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Claims (28)
Sheldon Whitehouse member_of
Cambodia documented
“and one year away from George H.W. Bush. Gets done with Yale in 1947. What does he do? He joins the CIA. And where does he go? The Congo. Now, he predated the Lumombo coup in 1960, but he was there for a while. He would also serve, and chec…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 39:13
U.S. Air Force carried_out_attack
Cambodia book_quoted
“and reopen relationships with a hostile U.S. bureaucracy represented a historical process that had been considerably accelerated by U.S. covert operations. From early 1964, but with particular intensity in 69, U.S. planes from South Vietnam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 22:56
Pol Pot assassinated
Cambodia documented
“without a fight to the invaders. And primarily that ended up being educated people or police people because the police people had all been trained by the French and the teachers and stuff like that had all been trained by the French as well…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 36:42
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Cambodia documented
“Between officials seeking to protect the American forces for which they felt a responsibility and merciless congressional onslaught that rattled those officials. Sure, you're concerned about the American forces. Toward the middle of Februar…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 49:45
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Cambodia documented
“Richard Helms and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman were all present. Richard Nixon approved the strikes if the Peocean Lows advanced. Within 24 hours, the condition had been met. An attack of three B-52 bombers took place on the night of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 50:12
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Cambodia documented
“Further details were added in April 70 when continuing pressure forced the administration to relent and release the 1969 congressional testimony. Any chance of limiting the damage was lost when Nixon ordered an invasion of Cambodia. Perfect…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 53:34
CIA carried_out_attack
Cambodia host_asserted
“Project 404, that's a very interesting operation. Project 404 sent agents into this countryside to locate targets for B-52. They would fly from Guam and bomb Laos and Cambodia, again, supposed to be neutral, and created basically hovels in …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 52:07
CIA covered_up
Cambodia host_asserted
“During this whole time the Vietnam War was going on, here on the home front, what we were talked about and what everything was done was about Vietnam. There was barely a word about Cambodia, if any. If you got drafted, you were going to Vie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 1:10:28
Ronald Reagan supported
Cambodia book_quoted
“And let's see. Well, one of them was in Meridius, which is an island. And operations went forward in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Libya. American involvement obviously happened in Angola, Cambodia. More than 50 covert operations happened during …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 42:24
CIA carried_out_attack
Cambodia host_asserted
“action, the CIA, with their plausible deniability, sitting back and watching all of this happen, is either going to get a venue into China or they're not. And if they don't, they don't give a shit. They just go to the next country along the…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:07:01
Khmer Rouge responsible_for
Cambodia host_asserted
“They don't understand that they actually think that they're good people. Unfortunately, they had to be indoctrinated to get there and they can't actually listen to a thought that differs. And we know where the violence comes from. And obvio…”
▶ The Shadow State 70 Fabian Socialists Pt. 3 @ 21:41
Sheldon Whitehouse member_of
Cambodia 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 …”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 44:27
Union Oil Company of California funded
Cambodia documented
“The 1970 U.S. incursion into Cambodia followed aerial surveys of Cambodia offshore waters by Navy planes following the Union Oil of California, now UNICAL, established in Thailand by 1963, who had acquired a concession for all of the Cambod…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 42:01
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Cambodia host_asserted
“And LBJ also ordered the bombing of Laos and Cambodia, which, again, were supposed to be completely neutral. They weren't even in it. But we had already infiltrated them as well and set up these stupid interrogation places. SOG launched a s…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 51:38
Pol Pot assassinated
Cambodia host_asserted
“um society where nobody had a college education if you wore glasses you were going to be murdered if you had a college education you were going to be murdered if you knew how to be a doctor a lawyer if you were a mayor whatever he's going t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 53:33
Khmer Rouge assassinated
Cambodia host_asserted
“created of nothing but the skulls of victims. The guide that was with us also pointed out these killing trees which the Khmer Rouge actually took the small children and basically just bashed their heads up against these trees killing them a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 55:56
U.S. Air Force carried_out_attack
Cambodia book_quoted
“Even the apparent drop-off in 1969 was deceptive, since in that year the U.S. Air Force shifted to a comparably massive defoliation of French rubber plantations in Cambodia. So they didn't back off doing it, they just changed the locations.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 31:02
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Cambodia book_quoted
“U. Alexis Johnson, back on the group again, writes, quote, it is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive issues, unquote. When Nixon gave his first go-ahead on covert arms to Camb…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 15:29
Colonel J.R. Newman member_of
Cambodia guest_asserted
