Bernard Fall person
also: Bernard Ball, Bernard Fall
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Bernard Fall exposed
Joe Alsop book_quoted
“He had seen survivors arrive on foot, one of whom had a severed leg from a mortar outpost. Bernard Fall, who was also in Laos and knew of the area well, later called all of his, quote, just so much nonsense, unquote, specifying that, quote,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 27:56
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that had began encroaching into China through multiple venues. And again, remember, when they say nationalist Chinese, they're talking about the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek's army that the CIA set up on Taiwan. By March, and in Burma at this po…
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what they labeled as communist forces inside of Laos, which were people who didn't want Laos to be the opium trafficking capital that it became. The first allegations of cross-border fighting began July 30th at a small border post mainly co…
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He had seen survivors arrive on foot, one of whom had a severed leg from a mortar outpost. Bernard Fall, who was also in Laos and knew of the area well, later called all of his, quote, just so much nonsense, unquote, specifying that, quote,…
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This shit is nonsensical to anyone with a thinking brain. Alsop, by Fall's account, had been a willing witness to a charade staged for his benefit by two of the CIA-installed generals. As on many occasions between 1949 and 1964, Alsop's rep…
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of a new quote-unquote invasion took more than 48 hours to reach the commander of the Laotian army. There was, of course, a further delay before the grave news reached Washington. Time was also needed to assess its significance, unquote, th…
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that it had been invaded by a North Vietnamese force. It was completely not true. In February, the government had given itself the right to receive this support by declaring unilaterally with U.S. approval that it would no longer be bound b…
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Bernard Fall estimated that the fighting in Laos in 1960 through 62 involved relatively small forces, many of whose men were of the same Thai Hmong stock as the tribesmen on the Laotian side, not even really Vietnamese. The British observer…
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followed a crackdown in the summer of 1959 by the Burmese government after Pei Sengen and some 2,000 KMT troops had been driven out of Burma. In March of 1959, according to Bernard Fall, some of the nationalists, meaning Chiang Kai-shek's g…
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For the French at Dien Bien Phu, the planes were on quote-unquote loan from U.S. Air Force, and some of the civilians flying them were in fact U.S. military pilots. According to Bernard Fall, who flew in these planes, the pilots were quietl…