blitz that would have occurred had he went to Indonesia locally within Indonesia because the people over there hated him, you know, after they got rid of Suharto …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE- DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!_!' - PART 1 - EP.437 @ 1:14:37

Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“totally disrupted years of covert planning for regime change being orchestrated by Alan Dulles and the CIA. Basically, Dulles was looking to, even policy-wise, overthrow the wishes of the President of the United States. And when he realized…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 44:13

John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“So not that they didn't because they did cheat, but he had made it very clear he was going to Indonesia in January of 1964. Now, 1964 would have been the election year. And if he would have went to Indonesia at the beginning of that year an…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:14:05

Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“The gold mine that was discovered was the biggest in the entire world to date. You're talking probably in today's dollars, trillions of dollars of resources. If Kennedy had went and given Sukarno the boost in his popularity in Indonesia, Al…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:15:02

NNG Petroleum Company covered_up Vietnam host_asserted

“This started a 13-year dispute between the Dutch and the Indonesians over the sovereignty of the Dutch-occupied territory. The policy of concealment, a mutual agreement between Dutch and the NNGPM, continued throughout this dispute. The 60%…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 35:08

Gerald Ford funded Vietnam documented

“The U.S. natural interest, Ford concluded, had to be on the side of Indonesia. Ford gave his approval December 6, 1975. Five days after the invasion, the U.S. voted to condemn the attack as an act of international aggression. The U.S. absta…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 32:56

Frank Wisner financed_via Vietnam book_quoted

“president into Indonesia for a stay of over two months. In May, the U.S. flatly rejected a request by Sukarno to make a visit to Washington. The fall of 1957, as it turns out, there would be little opposition to putting Indonesia on the CIA…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 30:33

Charles Cabell headed Vietnam book_quoted

“for the overthrow. The active phase of Indonesia operations caused some uproar internal to the CIA. Alan Dulles kept in close contact, although he delegated the supervisory role mainly to Lieutenant General Charles Cabell, C-A-B-E-L-L. Bist…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 31:02

Sutan Sjahrir member_of Vietnam book_quoted

“Dutch West Indies. So he's anti-colonialism while earlier he was trying to be one of them. Hearing the experiences of colonial rule opened Haas' eyes to the injustice. One of them, a guy by the name of Sjahrir, S-J-A-H-R-I-R, became a close…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 15:41

Sukarno headed Vietnam book_quoted

“Ducarno proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia independent. A coalition of Social Democratic and Catholic parties reacted with suppressing the rebellion through force. The Labor Party supported two military actions in Indonesia to restore the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 16:38

George de Mohrenschildt sent_to Vietnam host_asserted

“You know, the kind of people that go around finding oil fields. So George is basically sent to the Netherlands, New Guinea, in order to look around for any other new oil fields in the land that Alan Dulles is going to make sure that he gets…”

▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 35:53

Sukarno headed Vietnam host_asserted

“recognizing the rebels as the actual government or a government. Then came the Battle of Padang and rebel defeat. Alan Dulles gave Foster details in a lunchtime call. Foster remarked that Sukarno's invasion had happened with far greater eff…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 40:33

Guy Pauker spied_on Vietnam host_asserted

“as a college professor from Berkeley doing a research project to scope out the military intelligence in Indonesia for Alan Dulles to create the plan we're going to talk about today. And this author finds out all of this by doing these inter…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 21:55

Sukarno headed Vietnam documented

“And the Soccarno was president. And there was some issues that came up about the taxing that we talked about yesterday. Like the outer islands, which is what they were called, like Sumatra, was supplying 70% of the export revenue.…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 8:18

Mohammad Hatta headed Vietnam documented

“at best 10% communist and 90% nationalist, which is a reoccurring theme, peasants that wanted land reform to be able to farm, which also is a reoccurring theme. So it began when Vice President Hatta, H-A-T-T-A,…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 7:46

Abdul Haris Nasution member_of Vietnam host_asserted

“Lubis, L-U-B-I-S. Both of these senior military officers are from Sumatra as well. And there is this event coming up called the Outer Islands Rebellion. That's what we're going to talk about. These two senior officers end up on the opposite…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 14:56

