Gilbert Lawton person
also: L-A-W-T-O-N, Colonel Layton, Layton, Colonel Gilbert Layton, Chink Layton
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Gilbert Lawton ran
Project Tiger documented
“It made no difference. They were just sending these people to their death. Colonel Gilbert Layton of the Army ran the Combined Services Division of Colby CIA Station, controlling Project Tiger and other paramilitary efforts. Chink Layton, t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 57:37
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▶ 44:26
He and another CIA officer that was disguised as a special forces colonel by the name of Gilbert Lawton, L-A-W-T-O-N, launched a program called Civilian Irregular Defense Group. This program was a means of preventing the North and the rovin…
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Army Colonel Gilbert Layton, L-A-Y-T-O-N, was detailed to the CIA to supervise the effort. By 1961, the agency had set up four of these teams with eight men each, but the units conducted operations only inside South Vietnam. Suggestions for…
▶ 23:11
to strengthen their security. By late 1963, when President Kennedy asked for plans to land paramilitary teams in the North, NSC advisor McGeorge Bundy, who Warhamster and I were just talking about the other day, warned him that the operatio…
▶ 57:37
It made no difference. They were just sending these people to their death. Colonel Gilbert Layton of the Army ran the Combined Services Division of Colby CIA Station, controlling Project Tiger and other paramilitary efforts. Chink Layton, t…
▶ 58:07
Like Colby, he had set up stay behind networks in Germany. Gilbert Layton, stay behind units in Germany. Literally, you can't make this shit up. He had been an instructor in Saipan. Remember when we were talking about Saipan and that being …
▶ 58:42
Yeah, that's Saipan. He had also set one up in Turkey. You know, Operation Gray Wolf. Yeah, he had been a liaison between the army and the CIA's Tibetan training center at Camp Hell. Again, another stay-behind program in Tibet to attack mai…
▶ 59:21
The 50-year-old Layton knew a losing proposition when he saw one, but kept on going with Project Tiger. Layton, Colby, and other CIA officers had greater success with a paramilitary effort in South Vietnam's Central Highlands, organizing ar…
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known as Operation Switchback. By the time Colonel Layton transferred to Thailand in 65, the program was well-established. They had up to 80 camps. And he goes to Thailand, where they're going to run all of the drugs out of. And then Colby …