John Hart person
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Claims (16)
John Hart headed
Project Cirrus book_quoted
“Renewed contacts with the Americans and selected Tibetans for CIA training outside their country. The Tibetans joined up in February of 1957. Headquarters' emphasis on Tibet shifted slightly when John Hart took over the Far East Division. B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 38:36
John Hart member_of
Congo Task Force documented
“dictum was the first team should go to Vietnam. And given the dominance of Cuban operations in the early 1960s, CIA's next station chief was John Hart from the Cuba Task Force. Now, again, remember that the entire Cuba Task Force was set up…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 6:11
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
John Hart involved_in
Wurlitzer operations 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
John Hart involved_in
Operation Gladio 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
John Hart carried_out_attack
Dalai Lama documented
“He was actually the guy in charge of the task force that moved the Dalai Lama into India. Hart had headed CIA stations in Thailand in the early 50s, which means he was setting up the drug operation, and in Morocco later, where all kinds of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 7:42
John Hart headed
Thailand documented
“He was actually the guy in charge of the task force that moved the Dalai Lama into India. Hart had headed CIA stations in Thailand in the early 50s, which means he was setting up the drug operation, and in Morocco later, where all kinds of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 7:42
John Hart headed
Morocco documented
“He was actually the guy in charge of the task force that moved the Dalai Lama into India. Hart had headed CIA stations in Thailand in the early 50s, which means he was setting up the drug operation, and in Morocco later, where all kinds of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 7:42
John Hart founded
Vũng Tàu documented
“had little stomach for paramilitary operations, but that's bullshit because he had participated in multiple countries in multiple stay-behind operations. He opened a training center at Vontau and recruited counter-terror teams. I would argu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 8:45
John Hart funded
South Vietnamese labor unions documented
“By the spring of 1966, there were more than 3,000 armed men in his program. Hart also emphasized political action, providing funds and specialists to South Vietnamese labor unions. He also had expertise in Vietnamese writing a new constitut…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 9:13
John Hart involved_in
Tibetan operation 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
John Hart exposed
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“But I am also not going to go out and these people know that I know this stuff. And I mean, John Harold put it in his movie, the movie that they released. Operation Gladio is there. He even mentions Paul Williams.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 1:55:41
John Hart member_of
CIA book_quoted
“fought in Korea, was attached to the CIA in 1966 and was used as General Loan's advisor. As an officer on General James Van Fleet's staff in Korea, Kempura had had prior dealings with John Hart, who was the station chief in Korea before he …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:16:49
John Hart removed_from_power
Nguyen Cao Ky book_quoted
“First, his supervision of the military security service, and eventually he took over control of the Central Intelligence Organization altogether inside of Lone's authority. And eventually Lone ran them both, along with the National Police. …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:18:22
John Hart appointed
CIA book_quoted
“And so this Jorgensen guy who had been his deputy takes over as the CIA station chief. So there's another guy that by the name of John Hart and he ends up taking over shortly. So the De Silva guy doesn't last very long. So John Hart comes i…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 14:24
John Hart member_of
CIA documented
“This enabled the party to communicate to the nearby resistant efforts. CIA officer John Noss maintains that Tibetan agents were in communication with CIA headquarters and provided daily reports to the CIA beginning March 25th. Branch chief …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 32:08
Mentions (32)
▶ 1:39:00
The octopus murders. And when I was listening to that, I had my Gladio glasses on. And I was like, whoa, wait a minute here. This could be connected to what you're. No, it is. So this is my frustration. And I love John Harold. I love all th…
▶ 1:51:54
eyes have been opened real wide now to, and we're more keen on what's going on. I don't know if you've ever thought of this, but I think that the baseless conspiracies should actually be you. And, you know, I forgot the other gentleman's na…
▶ 1:52:24
You know, it should be the two of you going through all of these because everything that he brings up basically is a Gladio operation, you know, that he brings up for ideas. So I think it would be a great idea. I mean, that might be somethi…
▶ 1:55:41
But I am also not going to go out and these people know that I know this stuff. And I mean, John Harold put it in his movie, the movie that they released. Operation Gladio is there. He even mentions Paul Williams.…
▶ 14:24
And so this Jorgensen guy who had been his deputy takes over as the CIA station chief. So there's another guy that by the name of John Hart and he ends up taking over shortly. So the De Silva guy doesn't last very long. So John Hart comes i…
▶ 14:56
So this Brigham guy describes him as a guy with a strong criminal tendency, but too coward to actually be a criminal. So they go in the CIA and act like a criminal there with the protection of the U.S. government. And that's the category th…
▶ 15:27
You know, whatever you want to do. So he also is described him as an egomaniac and says he was real. He's like over six feet tall. So he was very boisterous and domineering. And he spoke fluent French with kind of a British accent or whatev…
