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Claims (24)
CIA trafficked
South Vietnam book_quoted
“to the same Vietnam interagency committee that he had left in Washington. In Laos, the embassy team was not quite the same. Ted Shackley moved over to Saigon as chief of station there because that's about the time they were fixing up the Ph…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 38:27
United Kingdom financed_via
South Vietnam host_asserted
“Who benefits? Great Britain is another party that appears to be benefiting from the U.S. embargo. While Japan had obeyed U.S. economic strictures, sharing only 0.03% of its total foreign investment in Vietnam, Great Britain is getting in on…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 6:04
Royal Dutch Shell financed_via
South Vietnam host_asserted
“Britain accounted for 30% of its foreign investment in Vietnam in 1989, following by France 21% and the Netherlands almost 20%. Dutch Royal Shell, a total of France and British Petroleum, are now searching for oil in the southern part of Vi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 6:30
British Petroleum financed_via
South Vietnam host_asserted
“Britain accounted for 30% of its foreign investment in Vietnam in 1989, following by France 21% and the Netherlands almost 20%. Dutch Royal Shell, a total of France and British Petroleum, are now searching for oil in the southern part of Vi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 6:30
Soviet Union financed_via
South Vietnam host_asserted
“In the 1990s, the Soviet Union informed Hanoi that it would expect a sharp reduction in aid from Moscow in 91 because, of course, it fell apart. Vietnamese received 100 percent of its fuel and cotton and 80 percent of its fertilizer from th…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 7:54
Michelin financed_via
South Vietnam host_asserted
“You go and look at what their major resource is that we would be interested in, and of course you find rubber. And Michelin, which is a French-affiliated company, is largely behind this, which makes sense from the perspective that it was Fr…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 8:53
United States carried_out_attack
South Vietnam host_asserted
“We're going to go in and we're going to propagandize the primarily focused at the Catholics that were in the north in these archdiocese through the Catholic Church. We're going to go in there and tell them we're going to drop leaflets, all …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 38:24
France carried_out_attack
South Vietnam documented
“And over a million of these people did this because they were scared to death they were going to die because the Catholic infrastructure in the North had told them that's what was going to happen to them. So, it says, in the wake of the Fre…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 39:24
France carried_out_attack
South Vietnam documented
“the entire country of Vietnam. They're now basically allowed to even function up in the north. They eventually, eight years later, lose the war in a humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu and sign the accords. They go home in disgrace. And it …”
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Tom Polger headed
South Vietnam documented
“were not about to determine the outcome of the war. That would be done on the ground in the South. And the prospects dimmed every day. Tom Polger followed Shackley as the Saigon station chief in January of 1972. He had been a European speci…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 23:42
Vietnam overthrew
South Vietnam documented
“but the war was too far gone. Hanoi staged a huge offensive that year, finally driving the U.S. out of the conflict, at least in terms of military involvement. The Paris ceasefire agreement sealed the fate of Saigon. Polgar presided over 30…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 24:15
Paul Vallely member_of
South Vietnam guest_asserted
“did some research on him. And I will dig that up. Cause that, that's a very fair question. And I probably need to talk about it. So if you will give me a couple of days, I will, I don't know if I can find it. I know that part of his backgro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:23:02
General McInerney member_of
South Vietnam guest_asserted
“Probably in that same conversation, we should have a conversation about General McInerney, too. He was actually at the Pentagon when I was there. And I have a couple of stories about him. Yeah, I wasn't going to lead that one, but it goes d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:24:24
United States financed_via
South Vietnam host_asserted
“Nugent co-back, the United States continued to deny normal diplomatic relationships to Vietnam in maintaining its trade embargo and once again stamped its veto on the Vietnamese entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 5:15
Car bomb attack on U.S. Embassy in Saigon carried_out_attack
South Vietnam documented
“quote-unquote, building a political base for the Saigon government on pacification, unconventional warfare programs. The guerrillas made the war real at the end of March of 1965 when they detonated a car bomb just outside the U.S. Embassy i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 4:16
John Hart headed
South Vietnam documented
“Hart came to Saigon in early 1966. He was 45 at the time. He had a hand in Wisner's Wurlitzer operations, and he was involved in Italy, setting up the stay-behind units. He was also very involved in the stay-behind units in the Korean War. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 7:10
Edward Lansdale member_of
South Vietnam documented
“was backing the entire time. The elections had nothing to do with democracy. It had everything to do with consolidating the Western power in South Vietnam. For much of this period, Ed Lansdale resided in Saigon in one last incarnation. This…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 9:47
Ted Shackley headed
South Vietnam documented
“40,000 had been killed. But when questions arose over the legality of the program, even under Vietnamese law, authorities rapidly retreated to an admission that 87% of the supposed cadre had been killed. From 1969 to 72, Ted Shackley led th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 18:44
