Sante Prisoner Camp place
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Operation Ivory Coast carried_out_attack
Sante Prisoner Camp documented
“The word on a flash cable to pepper grinder was spook bait in Thailand, where now Bull, Simon, and 58 men, assault force, and helicopters were standing by. From there, they moved up to Udorn, Thailand. Ivory Coast was executed during the ni…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 35:13
CIA spied_on
Sante Prisoner Camp documented
“of huge proportions. There was not a single prisoner at the camp. It had indeed been an active camp when the rescue mission was first conceived, but then they were all evacuated. Washington had aerial photographs that confirmed as much that…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 36:10
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▶ 29:46
Eisenhower abused his. The mission was nothing less than an attempt to liberate American prisoners from a camp in the heart of North Vietnam, talking about a mission. A camp only two dozen miles from downtown Hanoi. There had been other att…
▶ 30:16
would be the 91st rescue mission, but one of the most ambitious and the first in North Vietnam. Only 20 of the previously made rescue missions had been successful, freeing 318 South Vietnamese soldiers and 60 civilians, but only one America…
▶ 30:46
during the actual rescue. Now, of course, the U.S. says those wounds were inflicted by the enemy, but who the hell knows, because you can't believe anything they say. Still, the Pentagon began considering a rescue mission at Sante among…
▶ 33:53
So great was the secrecy that the Mok village was disassembled and concealed each time a Soviet reconnaissance satellite went overhead. There were more than 100 exercises with helicopters intended to fly in the raid and 368 practice flights…
▶ 36:10
of huge proportions. There was not a single prisoner at the camp. It had indeed been an active camp when the rescue mission was first conceived, but then they were all evacuated. Washington had aerial photographs that confirmed as much that…
▶ 36:40
in use. Crops had been planted in the complex, additional SR-71 flights that week before the raid and the days immediately preceding it confirmed Sante's renewed employment. Reconnaissance drone flights scheduled for the day before the raid…
▶ 39:29
For his part, Richard Nixon had arranged to host Thanksgiving dinner for disabled veterans drawn from military hospitals in the Washington area. You know, the ones they sacrificed and that nice of them. Thanksgiving came and the president s…
▶ 39:59
This story got back to junior reporters covering the desk at the Washington Post. The SecDef carefully obfuscated story was blown by his own boss. As for Henry Kissinger, the former national security advisor, maintained he learned of the in…