Charles Finn person
also: Finn, Lieutenant Charles Finn, Patty, Phin
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“from the 14th Air Force the previous year when he escorted a downed American pilot out of Vietnam into China. The OSS agent, Charles Finn, F-E-N-N, tracked down the man in question, Ho Chi Minh, describing him as articulate, charismatic, an…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 6:22
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from the 14th Air Force the previous year when he escorted a downed American pilot out of Vietnam into China. The OSS agent, Charles Finn, F-E-N-N, tracked down the man in question, Ho Chi Minh, describing him as articulate, charismatic, an…
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OSS assigned Lieutenant Charles Finn as a liaison officer between the OSS and GBT. The last three months of 1944, Charles Finn was the only OSS officer working with and reporting on GBT activities. Finn was born in 1909 in the UK, another B…
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In 1941, he became a war correspondent. Oh, my God. You mean a reporter is a spy? Yes, yes, yes. He worked for the AP and joined the OSS in 1943. Through the end of 1944, he was accepted to accompany the GBT group in return for funds and eq…
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From the beginning of his work with GBT, Phin continuously considered using Vietnamese groups for intelligence. GBT members expressed their attitude against working with the Indo-Chinese, but Phin also queried Chinese General Chen, C-H-E-N,…
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How do you do, pilot? Where are you from? Shaw was reportedly so excited that he hugged Ho and later said to him, when I heard your voice, I felt like I was hearing a voice from my father back in the United States. Finn gave an account of t…
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U.S. was not ready to operate inside of Vietnam with its own teams. And finally, the new Truman directive, it did not wish at this stage to quarrel with the French about the natives in Vietnam. Nevertheless, Finn called this operation, this…
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of March 9th, silenced all the GBT and their existing networks. This meant no information coming and going on targets, air defense, Japanese troop movements, nothing, not even weather reports. Finn had just heard about the Japanese connecte…
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to find out everything he could about America. The meeting was arranged for 17 March, only eight days from the Japanese coup. Finn wrote in his diary, quote, Ho was not what I expected. It seems that he had already met Hall, Glass, and Sibo…
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I told him about our work and asked whether he could help us. He said that he might be able to help us, but they had no radios, no radio operators, nor any other equipment. We discussed taking a radio and a generator and a radio operator so…
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At the end of the meeting, Ho requested a photo of Chenault, and after attaining it, he requested that he sign it. Chenault signed it and said, yours truly, Claire Chenault. Just before the voyage to the base of Viet Minh with Tan and the C…
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Tan also gave them an account of the weapons that they had brought, rifles, carbines, guns. Ho quickly sent a first intel report to Patty in Kunming with some details about the Japanese 37th Division, their location units, names of the offi…
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The GBT Intelligent Network began to take shape again. Charles Finn and Harry Bernard received the reports in Kunming and passed information to the Air Ground Aid Service, an aid organization of the 14th Air Force. Training of the cadre was…
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During these months together, Ho, Tan, and Shin developed a close friendship. He recalled, quote, my relationship with Ho became closer. I began to see him as a man dedicated his life to win the freedom for his people, unquote. During these…
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Ho Chi Minh did not clarify otherwise. So it's like that he is being an envoy for General Chenault to these potential foes that would otherwise fight him, acknowledging he's now the superior guy because he has this personal relationship wit…
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It was highly probable that the assumption of a concrete alliance with Americans might have piqued the prestige of him among these groups. While small-scale training in Vietnam base was ongoing, the routine Khun Ming had become tedious for …
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zelski the radio operator sergeant lawrence vogue a weapons instructor before the beginning of the mission dear team patty was instructed to um excuse me before the beginning of the mission of dear team patty was instructed to negotiate the…