Montagnards organization
also: Hong tribesmen, Montegard, Montegards, Montaguards
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Laoscountry · 2Luc Luong Doc Bienorganization · 2Viet Congorganization · 1Mountain Scoutsorganization · 1CIAintelligence service · 1Can Lao Partyorganization · 1Hueplace · 1Stuart Methvenperson · 1Trần Quốc Bửuperson · 1Ralph Johnsonperson · 1Operation Gladiooperation · 1
Claims (2)
Luc Luong Doc Bien member_of
Montagnards documented
“tribal groups, the villagers of Buon Inu agreed to accept American arms and training. Men from the Vietnamese Special Forces, officially called the Luc Luong Doc Bien, or the LLDB, were included in these missions from the beginning, in theo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 48:49
CIA trained
Montagnards book_quoted
“And unlike the normal army, they stayed at their posts at night because that was their job. With Powell's consent, Methvin arranged for a CIA contract employee to start training these counter-terrorist units at this island estate. This was …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 25:37
Mentions (9)
▶ 24:39
Beau's estate had been used by the French as a transshipment point for opium. And there was a terrorist training camp set up there for their Montegard training operation. Beau himself had used Catlo, C-A-T-L-O, as a training camp for his ow…
▶ 27:07
And so the Montegards had basically mutinied against many of the special forces officers in at least four districts that they could trace. And that required basically the CIA to go in and deal with these guys because they couldn't have anyb…
▶ 39:53
officers there, Stu Methven, M-E-T-H-V-E-N, who followed Johnson from Laos to Hu in early 1961. The Mountain Scouts were a unilateral CIA operation managed by CIA-funded province and district chiefs. The Scouts were composed of Hong tribesm…
▶ 46:05
purposely kept its counterterrorism and political action to a very small group of people. With the militarization of the Mountain Scout program, hunter-killer teams first appeared on the scene. They were composed of two or three Montagnards…
▶ 47:25
Knowing that an act of selective terror against one Montagnard would send the whole village scurrying to a refugee center or a strategic hamlet where they would then be recruited into these teams, the counterterror teams began disguising th…
▶ 48:19
directly rather than as advisors in the fact that the lowland Vietnamese had little affinity for many of the tribes which were in the area like the Montegards and were at first willing to give the CIA and special forces the free hand. The p…
▶ 48:49
tribal groups, the villagers of Buon Inu agreed to accept American arms and training. Men from the Vietnamese Special Forces, officially called the Luc Luong Doc Bien, or the LLDB, were included in these missions from the beginning, in theo…
▶ 49:19
The LLDB had a lot of interplay with the Green Berets. By December 1961, the Montegards had cleared out an enclave containing 40 villages and 14,000 tribesmen. The American had armed 975 as village defenders and 300 more into mobile strike …
▶ 1:03:26
The lieutenant colonel, when I asked him if he was the river rat, that's where the name river rats come from. They basically had a success rate of 20 percent. The overall effort in the north consumed great resources for very little gain. Th…