20th Special Forces Group organization
also: Airborne 10th Special Forces Group, 10th Special Forces, 5th Group, 10th Group, 77th Group, Green Berets, 10 Special Forces Group, army's 10th special forces, Army 10th Special Forces, special forces
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Claims (26)
Edward Cutolo member_of
20th Special Forces Group documented
“He was at the time he made the affidavit. He was the commanding officer of the Airborne 10th Special Forces Group based at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Four years earlier, Watchtower had changed his life. Colonel Cutolo said in his December …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 4:30
United Wa State Army founded
20th Special Forces Group documented
“Although in 1950, only seven active duty Army officers were in that area, by 1952, which was two years into the Korean War, there were whole radio leaflet propaganda units, and the Army had set aside 2,500 authorizations for covert warriors…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 1:01:17
Keith Kellogg member_of
20th Special Forces Group book_quoted
“the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 8:00
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“Any new missionaries coming in will be done so at the detriment of the ones that are already there. And it's like when they set up Special Operations Command, SOCOM, at MacDill, the Marines pushed back because it required each of the servic…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 26:57
20th Special Forces Group member_of
Fort Bragg book_quoted
“The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. while 782 men of the 10th were deployed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 26:03
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. while 782 men of the 10th were deployed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 26:03
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“early expansion coincided with the repatriation of Korean War veterans. Subsequently, Special Forces expansion slowed to a snail's pace as ancient army generals preserved their conventional units as best they could. Because again, this is a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 26:33
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“And so, of course, the Air Force, we have Air Force Special Operations Command, which is AFSOC, which is at Hurlburt Field in the panhandle of Florida. They're the gunships, the specially retrofitted helicopters that do black ops kind of ac…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 27:25
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“The navies are the SEALs and stuff like that, very easily identifiable. The Army tried to do, in some point, part what the Marines did, but the Marines were successful in doing it. The Marines said that they don't have special forces. All o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 27:52
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“And the money was to be used to equip any additional training requirements or hardware requirements. So in other words, the Air Force by C-130s, the special operations unit at Hurlburt Field fly.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 28:21
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“AC-130s, which are gunships, and they also have MC-130s with refueling capabilities. Most C-130s, other than theirs, none of them have refueling capability where they can refuel helicopters, like Army helicopters and Air Force helicopters. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 28:44
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“equipment package that goes on a standard 130. So in the Air Force budget, they budget for the 130. And then SOCOM goes to Congress and says in a separate line item, I need this amount of money to retrofit Air Force hardware to make it miss…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 29:06
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“Delta, Green Berets, any special equipment that is not standard issued in the Army comes from funding from SOCOM. And so this, again, just makes this rivalry stand out even more. All right. So progress continued, but a big step was the depl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 29:34
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“Their special forces team planned for partisan campaigns in Eastern Europe. And those go along with the ones we've already talked about and begin to show that they could do in NATO military maneuvers, special forces type activity. And this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 30:03
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“the capability of these people to do these covert missions. At home in 1956 maneuver, special forces troops caused enormous disruption to other teams, even penetrating the opponent's tactical command and control radio networks. Detachments …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 30:30
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“This provisional detachment became the nucleus of the first special forces group established on Okinawa in June of 1957. Men from special forces conducted certain missions into Laos as early as 59 and were included in the assistance command…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 31:01
20th Special Forces Group member_of
West Germany book_quoted
“A special forces group was an interesting organization as military units were concerned. One component was an administrative base that served the needs of all the teams. Technically, it was called an operational detachment. From group headq…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 31:31
Keith Kellogg member_of
20th Special Forces Group book_quoted
“the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 8:00
Lodge Bill funded
20th Special Forces Group book_quoted
“passed in the 81st Congress in June of 1950 on the eve of the Korean War. How timely. It led the army to provide for the creation of special forces regiments. It would consist of three battalions with a total of 2,500 men. Of that 2,500 wer…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 14:04
John Sears headed
20th Special Forces Group documented
“and the Green Berets team held out by sheer determination. Captain Roger Donlan earned his first Medal of Honor awarded in Vietnam for the action at Dam Dong, and two of his Special Forces sergeants received posthumous Distinguished Service…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 53:00
Francis Kelly headed
20th Special Forces Group documented
“in each of these units. Airlift was possible with reasonable sized helicopter forces. Such tactics were still in use in 1966 when Colonel Francis Kelly commanded the fifth group. Kelly told a newly assigned deputy as a man that had just ste…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 54:30
Jordan Goudreau member_of
20th Special Forces Group book_quoted
“with a childhood admiration of U.S. military. He was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. as a young man so that he could enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces, telling a family friend that he believed it would give him more challenges. Goudreau …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 33:10
20th Special Forces Group deployed_to
West Germany documented
“The 10th Special Forces Group had been in place at Fort Bragg since June of 1952. The September 1953, it had been supplemented by 77th Group, which remained in the U.S. while almost 800 men of the 10th Group deployed to Western Germany, whe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 55:10
20th Special Forces Group trained_in
Laos documented
“That has endured ever since. A permanent presence in the Far East began in 1956 when provisional teams went to Hawaii, then to Okinawa. In 1957, this became the first Special Forces group. Special Forces began missions in Laos as early as 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 56:40
20th Special Forces Group trained
Vietnamese Rangers documented
“That has endured ever since. A permanent presence in the Far East began in 1956 when provisional teams went to Hawaii, then to Okinawa. In 1957, this became the first Special Forces group. Special Forces began missions in Laos as early as 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 56:40
CIA recruited
20th Special Forces Group documented