Robert Renault ordered_assassination_of
South Vietnam documented
“Killed after a long, inconclusive interrogation on grounds that he might be a spy for Hanoi. The case came to the attention of the U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams, who ordered a full investigation. The Counterintelligence Corps, the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 20:09
Chiang Kai-shek headed
South Vietnam host_asserted
“And do you know who that Chinese forces was? Not Mao's forces, Chiang Kai-shek. So Ho Chi Minh, the northern area, was turned over basically for administrative purposes to the drug king, Chiang Kai-shek. I was like, what the hell? And that …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 57:29
Colonel J.R. Newman carried_out_attack
South Vietnam guest_asserted
“I asked him, he said that he would fly north and get the intel reports and interrogate prisoners. So I had to ask, how did you interrogate the prisoners? And he said that he would take two VC up in a helicopter, start asking questions. If h…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:14:47
Ted Shackley ordered_assassination_of
South Vietnam host_asserted
“He, plus a number of Green Berets, were remanded for court-martial. Their defense was the CIA. Shackley and the agency's regional officer, Dean Almey, had demanded the man be killed. Lawyers threatened to subpoena Shackley, Almey, and Richa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 20:40
CIA carried_out_attack
South Vietnam host_asserted
“He says, well, we never lose. He's on his way to Indochina, he tells Redford. He says, well, I'm on my way to do the gourmet cuisine of Indochina. Now, this is 1959, right? So the CIA is already headed for Indochina. And we were already the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 1:16:13
Skull and Bones member_of
South Vietnam host_asserted
“A lot of the Skull and Bones boys went over there and had quite a bit of fun. Yeah. Al-Amadea in northern Iraq. There are several places that you realize, and especially like Angkor Wat, the killing fields in... Yeah. That once you're there…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 2:10:53
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part of the Vietnam evacuation after the fall of Saigon. And basically that the effort that was put forward to do what they did, even though it fell short of what they were trying to do, was nothing less than overwhelming given the odds tha…
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And that was the code designation for the CIA agent that hired us. Keep an eye on the plane from Ban Howe side. We're sending some goods and someone's going to take care of it. Nobody's allowed to touch anything. Nothing can be unloaded, wa…
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One of the reoccurring things is how often they use napalm on indigenous people under the guise of, you know, quote unquote, attacking communism. And they just wipe out entire villages. Yeah, I was at the Agent Orange Museum in Saigon. And …
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I have done several. If you just type in the search bar Nugent Hand and Murdoch, you'll be able to come up with several of the threads that I've done on that. But Nugent Hand, if you guys don't know, was basically a fake bank that was set u…
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Liebman attended the Asian People's Anti-Communist League in Saigon, and that was the third one that they had. And if you guys remember, if you're watching my Alpha Warrior series on the World Anti-Communist League and it being basically th…
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The Asian People's Anti-Communist League sponsored his trip, paying his airfare, lodging meals, and introducing him to state officials and activists. From Tokyo, Liebman traveled to Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bangkok, and finally to Saigon, …
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There he met more than 100 delegates from across the East and Southeast Asia, as well as a few exiled anti-communists from Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Hungary. And the ones from Ukraine, by the way, is Stetsko, the terrorist. P…
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More than anything else, that conviction was what linked anti-communist internationalists to one another in the Cold War. In their minds, freeing the world from communism and thereby laying the foundation for a new age in human history was …
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Back up, they all wanted a unified country, but no one would allow them to have a unified country. Both the French and the U.S., because we did it too. We took them out of Haiphong, Naiphong Harbor, brought them down in ships. We flew them …
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And the next guy and his brother are even worse than them. And we're going to get to them tomorrow. So one of you guys sent me an article that's called The Origins of the American War in Vietnam, the OSS and the role in Saigon in 1945. And …
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also cast for the future of post-surrender Indochina by the terms of the Potsdam Conference, where it was decided to temporarily partition Vietnam and Laos at the 16th parallel. Under this agreement, the Allied chief of staff assigned Briti…
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Let's see. There was one more I wanted to get to, and that is Edward Lansdell. Now, we all know him from CIA. He pretended to be a general, but he definitely was in the CIA. And he was the assistant air attache in the Saigon U.S. Embassy in…
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And so he's in Saigon. He's helped writing the psychological warfare campaign to get all of those people crazed up and moving south in order to set up where we will go tomorrow as we continue this expose. So we're going to stop there. We wi…