“One of them is CIA and the other one is military. So people say we weren't in Laos. I've got documents to say that my dad was in Laos. Oh, yeah. We have plenty of proof that we were in Laos. I mean, the whole Raven program was ran out. Yeah…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:07:47
U.S. Navy carried_out_attack
Cambodia book_quoted
“profiles along the shelf at opportune times while in transit between major projects in the region. So in other words, they were doing all this shit and didn't tell anybody. Well, didn't tell all of the people. They told the people they cont…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 21:04
Khmer Serei carried_out_attack
Cambodia host_asserted
“even when diplomatic relations with Cambodia had been broken off. A man by the name of Wilford Burkett, B-U-R-C-H-E-T-T, has charged that more violent events surrounding the overthrow of the prince, like the planned raids against North Viet…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 36:44
Khmer Serei recruited
Cambodia host_asserted
“were all spearheaded by CIA-trained Khmer Syri with some U.S. embeds. In the weeks and months following the coup of March 18, 1970, it became abundantly clear that the most reliable cadre in the Cambodian army were those recruited and train…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 37:14
United States carried_out_attack
Cambodia host_asserted
“50,000 or more of our own people, but you kill, in the case of Cambodia, you know, millions. So them taking down an airplane to perpetuate whatever it is that they're perpetuating by taking that one airplane down is literally like taking ou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:52:15
CIA overthrew
Cambodia host_asserted
“But the CIA is the one that overthrew the government and left when they were moving their operations out of the their primary operations. They didn't ever technically all leave the Golden Triangle. But when they were refocusing them over to…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 1:01:06
Air America carried_out_attack
Cambodia 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
CIA carried_out_attack
Cambodia host_asserted
“to be picked up. But the pickup was a setup. The CIA was going to kill them all. They all survived. But most of them, only two eventually make it out. They were captured. They were tortured. All kinds of shit happened to them. And most of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 54:58
CIA overthrew
Cambodia host_asserted
“They literally had opportunity after opportunity to rescue these SF guys. They wanted them dead because they didn't want any witnesses to the fact that they were setting up a sabotage of a Cambodian airport. And then that was used as the ju…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 55:55
CIA overthrew
Cambodia guest_asserted
“Pol Pot coming to power was a direct result of a CIA instigated coup.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 35:33
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was in Laos, they were in Cambodia, they were in Vietnam and Thailand, and they were ferrying out all of the opium from the north into the Corsican Mafia, who read whatever you do, jigger it into heroin number four, which is like the highes…
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The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …
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and with the opium warlock, warlord, Vang Pao. In 66, Secord had already flown more than 200 secret combat missions, mostly into Cambodia, and won four air medals. When he appealed to General Aderholt for his chance to join the secret war i…
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Although the war was lost, Ted Shackley's boss, William Colby, considered his performance in Laos excellent. And it was because their entire purpose of being there and slaughtering tens of thousands of Americans and almost a million Vietnam…
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And the timing's perfect. So this is the late 1970s. And what had just happened was we lost Vietnam. So we lost control of much, not all, but much of our network for opium. It was completely disrupted by us having to leave Vietnam. And it's…
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So that's just one example. We have Guatemala as another example. We have Italy as another example. How many people do you think have been killed? Do we have a number of how many people were millions at the hands of these NATO stay behind a…
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Pol Pot coming to power was a direct result of a CIA instigated coup. We had people there training in Cambodia. We had people training in Laos. We had people training in. One of the most devastating parts of all of this is how much of our f…
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Taiwan or recognize mainland China. So now we have another excuse. But you can't overstate the importance of this drug network that was ran out of the Golden Triangle with Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and that entire region, because t…
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that had to do with the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And for those of you who are not geographically familiar with Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail had the river that was basically a thoroughfare between North and South and went down along the Laos and…
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the capability of the North in Vietnam from moving around supplies and creating landslides and all this other stuff and basically destroying villages. So those same weather modification programs were conducted over Thailand, Cambodia, and L…
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Many of this particular squadron, the 54th, had been stationed in Thailand at Udorn Air Force Base. Now, I was actually there at Udorn when I went to that big, long trip to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. And it does say.…
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than the elitists that lived in the industrialized part of the North. And this is exactly what they did in Cambodia, by the way. If I can go into the South and I can buy off a bunch of people and I can get them to pretend like they're their…
