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Claims (11)
Lee Kuan Yew member_of
Singapore documented
“But he's a Singaporean. So everything about these people have not changed a bit. But I wanted to point that out. So listen to this guy's answer. First of all, I can't speak as a Chinese because I'm a Singaporean. I'm of Chinese ethnic stock…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 41:43
Lee Kuan Yew headed
Singapore documented
“Colonial powers were retreating and newly independent nations were pushing for political identity and survival. In the fog of this chaos was Singapore, a tiny city-state with no natural resources situated at a strategic maritime crossroads.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 10:28
Su Haisheng laundered_money_for
Singapore documented
“who pled guilty to one count of resisting arrest, two counts of money laundering. He got 14 months in jail. It says he was the former director of a company called No Signboard Holdings. And he was hospitalized for fractures he incurred afte…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 16:57
Su Beolan laundered_money_for
Singapore documented
“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,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 18:26
Adi Dejusman laundered_money_for
Singapore documented
“and I'll spell his last name, D-E-J-U-S-M-A-N. And he was sentenced to three years imprisonment in order to pay basically a $2 million penalty for money laundering for 16 counts of evasion, like tax evasion, four counts of money laundering.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 28:33
United States trained
Singapore host_asserted
“which is where we're at right now. And the Singapore facility at Mountain Home is already there with their administrative tell and a place for the pilots to hang out when they're not flying. Most likely from the people that I've talked to, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 1:19:53
Stu Nguyen Quai laundered_money_for
Singapore documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 15:09
Allen Dulles spied_on
Singapore book_quoted
“and the group cover over 30,000 miles in 57 days. They used the director's personal plane, a modified version of a DC-6. Dulles inspected the stations in Europe, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thailand, South Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, the Ph…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 12:11
Singapore laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“South Korea and Japan was the second largest. South Korea was the primary place. Japan was number two. And what do they do? Well, they weapon traffic. They are involved in drug trafficking. So their guy in Singapore, this Kim guy, K-I-M, wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 8:16
Singapore front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“paramilitary type Gladio events going on in Singapore. That doesn't mean there's not parts of that wagon wheel that I oftentimes refer to as what consists of Operation Gladio occurring in Singapore. It just means that there was not a whole …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 1:22
Singapore front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And I try to bring them to you kind of as an encouragement with so many bad news stories that I have to deliver on all of the illegal vice that has went on in the world. Because all of these crackdowns happened post-2017.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Singapore Part 2 @ 33:47
Mentions (87)
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They are signing the agreement, and that is just a drop in the bucket compared to all of the steps that happened before this. This has been ongoing since 2016, almost 10 years. To say that they are going to break ground, a U.S. contractor w…
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Where they opened their branches, like Chiang Mai in Thailand, known drug capital. Singapore, known drug capital. Thailand, known drug capital. They had a branch of Nugent Han in every place that they would be taking suitcases of cash to fo…
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running the covert operations for the State Department prior to the CIA. And then when the CIA was set up, they took that entire office out to include Frank Wisner and plopped the covert operations down in the CIA. And so this is the guy fo…
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had been the Jakarta-based minister of finance. And this guy's got like 20 consonants in his name. Dr. Sumitro Dejojadadi Kusomo. I don't know. We're going to call him Dr. Sumitro. And he joined the rebels in 1957.…
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who were actually at the time based in Singapore. They weren't even, they were being trained as a Gladio unit in Singapore. They weren't even in Indonesia. And a close associate of the guy that was there from Rand, Guy Parker, Sumitro, achi…
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They had a branch in the Philippines. They had a branch in Taiwan. They had a branch in Hong Kong. So all of that becomes very relevant when, because you see Hong Kong right in the middle of all of it. So again, all of this is very relevant…
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right away. Yes, ma'am. So. A is one that mixes mystery, political moves, and the rise of a strong leader who outsmarts one of the world's most powerful spy agencies. Sounds good. It is a tale of standing up, national independence, and smar…
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Colonial powers were retreating and newly independent nations were pushing for political identity and survival. In the fog of this chaos was Singapore, a tiny city-state with no natural resources situated at a strategic maritime crossroads.…
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What lay ahead for him was not only internal struggles, but also the tricky game of geopolitics. The United States, embroiled in deeply suspicious of communist influences in Asia, had turned its eyes towards Singapore. In 1965, Lee Kuan Yew…
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CIA operatives were embedded throughout the region. They worked secretly, attempting to gather intelligence on Lee's intentions, who his allies were, and whether Singapore could be turned into a defensive line against communist influence. H…
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Fearing the wrath of the United States would have buried such evidence. Lee, however, decided to take an audacious step. He would confront the U.S. directly. Lee's invitation to the U.S. embassy in Singapore was laced with diplomacy, but sh…
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he demanded the immediate termination of all CIA activities on Singaporean soil. And in a final calculated blow, Lee hinted that if the US didn't comply, he would go public with the scandal, exposing the CIA's interference to the world. The…
