William Westmoreland person
also: General Westmoreland, Wes Moreland, Westmoreland, General Franks, General Wes Moreland
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Claims (5)
William Westmoreland targeted_for_regime_change
Vietnam War host_asserted
“They didn't have the troops. Westmoreland wanted another 200,000 in Vietnam. They didn't have them to give them. They didn't have them. They were afraid the mob would overrun the Capitol. They were afraid that what Mr. Jefferson had urged m…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 16:37
William Westmoreland headed
Vietnam book_quoted
“And this is all about the pacification program. One of them was from General Westmoreland. The corporate warrior, quote, pacification was the ultimate goal of both the Americans and the South Vietnamese government, a complex task involving …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 46:25
William Sullivan removed_from_power
William Westmoreland book_quoted
“The Military Advisory Command prepared plans for such an invasion in September 1966 and again in 68, but Sullivan repeatedly advised against it. The biggest job Bill Sullivan had, observed one American official, was to keep Westmoreland's p…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 29:06
Nelson Brickham recruited
William Westmoreland host_asserted
“The military, the entire time they're over there thinking they're actually fighting communists, were fighting nationalists who would gladly give their blood for their country, as would all of us. Those are two very different enemies, milita…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 1:04:40
William Westmoreland appointed
Colonel J.R. Newman guest_asserted
“Westmoreland turns to my dad and says, Colonel Newman, meet Private Davis. Private Davis, meet Colonel Newman. Hey, Colonel Newman, take care of Private Davis. And Sammy Davis, the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, doesn't talk much a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:23:16
Mentions (20)
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impacted the Tet Offensive, you have to go to the previous year of 1967, where we had spent two years of fighting at that point with increasing casualties. And basically what had happened in the lead up to the Tet Offensive is that the Nort…
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In the couple of days leading up to the January 30th Tet Offensive beginning, they looked like they were overcoming the border into South Vietnam in one particular area that they had used heavily as this kind of shell game with the U.S. And…
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I have my own opinions of that. But anyway, Wes Moreland's story is that he believed that was going to be the major thrust into that area. So he shifted a bunch of more forces into that area. And then all hell broke loose when the North Vie…
▶ 16:37
They didn't have the troops. Westmoreland wanted another 200,000 in Vietnam. They didn't have them to give them. They didn't have them. They were afraid the mob would overrun the Capitol. They were afraid that what Mr. Jefferson had urged m…
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many, many times in the future as a corrupt SOB working inside the White House of various administrations, who had worked for him in Saigon. Holbrooke, in turn, recommended that Comer hire Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Montague. Montague h…
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Nonetheless, Comer's views were generally positive. He had established a close working relationship with Lodge, Porter, and Westmoreland. He also was confident that the U.S. government could build an effective non-military effort to complem…
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Put on blue jeans and a white T-shirt and they got smeared with dog crap and everything else. But Sammy Davis, when he was in Vietnam and was wounded really bad, broke his back, broke a leg. Wes Moreland went to visit him and he said, son, …
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Westmoreland turns to my dad and says, Colonel Newman, meet Private Davis. Private Davis, meet Colonel Newman. Hey, Colonel Newman, take care of Private Davis. And Sammy Davis, the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, doesn't talk much a…
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had begun only one month earlier when General Wes Moreland arrived in Saigon as the military advisory commander. And in an effort to strengthen the American hand, he assigned military advisors to each of the South Vietnamese 250 districts. …
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And this is all about the pacification program. One of them was from General Westmoreland. The corporate warrior, quote, pacification was the ultimate goal of both the Americans and the South Vietnamese government, a complex task involving …
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Now, obviously, the CIA doesn't want that because they're not going to be able to convince the military to do all the evil stuff that they want to do to the people because they're not allowed. So there's a big battle that goes back and fort…
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OCOs, regional directors, were assigned in all of those different cores and same old people just reshuffle the deck that we've done like we're on iteration number seven if you're counting. They were given four months to show results and of …
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The military, the entire time they're over there thinking they're actually fighting communists, were fighting nationalists who would gladly give their blood for their country, as would all of us. Those are two very different enemies, milita…
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Not all the time. So when we went to war in Afghanistan, the four-star General Franks had missions in which special operations commands, SOC CENT, which is their subcommand for special operations, did real military missions. But most of the…
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He was the number three guy at the Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. Houghton owned a restaurant. Beside Houghton's restaurant was a mafia-ran hotel-slash-brothel. They set up with the CIA in theater and the commanding general, Westmoreland, i…
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and operational teams to operate not only just in Cambodia, but they also used them in Vietnam against the North Vietnamese. The Saigon-based studies and operation groups called ASOG, in turn, reported in theory to General Westmoreland and …
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At first, this new ban sought to avoid confrontation with police, a tactic that earned Byron Ingalls contempt. Cowardly, he called them, you know, the people he didn't know existed, because they wouldn't stand up and fight. Halfway around t…
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Ambassador Sullivan's biggest problem with the cross-border operation was the commander of the military, General Wes Moreland. Saigon wanted a lot more action in the Laos panhandle, either an occupation by friendly forces or an actual invas…
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The Military Advisory Command prepared plans for such an invasion in September 1966 and again in 68, but Sullivan repeatedly advised against it. The biggest job Bill Sullivan had, observed one American official, was to keep Westmoreland's p…
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When both Sullivan and Westmoreland had returned to Washington for a meeting, the Vietnamese army went ahead with an invasion of the Panhandle using the code name Lam Sung 719. The operation turned into a major military debacle. Warfare on …