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Bangkok around, going down, you've got Vietnam, you've got Bangkok, you've got Laos, Cambodia. So this is the southern part of China. You've got Vietnam, Laos, Burma, which is now Miramar. That's the major opium growing breadbasket of the w…
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I have done several. If you just type in the search bar Nugent Hand and Murdoch, you'll be able to come up with several of the threads that I've done on that. But Nugent Hand, if you guys don't know, was basically a fake bank that was set u…
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And every single one of these incidents, there is equipment that is left over that supposedly just gets left. But if you realize that in all of these cases that there are still CIA operatives in the area, like we didn't just actually leave …
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A mass discovery of all these dead bodies that were owned before they were murdered. And then, I mean, just like they did in Cambodia, just like they did in Laos and Vietnam, for that matter. So this is just like they did in the Nakba. So t…
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They also trained Filipino paramilitary and police units and disseminated disinformation, tortured enemies, and employed hunter-killer teams to murder the Huk leaders and sympathizers, which is exactly what they were planning on doing in Ch…
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Hold on just a second. I'll tell you what it is. I had to look this one up myself. Okay. So we're going to want kind of a zoomed out map that includes Cambodia. We want a map that shows kind of, again, not too far out, but where Cyprus is. …
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I want to get down to what it was. So here's some of the people that are involved. And you guys have got to, you won't even believe what they found. This guy's name is Stu Nguyen Quai. He's a Cambodian national who pled guilty. And what the…
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real estate, totaling again $170 million. The next one was a Chinese national, two counts of money laundering, 13 months in jail. They compensated $8 million from him. And the next guy, Su Beolan, who was a Cambodian national,…
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There's a Turkish national, which of course my Gladio census went up. So you know that they're laundering drug money here just by the locations, Cambodia, Turkey. Anyway, this guy had $179 million and he had over, he had almost a million do…
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And are in his possession at his house. He had $122 million in bank accounts, $30 million in property, and $3 million in vehicles. Next guy, another Cambodian national who had $1.8 million in crypto. He had...…
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The Washington insists that Vietnam contributes to a political settlement in Cambodia, which we'll get into next. And the hypocrisy of this is unimaginable because it was us that destroyed Cambodia as well. And yet we were holding that over…
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And they're working with these people. So you have a thing called Operation Passage to Freedom. Now, if I zoom out to the 30,000 foot look, we already know by this time that Chiang Kai-shek is doing his opium thing in China. He gets pushed …
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also cast for the future of post-surrender Indochina by the terms of the Potsdam Conference, where it was decided to temporarily partition Vietnam and Laos at the 16th parallel. Under this agreement, the Allied chief of staff assigned Briti…
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One of them is CIA and the other one is military. So people say we weren't in Laos. I've got documents to say that my dad was in Laos. Oh, yeah. We have plenty of proof that we were in Laos. I mean, the whole Raven program was ran out. Yeah…
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like that's an okay number. But if you take in totality the numbers in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, you're probably upwards of over 6 million people. Some say it's closer to 8 million for all of this.…
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Because we haven't even got into Laos and Cambodia or even Thailand at this point. This is just Vietnam and the numbers are staggering. But Laos and Cambodia, Cambodia was, you know, it's horrific. But you and you'll see when we get to thos…
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Basically, Japan occupying all of most of all of Asia, the Korean Peninsula, the Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and even most of China. And so when you look at that, those all.…
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are very interrelated. We throw up a map and you can see the close proximity of the Philippines, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. So they're all kind of in that area. And what was happening in addition to Japan be…
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And Paul Helliwell of the CIA is his basically right-hand guy. And he watches Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT army pay for their warfare against Mao by selling opium. And he's selling opium through Thailand, through Vietnam, through Laos, throu…
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Had went to Thailand and Cambodia and all over the Southeast Asia, basically. We also met Everett Bumgartner, B-U-M-G-A-R-T-N-E-R, who was the chief of the U.S. Information Office field operations in Vietnam.…
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Hoa Heia, which was a sect of Buddhists. And they were the most closely related to the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. And you'll see why later that that's so important because, of course, when we F up Vietnam, we're going to go into Cambodia too. A…
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The composition of these teams differed from province to province, depending on what form of opposition they encountered. Also, it was tailored to the specific province chief because they didn't want to piss him off either. The biggest cont…
