Evan Parker Jr. person
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Office of Strategic Servicesintelligence service · 2Jedburghsorganization · 1Roger Trinquierperson · 1William Colbyperson · 1Rudy Endersperson · 1Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgencybook · 1Donald Greggperson · 1
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Evan Parker Jr. member_of
Jedburghs book_quoted
“Like Colby, he was one of less than 100 Americans trained with the OSS Jedbergs in Scotland. And the Jedbergs was the stay-behind units from the UK. See how this all overlaps? He was sent to Burma in 1945. And 1945 would have been the end o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 26:15
Evan Parker Jr. member_of
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“Special Operations Division, and it became an elite special operations group and cross-trained paramilitary officers that was known as low-intensity warfare. Enders and Gregg looked up to Parker with great respect. Having served in the OSS …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 25:45
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▶ 25:15
So it talks about when Colby became chief of the Far East Division, a guy by the name of Evan Parker Jr., whose contribution to the CIA political and psychological warfare theory was to separate counterterrorism from counterinsurgency. Work…
▶ 25:45
Special Operations Division, and it became an elite special operations group and cross-trained paramilitary officers that was known as low-intensity warfare. Enders and Gregg looked up to Parker with great respect. Having served in the OSS …
▶ 26:15
Like Colby, he was one of less than 100 Americans trained with the OSS Jedbergs in Scotland. And the Jedbergs was the stay-behind units from the UK. See how this all overlaps? He was sent to Burma in 1945. And 1945 would have been the end o…
▶ 26:46
He then led a band of opium-smoking, Christianized guerrillas against retreating Japanese forces. He'd been in combat, interrogated prisoners, and served as a liaison officer with British commando units. After the war, Burma was central to …
▶ 27:14
And it's no surprise that the officers like Parker, who had served there, arose to senior positions eventually in the CIA's Far East Division. As a crown colony under British rule, Burma was strategically important because it provided an ov…
▶ 29:13
Parker visited Vietnam in 1952 to offer CIA assistance to a guy by the name of Roger Trinquier. And I'm going to spell that name because it's a French name. T-R-I-N-Q-U-I-E-R. He was a French counterinsurgency expert and wrote a book called…