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might have succeeded. But I'm proud to say that the officer offered large sums of money and continuing sums of money. This was in 1960. But the matter was more than that. He was locked up. It was on razor's edge whether we charged him and o…
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No, no, listen to me. I didn't tell, you know, I never spoke to the Americans direct because, you know, they lack the finesse and they may say, yes, they give it to you. Why not? Why should the Singapore government just give to you, to me, …
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Read until you see what we can learn from the exchanges near the end of the video. Okay. Basically, let me go up just a little bit further. Singapore's independence. And laid out a narrative of Singapore as a sovereign state standing agains…
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It positioned him as the protector of Singapore's fragile democracy, someone who would not bow to external pressure, not even from a superpower like the United States. Chapter five, the CIA's humiliation. Behind the scenes, the CIA was furi…
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The US State Department agreed to Lee's demands. The CIA operatives involved were recalled, and the US issued a diplomatic apology, though unofficial, to Singapore. The covert interference had backfired. Instead of destabilizing Lee's gover…
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which helped to harden his image as an unyielding defender of Singapore's independence. Chapter six, The Lion Roars. In the years following the CIA debacle, Lee Kuan Yew transformed Singapore into one of the most prosperous and stable natio…
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So he's like the chief of what would have been the State Department CIA counterpart in Indonesia, which puts him there in the initial planning of the overthrowing of Sukarno. He then gets appointed to Singapore and then goes back at the hei…
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The Prime Minister of Singapore. The Prime Minister of Singapore. First question now from Colleen Frederick of NBC.…
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at which they must react. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. We'll be back with Meet the Press and more questions for our guest, the Prime Minister of Singapore. But first, this message. Back to Meet the Press, an unrehearsed press conference. …
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Elaine Frederick of NBC News. The other reporters on our panel are Roland Evans of the Chicago Sun-Times, Seymour Topping of the New York Times, and Crosby Noyes of the Washington Evening Star. Lauren C. Spivak, permanent member of the Meet…
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do not set out to secure their own salvation. The end result still is perdition for the helper and the help. Speaking as an Asian, do you think the South Vietnamese are helping themselves enough? Or are we here in the United States headed f…
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refuses to give up the ghost of him being in charge of China, relegated to this tiny little island called Taiwan, who thinks there's a divided China, right? So he's completely set up this question, which is a bullshit question. And he's tal…
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But he's a Singaporean. So everything about these people have not changed a bit. But I wanted to point that out. So listen to this guy's answer. First of all, I can't speak as a Chinese because I'm a Singaporean. I'm of Chinese ethnic stock…
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other aspirant in Taipei. But speaking as a Singaporean, with some of the built-in memory of the Chinese people, I would say that if you believe that the Chinese people will just splinter up into so many warlord communist committees, each g…
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At no time as a leader of Singapore was he ever under the impression that China was the aggressor. At no time. Because had they done that, the rest of Asia, like they did with Japan, would have risen up against them. But he clearly articula…
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One of the oh, and my phone's going to lock up. Can you still hear me, Bridget? All right. Let me get back to the screen. That's OK. You sound great. All right. So I wanted to share with you guys during Air War College, an incident had just…
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Singapore. We were told it happened like just like the year before, maybe even months before we got to Air War College in 2002. A young kid had been taken to Singapore with his parents and had taken an object and basically keyed the side of…
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the press in the United States, basically, that's where they left the story. Oh, my God, this is, you know, a crazy country. They're out of control. They're going to beat a kid with a cane. How dare them? Blah, blah, blah. Well, if you unde…
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And I will explain that to you because at Air War College, the Singapore officer that we had there got up in front of the entire class of several hundred people and explained what their culture is about and how the island operates. Now, Bri…
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So instead of diving into a new country, I wanted to go ahead and pull some recent information about what was going on in Singapore. And through last night while I was watching the debate and this morning, I came to the realization as I pos…
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paramilitary type Gladio events going on in Singapore. That doesn't mean there's not parts of that wagon wheel that I oftentimes refer to as what consists of Operation Gladio occurring in Singapore. It just means that there was not a whole …
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be significantly concerned about the territory of Singapore because they have no natural resources. And it was funny because halfway through this morning, it dawned on me. I'm like, well, son of a gun. No wonder that they didn't coup this g…
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Singapore does offer the international syndicate is location. And Bridget, if you wouldn't mind throwing up a few of the maps again, we're going to have a couple of places that I want to bring into the fold as well that is in the surroundin…
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U-A-T-U. Ventuatu. Because they figure prominently in one of the news articles. But we're going to start off with this one. This one's very interesting. And it's a recent article. So what Singapore offers, besides ports, and ports are very …
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for the transiting, not ever into Singapore, but in the port area, many different things. But it also features prominently in money laundering. Now, in every bank that I've done a deep dive into, whether it's BCCI or Nugent Hand or whatever…