▶ 15:54
He would use the French as an arrogant thing because a lot of the Vietnamese spoke French because, of course, they'd been occupied by France for so long. And he basically used it to exclude people in the CIA that he didn't like in conversat…
▶ 16:56
One of the things about the CIA that I've come to appreciate is when they go into a new job, a lot of them have worked together in other areas, in other countries. And so they have these informal cliques. And one of the guys that was there …
▶ 17:27
And so there was shenanigans played about who's going to get what job. Brigham is quoted as saying, there's a great division in the foreign service world between people who get out on the economy and try to eat native and find out what's go…
▶ 17:54
golden ghetto people. And they're more afraid to mix with the locals. And so there was some kind of rivalry between Hart accusing this Brigham guy as being one of those golden people when he was actually the exact opposite. So after they ki…
▶ 28:03
The main difference between foreign intelligence and paramilitary in this conversation was the fact that we had region officers, but the paramilitary people worked directly out of Saigon. And it was a situation that Hart wanted to stop beca…
▶ 28:32
So you can't separate those two. You can't have a guy that you're holding responsible for penetrating Viet Cong activity in a province where you have only the intelligence going on here. And then the actual action of that intelligence is be…
▶ 1:16:49
fought in Korea, was attached to the CIA in 1966 and was used as General Loan's advisor. As an officer on General James Van Fleet's staff in Korea, Kempura had had prior dealings with John Hart, who was the station chief in Korea before he …
▶ 1:17:51
We're dealing with an enigma, a cobra, General Lone, unquote. He went on to say, Lone had a Mandarin Dai Biat background and his father had rescued Dem. Consequently, under Kai, Lone was very powerful and Hart resented Lone's concentration …
▶ 1:18:22
First, his supervision of the military security service, and eventually he took over control of the Central Intelligence Organization altogether inside of Lone's authority. And eventually Lone ran them both, along with the National Police. …
▶ 1:20:21
Lone wanted control. Lone said to Hart, you join us, we will not join you. In effect, Lone told Hart to go screw himself. And so Hart wanted me to go kind of work out the difference. But General Lone, a dye-in-the-wool nationalist, had his …
▶ 1:23:30
that selectively snatches its prey is emblematic of this entire organization. So nowhere is the gap between American and Vietnamese sensitivities more apparent than in their interpretation of Phoenix and the Phong Hong doctrine, which also …
▶ 38:36
Renewed contacts with the Americans and selected Tibetans for CIA training outside their country. The Tibetans joined up in February of 1957. Headquarters' emphasis on Tibet shifted slightly when John Hart took over the Far East Division. B…
▶ 32:08
This enabled the party to communicate to the nearby resistant efforts. CIA officer John Noss maintains that Tibetan agents were in communication with CIA headquarters and provided daily reports to the CIA beginning March 25th. Branch chief …
▶ 6:11
dictum was the first team should go to Vietnam. And given the dominance of Cuban operations in the early 1960s, CIA's next station chief was John Hart from the Cuba Task Force. Now, again, remember that the entire Cuba Task Force was set up…
▶ 7:10
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. …
▶ 7:42
He was actually the guy in charge of the task force that moved the Dalai Lama into India. Hart had headed CIA stations in Thailand in the early 50s, which means he was setting up the drug operation, and in Morocco later, where all kinds of …
▶ 8:12
He was raised in Albania and Iraq, and his dad was a member of the State Department. Both had served in Italy. Hart had been born in Minneapolis across the river from William Colby's twin city, St. Paul. And by all accounts, the Asian baron…
▶ 8:45
had little stomach for paramilitary operations, but that's bullshit because he had participated in multiple countries in multiple stay-behind operations. He opened a training center at Vontau and recruited counter-terror teams. I would argu…
▶ 9:13
By the spring of 1966, there were more than 3,000 armed men in his program. Hart also emphasized political action, providing funds and specialists to South Vietnamese labor unions. He also had expertise in Vietnamese writing a new constitut…
▶ 10:17
Lansdale functioned as an intelligence collector. He left soon after the enemy's 1968 Tet Offensive. William Colby and John Hart shared Lansdale's perception that the road to success lay in winning, quote unquote, hearts and minds. And you …
▶ 11:17
As Hart later said, quote, we had only the vaguest notion of how many people lived in the country and that there was certainly no way of taking a census because of the war, unquote. Hart tried his best. In fact, one of the pacification init…
▶ 11:47
They were dispersed into villages to find out not only how many people were there, but what they were saying about Saigon and who they sided with. This is the Phoenix program. This is them building those villages and setting up a computer s…
▶ 12:20
to coincide with military command zones. They could connect the Saigon police special branch in their areas and take care of CIA activities. The regional officers were followed by CIA people appointed for each of the different provinces. Ne…
▶ 13:19
and exploitation. He definitely was exploiting the Vietnamese people. It was a direct precursor to the Phoenix program. Hart, temporarily sidelined by eye problems from strenuously playing tennis, did not participate in the late 1967 meetin…
▶ 14:23
to collect more data. The new paramilitary force, the Provincial Reconnaissance Units, those were called PRUs, became the CIA's enforcement mechanism, but South Vietnamese police and military units were side by side with them in the adventu…