Adam Malik Lubis member_of Vietnam host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 14:56

CIA attempted_coup_against Vietnam book_quoted

“Eisenhower felt justified in rejecting a 1960 plea from Sukarno and four other national leaders for a summit talk between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower's dissatisfaction with Indonesia led to a major paramilitary operation desig…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 15:06

CIA supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“pockets of terrorists on these outer islands doing all kinds of shit. So Zuccaro, in this creation of this centralized army, has to have weapons. Well, if you're not going to get weapons from the U.S. and you're not going to get weapons fro…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 55:37

CIA created_unrest_in Vietnam host_asserted

“has decided that they have to be neutral. They're not neutral about anything, but the official policy is they're neutral. And as neutral, they can't sell any weapons to Indonesia. Do you see this pattern again? So they created unrest in Ind…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 55:05

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“We went through a lot of trouble to get his book. He basically went and lived in Indonesia, ended up living in the house next door to where Barack Obama was raised in Indonesia, and did quite a bit of extensive research on the coup that the…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 3:08

CIA carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“that a major ongoing CIA operation in Indonesia was kept totally secret from both Carter and Turner. What they were not told was outrageous. They, Carter and Turner, were simply not on the need-to-know list. They didn't tell Carter what the…”

▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 34:12

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“Despite the danger, they argued for another strike at the same target. Sukarno and Nasution were preparing the attack to the last rebel stronghold. Secretary Dulles shot back that either the rebels had to succeed in winning political suppor…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 49:01

Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam host_asserted

“the activity that has happened with unions in the U.S. I'm not going to tell you what conclusions to come to, but you can parse out your own conclusions coming from that. Now, one of the questions is how and, well, I guess multiple differen…”

▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:08:45

Vietnam supplied_arms_to Communist Party of China documented

▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 33:52

Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of Vietnam book_quoted

“when he received word from his brother Alan on September 16, 1957, for the final go-ahead for the coup. Only his side of the conversation was recorded by an official note-taker. Here's what he said. Quote, Then you got the green light other…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 32:27

William Casey worked_for Vietnam book_quoted

“Several more items called into question Bill Casey working for Ronald Reagan, and they had to do with his personal financial disclosure forms. It says it was also developed that Casey had not registered as a foreign agent as required by law…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 37:27

CIA spied_on Vietnam documented

“after 1971. Korea, but only until 1952. Russian, Greek, and Indonesian involvement apparently seemed non-threatening to the White House, and unfettered discussions of those were permissible, which is very, very interesting. Other covert ope…”

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 52:26

Phoenix Program assassinated Vietnam book_quoted

“establishing the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, estimated to have killed 40,000 Vietnamese. The Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal, the part he played in the Iran-Contra scandal, which nearly brought down the entire …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 10:25

McGeorge Bundy carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“He becomes the national security advisor. He was in charge of the Vietnam escalation. Yeah. He was actually kind of behind the whole Gulf of Tonkin issue and drafting the resolution to commit military forces afterwards. So they set up the f…”

▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:22:55

Chiang Kai-shek removed_from_power Vietnam host_asserted

“the authority or the responsibility should have been the better word that in a year they were going to have a an election for the entire state of vietnam this exact same thing happened in korea by the way but they had divided the country in…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 8:05

William McCormick Blair Jr. carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 37:32

William P. Bundy carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 36 Secret Societies 20; The Groton School @ 39:31

Sheldon Whitehouse member_of Vietnam documented

▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 44:27

McGeorge Bundy headed Vietnam host_asserted

“He's not just a member of the CIA. He's the national security advisor orchestrating them. I just can't make that a point enough. Yeah, I think the thing to hammer home with that is he wasn't just a CIA officer. This guy is the chief archite…”

▶ The Shadow State 22 Secret Societies 6; The Bundy Family @ 47:58

Barry Zorthian appointed Vietnam host_asserted

“Yeah, it sounds like it. He's over there in 1948 setting the conditions for what doesn't even happen until 1950. Holy shit. Well, he really got famous because for four years, he's the chief spokesperson for the U.S. government in Saigon in …”