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police force is to get them as non-accountable. So when they do die, nobody's going to be looking for them because they're a deserter. So going back to his quote, this is taking the most highly motivated people saying they deserted, typing …
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The problem was their actual mission was going into places like Cambodia, which, by the way, was neutral. We weren't even supposed to be there. Lazing targets and having B-52 come bomb those places with these people still in them. So they w…
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And LBJ also ordered the bombing of Laos and Cambodia, which, again, were supposed to be completely neutral. They weren't even in it. But we had already infiltrated them as well and set up these stupid interrogation places. SOG launched a s…
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Project 404, that's a very interesting operation. Project 404 sent agents into this countryside to locate targets for B-52. They would fly from Guam and bomb Laos and Cambodia, again, supposed to be neutral, and created basically hovels in …
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And let's see. All right. So one of the maps is a map like we've seen before that shows South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and where the DMZ is, the 17th parallel. It shows you in relationship to that where Laos is in the Plain of Jars, where Ch…
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without a fight to the invaders. And primarily that ended up being educated people or police people because the police people had all been trained by the French and the teachers and stuff like that had all been trained by the French as well…
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So Vietnam, for the most part, was one of the more pleasant aspects of our trip. We will, when we move to Cambodia and Laos, get into some of the more gross parts of the trip. But that's going to do us for today. And that kind of rounds out…
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and one year away from George H.W. Bush. Gets done with Yale in 1947. What does he do? He joins the CIA. And where does he go? The Congo. Now, he predated the Lumombo coup in 1960, but he was there for a while. He would also serve, and chec…
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national police, after just having discussed about the Sivak in Iran, all of these countries have that same setup. And they are largely created and funded by the CIA covert operations. So when you look at the network that they had set up or…
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There were other efforts such as air operations called Buttercup. It reportedly included at least one drop into China. China. We had C-130s registered in other countries that we were flying and dropping shit in China. So, maritime operation…
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But it takes us away from a little bit, but back to Barry Seale. I don't know if you want to go there yet. Go there. All right. I'm not sure if you saw. I think you liked one of my responses to this post about a David Goyet article from the…
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The BBC reported that the imperial project had spilled across the border into Ecuador, triggering fears of Columbia-ization of Ecuador. Ecuadorians feared that if Colombia became the next Vietnam, Ecuador would become the next Cambodia. A g…
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Anyway, we're going to start with chapter 10. It's called Cambodia and Oil in 1970. So again, this is, it's going to start off with, these are chapters that he wrote in a previous book, but each one of them are preceded with like a little p…
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So we're going to read the update first. What I have to say about Cambodian politics in this chapter is less up to date than what I had to say about oil. Two recent excellent studies, one by an Australian guy by the name of David Chandler, …
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I say more about this later on in the chapter. With respect to what I say below about Union Oil, now called Unical's offshore concessions in Cambodia, Unical now has at least three petroleum concessions in what is referred to as Thailand-Ca…
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in Phnom Penh. That's the capital. Another concession held by Chevron with British Gash Asia Inc. is dated March 8, 1972. When in 1995, Cambodia first offered three offshore blocks near Chanakaville for bidding,…
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At the same time, there are clues in the Pentagon Papers, i.e., that covert U.S. air ops against North Vietnam immediately preceded the Tonkin Gulf incident, which justify greater emphasis on the role of covert air and ground forces in Camb…
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It also raises grave questions about the role of President Nixon and his political backers. An undoubted crisis had been slowly developing for some years in Cambodia under the more and more nominal leadership of Prince Shenanug. In retrospe…
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Lon Null's coup of March 1970, which paved the way for the American and South Vietnamese invasion, was only the ultimate and most visible stage of a shift of power that had begun three years before. This was due to, quote, pressures which w…
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the Cambodian economy had become subject to increasing strains. Cambodia had been extraordinarily dependent on manufactured imports, both in a day-to-day consumption and for industrial purposes. The exports exchanged for some of those goods…
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as a result of which a French company drilled the first oil well unsuccessfully in 1971. Leases in the adjacent offshore waters of Thailand had been awarded in September 1968 to six oil companies, five of which were American. This lent urge…
