Vietnam Bureau of Information organization
also: VBI, BBI
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Claims (6)
Vietnam Bureau of Information funded
The Phoenix Program host_asserted
“on which the Phoenix program was created. And so you have the majority of Michigan State's police advisors that were deployed to Vietnam were either former or retired state troopers, large city detectives.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 9:43
Robert Scigliano removed_from_power
Vietnam Bureau of Information host_asserted
“One of the guys, which was the assistant Michigan State University project chief, Robert Scigliano, S-C-I-G-L-I-A-N-O. While his boss was on vacation in Vietnam, he kicked the VBI advisory unit out.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 31:49
CIA trained
Vietnam Bureau of Information host_asserted
“And also, VBI officers were trained by CIA and FBI. And where did they do that training? Oh, you know, in the United States at the Georgetown University. And that was for like the higher ups. So the VBI is basically one of the major foundat…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 9:15
Michigan State University trained
Vietnam Bureau of Information host_asserted
“They advised the BBI and trained Dems Secret Service along with the CIA officers on or agents. And they they all were hired under the label of a professor. So you have an entire school population of professors deployed to.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 10:11
CIA trained
Vietnam Bureau of Information host_asserted
“They advised the BBI and trained Dems Secret Service along with the CIA officers on or agents. And they they all were hired under the label of a professor. So you have an entire school population of professors deployed to.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 10:11
BINH Xuyen member_of
Vietnam Bureau of Information host_asserted
“There was a group called BINH, B-I-N-H-X-U-Y-E-N. They were basically mafia in Saigon police force. And they kind of like the cops within cops that we've talked about occasionally that received a special.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 5:45
Mentions (8)
▶ 7:45
manipulation of the local population. And because it managed all of the central records depository, this entity that Michigan State University was helping, it became referred to as the Vietnam Bureau of Information, the VBI. It became…
▶ 8:15
the most powerful security force and received basically the lion's share of the American quote-unquote technical aid because it was going to be the thing they used to implement the Phoenix program. So it would be like the databases that wer…
▶ 8:45
And so the VBI got riot guns, bulletproof vests, gas masks, lie detectors, a high command school like the schools of America, a modern crime lab, modern interrogation centers, because you've got to have a place to take your kidnapped people…
▶ 9:15
And also, VBI officers were trained by CIA and FBI. And where did they do that training? Oh, you know, in the United States at the Georgetown University. And that was for like the higher ups. So the VBI is basically one of the major foundat…
▶ 10:11
They advised the BBI and trained Dems Secret Service along with the CIA officers on or agents. And they they all were hired under the label of a professor. So you have an entire school population of professors deployed to.…
▶ 15:36
what the government told me to. If not, the secret police, the VBI, would come pick me up and torture me to death. Thus, I was the only one who rigged the election here, unquote. It was apparent that Dinh's security forces terrorized all of…
▶ 31:49
One of the guys, which was the assistant Michigan State University project chief, Robert Scigliano, S-C-I-G-L-I-A-N-O. While his boss was on vacation in Vietnam, he kicked the VBI advisory unit out.…
▶ 36:40
These ragtag squads were targeted against the VCI using intelligence provided by their VBI. However, in 1960, at the end of the year, the U.S. Military Advisory Group seized control of the constable groups and began organizing them into com…