Operation Switchback operation
also: switchback
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CIA funded
Operation Switchback documented
“kind of took the focus of the paramilitary action in South Vietnam. A comprehensive pacification program had been proposed by the agency in 65, and the CIA was involved in planning and expert assistance for many of the pacification activiti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 41:13
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▶ 40:56
That was basically just a contest of the loyalty of the Vietnamese people. The second was the business of the CIA. And that had been true since Operation Switchback took the CIA.…
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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 …
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Da Silva became the first of a secession of CIA chieftains drawn into the top agency ranks. The CIA had been ordered basically by JFK to get out of the paramilitary business, although we know that after his assassination, that didn't happen…
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President Johnson approved O-Plan 34A. The CIA was going to be based in Da Nang and handed over pieces of switchback to the military in 1964. It would be expanded. Quite soon, the military's study and observation group, SOG,…
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In the Central Highlands, the DIDG effort continued to expand. In June of 64, Mac Bundy asked Director McComb to turn back the clock to before switchback to have the CIA re-enter Vietnam, as it were. Of course, they're already there. Lots o…