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My brother Jim flew C-130s out of Thailand in Vietnam. My brother Mike was a Naval Academy grad who served in Vietnam. They got around the Sullivan Act by having them geographically separated, but there is a rather famous photo of my brothe…
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He's the only reason I got my commission. Well, same here. The detachment commander tried to keep me out because he didn't like prior service people. Yeah, well, yeah, I got a long story there. But anyway, so I was talking to my dad because…
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And I've got handwritten letters from both those guys talking about the work he did in Vietnam. When he got there, he was there 69 through 71. When he got there, he was the director of Phoenix Intelligence. And when he got there, the price …
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with people shooting through the rotor blades and I go wait a minute you had a desk job in Saigon he goes no I had an office in Saigon and I would fly north to collect intel reports and interrogate prisoners now so my dad had some secrecy p…
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cutting at the tail you kill the snake by cutting off the head and so what my dad my dad was a brilliant mind he would track money and trade and all that he'd figure out who the players were and really one of the key things in in vietnam wa…
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I'm digging through some of the documents and my dad hung on to a lot of documents. And as my son alluded to, prior to going to Vietnam, my dad was involved in some of the stuff that happened in 68, the Watts riots in California and Detroit…
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magazine articles that he had highlighted. And I think he was leaving some breadcrumbs of some significant information. But like I said, I'm plowing through, oh man, a stack probably four feet high of documents that my dad hung on to. And I…
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In the movie Forrest Gump, the Medal of Honor ceremony that Tom Hanks was dubbed into with Sam Davis, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Who did I get that harmonica from, Doug? Sam Davis. But anyway, so what's really wild is Sam Davis…
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Put on blue jeans and a white T-shirt and they got smeared with dog crap and everything else. But Sammy Davis, when he was in Vietnam and was wounded really bad, broke his back, broke a leg. Wes Moreland went to visit him and he said, son, …
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Westmoreland turns to my dad and says, Colonel Newman, meet Private Davis. Private Davis, meet Colonel Newman. Hey, Colonel Newman, take care of Private Davis. And Sammy Davis, the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, doesn't talk much a…
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He may have done some missions for my dad in Vietnam, but I will post a photo of that book. It's a great read, and it really talks to the Vietnam veterans who, when they got back, were not welcomed home, and they didn't talk about their exp…
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It was a lot of people that had memory that spoke of this. The Vietnam War was the first war that we started heavily using depleted uranium. And the reason I asked about the years he was there is because it was right at the tail end of 71 a…
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Like, whatever I am, just a rebel to society, I guess. You just spoke to my soul. Thank you for telling everyone about Wayback Machine. Yeah, that's interesting because I was surprised how much I could pull up. And there was a lot of times …
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Jim Jones' elementary best friend was the Richmond police chief. Do you know where he ended up? Where? He ended up in Chile as the trainer, just like they did out of Michigan State in Vietnam.…
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He dealt with various businesses. I bet he did. Probably all front companies for the intel agencies. In 1938, he was in Haiphong, French Indochina. And let me just tell you about Haiphong. I actually have pictures of this harbor. This is up…
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And who did he work for? Standard Oil. You know, the Rockefellers. No big deal. And he just happens to find his way into the OSS. And he married a Vietnamese woman and retired in 1937. In his report to OSS, Glass stated that, without doubt,…
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U.S. was not ready to operate inside of Vietnam with its own teams. And finally, the new Truman directive, it did not wish at this stage to quarrel with the French about the natives in Vietnam. Nevertheless, Finn called this operation, this…
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No equipment of arms will be given French Indochina under any circumstances. Food and medical supplies may be furnished on a humanitarian grounds, but it was not indicated that we should supply those. OSS may do as much as they can in Frenc…
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on his own. However, he accepted three French envoys to accompany them. July 16th, Thomas parachuted into Indochina with two American members, Pounier and Zelsky. They noticed that the Viet Minh guerrillas were armed with French rifles, a f…
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In the Deer team's first official report to Kunming, written only one day after his arrival, Thomas said flatly, forget the communist boogeyman. Viet Minh League are not communists. They stand for freedom and reform from the French harshnes…
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AID, and also the U.S. Information Agency, which is basically a propaganda arm of the CIA disguised as a State Department entity. So we left off with a guy by the name of Frank Scotton, S-C-O-T-T-O-N, who had basically been recruited into V…
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Had went to Thailand and Cambodia and all over the Southeast Asia, basically. We also met Everett Bumgartner, B-U-M-G-A-R-T-N-E-R, who was the chief of the U.S. Information Office field operations in Vietnam.…
