Provisional Reconnaissance Units organization
also: PRU, Provincial Reconnaissance Unit program, PRUs, Provincial Reconnaissance Unit
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Claims (4)
Frank Scotton founded
Provisional Reconnaissance Units book_quoted
“came to symbolize the Phoenix program in its duplicitous nature. Scott Baumgartner and Vann are described by Novin Long in a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle. And this is a quote from that book. Frank Scotton was the originator o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:11:28
CIA funded
Provisional Reconnaissance Units book_quoted
“there was a concern that if the numbers of dead were too high, it might look like a killing organization. The article went on, quote, probably the most controversial arm of the Phoenix program in each province is a group called the Provinci…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 20:52
CIA recruited
Provisional Reconnaissance Units book_quoted
“there was a concern that if the numbers of dead were too high, it might look like a killing organization. The article went on, quote, probably the most controversial arm of the Phoenix program in each province is a group called the Provinci…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 20:52
CIA founded
Provisional Reconnaissance Units host_asserted
“was a significant event. In the eyes of Sorong and the crew, the field police were to be the outlet for the CIA. So when it became obvious that they were a part of the national police, the CIA developed a thing called provisional reconnaiss…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 1:06:52
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▶ 1:06:52
was a significant event. In the eyes of Sorong and the crew, the field police were to be the outlet for the CIA. So when it became obvious that they were a part of the national police, the CIA developed a thing called provisional reconnaiss…
▶ 1:07:22
Because they were like stealing from Peter, whatever, how that saying goes. And they basically spent years during the critical part of Vietnam at cross purposes between this PRU thing and the national police that had already been set up. Al…
▶ 1:02:14
And they actually put encrypted communications in these new buildings. And they have a chief and a deputy chief and they have hierarchical assistance. So it's really looking bureaucratic, not like we're at war at all. And the preventional r…
▶ 1:03:13
mainly because I didn't think we could manage them properly. My foreign intel guys were in no way, in terms of experience, able to control them. Consequently, as of November 1966, the recycled counter-terrorists were called preventional rec…
▶ 1:11:28
came to symbolize the Phoenix program in its duplicitous nature. Scott Baumgartner and Vann are described by Novin Long in a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle. And this is a quote from that book. Frank Scotton was the originator o…
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ambushing couriers, suppliers, and attacking strongholds. The intent of Phoenix was to develop lists of Viet Cong cadre and a solid picture of their network. So the CIA-backed PRUs and other forces were there and they would know who to hit.…
▶ 20:52
there was a concern that if the numbers of dead were too high, it might look like a killing organization. The article went on, quote, probably the most controversial arm of the Phoenix program in each province is a group called the Provinci…
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in 1969, is then passed on to the Vietnamese officials who can call any one of their several shadowy specialist organizations for action. These included the Provincial Reconnaissance Units, the PRUs, armed propaganda teams, Kit Carson scout…