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Service Unit Detachment 101 organization

also: Detachment 101, OSS Detachment 101

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William R. Pears headed Service Unit Detachment 101 book_quoted
“and the setting up of the money laundering capability because he owned a bank. And in 1943, a guy by the name of William R. Pierce, P-E-E-R-S, leads the CIA's first training program, became head of OSS Detachment 101. Carl F. Eichler, Eichl…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:18:32
Garland Williams founded Service Unit Detachment 101 book_quoted
“was to set up the China India Burma Theater during the war. The apparatus had then concentrated its power in a unit called Detachment 101, which incidentally, she points out, had been set up by Garland Williams. The same Garland Williams th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:17:35

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The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history
▶ 31:31 and played an important part in the Burma campaign alongside the OSS. The OSS unit with the same name, with the same mission, sorry, was called Detachment 101. They were originally sent to India and infiltrated the Burmese hill country and …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3)
▶ 10:53 An OSS formation called Service Unit Detachment 101 sent to establish a base in India began burrowing into areas occupied by the Japanese Empire. Agents from Detachment 101 infiltrated the Burmese hill country beginning in 1944, forged link…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3)
▶ 12:23 Eifler and Joe Lukarski got their starts in this very operation. Dozens of spies deep in Japanese rear, plus about 400 agents surveying nearby enemy positions, helped those units plan their missions. They in turn helped trap two powerful Ja…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3)
▶ 12:52 Detachment 101 mobilized a military force more than 30 times its size and used the capability to execute highly successful operations. Several features of the OSS tribal program are worth noting. Among them are the creation of formal units …
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