▶ Shadow State 28 Secret Societies 12; RAND, Climate Alarmism, & The Atlantic Council @ 55:33

Sheldon Whitehouse appointed Vietnam documented

“Yeah, he's a deputy for civil operations and the deputy ambassador in 1972. From there, he went to Laos. I came across him when we did the Phoenix program and the whole, yeah, he's bad news, bad news. Yeah, for the umpteenth time, I know mo…”

▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 40:55

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Vietnam host_asserted

“Kind of sent a round-the-back message to the South Vietnamese government to delay proposed peace talks with President Johnson so that Nixon would win the 1968 elections. In other words, that Johnson-Humphrey's chosen candidacy of LBJ contin…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 1:14:47

France operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“But they had to figure out a whole bunch of stuff because they had been at it a lot longer. They had to figure out how to get the highest grade number four heroin figured out. They had to go into Vietnam and take over that entire Golden Tri…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 55:33

E. Howard Hunt operated_in Vietnam book_quoted

“parachuting into Indochina, doing all kinds of secretive, nefarious things. Indochina would remain Koenig's base of operation long after World War II, like E. Howard Hunt. He slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He operated throughout South a…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 4:38

CIA spied_on Vietnam documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 33:53

CIA trafficked Vietnam book_quoted

“Ludlam recalled the CIA certainly didn't take it serious because drug control wasn't part of their mission. No, they were the ones trafficking it. Okay, so as everybody knows, the CIA for years had been doing the heroin trafficking out of t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 26:47

United Kingdom dispatched_to Vietnam documented

“So the U.S., Russia, and Great Britain agreed that Vietnam was going back to the French. You know, because this wasn't about democracy or anything. Get that silly thought out of your head. They weren't going to actually free anybody. What w…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 7:12

United Kingdom operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 1:20:46

France created_rival_government_for Vietnam documented

“The rural people had already established networks that provided valuable intelligence to men on the disposition of the French. So there was a soldier that was named General Vau Nguyen Giap, whose army continued to grow and gain more territo…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 10:47

Operation 40 assassinated Vietnam book_quoted

“before Phoenix. It was like the precursor to Phoenix. And it says their primary function was intelligence gathering, but we also carried out undermining of the infrastructure types of things with kidnapping, assassination, and sabotage. And…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 14:07

Phoenix Program carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted

“Well, Phoenix is a part of Gladio. So Gladio started back in the mid 1940s with the stand up in 48 of NATO. It had prior to that been called the werewolf program inside of Nazi Germany. And the Phoenix program is an aspect of that that was …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 1:54:08

Vietnam supplied_arms_to Lon Nol host_asserted

“It also helps explain Indonesia's prompt offer to send arms to the newly installed CIA officer. Unquote. Psychological warfare experts in Indonesia arrived in Phnom Penh within days of the coup. Like they were already given a heads up that …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 42:23

John Paul Vann spied_on Vietnam book_quoted

“And keep in mind, because we've already done South America, South America was experiencing this same stuff going on in Vietnam at the same time. Then last one was a guy by the name of John Paul Vann in 1965. A quote, a popular political bas…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 47:55

Ted Serong supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“And trying to make it anti-Viet Cong and not about actually policing the South Vietnamese, everything got turned on its head. There was no accountability. The CIA was furnishing weapons that were not compatible with the ones that the South …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 1:03:39

Mentions (120)

