Horace G. Robertson person
also: Ambassador Horace Smith, Smith, Horace Smith, Brown, U.S. Ambassador Horace Smith, Ambassador Brown, Warthog Brown, Ambassador Hort, Ambassador Smith
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In backing the coup against the opposition of U.S. Ambassador Horace Smith, the CIA has essentially ensured a transfer of power to men like Fumi, who, unlike their opponents, were or would soon be involved in drug trafficking. Within the ye…
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Over the next few years, excuse me, few weeks, Foma's new government succeeded in winning the approval of the king, American's ambassador, Warthog Brown, and a new but compliant National Assembly. In due course, his neutralist government wa…
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It was all for Fumi, possibly with an encouragement from defense and CIA men in the field. Fumi, according to the new government, and he formed a new government and denounced the actual government of Laos. This should sound very familiar, b…
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From mid-September, Sivanikek was the scene of an increased number of landings and takeoffs by unmarked C-46s and C-47s that were all flown by Americans. These planes belonged to Air America. In October, Hilsman reported Ambassador Brown te…
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poppy to produce the opium. Did Eisenhower authorize this course towards drug escalations? Years later, in a 1966 article in the New York Times, it was claimed that the president had specifically approved the CIA backing of Fumi against Amb…
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November 21st, officially authorized planes and funds to Fumi's rebel cause. Hearing from the Secretary of State Harder that it was time to make the wraps off of, oh, sorry, to take the wraps off of Fumi.…
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We pay for people to go to civil war with each other. We actually actively encourage it because we insert people to rabble rows in order for it to occur. And then once it does, they make tons of money off of selling weapons to them. You don…
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Horace Smith initially argued for supporting the Suvanna's neutral solution and considered his policy had been undermined by the CIA, which of course it had. Station Chief Henry Heckscher refused to tell his boss, the ambassador, about the …
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Dulles backed up his station chief, and at the end of his normal tour, he was even assigned to Northeast Thailand, which if you look on a map, means he was still involved in Laos. Taking that into consideration, Heckscher outlasted his amba…
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exponentially, as did the U.S. Embassy. All was not well there. The ambassador favored Suvanna's neutralist solution and considered his policy to have been sabotaged by the CIA, because it was. Station Chief Henry Hexler refused to tell his…
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In 1959, demanding that Hexter be transferred out of Laos because he was doing shit he wasn't supposed to do. Dulles knew of what Hexter was doing. Dulles backed the station chief and at the end of his tour, even assigned him to Northeast T…
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out of Thailand. Taking that into consideration, Heckscher outlasted the ambassador. Smith was replaced in the summer of 1960 by Winthrop Brown, a former Wall Street lawyer and ambassador to India. You know, where we were doing the whole Ti…