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Money laundering is one of the biggest offerings of the international syndicate that Singapore brings to the table. So part of money laundering is creating fictitious front companies. And guess what you're able to do in Singapore? You're ab…
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to open a business there. They have a cottage industry there to do nothing but open businesses like this. So our first story is written in a online journal called the online citizen.com. It's about a South Korean national charged with cheat…
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He was charged in Singapore for multiple offenses, including cheating, money laundering, and failing to declare cash received from overseas. The charges involved various provisions under the Singapore Penal Code of corruption, drug traffick…
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South Korea and Japan was the second largest. South Korea was the primary place. Japan was number two. And what do they do? Well, they weapon traffic. They are involved in drug trafficking. So their guy in Singapore, this Kim guy, K-I-M, wa…
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allegedly failed to declare the funds as required under Singapore law. Kim is further accused of using illicit cash to purchase gold bars in Singapore, which he then concealed in shipments. The shipments were falsely declared. As a result, …
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See what I said? Their seaports and cargo oftentimes are not even offloaded onto the shore there. It goes from one container ship to another, transiting the area. What's really important about this, and I'm going to get to this in a minute,…
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Now, that doesn't mean and do not be misinformed that drugs are not transited the port of Singapore. They're just not allowed on the land map of Singapore. And I'm going to explain why that makes a big difference in a minute. Mr. Chu, who i…
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a couple of years ago, the investigation did. There were charges brought in 2023, and then the latest update was 14 June 2024 about an article, and it's written in ChannelNewsAsia.com about Singapore. The name of it is All the Convicts in S…
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dollar money laundering case have been sentenced. Now what? Now, this one has 10 people in a network, and I'm going to butcher their names, but I will try to. It's more important where they're from than actually what their actual names are.…
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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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He had over $2 million in U.S. dollars in cash. He had over $45 million in bank accounts in Singapore. He had over $91 million in property. And he had a few vehicles worth $3.3 million.…
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almost a million dollars in cash, another $22 million in bank accounts. So you get the feel of who these people were. These are not old people. These are people they were using to money launder as resources for an international syndicate in…
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Almost $65 million in property and about $5 million in vehicles. Now, it says, how were they caught? Because originally, none of the financial institutions that they were doing business with was doing the transaction alerts for suspicious t…
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to one of the intelligence agencies in Singapore and they began doing basically audits of the banks to begin. And once the word went out that they were being looked at, then these banks started filing the suspicious transaction alerts and t…
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This has to do with this article was written in July of 2023. And this woman was put to death. She was executed. And it was the first female that had been executed in over 20 years. And she was executed for drug trafficking. They have a zer…
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who was a 45-year-old Singaporean who was put to death on Friday, which would have been last year, by hanging. And he had more heroin, like twice as much, so still not a lot compared to an actual drug trafficker that you would find in Ameri…
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But they were both hung as a result of a drug trafficking conviction. Now, they have sentenced to death people that have been found with methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, even cannabis. They have a zero tolerance level for any drug. It say…
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Because she'd have been put to death already in Singapore. So I wanted to bring that up, which is absolutely crazy. Another guy by the name of Mo Azid bin Hussein, who was 57, was put to death for trafficking around 50 grams or 1.7 ounces o…
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I did want to bring your attention, though, and I think this is incredibly important. When you begin looking at when the activity to change Singaporean law and crack down on money laundering occurred, you come across articles like this othe…
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2024. East Turkestan government in exile, meaning the United States, condemned statements by the Turkish foreign minister during his Chinese visit. This article is written in the Singapore Star and from its D.C. office. It says the East Tur…
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OK, he is 100 percent in the international syndicate. He has involved himself in the criminal underbelly of not just Las Vegas, but Macau, Singapore and around the world. He hires people that for his security.…
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Japanese archipelago and possession of U.S. forces commitment. And basically, we just wanted basing rights over there. That's the whole thing that we were over there for. But what I found most fascinating about this is the American decision…
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Very good. At a war cabinet meeting at noon, it was now the opinion of everyone that if this Japanese expedition was allowed to get around the southern point of Indochina and to go off and land in the Gulf of Siam, it would be a terrific bl…
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Vacario, officially fled the country for Miami in 2004. From there, the pair leveraged their contacts within the PDVSA Caracas office to gain confidential information regarding Venezuela's future oil contracts. Helsinge then shared that inf…
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The strong arm tactic, it's always worked for them. And that's why they don't consider other options. The strong arm is always the one that's worked, with few exceptions, Singapore being one of them. But what else can I say? Thank you, Colo…
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The way flight training works is especially when you're going to have a long commitment like we have with Singapore at Mountain Home. There was a facility built for the administrative function. So when you have a foreign contingency of even…