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 7:02 the CIA's involvement in the Nixon campaign and a lot of other gems. So that kind of takes us up to where we're going to start today. I briefly wanted to, because it's so relevant to today with the Ukraine disaster, I wanted to briefly go o…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 7:59 basically says it was the turning point of the Vietnam War. It changed the entire way the United States approached the war before the Tet Offense of the U.S. objective in Vietnam was to win, which I disagree with. Our presence there was alw…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 8:29 impacted the Tet Offensive, you have to go to the previous year of 1967, where we had spent two years of fighting at that point with increasing casualties. And basically what had happened in the lead up to the Tet Offensive is that the Nort…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 8:59 seen by General Westmoreland in Vietnam. And they had basically kind of decided that they were going to begin this cut by paper cuts, death by a thousand cuts, and start attacking a bunch of small villages on the very outskirts of all aroun…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 9:25 And by doing that, they decentralized the presence of U.S. forces out of the major urban areas, which is where they had been congregated for protection purposes, into the outermost reaches of Vietnam and basically faked an attack, not unlik…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 9:52 In the couple of days leading up to the January 30th Tet Offensive beginning, they looked like they were overcoming the border into South Vietnam in one particular area that they had used heavily as this kind of shell game with the U.S. And…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:23:05 And my dad got out of NOM in 1967, or no, 68. Yeah. And he told me a lot of stuff about this when I was, you know, a kid. I could overhear him talking here and there about different stuff. I remember watching the news and just being there w…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:24:58 As Cousin Nick keeps telling me that we have to. Yes. And we're going to do a multi-day exposure of what really happened in Vietnam, not the story we've been told. That's excellent. And I'm really excited about that because, you know, and m…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:38:01 And then like how you were talking about, like how these other countries and stuff, and you're going to be talking about Vietnam in the future, but like the ones you were talking about, like in South America and these different places, it's…

AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS

▶ 51:57 And 92 timeframe is when they were writing about it. This one in South Africa was in 92 timeframe as well. And it's talking about computer equipment and computers going to Indonesia as well as South Africa. Now, what's interesting about thi…

AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS

▶ 54:19 It had population and house reporting systems. National tax collection system was in here and village information systems. That's like the Phoenix program in Vietnam. It had a public opinion tracking system. It had criminal investigation sy…

AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS

▶ 59:13 If you read, oh, here it is, P-I-R-A-A-Z. That system also had something to do with control data system. And guess where that was used? That was used in Vietnam. That was used in 1965 in Vietnam. It also.…

Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12

▶ 1:46:05 Well, the proof is there. No, I'll talk about it. I mean, you can. His mom went to the East West Institute in Hawaii. That's a known CIA front. She worked in USAID. That's a known CIA front. So Tara, the stepdad, was a colonel in the army a…

Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12

▶ 1:46:29 And the installation of Suharto, which was a CIA coup. Those are all established facts. Wow. It's just amazing. And it's just a rinse and repeat wherever you're at. Doesn't matter. Rinse and repeat. Operation Gladio. Wow. Yeah. And our tax …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 29:45 like a commanding member of the Brigade 2506, which is basically a death squad. He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director. He was training people in El Salvador. He was train…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 57:01 Totally pissed off Ben-Gurion to the point where he showed him down and said, you are going to have an inspection or you're never getting another penny from the United States. So the entire Israel and by default, UK, because UK created Isra…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 57:28 Indonesia, known to only Alan Dulles, the Rockefellers, and the Dutch royalty, and a few people in UK, was sitting on the largest composite finding of gold and oil. Oil so pure that it doesn't even need a refinery. You can pump it out of th…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 57:58 But through a bunch of little switcheroos, it was never made public. Only a handful of people knew that that was in Indonesia. They couldn't expose the fact that it was there until they controlled it. So Sullivan and Cromwell, through Stand…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 58:52 to recognize Sukarno in a partnership. Well, if that happens, they can't overthrow Sukarno. They will not have the support internal to Indonesia. And the CIA is dead set on making sure that trip never happens. So you have Indonesia. Then yo…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:00:10 known to JFK. He's undermining every single thing Alan Dulles has spent the last 50 years orchestrating. Right. He's he's literally shattering the CIA and no one has put this all together. So you've got Dem coming to power in Vietnam. Right…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:13:20 But, yeah, so LBJ kind of got cold feet when he came in. He decided, hey, we're not going to do a nuclear first strike, but I will give you guys Vietnam. Go ahead and do Vietnam. Let's just put all this on Oswald, and we're going to forget …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:46:47 Many of the things that have come out about the JFK has come out securitously through things where he was involved in Indonesia, where he was involved in Algeria, where he was involved in Cuba. And when you start putting all of those docume…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 4:21 Went to Indiana University, got my commission and spent the next 22 years as an officer living all over the world. Deployments, Iraq. I went to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. And I was selected as a lieutenant colonel to attend Air War College. I…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 13:58 by the CIA and the BND and go back to every war, every Vietnam, everything that you can imagine, the 1967 war between Israel and Egypt. Korea. All of them. All of them had all of their diplomatic communication spied on. And several years af…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 27:03 You know, like the Lusitania or the ship over in Vietnam that caused us to go to war, that kind of thing. The Titanic? Huh? The Titanic? That didn't really actually get us into a war, but along those same lines, the Maine during the Spanish…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 34:26 And to steal natural resources. So this is all about energy and... It's everything. It's diamonds. It's gold. They overthrew the government of Indonesia because in 1933, they had discovered the Netherlands. It was a Dutch colony. They had d…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 34:56 with the current government. And so Standard Oil finds out about this and they go into cahoots with each other, create a separate company, both the Netherlands and Standard Oil. And Sukarno, who happened to be the president of Indonesia, wa…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 35:24 They have to come up with a way to kill him, get rid of him, whatever, overthrow his government. And Alan Dulles is actively trying to orchestrate that when Kennedy gets involved and decides that he likes Soccarno and he's going to, in Janu…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 35:52 in Indonesia that they'll never be able to orchestrate the coup. So they can't allow him to visit Indonesia. Well, he doesn't because he gets killed in November. And they do. JFK, you mean? Yes. And they do orchestrate the coup and they ins…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 36:19 And through mining efforts in the gold area, they basically tell the rest of Indonesia, oh, we're only getting this percent of gold out of this mine when it was the richest gold mine ever found in the entire world. And they just embezzled t…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 46:24 You have to understand that the drug trafficking, our wars follow drug trafficking. Our wars in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, and then the overthrow of all the governments in South America when we had to get out of Afghanistan because the Soviet…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:31:09 If there's a conflict to be had, like the Vietnam, and you have to understand how they used the draft in Vietnam. They did the draft before they ever, because they never mobilized the Guard and Reserve at all. And the reason they didn't do …

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:31:54 Everybody that's in the local area belonged to the Guard. And when you mobilize entire units, you take entire capability out. Now, there's some processes to eliminate the hardship on the local fire and police departments. But my point is th…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:32:16 They weren't going to mobilize and actually make the country feel that pain of taking entire swaths of communities out because it would have been overwhelmingly negative and they would have never been able to do the buildup that they did ev…

ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists

▶ 0:32 where he served for 20 years. He rose to the rank of Master Sergeant in Special Forces. He served two tours in Vietnam. He supposedly got radicalized while he was in the military and was responsible for, he founded the White Patriot Party.…

ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists

▶ 4:42 But he was a nationalist, and he was not going to tolerate the French nor the U.S. staying in Vietnam. But Vietnam was key to the opium trade going on, and the French had rubber plantations there and everything else, so they weren't going t…

ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists

▶ 7:11 He graduated from Jefferson High School in Iowa, went to community college for two years, and he dropped out of college to join the Army at the height of the Vietnam War, where he was stationed at Fort Bragg. Huh. Weaver told people that he…

ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID

▶ 1:26:38 Can I add that Macy Blue in the comments said there was a student uprising that overthrew Suharto in Indonesia in 1998. 1998 is when you were saying that they were active in Indonesia. Nice. Who gave that find? Macy Blue. Great job, Macy. T…

ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID

▶ 1:29:37 Let me just say, Macy Blue said she lived there during the event in Indonesia. Also, Craig Mutley said that Gaddafi was killed because he was going to gold-based money in order to trade oil and only gold among a handful of other countries. …

ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID

▶ 1:51:39 Well, it is. There's Indonesia. There's all of the African countries. There's the Congo. There's and well, yeah, because look, all of the light blue. It's the entire freaking African continent, except for the one. And then you've got all of…