Police Special Branch organization
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Robert Thompson founded
Police Special Branch documented
“Other occasions, the Viet Cong agents deliberately led political action teams into arresting people hostile to the North because they lied. Recognizing these facts, Thomas suggested that the CIA organize a police special branch of professio…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 15:34
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Police Special Branch documented
“Other occasions, the Viet Cong agents deliberately led political action teams into arresting people hostile to the North because they lied. Recognizing these facts, Thomas suggested that the CIA organize a police special branch of professio…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 15:34
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Other occasions, the Viet Cong agents deliberately led political action teams into arresting people hostile to the North because they lied. Recognizing these facts, Thomas suggested that the CIA organize a police special branch of professio…
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police special branch was formed from the Vietnamese Bureau of Investigations, and plans were made to build out these PICCs, P-I-C-C, throughout all of the Vietnam provinces. And if you haven't got it yet, all we keep doing is spending mill…
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Over in Vietnam, millions after millions of dollars. And basically, it's being done to set up facilities to torture people that are civilian, not military. And that's very important. These are not militants. These are civilian people in vil…
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called The Future Applicability of the Phoenix Program, which should concern us. And interestingly enough, it was written at my alma mater, Air War College, by a CIA guy that attended Air War College by the name of Warren Milberg. And I did…
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So anyway, informants who clearly fabricated information, which they thought their special branch case officers wanted to hear, and that when this information was compiled and produced in the form of a blacklist of these people, a distinct …
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At all. The special branch kept records of the people who had been victims of the Viet Cong atrocities and acts of terrorism so that they could basically try to turn them. So if they were just terrorizing them and not killing them or the su…
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recruitment in place of Viet Cong. Quote, this is by far the most important program in terms of gathering intelligence on the enemy. My motto was to recruit them. If you can't recruit them, defect them. If you can't defect them, capture the…
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IV Corps, between 67 and 69, noted that the special branch kept dossiers on all suspected Viet Cong in a particular area of operations, and that evidence was gathered through interrogations, captured documentations, and what was called walk…
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It's like criminals recruiting criminals, using criminality to do it. Special branch case officers were used to handle penetrations into the Viet Cong network. And by 1967, Brigham told the author that the CIA had several hundred penetratio…
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and was largely the work of a guy by the name of Sam Draculich, D-R-A-K-U-L-I-C-H. He's a senior special branch advisor for Third Corps in 1965. He had a lot of good ideas, but everybody around him described him as flaky.…