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Again, these guys worked throughout the theater, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. And it's hard when you go back and understand the breadth of what went on to isolate any one program to just one country because a lot of the same people worked in al…
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had been the chief of psychological operations for the Southern Vietnamese Army. So during a period of about 10 years, Chau, spelt C-H-A-U, and Scott and Bumgartner and Van all became, in many ways, the face of the Phoenix program in South …
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had been the chief of psychological operations for the Southern Vietnamese Army. So during a period of about 10 years, Chau, spelt C-H-A-U, and Scott and Bumgartner and Van all became, in many ways, the face of the Phoenix program in South …
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In a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle, this is a quote. Frank Scotton was the originator of the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit Program, the predecessor to the Phoenix Program. For years, he worked closely with John Paul Vann.…
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a CIA operative who specialized, among other things, in Black propaganda, which involved him in murders, forgery, and outright deception of the American press in order to discredit the Northern forces and the nationalist forces inside of Vi…
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a CIA operative who specialized, among other things, in Black propaganda, which involved him in murders, forgery, and outright deception of the American press in order to discredit the Northern forces and the nationalist forces inside of Vi…
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a CIA operative who specialized, among other things, in Black propaganda, which involved him in murders, forgery, and outright deception of the American press in order to discredit the Northern forces and the nationalist forces inside of Vi…
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Everett Baumgardner was Colby's deputy in the theater and used to oversee pacification efforts in the central provinces of Vietnam. And if you guys recall the map we originally used, there was the north and central and south areas. Obviousl…
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Everett Baumgardner was Colby's deputy in the theater and used to oversee pacification efforts in the central provinces of Vietnam. And if you guys recall the map we originally used, there was the north and central and south areas. Obviousl…
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Everett Baumgardner was Colby's deputy in the theater and used to oversee pacification efforts in the central provinces of Vietnam. And if you guys recall the map we originally used, there was the north and central and south areas. Obviousl…
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like the people in the South, and it became a big contentious effort. So going on with the quote, any person who had the faintest knowledge of the pacification program would know what disasters have visited the Vietnamese people as a result…
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to talk about when Scotton arrived in Vietnam, Bumgardner assigned him to the Central Highlands. And no one really knew what was going on in that area. So it created a lot of cross signals. And even when somebody with some credibility, and …
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That spoke out about what was going on and how the Dem administration in the South was basically lying to the senior CIA and military people about like through interpreters, because a lot of these people are over there and they don't speak …
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That spoke out about what was going on and how the Dem administration in the South was basically lying to the senior CIA and military people about like through interpreters, because a lot of these people are over there and they don't speak …
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beholding to the interpreters. And there wasn't always accurate interpretations of what was going on. And one of the CIA officers, I'm not going to remember his name right off the top of my head, that was over there. But I did order a book …
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He tried to steer the operations towards what could have been a more successful, although not totally successful, outcome with a lot less dead bodies. But no matter who he talked to over there, it was as if they weren't interested in that a…
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He became very disillusioned because it was as if, and I firmly believe this, the U.S. strategy in Vietnam was to protract the engagement so that they could continue to harvest the poppy opium and feed their drug cartel network.…
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and also simultaneously continue what had started in Korea as both psychological operations and experiments on torture and things like that that was all done under the Phoenix program, the creation of the National Police through the Michiga…
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Scotton turned to the CIA's defector program, which in April 1963 was placed under the control of the Agency for International Development. That's the AID that I was just mentioning. That's the precursor to the USAID. They had what was refe…
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As part of the pilot program designed to induce defectors, Scotton, Walters, and Toy crossed the Nlau Valley, set up an ambush deep in Viet Cong territory and waited till dark. When they spotted a Viet Cong unit, Scotton yelled through a bu…
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that they had to divest themselves of, quote-unquote, untruths. Does that sound familiar? We said that certainly the U.S. perpetrated war crimes, but so did the Viet Cong. We acknowledged that the Viet Cong was a stronger force, but that di…
