John Paul Vann person
also: Vann, Van
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Claims (5)
Everett Bumgartner introduced
John Paul Vann book_quoted
“introduced, gotten to John Paul Vann, the senior advisor to the 7th Division, this whole mission, and also Colonel Tran Ngoc Chau, C-H-A-U, who was a controversial province chief. Oh, yes. And that's the guy that went to, they brought him t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:10:28
Everett Bumgartner worked_with
John Paul Vann host_asserted
“He basically had worked very closely with Lansdell in a couple of different prior locations, among them the Philippines. And we talked about what happened in the Philippines on multiple different spaces prior.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 3:49
Frank Scotton worked_with
John Paul Vann book_quoted
“In a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle, this is a quote. Frank Scotton was the originator of the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit Program, the predecessor to the Phoenix Program. For years, he worked closely with John Paul Vann.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 6:15
John Paul Vann advisor_to
Chau host_asserted
“that were in the CIA, later came back as ambassadors to these countries after having orchestrated some of this horrific garbage in the country. A number of them did that. So Bumgartner introduced Scotton to a man called John Paul Vann, who …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 4:43
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
Mentions (10)
▶ 1:05:18
Weird, huh? He met Mr. Chow in the mid-1960s and considered him the leading Vietnamese expert on pacification. They wanted to pacify, just like they poisoned us to pacify us here. We are engaged in a Phoenix program here, too. It just doesn…
▶ 4:43
that were in the CIA, later came back as ambassadors to these countries after having orchestrated some of this horrific garbage in the country. A number of them did that. So Bumgartner introduced Scotton to a man called John Paul Vann, who …
▶ 5:42
had been the chief of psychological operations for the Southern Vietnamese Army. So during a period of about 10 years, Chau, spelt C-H-A-U, and Scott and Bumgartner and Van all became, in many ways, the face of the Phoenix program in South …
▶ 6:15
In a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle, this is a quote. Frank Scotton was the originator of the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit Program, the predecessor to the Phoenix Program. For years, he worked closely with John Paul Vann.…
▶ 16:13
So from the mid 1950s. And so in early 1963, 200 lightly armed Viet Cong guerrillas routed a force of 2,500 that had been advised by John Vann and supported with U.S. bombers and helicopters, which is ridiculous.…
▶ 27:32
their Buddhist roots. It was an experiment. So even though the road leading from Saigon to John Vann's headquarters was unsafe, in December 1963, Baumgartner sent Scotton to a nearby province a few miles south of Saigon. Scotton brought alo…
▶ 47:55
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…
▶ 1:10:28
introduced, gotten to John Paul Vann, the senior advisor to the 7th Division, this whole mission, and also Colonel Tran Ngoc Chau, C-H-A-U, who was a controversial province chief. Oh, yes. And that's the guy that went to, they brought him t…
▶ 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…
▶ 1:11:57
a famous CIA operative who specializes in other things among black propaganda, which to him involved murder, forgery, and outright deception of the American press in order to discredit the NLF in particular and the opposition to American in…