Covert defoliation program in Cambodia operation
also: covert defoliation program, defoliation program
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Thomas Pickering covered_up
Covert defoliation program in Cambodia book_quoted
“basically influenced Shanonuk to talk publicly in July and August about accepting U.S. aid again and inviting the U.S. back in. After being questioned by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, Thomas Pickering of the State Department, who …”
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and reopen relationships with a hostile U.S. bureaucracy represented a historical process that had been considerably accelerated by U.S. covert operations. From early 1964, but with particular intensity in 69, U.S. planes from South Vietnam…
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No, no, the CIA wasn't doing that. The fact that the CIA's front company, Air America, had airplanes equipped to do that very thing and you were paying for it allows you to get in front of Congress and say, we didn't do it. They weren't ask…
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And pilots were involved since Air America officials have admitted to extensive defoliation programs having been flown, you know, in every other country but this one during this one time. They flew them in Thailand. They flew them in Taiwan…
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Henry Kissinger and Nixon ordered bombing strikes against bases in Cambodia. In other words, secret strikes for the two months of the covert defoliation program were ordered by the advisor, who is chairman of the National Security Council S…