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that they had to divest themselves of, quote-unquote, untruths. Does that sound familiar? We said that certainly the U.S. perpetrated war crimes, but so did the Viet Cong. We acknowledged that the Viet Cong was a stronger force, but that di…
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like a battle that had been fought in 1955, all of the engagements over that past 10 years, because as soon as we left Korea, for those of you who don't know, we had military advisory groups in the form of a handful of military and a whole …
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So from the mid 1950s. And so in early 1963, 200 lightly armed Viet Cong guerrillas routed a force of 2,500 that had been advised by John Vann and supported with U.S. bombers and helicopters, which is ridiculous.…
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So from the mid 1950s. And so in early 1963, 200 lightly armed Viet Cong guerrillas routed a force of 2,500 that had been advised by John Vann and supported with U.S. bombers and helicopters, which is ridiculous.…
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at a ceremony in whose commemorating the 2,587th birthday of Buddha. The demonstration was led by a Buddhist priest, Trik Trai Kwa. It erupted on May 8th and Nhu sent a contingent to put it down. In doing so, they killed nine people, mostly…
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at a ceremony in whose commemorating the 2,587th birthday of Buddha. The demonstration was led by a Buddhist priest, Trik Trai Kwa. It erupted on May 8th and Nhu sent a contingent to put it down. In doing so, they killed nine people, mostly…
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at a ceremony in whose commemorating the 2,587th birthday of Buddha. The demonstration was led by a Buddhist priest, Trik Trai Kwa. It erupted on May 8th and Nhu sent a contingent to put it down. In doing so, they killed nine people, mostly…
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Official communiques blamed the Viet Cong terrorist, not the South, which it was the South, but the Buddhists knew better. They strengthened their alliance with the North and began organizing massive demonstrations. On June 11th, a Buddhist…
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Official communiques blamed the Viet Cong terrorist, not the South, which it was the South, but the Buddhists knew better. They strengthened their alliance with the North and began organizing massive demonstrations. On June 11th, a Buddhist…
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She was also referred to as the Dragon Lady, by the way. And then she is quoted as saying, we shall clap our hands. That's like, we shall eat cake kind of thing. Two months later, when Nhu negotiated with the North Vietnamese and the genera…
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She was also referred to as the Dragon Lady, by the way. And then she is quoted as saying, we shall clap our hands. That's like, we shall eat cake kind of thing. Two months later, when Nhu negotiated with the North Vietnamese and the genera…
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She was also referred to as the Dragon Lady, by the way. And then she is quoted as saying, we shall clap our hands. That's like, we shall eat cake kind of thing. Two months later, when Nhu negotiated with the North Vietnamese and the genera…
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the city's most sacred Buddhist shrine. Sound familiar? Buddhists immediately took up arms and began fighting. The spectacle was repeated across Vietnam as thousands of Buddhists were arrested and jailed and executed. In response, August 21…
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and among others, one of the military generals known as Big Min, who had the backing of the many people throughout the military. Then two other colonels joined the plot, and in October, President Kennedy suspended economic aid. The Pope ord…
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As plotters swirled around them, Nhu and Dem instructed the Vietnamese Special Forces Chief, Colonel Le Quang Thong, to prepare a counter-coup. But Thong was summoned to a senior officer's club at the Joint General Staff Headquarters and sh…
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As plotters swirled around them, Nhu and Dem instructed the Vietnamese Special Forces Chief, Colonel Le Quang Thong, to prepare a counter-coup. But Thong was summoned to a senior officer's club at the Joint General Staff Headquarters and sh…
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withdraw the special forces under his command from Saigon. The CIA-controlled palace guard vacated the premises, and the military began arresting Dem loyalists. Knowing the end was near, Nguyen Dem fled to a friend's house nearby, then soug…
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all U.S. advisors from Vietnam. Three days after Kennedy's death, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed NSA Memorandum 273 authorizing an increase in covert military operations in North Vietnam. Conceived in secrecy, the ensuing policy of prov…
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was formed in Saigon to implement O-Plan 34, and attacks against the North Vietnamese began in February from Phoenix Island off the coast of Da Nang. So, July 1964, the SOG, which is the Special Operations Group, achieved its goal of creati…
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Elton Mazzoni and Kenny Van Lesser led 20 South Vietnamese Marines in a raid against Hung My Island, H-O-N-M-E Island. Dropped on the wrong side of the island, Mazzoni and Van Lesser failed to knock out their target, which was a North Vietn…
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The generals of Dem and the CIA surfaced as the new chief of state, and his name was Duan Van Minh, M-I-N-H. That was the guy called Big Minh. He appointed a whole bunch of other Vietnamese generals who have very difficult names to say. And…
