Indochina place
also: French Indochina, Indochina, southern Vietnam, the north, Vietnam
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Claims (6)
Japan invaded
Indochina documented
“For this purpose, in 1940, Japan invaded French Indochina, declaring Asia for Asians. So, Japan invaded basically Vietnam and any other area that French had taken and colonized. And basically, Japan was saying, get out of here. You're not A…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 5:01
Lucien Conein operated_in
Indochina book_quoted
“parachuting into Indochina, doing all kinds of secretive, nefarious things. Indochina would remain Koenig's base of operation long after World War II, like E. Howard Hunt. He slid over from the OSS to the CIA. He operated throughout South a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 4:38
Michel de Camaret moved_to
Indochina host_asserted
“Camaray left the service to pursue a diplomatic career and in 1945 found himself posted as the second secretary to the British embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Only two years later, he's back in uniform, having rejoined the military and volunteer…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 31:25
CIA operated_in
Indochina host_asserted
“To keep that last. So while that's going on and that's getting narrow and narrower, the CIA was inserting stay behind teams throughout the entire country. And they were using the Catholic Church as cover in Vietnam. That's where you have th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 49:49
Mafia trafficked
Indochina host_asserted
“during the entire time the French occupied Vietnam. That's where they were getting the preponderance of their opium from. Once Ben Ben Phu falls, the Corsican Mafia has to change gears and they go to Turkey, Northern Iran, and one other cou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 50:47
First Indochina War about
Indochina structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'First Indochina War' is a work/event about 'Indochina'…”
Mentions (15)
▶ 46:09
knowledge. Because again, it's just speaking to my heart. And it's something that I'd never heard before. Miss Lou, go ahead. Thank you so much, Colonel. I love when you talk statecraft and connect all the dots. Oh my God, it just gets craz…
▶ 47:04
for the entire french war in vietnam um that's where lucy and koenig came from the guy that ends up at um intertel and the dirty dozen in washington dc that's embedded with br fox the weapons the covert weapons manufacturer um lucy and koen…
▶ 47:30
He's from France and he was part of the French contingent in Vietnam during the colonial time with France. And so for those of you who don't know, Vietnam had been a French colony for a very long time, like 100 years. World War II comes aro…
▶ 47:59
And so those elements were in Vietnam at the end of the war. And the Ho Chi Minh, who was in the North fighting against the Japanese, had his own OSS detachment. He had his own soon to be CIA handlers that was helping him fight the Japanese…
▶ 48:29
Now, again, an entire French contingent is still in southern Vietnam helping the Japanese. So Ho Chi Minh, the whole idea of unifying Vietnam post-World War II was to hold a nationwide election. Everybody agreed to it except for the U.S. Th…
▶ 48:58
The French were licking their wounds post-World War II. And they're like, no, we don't really want to stay here. Just let them have their country back. And the U.S. insisted that they recolonize Vietnam. And we paid up to 78% of the price t…
▶ 49:23
We flew 100% of the airlift missions into Benbenfu, which Ho Chi Minh eventually gets them cornered into Benbenfu. That's the only French left in the country. And it's a massacre. We provided the entire aircraft, supplies, munitions, everyt…
▶ 49:49
To keep that last. So while that's going on and that's getting narrow and narrower, the CIA was inserting stay behind teams throughout the entire country. And they were using the Catholic Church as cover in Vietnam. That's where you have th…
▶ 50:19
And some of the remaining operatives in intelligence that were the nefarious part of France associated with Gladio stays in country of Vietnam undercover with the CIA and helps them. And Lucien Koenig was one of them because they too had be…
▶ 50:47
during the entire time the French occupied Vietnam. That's where they were getting the preponderance of their opium from. Once Ben Ben Phu falls, the Corsican Mafia has to change gears and they go to Turkey, Northern Iran, and one other cou…
▶ 51:15
for their new source of opium. Afghanistan, of course, duh. So the Corsican mafia is still in the opium business, even though they lost control of Vietnam and the CIA basically gains control of that source of opium from then on. So yes, the…
▶ 1:03:09
because of the times we live in. That's kind of dumb of me. But more importantly, I just wanted to say two things about the French stuff in Vietnam. One, our good buddy Desmond Fitzgerald, you know, he was in Southeast Asia for CIA at a hig…
▶ 9:40
That conversation included a massive payoff from those in the Army Service Club scandals in Vietnam during 69 or 1970. The aide says that the Service Club ripoffs involved the mafia and millions of dollars, and that the main focus of the in…
▶ 58:52
Had the OSS been formed yet? Correct. Okay. No, but they're talking about the War Department. So they're talking about the G2 function, which is intelligence. I just wanted everybody to know that. Very good. At a war cabinet meeting at noon…
▶ 59:55
Okay, continuing. It was the consensus of everybody that this must not be allowed. Then we discussed how to prevent it. It was agreed that if the Japanese got into the isthmus of Krah, the British would fight. It was also agreed that if the…