Frank Scotton person
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Claims (13)
Everett Bumgartner introduced
Frank Scotton host_asserted
“that were in the CIA, later came back as ambassadors to these countries after having orchestrated some of this horrific garbage in the country. A number of them did that. So Bumgartner introduced Scotton to a man called John Paul Vann, who …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 4:43
Frank Scotton worked_with
John Paul Vann book_quoted
“In a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle, this is a quote. Frank Scotton was the originator of the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit Program, the predecessor to the Phoenix Program. For years, he worked closely with John Paul Vann.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 6:15
Everett Bumgartner assigned
Frank Scotton book_quoted
“to talk about when Scotton arrived in Vietnam, Bumgardner assigned him to the Central Highlands. And no one really knew what was going on in that area. So it created a lot of cross signals. And even when somebody with some credibility, and …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 7:54
Frank Scotton worked_with
Nguyen Thanh book_quoted
“which stood for Open Arms Amnesty Program. There, Scotton found the raw material he needed to prove the viability of political action programs. Together with Vietnamese Special Forces, a guy by the name of Captain Nguyen Thuy, T-U-Y, he was…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 13:17
Frank Scotton worked_through
Mountain Scouts book_quoted
“and commanded the 4th Special Ops Detachment, Toy's case officer, U.S. Special Forces Captain Howard Walters, who had also spent quite a bit of time in the Korean War and did PSYOPs over there as well, Scotton worked through an extension ca…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 13:45
Frank Scotton crossed
Nlau Valley book_quoted
“As part of the pilot program designed to induce defectors, Scotton, Walters, and Toy crossed the Nlau Valley, set up an ambush deep in Viet Cong territory and waited till dark. When they spotted a Viet Cong unit, Scotton yelled through a bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 14:13
Frank Scotton founded
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“is to drive them out of those places into refugee camps, yet again, because they have to demoralize the people to be able to control the people. So, February 1964, Frank Scotton was working on what Ogden Williams, the senior American adviso…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 40:29
Frank Scotton member_of
Austrian Information Service host_asserted
“was going to perform the same type of propaganda. It was just going to pretend like it's another entity. And they brought in the quote-unquote American Way crusade, basically setting up TVs, radio stations, satellites, posters, all of that …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:05:59
Frank Scotton member_of
Austrian Information Service book_quoted
“to create Agent Net, unquote, just like what I said. After passing the Foreign Service exam, Scotton was persuaded by a patron to join the Information Service, which dealt with people and observed them from a distance, which is basically ki…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:08:27
Frank Scotton carried_out_attack
Khmer Rouge book_quoted
“And he said that he had just been on a mission where they eliminated a bunch of Khmer Rouge guerrillas with the CIA. So, according to Scotton, he arrived in Saigon in November 1962. He met and was, let's see, he was met by Everett Bumgartne…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:09:28
Frank Scotton founded
Provisional Reconnaissance Units book_quoted
“came to symbolize the Phoenix program in its duplicitous nature. Scott Baumgartner and Vann are described by Novin Long in a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle. And this is a quote from that book. Frank Scotton was the originator o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:11:28
Frank Scotton exposed
Revolutionary Development Program book_quoted
“and to make constant efforts in study in order to progress in behavior, education, and techniques, unquote. This is frickin' scary as shit. Scotton's biggest complaint, however, was that the shift from intelligence and displacement to civic…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 52:04
Frank Scotton recruited
CIA host_asserted
“AID, and also the U.S. Information Agency, which is basically a propaganda arm of the CIA disguised as a State Department entity. So we left off with a guy by the name of Frank Scotton, S-C-O-T-T-O-N, who had basically been recruited into V…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 2:47
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AID, and also the U.S. Information Agency, which is basically a propaganda arm of the CIA disguised as a State Department entity. So we left off with a guy by the name of Frank Scotton, S-C-O-T-T-O-N, who had basically been recruited into V…
▶ 5:42
had been the chief of psychological operations for the Southern Vietnamese Army. So during a period of about 10 years, Chau, spelt C-H-A-U, and Scott and Bumgartner and Van all became, in many ways, the face of the Phoenix program in South …