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And so, for example, one plan, Operation Haylift, was set up for smuggling opium on one of those generals' black flights, revealed that the CIA had been sending teams into the North since July 1963. Dem spy chief, a Dr. Tuen, T-U-Y-E-N,…
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Several of the other people went into exile in France. And in the wake of the coup, according to Frank Scotton, administrative paralysis began to sit in in the South. The Viet Cong exploited this by physically dismantling strategic smaller …
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Several of the other people went into exile in France. And in the wake of the coup, according to Frank Scotton, administrative paralysis began to sit in in the South. The Viet Cong exploited this by physically dismantling strategic smaller …
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their Buddhist roots. It was an experiment. So even though the road leading from Saigon to John Vann's headquarters was unsafe, in December 1963, Baumgartner sent Scotton to a nearby province a few miles south of Saigon. Scotton brought alo…
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their Buddhist roots. It was an experiment. So even though the road leading from Saigon to John Vann's headquarters was unsafe, in December 1963, Baumgartner sent Scotton to a nearby province a few miles south of Saigon. Scotton brought alo…
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erase any good that they thought they were doing. The mission of these survey teams, according to Scotton, was, quote, intelligence, not an attack on the Viet Cong. But Longan, L-O-N-G-A-N, proved the viability of small units. I felt confid…
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were then the method generated useful reports, unquote. This is the very thing that that guy, whose book and name I can't remember right now, said was absolute bullshit. This did not work at all. With them dead, three quarters of South Viet…
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And the CIA hired them. But it was an American war now with the structure and enthusiasm at an all-time low, making it harder than ever to wage political warfare. Because keep in mind, with them being dead, the forced Christianization of…
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The South, under the guise of the Catholic Church, died with him because that was a minority the entire time. These are majority Buddhist people, and they are using a political system that basically died with them.…
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using the relics of this Catholicism relocation of all of those people down to the south as kind of their wedge into these villages. But keep in mind, we've already talked about how they took entire villages and burnt them to the ground and…
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basically encouraged the snitching on neighbors. That sounds familiar too. Soon after the coup, the Viet Cong controlled most of the countryside and the Vietnamese bureau investigations had little role to play outside of Saigon proper.…
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had begun only one month earlier when General Wes Moreland arrived in Saigon as the military advisory commander. And in an effort to strengthen the American hand, he assigned military advisors to each of the South Vietnamese 250 districts. …
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So he was the quintessential CIA officer, very calculating. And when the author met him in 1986, Donahue was working as a representative for a Filipino construction company. When he arrived in Saigon 22 years before that during the Vietnam …
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like bought lock, stock and barrel Thailand. Maybe that's why there's so much pedophilia over there now. Just a thought. So anyway, when he arrived in Saigon, he replaced a guy by the name of Cliff Strathern. S-T-R-A-T-H-E-R-N.…
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of the Vietnamese special forces. So they set up a counterpart basically to mirror what the special operations group, the SOG, had already set up. The birth of the police special branch coincided with another program, and that was that paci…
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because they had several thousand people in Saigon in the police force. And there was basically seven provinces that were in the local jurisdiction of Saigon proper. And there wasn't a lot of coordination among them. So they wanted to come …
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In provinces, the public safety advised policemen to establish curfews and regulate the movement of people. So they also were going to combine the police and paramilitary programs and teach the police to be able to interrogate people the sa…
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Because they're going to die. The first districts gotten entered to search for recruits for this new program was a village that was between Saigon and the major military airport so that it was close enough that they could travel to the trai…
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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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excuse me, Joseph McChristian, MC, and then the word Christian, who arrived in Saigon in 1965, basically recognized what was going on and how this type of operation could kind of basically backfire on them. And he's the one that increasingl…
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dealing with all of this internal fighting. And it says a priority that was reversed two years later under the Phoenix program. In the meantime, he was trying to reinforce the national police that was headquartered in Saigon and smooth out …
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Anthony Herbert, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, tells how he reported for duty with the Special Operations Group in Saigon in November 65 and was asked to join a top secret PSYOPs war program. Quote, what they wanted me to do was to take charge of executio…
