Nguyen Loc Hoa person
also: Father Hoa, Father Coa
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Claims (5)
Nguyen Loc Hoa founded
Sea Swallows host_asserted
“Until they were thrown out of the country. Looks a lot like what they did. And totally screwed it up. Father Hoa. Created a thing called sea swallows. Like the bird. And it basically dovetailed into the civilian irregular defense group. He.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 45:26
Nguyen Loc Hoa carried_out_attack
Viet Cong book_quoted
“merely to fight against the Viet Cong as a religious priest. In an article in the Saturday Evening Post in February 17th, 1962, it says, quote, Father Hoa personally led his pitiful small force into the swamps nightly to strike at the enemy…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 48:47
Nguyen Loc Hoa carried_out_attack
Viet Cong host_asserted
“Father Hoa used CIA funds to run an intel network consisting of volunteers, of sympathetic farmers, basically paid agents, along with a slew of full-time actual paid agents. On the basis of this intel, Father Hoa mounted raids against quote…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 49:44
Nguyen Loc Hoa founded
Popular Force Battalion host_asserted
“whom he used as slave laborers for himself to harvest food that they then sold. In the evenings, sea swallow cadre indoctrinated their captives with religious and political propaganda, prompting the weaklings to defect and join the ranks of…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 50:14
Nguyen Loc Hoa member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“was imprisoned in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh because he was conspiring with the KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek against Northern Vietnamese people. And he is a Catholic priest. His real name is Nguyen Loc Hoa.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 45:55
Mentions (12)
▶ 45:26
Until they were thrown out of the country. Looks a lot like what they did. And totally screwed it up. Father Hoa. Created a thing called sea swallows. Like the bird. And it basically dovetailed into the civilian irregular defense group. He.…
▶ 45:55
was imprisoned in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh because he was conspiring with the KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek against Northern Vietnamese people. And he is a Catholic priest. His real name is Nguyen Loc Hoa.…
▶ 46:25
Um, and he was not only just in Vietnam, but he also did a whole bunch of stuff in Laos. Um, and shortly after Chiang Kai-shek had fled to Thailand with his nationalist army, um, the, uh, this Catholic priest went to Laos to get out of the …
▶ 47:20
He was being held accountable by the local Buddhist and people who he was trying to help the CIA and Chiang Kai-shek get assassinated. They were trying to hold him accountable. He wasn't being persecuted. So it says that Father Hoa had pers…
▶ 47:50
that had been embedded in the CIA to bring his church group to South Vietnam. And the deal was that Father Hoa was appointed chief of a district where 90% of the people were Viet Cong supporters, Viet Minh. So now keep in mind, they already…
▶ 48:18
and settled them in the South. And so they are assigning a religious Catholic priest to be in charge, basically spy, on a village that are all sympathetic to the Nationalists trying to kick these bastards out. He was given quantities of mil…
▶ 48:47
merely to fight against the Viet Cong as a religious priest. In an article in the Saturday Evening Post in February 17th, 1962, it says, quote, Father Hoa personally led his pitiful small force into the swamps nightly to strike at the enemy…
▶ 49:19
So stuck in the middle of the stronghold, this village resembled more of a military outpost than an actual city or town. It had obstacle courses for people to work out on, and Father Hoa affectionately nicknamed it Our Own Little Fort Bragg…
▶ 49:44
Father Hoa used CIA funds to run an intel network consisting of volunteers, of sympathetic farmers, basically paid agents, along with a slew of full-time actual paid agents. On the basis of this intel, Father Hoa mounted raids against quote…
▶ 50:14
whom he used as slave laborers for himself to harvest food that they then sold. In the evenings, sea swallow cadre indoctrinated their captives with religious and political propaganda, prompting the weaklings to defect and join the ranks of…
▶ 50:40
500 Vietnamese dressed in ill-fitting U.S. Army khaki uniforms was a result. Because it was composed of Vietnamese, the Popular Force Battalion was not trustworthy. However, it did not include the Sea Swallows' own cadre. Described by anoth…
▶ 51:10
This group of black-clad commandos, armed with everything that the CIA's money could buy, was clustered around the priest like his own personal bodyguard. Unlike their Vietnamese neighbors, Father Coa's Catholic zealots held what the author…