Don Blackburn person
also: Colonel Don Blackburn, Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, Blackburn
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that if you had American soldiers that committed war crimes, instead of them being actually prosecuted, and I don't have any, it is not footnoted on here, so I don't have any way of verifying this, so I'm just going to say that up front, th…
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other prisoner camps. The Sante Raid was the brainchild of Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, one of Army's premier special warfare enthusiasts, who by 1970 was head of SECDEF's Office Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Ac…
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As a full colonel, he taught at West Point. Then he was an advisor in Vietnam and commanded a special group at Fort Bragg. And in 1960, it was Blackburn who got the assignment for setting up White Star in Laos. After that tour with the spec…
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whose Bearcat Base prepared agent teams for infiltration. After receiving intelligence in the existence of a prisoner camp, the Special Operations and DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, began feasibility studies for this rescue mission. A pr…
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On August 8th, a joint contingency task force was expanded with Air Force Brigadier General Leroy Manor, M-A-N-O-R, to carry out the raid. The chief of the ground element, Blackburn, handpicked Special Forces Colonel Arthur Bill Simmons, S-…
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Simon was a legendary figure with two tours in charge of White Star, one with special operations and one with a military advisory group, where he helped develop contingency plans for an invasion of Laos and the command of special forces gro…