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in 1970. Meanwhile, in the wake of the U.S. Navy-sponsored hydrographic and geomagnetic surveys dating back to 1957, the months of November and December 1968 saw a highly successful seismic refraction oil exploration survey around South Vie…
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They go out in the field and they do these quote unquote surveys for geographical regions. And all they're actually doing is looking for resources to steal. And then if they find them and it looks good, they will destabilize the country if …
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any technical assistance related to offshore oil exploration. Strictly speaking, the assistance had not been provided to South Vietnam, but either as support of the fleet or basically they couched supporting Taiwan in the Formosa Strait whi…
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was in an area close to Cambodia and affected by the unresolved border dispute between the two countries over offshore islands. It was also very close to ESSO, another oil company, concession northeast of Malaysia, in which, according to re…
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All of this proceeded before June 1967 to make a broad regional study of the northeastern portion of the shelf of Southeast Asia, including the Gulf of Thailand and the adjoining offshore areas of Cambodia and South Vietnam. Even though Cam…
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profiles along the shelf at opportune times while in transit between major projects in the region. So in other words, they were doing all this shit and didn't tell anybody. Well, didn't tell all of the people. They told the people they cont…
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By the end of 1970, when it appeared to many that the Lon Nol regime could not possibly survive without increased U.S. support, Union Oil of California had a concession for all of the offshore Cambodian oil and much of the offshore former F…
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that a picture of historical complexity into the minds of others as a historical inevitability that there's going to be turmoil. Either of these pictures might seem to rule out a hypothesis that conspiracy played any major role in prompting…
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If we now look at covert U.S. military operations and intelligence for the same period, a complex picture becomes much simpler in which the long-range operation of economic factors turns out to have been helped along by bureaucratic means. …
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and reopen relationships with a hostile U.S. bureaucracy represented a historical process that had been considerably accelerated by U.S. covert operations. From early 1964, but with particular intensity in 69, U.S. planes from South Vietnam…
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found the exact opposite. Quote, the fact that rubber plantations, which are readily distinguishable from the air, were so heavily hit, one-third of all of the major Cambodian crop suggests that an attempt was punitive in nature by the U.S.…
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in South Vietnam, let everyone know when they looked at Cambodia that the heavy hit rubber plantations would have been purposely hit because you could distinguish the difference. So if you were trying to penalize the prince and overthrow hi…
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He had to invite his enemies at the insistence of the U.S. as a condition for U.S. aid to begin again, and he only was in that position because the U.S. was basically attacking him. The biologists concluded that the spraying carried out jus…
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because it's not usually controlled. Those losses totaled more than half of Cambodians' exports. In 1968, their exports was basically $22 million, and they lost $11 million, of which rubber represented 64% of the exports. An ensuing economi…
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basically influenced Shanonuk to talk publicly in July and August about accepting U.S. aid again and inviting the U.S. back in. After being questioned by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, Thomas Pickering of the State Department, who …
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No, no, the CIA wasn't doing that. The fact that the CIA's front company, Air America, had airplanes equipped to do that very thing and you were paying for it allows you to get in front of Congress and say, we didn't do it. They weren't ask…
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Very interesting, which talks about unacknowledged programs that can metastasize. The unacknowledged defoliation program, which is basically like Agent Orange and all of the pesticides they were dropping to deforest the Vietnam area and Lao…
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Even the apparent drop-off in 1969 was deceptive, since in that year the U.S. Air Force shifted to a comparably massive defoliation of French rubber plantations in Cambodia. So they didn't back off doing it, they just changed the locations.…
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The 1970 U.S. incursion into Cambodia followed aerial surveys of Cambodia offshore waters by Navy planes following the Union Oil of California, now UNICAL, established in Thailand by 1963, who had acquired a concession for all of the Cambod…
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All they did was provide cover in the United States and propaganda for the support of a drug lord named Chiang Kai-shek. And the meanwhile, we're in Laos, Cambodia, eventually in the 50s. We start spreading and looking for other places beca…
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Fuma were neutralist. The U.S. strategy of subversion practiced against Sovana Fuma in Laos was more like that practiced by Shanak in Cambodia and more conspicuously against Sukarno in Indonesia, where the civil air transport provided compl…
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But there is also instructive differences between what happened in Laos and what happened in Cambodia and Indonesia. Cambodia, and particularly Indonesia, were countries of interest to U.S. oil companies, and both Sahanak and Sukarno, unlik…