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which is where we're at right now. And the Singapore facility at Mountain Home is already there with their administrative tell and a place for the pilots to hang out when they're not flying. Most likely from the people that I've talked to, …
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There's going to be flying. There's going to be air-to-air engagement, teaching them tactics on how to fly against an aggressor. All of that stuff takes place there. That's normal training. And by the way, we do it for lots of different cou…
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So but at the same time, because BCCI, if I recall right, is like 72 to 92. Those are kind of the years. And so for a fairly lengthy period of time, you're going to find branches of both of those banks and big ones like Singapore, Hong Kong…
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evangelist Billy Graham's Youth for Christ International to travel under their banner. I'd like to say I'm shocked. Dick was reportedly instrumental in establishing Youth for Christ International headquarters in Singapore where he traveled …
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According to this author, was crawling with CIA. It wasn't crawling with CIA. It was CIA. All right. And high-ranking military people, don't forget, ran all of the branches all over the world. Retired generals, Hawaii, Singapore, Chiang Mai…
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to consolidate control over previous operations against the Chinese, ran from Japan, the offshore islands, and Thailand. But then, Wisner had created an international network including shipments in Singapore and Burma to include Japan and K…
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and the group cover over 30,000 miles in 57 days. They used the director's personal plane, a modified version of a DC-6. Dulles inspected the stations in Europe, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thailand, South Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, the Ph…
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South Korea, and Japan. Now, let me point out for you guys exactly what's going on here. This is in 56. This is as we're getting ready to upend the French in Vietnam. And every single country that I just named, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thai…
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Indonesia's local commanders in western and northern Sumatra, frustrated by command changes in the army and other factors, declared themselves independent and not bound to any national military command. The Indonesian's colonels, who began …
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But we want to do it. During early December, difficulties arose with the British. In Singapore, the CIA had maintained liaison with British intelligence for many years. But in Indonesia, it was thought desirable to expand their local statio…
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This move was a signal for Wisner, who loved to be at the scene of action, to leave Singapore and come command the operation. In Singapore, the CIA station chief had been augmented for the project. The Navy also quietly moved two destroyers…
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Some rebel officers deserted, rebel units changed sides, and Frank Wisner agonized in Singapore. The CIA did what it could to stiffen the resistance. The original limitation of one agent team with the rebels was lifted. Two more had landed …
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And it is those times when the military ends up dying for a CIA operation gone bad. So, yes, you're right. They have a lock on military support. And that's the whole thing with the SF guys, the Green Berets, the Deltas and all those guys. S…
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A visiting agency officer saw so much cash passed around the station that he told a colleague in Singapore that this kind of money in Malaya could have ended the entire resistance movement simply by handing every ethnic Chinese a first clas…
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were looked at, which is Sumatra is Indonesia's largest island. They were frustrated by changes and declared themselves independent and not bound by the national military command. The colonels who began the revolt in December of 1956 used t…
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In early December, difficulties arose with the British as Singapore CIA Station Chief James Collins maintained liaison with British intelligence. Rebel emissaries came to Singapore to meet with Collins at the close of 1957, and the CIA offi…
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The agency had already begun preparing a weapons delivery to Permesta, which is the headquarters, that's what they call the headquarters of the rebels that they're arming, on Sumatra, which is the big island. This would be easiest if routed…
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He hoped that the secretary will get the British with us in Indonesia. MI6 wants to move and cooperate with the CIA. But the SIS, some people were hesitant. The Americans won their point. A few months later, SIS officers were standing along…
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The Navy provided landing ship and a submarine for the initial moves. Then it took weeks to send warships to Singapore to give the U.S. an intervention capability. Where an aircraft carrier or a heavy cruiser were envisioned at the core of …
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The secretary just wanted him to know that he had the feeling we can't play too safely here and we have to take some risks because it looks to him that this is the best chance we have. Alan Dulles is glad to hear it, unquote. Arms delivery …
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with all of the stay-behind units, including Otto Skorzeny. Desmond Fitzgerald got the Far East Division chief's position. Even Alan Pope, tried in December in 1959 to a life sentence in Indonesia, would fly again for the CIA. The disaster …
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That's where President Obama lived and was raised in Indonesia. He was renting the house next to it while he was doing all of the research for this. So him and I started emailing back and forth because his other book, which is in more detai…
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These companies were set up with the approval and knowledge of senior CIA officials and other senior U.S. government officials and staffed primarily by either CIA, ex-CIA, ex-FBI, or ex-military officers. The companies include Aereo Systems…
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The opium was carried south to Bangkok, where it was sold to drug merchants from Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Delhi. The money received was laundered through Nguyen Han. That is what didn't come to the United States. By 75, the Nguyen Han …