Stuart Methven person
also: Stu Methven, Methin, Methvin
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Claims (4)
Stuart Methven recruited
Mountain Scouts host_asserted
“Methven began extracting the most aggressive individuals from mountain scout teams and hiring mercenaries, often Vietnamese criminals or Chinese criminals, to act as counter-terrorists and to do to the Viet Cong and their propaganda teams w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 42:17
Stuart Methven recruited
Vang Pao documented
“involving counter-terrorism teams, pacification teams, and political action. But Methvin had earned the greatest acclaims for recruiting Vang Pao for the secret war in Laos. He had been controller of the Vietnamese officer and politico Tran…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 50:52
Stuart Methven spied_on
Tran Nolk Cha documented
“involving counter-terrorism teams, pacification teams, and political action. But Methvin had earned the greatest acclaims for recruiting Vang Pao for the secret war in Laos. He had been controller of the Vietnamese officer and politico Tran…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 50:52
Stuart Methven overbilled_or_diverted
CIA book_quoted
“In one instance, Methvin went along with Mubato's demands for $2 million from the CIA to buy a Ziaran C-130 worth less than a third of that, though Langley rejected the scam. The Americans also acquired a pair of swift boats for the FNLA to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 53:23
Mentions (12)
▶ 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…
▶ 41:53
and was done by their paramilitary element. Now, a special assistant to the vice president for the Center of Naval Analysis, Methin, the guy that was in charge of all of this, co-managed the Mountain Scout program with Ralph Johnson from 61…
▶ 42:17
Methven began extracting the most aggressive individuals from mountain scout teams and hiring mercenaries, often Vietnamese criminals or Chinese criminals, to act as counter-terrorists and to do to the Viet Cong and their propaganda teams w…
▶ 44:10
At that point, Ralph Johnson was transferred to Saigon as an advisor to the government officials down there. And the CIA station chief of covert action, Cliff Strathern, S-T-R-A-T-H-E-R-N, was assigned Methvin to task the selling of this mo…
▶ 44:39
like dozens of CIA contract officers to help with the whole implementation. So selling the Mountain Scout program to province chief, what he called fostering local initiatives was easy. Methvin recalled, quote, because we gave them money an…
▶ 49:55
as a cat's paw to advance his own interest in Angola. When we were looking into this, there's some family relationship between Roberto and Mubato. And I don't remember exactly what it is, but that's the reason why he was actually living in …
▶ 50:23
Handled relations with the FNLA in Mobato. Matt's been a covert project man par excellence. A member of the first class to graduate from Camp Perry was a Langley legend. His exploits in Southeast Asia ranged from training DM spooks in 1950s…
▶ 50:52
involving counter-terrorism teams, pacification teams, and political action. But Methvin had earned the greatest acclaims for recruiting Vang Pao for the secret war in Laos. He had been controller of the Vietnamese officer and politico Tran…
▶ 51:21
eventually jailed him. The CIA failed to protect Chow, and the young Turk blew Methvin's cover. That upset the spy's son, who learned his father's occupation in the New York Times. By then deputy chief in Indonesia, Methvin watched General …
▶ 51:51
John Stockwell fought alongside the Hmong in Laos and had also been in service with Methvin. But their relations soured over Project Feature. Stockwell saw Methvin as far too willing to pander to Joseph Mubato, presiding over payoffs and ba…
▶ 52:50
This is the precursor because Afghan's next. So no one should be surprised. This is what always happens. Stockwell also saw Jim Potts as weak. Meanwhile, Methvin solved the problems of an Air Force by simply expedient, rewarding defectors w…
▶ 53:23
In one instance, Methvin went along with Mubato's demands for $2 million from the CIA to buy a Ziaran C-130 worth less than a third of that, though Langley rejected the scam. The Americans also acquired a pair of swift boats for the FNLA to…