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ignore the, and when we did one of Doug Valentine's books, when we were talking about the Phoenix program, you just have to kind of ignore the judgment part of the books and stick to the facts part of the book. Because he traveled all over …
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you know, I was more into like the financial and, you know, just trying to piece all that stuff together with the history and stuff, you know, that was my thing. And then, you know, these operations that are going on, not knowing that, I do…
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Further details was added to the record in April 1970 when continuing political pressure forced the administration to relent and release the 1969 congressional testimony. Any chance of limiting the damage was lost when Nixon ordered an inva…
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That happens to Americans when you have 100,000 refugees picked up and relocated because it wasn't just Laos. It was Cambodia. We mass exited large amounts of Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese into America because we used them to destroy…
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most part of the panhandle opposite South Vietnam and Cambodia borders were the KHA, the White Star was soon to extend to them as well. The biggest tribal mobilization of all and the very foundation of the CIA's secret war in Laos was among…
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He had been transferred up from the Cambodian border where he had been working with anti-government rebels in the country, in Cambodia. He also had been in the CIA training Camp Perry class of 1953. He had been one of the paramilitary offic…
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And this guy leaves off a lot of them, actually, because we know they were in Cambodia. He does mention Vietnam. And, of course, they were in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala. What was true of the agents was true of the operators as well. …
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And let's see. Well, one of them was in Meridius, which is an island. And operations went forward in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Libya. American involvement obviously happened in Angola, Cambodia. More than 50 covert operations happened during …
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50,000 or more of our own people, but you kill, in the case of Cambodia, you know, millions. So them taking down an airplane to perpetuate whatever it is that they're perpetuating by taking that one airplane down is literally like taking ou…
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It's hard because we have so many new people that don't know the background of some of these stories. And if I can do it without going through the whole thing, or we'll just have an extra long session on Monday and get through the whole thi…
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ongoing operations that were occurring in Latin America. So he basically was right back home. The American activities in Cambodia were not new either. According to Prince Nahonok, who basically filled all of the different roles as king, pri…
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since the days when Nixon had served as vice president, according to the quote-unquote king of Cambodia. Nixon himself knew about all of what was going on, obviously, in Cambodia. And he visited Phnom Penh in early 1953, which was the capit…
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Soon after, in 1954, after the Geneva agreements that we didn't pay any attention to, the United States had been instrumental in setting up a regional alliance in the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization called CETO, S-E-A-T-O. Cambodia was …
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Sahankuk remained head of state throughout the 50s and 60s. He remained committed to neutrality. Oh, so you know that that's a death sentence, right? We've already discovered that. Despite increasing pressures to take a side, the Americans …
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was adamant in resisting and came to regard the desire for dollars as a disease among Cambodians. In 1965, he rejected further aid and diplomatic relations with the U.S. So the U.S. then, quote unquote, broke off relations because there was…
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the supervisor of the Guatemalan operation success as the American ambassador to the adjoining country in Thailand, which didn't make the king feel any better because they had already overthrown at least one government. It was in Thailand a…
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By the late 1950s, these groups were making raids into Cambodia. The fact that the Khmer Syri and the Khmer Krum were incorporated into the CIA Green Beret Mike forces that we talked about in Vietnam made obvious the existence of this compl…
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A more clearly attributable plot arose in 1958 when the Americans forged a direct relationship with a Cambodian army regional commander by the name of Dap Chuhan. It was hoped that a reincarnation of the strategy that had failed in Indonesi…
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That their option two, because they always have a second option, was to basically declare the area that the CIA actually wanted, which was near the Mekong River, basically create a separatist movement like they did in Qatar and like Panama …
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And activity began being coordinated by an American at the Phnom Penh embassy by the name of Victor Matsui, a former Marine identified by the king as a CIA agent as well. And it was said that he had spent already by this time over a million…
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Chuan plot was broken up in the spring of 1959 when the king dispatched his army chief of staff, a guy by the name of Long Nol, to arrest the commander. Long Nol killed him instead. As Dap Chuan's villa, Khmer authorities found two South Vi…