“expats for espionage and liaison eastern europeans could be found in the army's 10th special forces that's important because that's where the detachment alpha people were their entry was facilitated in a 1950 lodge bill and an amendment in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 36:27
Mentions (30)
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It is audio and is going on. And Martin Luther King and his group were the subjects of it. But then there's another group that's even more sinister. They're not more sinister because of what they did, but they didn't really do anything. But…
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Citizens opposed to the proposed treaty that would give Panama control of the canal. In reality, the meeting had far more ominous implications. That was a pretext. In 1980, Colonel Edward Cutolo, K-U-T-O-L-O, gave sworn testimony in an affi…
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40 high-performance aircraft successfully landed in Panama and delivered narcotics. It was Cotolla's last mission for the CIA, but not the last time he would hear from the agency. Cotolla was assumed command of the 10th Special Forces at Fo…
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that if you had American soldiers that committed war crimes, instead of them being actually prosecuted, and I don't have any, it is not footnoted on here, so I don't have any way of verifying this, so I'm just going to say that up front, th…
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Vietnamese commandos trained there, the shallow water port was deepened, major logistics facilities was added, and Special Forces Headquarters got redesignated as 5th Special Forces Group October 1964 and began major operations. One benefit…
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local easy specialized buying for special forces. Under an accounting arrangement known as parasol switchback, the 5th Special Forces continued to use CIA accounting methods for nine more years after the agency passed control of the Montega…
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and the Green Berets team held out by sheer determination. Captain Roger Donlan earned his first Medal of Honor awarded in Vietnam for the action at Dam Dong, and two of his Special Forces sergeants received posthumous Distinguished Service…
▶ 54:59
just got off the plane. Reaction forces were supplemented with certain special capability units. Earlier, it was called Project Delta, formerly Leaping Lena, L-E-N-A, which were joint operations with the locals and the 5th Group. Delta prov…
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At a later stage, the ranger battalions was added to Delta and they became a more lethal force. Colonel Kelly also added two other special units, Project Sigma and Omega, which basically ran in conjunction with attacks by the B-50 and B-56 …
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with a childhood admiration of U.S. military. He was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. as a young man so that he could enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces, telling a family friend that he believed it would give him more challenges. Goudreau …
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the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…
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To help move the road watch teams, Prairie Fire executed over 250 missions in 67 alone, including patrols penetrating as far as 12 miles into Laos, where they're not supposed to be. But in 68, in addition to the Green Berets serving in the …
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The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. while 782 men of the 10th were deployed …
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The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. while 782 men of the 10th were deployed …
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Delta, Green Berets, any special equipment that is not standard issued in the Army comes from funding from SOCOM. And so this, again, just makes this rivalry stand out even more. All right. So progress continued, but a big step was the depl…
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Eastern European areas using the Army 10th Special Forces, whose entry had been facilitated by the 1950 Lodge Bill, an amendment to the 1951 Mutual Security Act, which set aside specific funds for Army units in Eastern Europe. It might have…
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When Eisenhower became president, he tried to get the army to cooperate on a formation of an Eastern European unit. Instead, his army general friends told him all of the reasons why that wasn't going to happen. Ike said, fellows, tell me th…
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ended in January 68 with charges against its commander, Captain John McCarthy Jr., in the killing of a Cambodian interpreter suspected as a double agent. The most celebrated trial occurred in 1969 when eight Green Berets, including Colonel …
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Although in 1950, only seven active duty Army officers were in that area, by 1952, which was two years into the Korean War, there were whole radio leaflet propaganda units, and the Army had set aside 2,500 authorizations for covert warriors…
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The 10th Special Forces Group had been in place at Fort Bragg since June of 1952. The September 1953, it had been supplemented by 77th Group, which remained in the U.S. while almost 800 men of the 10th Group deployed to Western Germany, whe…
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The 10th Special Forces Group had been in place at Fort Bragg since June of 1952. The September 1953, it had been supplemented by 77th Group, which remained in the U.S. while almost 800 men of the 10th Group deployed to Western Germany, whe…
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for unconventional warfare. The German deployment became the first giant step. At bad tolls, the 10th Special Forces planned for partisan campaigns in Eastern Europe and showed that they could do NATO maneuvers. Detachments sent from the US…
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expats for espionage and liaison eastern europeans could be found in the army's 10th special forces that's important because that's where the detachment alpha people were their entry was facilitated in a 1950 lodge bill and an amendment in …
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Almost no one in the army's chain of command even knew Detachment A. The one guy that was over there in the 10th Special Forces had been in the eastern part of West Europe doing special operations stuff. What he thought was the highest clas…
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In March 1961, the Army doubled the number of units. Now, groups specialized geographically. The 10th group for Europe. The first group for Asia. The new 8th group would focus on Latin America. The 3rd and 6th group was for Africa and the M…
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psychological warfare units were increased in early 65 to three battalions and two companies plus associated detachments. By November 30th, 1964, the strength of army special warfare units stood at more than 11,000. In Germany, the 10th gro…
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10-1, according to revelations in the British press in 1962, provided for the 10th group to disperse into 49 guerrilla warfare zones throughout Eastern Europe. Not joking, this is what the text says. Its A-teams were each credited with the …
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for a potential resistance force of almost 80,000 within six months. This is 1962, and they're acknowledging that the A-teams associated with special forces are there to lead the stay-behind units that the Galen organization and the CIA has…
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This in 1950 were additional active duty army officers that were being trained as specialists in psychological warfare. By 1952, there was entire units devoted to radio and propaganda. And the army had set aside personnel for this new unit …
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the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…