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but I think anybody that does this stuff, quite frankly, is flaky. So he was just a little bit more flaky than normal. He was petrified of being in Vietnam. So he wouldn't live in the province that he was assigned to work in under Brigham's…
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But they basically would disappear on him. And so they were very frustrated with how all of this was working. Let's see. All right. So moving on. In the summer of 1966, steps finally began being taken in Washington and Saigon to end the deb…
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OCOs, regional directors, were assigned in all of those different cores and same old people just reshuffle the deck that we've done like we're on iteration number seven if you're counting. They were given four months to show results and of …
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reshaped, and even though nothing was achieved in terms of pacification, the formation of the Office of Civil Operations spared the military commander, Wes Moreland, from having to reorganize the civilian agencies himself. So in March of 67…
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We had thought that if they had bombed Saigon, Hanoi and Haiphong Harbor simultaneously, that Vietnam would have fell. And I think that the collateral damage was the reason. I just wanted your opinion on that, please. Well, I mean, at some …
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America's first look to many of the people in Saigon. And for four years, they dared not denounce the mass arrest or the fact that there was a room, and this came out in some leaked documents, there was a room in the Saigon Zoo that was use…
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inflicting heavy casualties on the Vietnamese who resisted. Fearing that rampaging French might massacre the entire city, the emperor abrogated ownership of three provinces adjacent to Saigon, along with Can Son Island, where the French imm…
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the National Liberation Front, and the Liberation Army, which the South called the Viet Cong, as basically an insult to the Viet Minh who were the nationalists. So this organization had marching orders to set up six regional committees in t…
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as well as the central authorities in the north. When operations were mounted against it, the central committee slipped into what was referred to as the Iron Triangle north of Saigon and into the famous Coochie Tunnels. Regardless of where …
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B-A-B-I-N-E-A-U, to provide the people and the equipment required to put the CIO in business. Colonel Nguyen Van Nguyen was named chief. A building in Saigon was selected as its headquarters, and he recruited his staff from the Can Lao that…
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Because that's critically important. So one of the things that you're going to notice is there's two terms that are used to describe the nationalistic efforts in Vietnam. One of them, and the original one, was Viet Minh. So you spell it V-I…
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Someone that the U.S. was supporting like a Chiang Kai-shek because Viet Minh was a nationalistic group that simply wanted a cohesive country, a united North and South, which it was at the time. And let me go back. They wanted to unite the …
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Prior to the French arriving, it had the sections of tribes there under a royalty situation. So France administered Vietnam as an entire entity. And once they were there, the resistance to the imperialistic French colony and then subsequent…
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the overthrow of French imperialism, Vietnamese feudalism, and reactionary bourgeois, which is like the elite. Number two, to make Indochina completely independent. Number three, to establish a government of workers, soldiers, and peasants.…
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you know, like we don't want China owning our property, and the Vietnamese reactionary bourgeois, which means the ones that were bought off by the French, and distribute that to the poor peasants, which is where it came from. Six, to implem…
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that they did not want the French back in after having fought beside the allies, mainly the U.S., during World War II against Japan, who had basically kicked the French out and had occupied Vietnam. Anybody in their right minds looking this…
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I don't know about you, but other than maybe the limited eight hour a day, those all pretty much sounds like what the United States agenda is. Right. Especially now that we're demanding no foreign governments own any of our farmland. I don'…
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As the terminology, someone's going to stumble across that list of demands and go, what the hell are we doing in Vietnam for then? Why wouldn't we want that for those people? Right. So let me read you a little bit about their history and wh…
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In time, it evolved into a significant political movement and a military force, strong enough to defeat the French. Viet Minh, and the United States eventually, Viet Minh was formed in the 1940s as a nationalistic group seeking Vietnamese i…
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As in other Asian countries, Vietnamese nationalism was largely a product of the early 20th century, you know, because they actually believed our rhetoric. And at the time this is going on, and this is the most critical point that I will ma…
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was institute martial law and he didn't do any of those 10 things given the chance and all of our money he didn't do any of those things so that is the nuts and bolts of the disconnect and why was that well ho chi minh could not be controll…