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In a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle, this is a quote. Frank Scotton was the originator of the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit Program, the predecessor to the Phoenix Program. For years, he worked closely with John Paul Vann.…
▶ 7:31
like the people in the South, and it became a big contentious effort. So going on with the quote, any person who had the faintest knowledge of the pacification program would know what disasters have visited the Vietnamese people as a result…
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to talk about when Scotton arrived in Vietnam, Bumgardner assigned him to the Central Highlands. And no one really knew what was going on in that area. So it created a lot of cross signals. And even when somebody with some credibility, and …
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It all stems from this period. So going on. So you've got Bumgardner, you've got Scott, and they're all basically setting up this program. And it said they were looking for motivated individuals to mold into political cadres.…
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Scotton turned to the CIA's defector program, which in April 1963 was placed under the control of the Agency for International Development. That's the AID that I was just mentioning. That's the precursor to the USAID. They had what was refe…
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which stood for Open Arms Amnesty Program. There, Scotton found the raw material he needed to prove the viability of political action programs. Together with Vietnamese Special Forces, a guy by the name of Captain Nguyen Thuy, T-U-Y, he was…
▶ 13:45
and commanded the 4th Special Ops Detachment, Toy's case officer, U.S. Special Forces Captain Howard Walters, who had also spent quite a bit of time in the Korean War and did PSYOPs over there as well, Scotton worked through an extension ca…
▶ 14:13
As part of the pilot program designed to induce defectors, Scotton, Walters, and Toy crossed the Nlau Valley, set up an ambush deep in Viet Cong territory and waited till dark. When they spotted a Viet Cong unit, Scotton yelled through a bu…
▶ 14:44
Vigor, he shot a flare into the night sky and hollered, walked towards the light. To his surprise, two defectors did walk in, convincing him and his CIA sponsors that a determined unit could contest the Viet Cong in terms of combat and prop…
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Several of the other people went into exile in France. And in the wake of the coup, according to Frank Scotton, administrative paralysis began to sit in in the South. The Viet Cong exploited this by physically dismantling strategic smaller …
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their Buddhist roots. It was an experiment. So even though the road leading from Saigon to John Vann's headquarters was unsafe, in December 1963, Baumgartner sent Scotton to a nearby province a few miles south of Saigon. Scotton brought alo…
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by the province that he was going to visit. Scotton set about seeing what was wrong and getting a fix for these small villages. And he did this by using small armed teams seeking information. Working with American province advisors, Scotton…
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Each six-member team was equipped with black pajamas, pistols, a radio, and a submachine gun. Standard procedures was to regroup at the last moment before daybreak, then shift at dawn to a fourth hamlet where the team would sleep during the…
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When the Viet Cong armed propaganda teams left the Hamlet, Scott and his cadre would move in and speak to one person in each household. So the Viet Cong would have to punish everyone after we left. But that never happened. A woman Viet Cong…
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Scotton's program, which sold local initiatives to province chiefs by paying them off. So, as if all of that's not messed up enough, behind every province chief was a CIA paramilitary officer promoting and organizing the CIA's three-part co…
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is to drive them out of those places into refugee camps, yet again, because they have to demoralize the people to be able to control the people. So, February 1964, Frank Scotton was working on what Ogden Williams, the senior American adviso…
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was a military advisory district advisor. Quote, Kelly was the American on the spot, unquote, Scotton said. He goes on to say, I advised on training and deployment. Teague was the professional soldier deciding how to fight the enemy. Formal…
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The impetus for Scotton's Phoenix-like program on the Vietnamese side came from a police chief called Colonel Pham Thong, T-U-O-N-G. He was a longstanding CIA asset, and he anted up a platoon of volunteers, all of whom had been victimized b…
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They wanted to fight, Scotton said, but they didn't want to lose. Money and supplies were provided by Ralph Johnson. A 15-day accelerated training cycle was set up, and Scotton called it his motivational indoctrination program. Modeled, oh,…
