Kham Province place
also: province of Kam, K-H-A-M
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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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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…
▶ 7:31
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…
▶ 7:54
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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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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by the province that he was going to visit. Scotton set about seeing what was wrong and getting a fix for these small villages. And he did this by using small armed teams seeking information. Working with American province advisors, Scotton…
▶ 29:27
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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And there were no more prohibitions on taking CIA money, and the time was ripe for quote-unquote local initiatives. Local officials, along with the legions of Dem loyalists purged from the government after the coup, were hired by the CIA an…
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Scotton's program, which sold local initiatives to province chiefs by paying them off. So, as if all of that's not messed up enough, behind every province chief was a CIA paramilitary officer promoting and organizing the CIA's three-part co…
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What did exist were private armies, like what was called the Sea Swallows, S-W-A-L-L-O-W-S. And those belong to specific sects. It was from these groups, as well as jails and northern defector programs, that Mackham recruited his counterter…
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The composition of these teams differed from province to province, depending on what form of opposition they encountered. Also, it was tailored to the specific province chief because they didn't want to piss him off either. The biggest cont…
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In 1953, Chinese road surveyors in the province of Kam, K-H-A-M, on the eastern Tibetan plateau began talking of reform. The Tibetan governor, I'm not even going to try to say his name, could find no support in the capital of Tibet. The Dal…