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to actual regular forces on both sides. Cambodia became increasingly vital, according to the Americans, because of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Cambodia's neutral position became more of an irritant to the United States. Beginning in the mid-1967…
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gladiocel-type terrorism. This project was ran by a guy whose codename was Daniel Boone. He was part of the military advisory group. So at the foot of the Central Highlands, the military advisory group established a command element in Novem…
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patrol units, plus four strike forces. When Daniel Boone missions were revealed in the American press, the code name had changed to Salem House. The Special Operations Group unit also made efforts to install agent networks inside of Cambodi…
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Cross-border operations were still in progress when Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 69. A month later, there was an upsurge in fighting in South Vietnam. Nixon determined to retaliate by secretly bombing Cambodia and their refusal to go al…
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To carry out this bombing campaign, known eventually as Operation Menu, in a nation with which the U.S. was at peace, Nixon ordered unprecedented levels of secrecy. The regular Pentagon records themselves classified and supposedly secured w…
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Within a little over a year, B-52s had flown over 3,000 sorties over Cambodia, dropping more than 100,000 tons of bombs. Because a B-52's got like enough room. It depends. I mean, they've been modified over time. But back when they did non-…
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Far from wiping out North Vietnamese-based areas, the Operation Menu bombing had little apparent effect. Salem House teams found the enemy infuriated but not dazed. One bombing assessment patrol under Special Forces Captain Bill Orthman, O-…
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Several were arrested, but the military advisory command could hardly court-martial soldiers publicly for refusing to violate the neutrality of Cambodia, so no further action was taken. Green Beret morale was affected, however, by other cou…
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ended in January 68 with charges against its commander, Captain John McCarthy Jr., in the killing of a Cambodian interpreter suspected as a double agent. The most celebrated trial occurred in 1969 when eight Green Berets, including Colonel …
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This agent had been acting on part of Project Blackbeard, a set of networks in Cambodia controlled by a man by the name of Captain Robert Marasco, M-A-R-A-S-C-O. The agent's murder evidently followed Marasco's discovery that his sources in …
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Nixon nonetheless forged ahead in Cambodia because, you know, what's the big deal? It's just a dead body. The apparent willingness of the U.S. to act encouraged those Khmer who opposed the king's neutrality. This was especially true for Pri…
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So in March 1970, when the king was abroad, Long Nol launched a coup and overthrew the chief of state and plunged Cambodia into the Indochina War. The extent of American complicity in the coup has long been disputed. But what is not dispute…
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about the coup, there is no doubt that the Khmer Siri owed their status to the CIA. Sources range from the king to Long Nol's own army commanders who agreed that without the funding of the CIA, these are the guys that actually put the coup …
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Khmer Syri in Vietnam were openly recruited by CIA Mike forces. Most particularly through the 1969, there was a wave of desertions from the Khmer Syri in Thailand with entire units going over to the Cambodians. 200 in January, 300 in May, t…
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It is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and the CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive topics. Unquote. When Nixon gave his first go ahead on Cambodia, he ordered Kissinger to say nothing about it to the committee. E…
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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…
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Tony came from the big CIA Thailand base and had been a senior advisor to Vang Pao. Pao transferred up from the Cambodian border where he had been working with the anti-government rebels. He had also been at Camp Perry, class of 53, and a v…
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And so I've just come across that material. I've not done any real deep diving in it, but that kind of allows you to make sense of why you can walk through a country like what happened in Indonesia after we overthrew Soekarno and a million …
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as in the CIA office in Saigon. Relations between the field command and the CIA station in Laos varied. The agency chiefs of station had different styles and manners. Gordon Jorgensen left for Saigon in 62. Charles Whitehurst presided over …
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Laird wanted the strikes, but in a super secret program whose records could be falsified. Such B-52 missions were already underway in Cambodia, another place we weren't supposed to be. Growing congressional opposition and increasing enemy s…
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Further details were added in April 70 when continuing pressure forced the administration to relent and release the 1969 congressional testimony. Any chance of limiting the damage was lost when Nixon ordered an invasion of Cambodia. Perfect…
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That is covered in, I think the operation was Red Rock, where we took special forces on a no return mission. They didn't know that. We dropped them in wearing basically Chinese uniforms, had Chinese soldiers that had been captured, Chinese …