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chosen by his peers through what Scotton referred to as the only honest elections ever held in South Vietnam. The morale officer's job, he said, was to keep people honest and have them admit mistakes if they made them. Not only did Scotton …
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that we're trying to set up a democracy using communist tactics. Just want to make sure that doesn't go over anybody's head. Scott went on to say, people from the other side knew the value of motivation, but they confessed too much. So we r…
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The machinery, like the submachine guns, the uniforms, everything was much better than what they had got from their northern counterparts. Tung's original group of 34, Scotton said, worked in a more heavily contested province and that the t…
▶ 47:43
So none of it was reliable. Concurrent with the creation of the People's Action Teams, Scotton's team was renamed by Station Chief Pierre DeSalva, and there began a coordination directly with the White House on policies, policing, paramilit…
▶ 48:04
basically their version of the CIA. And he basically became the liaison between the South Vietnamese government and the CIA. So let's see. Frank Scotton would later say that he shied away from anything that happened at that training base.…
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because the American hand became too big and because having a fixed complex was uncomfortable. He felt that it needed to be a more impromptu type responsive as opposed to us setting up what, for all intents and purposes, was a permanent mil…
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That was absolute, even if it was true, and that's what we were, he's not saying that we weren't going to stay there forever if we could. He's just saying you needed to keep up the pretense that we weren't going to do that. And that's a cri…
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and to make constant efforts in study in order to progress in behavior, education, and techniques, unquote. This is frickin' scary as shit. Scotton's biggest complaint, however, was that the shift from intelligence and displacement to civic…
▶ 55:02
So his teams were called Purple People Eaters by American soldiers in reference to their clothes because they decided to wear purple clothes. The locals referred to them as Idiot Birds. I'm with the locals. Scotton is quoted as saying, be t…
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was trying to create a climate to make the Viet Cong blunder into ambushes and fear the unpredictable, unquote. His goal was to neutralize the Viet Cong, but his style was basically to be nice to them, giving gifts and lure them in, get the…
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B was like an older brother to me and had basically gotten to know all of Scotton's kids. So he became very good friends with him. And let's see. But Scotton was not at all impressed with this rejiggering of things either. He didn't like th…
▶ 1:05:59
was going to perform the same type of propaganda. It was just going to pretend like it's another entity. And they brought in the quote-unquote American Way crusade, basically setting up TVs, radio stations, satellites, posters, all of that …
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C-O-T-T-O-N. He was a graduate of American University's College of International Relations, got and received a U.S. government graduate assistantship, whatever the hell that is. Oh, my gosh, to the East-West Center at the University of Hawa…
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Several of the New Japan Hawaiian Bank branch people came from this organization, the East West Center. So about the CIA-sponsored East West Center, Scott instead in an interview with Doug Valentine, the guy that wrote this book, it was a c…
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to create Agent Net, unquote, just like what I said. After passing the Foreign Service exam, Scotton was persuaded by a patron to join the Information Service, which dealt with people and observed them from a distance, which is basically ki…
▶ 1:08:57
Scotton was a very outgoing, charismatic person, and he had basically traveled all over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, all those things. And let's see, when Doug Valentine got to meet this guy, Scotton, he was introduced to him by William Colby.…
▶ 1:09:28
And he said that he had just been on a mission where they eliminated a bunch of Khmer Rouge guerrillas with the CIA. So, according to Scotton, he arrived in Saigon in November 1962. He met and was, let's see, he was met by Everett Bumgartne…
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And while he was there, his roommate was Nugent Van Thou, the guy that we were just talking about. So Chow was a CIA asset who, in 1962, had finished a six-year tour as the South Psychological Warfare Service. Over the next 10 years, Chow's…
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came to symbolize the Phoenix program in its duplicitous nature. Scott Baumgartner and Vann are described by Novin Long in a book called The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle. And this is a quote from that book. Frank Scotton was the originator o…