Fall of Saigon event
also: Vietnam evacuation, abandonment of South Vietnam, defeat in Vietnam, defenses collapsed, fall of Vietnam, U.S. retreat from South Vietnam, Saigon government fell
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“Von Marbog was in charge of getting as much military hardware out of the country as possible. And you know what? They only give them a couple of days because their real intent is to leave that shit there and then sell it on the covert, just…”
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part of the Vietnam evacuation after the fall of Saigon. And basically that the effort that was put forward to do what they did, even though it fell short of what they were trying to do, was nothing less than overwhelming given the odds tha…
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In 1973, Shackley was made head of the CIA's East Asia Division, where, working with the Pentagon, he oversaw America's defeat in Vietnam. Eric Van Marbog, by that time, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. He was sent to Saigon with …
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who had returned to the Pentagon as well from being the CIA director, he was replaced at the CIA by William Colby, who was fresh out of Vietnam. He sent Von Marburg back to Saigon as his top logistics aide to prepare for the abandonment of …
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Von Marbog was in charge of getting as much military hardware out of the country as possible. And you know what? They only give them a couple of days because their real intent is to leave that shit there and then sell it on the covert, just…
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Thomas Polgar, P-O-L-G-A-R. They suffered from the illusion that a peaceful settlement could still be reached, and they feared that the U.S. would destroy the Saigon government's morale by pulling out. To von Marbog's credit, he knew that n…
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At Binh Ho, he risked his own life to get equipment evacuated from the base while it was being attacked. Like Shackley, Von Marbog made his reputation despite the failure of American policy in Vietnam. Now, let me read this last thing and I…
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He had the reputation of being a courageous and imaginative government official. He had personally supervised much of the U.S. retreat from South Vietnam when the Saigon government fell. He had gotten Iran's deputy minister of defense to gi…
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CIA role actually grew with the U.S. out of the gate. But the South Vietnamese gradually lost ground. In March of 75, their defenses collapsed. Over two frantic months, the issue became the evacuation of South Vietnamese, including the agen…
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even though they were trained in basically what amounts to terrorist training camps. Many were left behind, along with Saigon Station records, which fell into the hands of Hanoi when the U.S. Embassy was captured on April 30, 1975. Frank Sn…
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saved some Vietnamese, often heroically, but the larger defeat remained a fait accompli. The fall of Saigon brought the end of the war. The secret wars in Southeast Asia represented many things to many people. To some, they were laboratorie…
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that the operation continued long after the Americans pulled out, which of course we know it did. He also goes on to say the convenient business arrangement with the Miami mafia, Traficani, continued after the fall of Vietnam. The significa…