Lebanese Civil War event
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So the guy that was responsible for the massacre of innocent civilians becomes the prime minister of Israel. And this is a large amount because it says the Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16th to 18th of September, 1982, killing between …
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were always connected to secret societies that flourished within the Chinese communities. During the Chinese Civil War, the U.S. formulated and maintained a strategy of integrating their intelligence operations in local criminal networks an…
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a destroyer of people. By destroying the opium crops, they removed the chief source of the world's opium supply and eliminated a major source of income for the Chinese nationalists. In response to the Chinese Civil War, the Truman administr…
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post-World War II for a significant period of time. So in China, cooperation between the Nationalist, which is Chiang's forces, and the Communist Party broke down soon after the defeat of Japan. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao merely resumed their …
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argue that it wasn't interrupted during World War II because they still fought each other. They just were more focused on the Japanese. Religious and nationalist movements recast China, India, and Southeast Asia as actors in a global ideolo…
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efforts to mediate between Chinese factions, President Truman aligned the U.S. with Chiang Kai-shek against the communists. Mao's field army nevertheless swept through mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chine…
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American military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek. And at precisely the time when the U.S. covert action capabilities was coalescing within the CIA and the Pentagon. Now, keep in mind, basically the fighting is over in 1945. This is fou…
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and continued to support Chiang Kai-shek while he's in China as part of that fight. And that's a logical perpetuation, but a fact that most people don't know. Washington soon considered exploiting the still tenuous communist control of the …
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Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist forces established themselves on the islands offshore, chiefly Taiwan. At the time, originally it was Formosa. Then they just renamed it to Taiwan. The Chinese communists had no navy to speak of and no experien…
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onto Hainan, H-A-I-N-A-N, the next largest island to Taiwan. They succeeded after 10 invasions and considerable casualties. When, as so happens on the mainland, the morale of the nationalist troops broke. Superior force was no guarantee aga…
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the nationalist survivors back to Taiwan. Although there were fears the communists would follow, an invasion of Taiwan was a much more difficult proposition and was not even attempted. Proposals for covert action predated nationalist defeat…
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Runaway inflation in China had put the nationalist disintegration in jeopardy. Well, both of them, the inflation and the disintegration of the nationalist movement on mainland China. This brought the civil air transport to kind of like the …
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whose third force, Resistance, based itself in Hong Kong, and again, that's basically Chiang Kai-shek's deputy, hoped to become CIA's exclusive Chinese ally, but the agency dealt with anybody that would come around. Chinese politics embarra…
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By far the most serious situation to confront Bush during his time at Langley was the Lebanese Civil War. Fighting broke out there in the spring of 75 and was stifled temporarily by Syrian mediation and then intervention. But a year later, …