William Sullivan person
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Maxwell D. Taylor appointed
William Sullivan book_quoted
“We're going to pick up right there. William Sullivan almost missed his assignment to Laos as the ambassador because Maxwell Taylor had wanted him to serve as chief of staff for the new mission in Vietnam. Taylor, as ambassador there, direct…”
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William Sullivan spied_on
Ho Chi Minh Trail book_quoted
“North Vietnam anti-aircraft fire against the planes led to the first bombing, so-called protective reaction strikes by aircraft accompanying the reconnaissance planes. Even with this support, the results were awful. In June 1965, Ambassador…”
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William Sullivan removed_from_power
William Westmoreland book_quoted
“The Military Advisory Command prepared plans for such an invasion in September 1966 and again in 68, but Sullivan repeatedly advised against it. The biggest job Bill Sullivan had, observed one American official, was to keep Westmoreland's p…”
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Richard Nixon removed_from_power
William Sullivan book_quoted
“There wasn't a bag of rice dropped in Laos he didn't know about, said William Bundy of Ambassador Sullivan. But in the capital of Laos, which is where Sullivan was and had been for now four years, in the spring of 1969, the new Nixon admini…”
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William Sullivan member_of
CIA documented
“At this October 69 hearing, Senator Symington nudged William Sullivan into the admission that there had been no formal U.S. obligation to Laos or the Hmong. In his own testament, Mone, Richard Helms refused to be drawn out on the authority …”
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William Sullivan headed
CIA book_quoted
“of the CIA Intelligence Medal for heroism. I felt like one of the knights at the King Arthur's table. I was sitting on one side of a long table with a clutch of executives from the IG office while the acting head of the operations directora…”
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And no one ever volunteered the information. No one told Carter that the U.S. ambassador to Iran, William Sullivan, who was publicly criticizing Carter's policy in Iran, had been the ambassador to Laos while Ted Shackler was running the sec…
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focus on human rights over intelligence. Sullivan and his colleagues preferred the base, believed that the basis for all foreign policy stopped at the doorstep of the best interest of U.S., regardless of the human rights violations. Accordi…
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Holy shit, these people are crazy. Carter had no way of knowing that Sullivan and Shackley shared a series of secrets that went back to include covering up all of their drug trafficking from Laos. According to William Corson, more than 100 …
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that no one was fighting in Laos. Corson said that the policy of lying about where soldiers had actually been captured or killed had begun under the Johnson administration and intensified under Nixon's administration. Corson believed that t…
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We're going to pick up right there. William Sullivan almost missed his assignment to Laos as the ambassador because Maxwell Taylor had wanted him to serve as chief of staff for the new mission in Vietnam. Taylor, as ambassador there, direct…
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President Johnson had prevailed on Taylor to assume the ambassadorship at Saigon, leaving his post as chairman. That's kind of where we left off yesterday. So Bill Sullivan could hardly refuse the summons. Taylor was President Johnson's lik…
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who was known as the crocodile and his influence in Washington, D.C., and how they were basically going to work with the Hmong in theater. So as boss in the Laotian capital, Sullivan could be certain that the American mission would pursue t…
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million dollars a year. In keeping with covert operations, Sullivan issued strict orders for Americans to keep out of the combat and say that, quote, when I found those orders were willfully disobeyed, I removed the offenders from the count…
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North Vietnam anti-aircraft fire against the planes led to the first bombing, so-called protective reaction strikes by aircraft accompanying the reconnaissance planes. Even with this support, the results were awful. In June 1965, Ambassador…
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Ambassador Sullivan's biggest problem with the cross-border operation was the commander of the military, General Wes Moreland. Saigon wanted a lot more action in the Laos panhandle, either an occupation by friendly forces or an actual invas…
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The Military Advisory Command prepared plans for such an invasion in September 1966 and again in 68, but Sullivan repeatedly advised against it. The biggest job Bill Sullivan had, observed one American official, was to keep Westmoreland's p…
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to keep them safe. North Vietnamese attacks failed in May, but again in June, Lima Site 108 was overran, necessitating another air rescue. Vang Pao did not lose many more positions and even managed to recapture a couple. Even Bill Sullivan'…
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There wasn't a bag of rice dropped in Laos he didn't know about, said William Bundy of Ambassador Sullivan. But in the capital of Laos, which is where Sullivan was and had been for now four years, in the spring of 1969, the new Nixon admini…
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In October 1969 hearing, Senator Symington succeeded in drawing William Sullivan into admitting that there were no formal obligations by the U.S. to the Mao, the Meng, sorry. In his own testimony, the CIA chief Helms refused to be drawn out…
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The escalation of the CIA secret war told otherwise. William Sullivan followed Unger. While Sullivan had been a senior member of the U.S. negotiating team at Geneva, in Laos, he became an enthusiastic field marshal in the secret war. The on…
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that grew to be $300 million for a war that didn't exist. 300 million. In keeping with covert operations etiquette, whatever the hell that is, Ambassador Sullivan issued strict orders for Americans to not engage personally in combat.…
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He says that, quote, when I found those orders were willfully disobeyed, I removed the offenders from the country, unquote. But despite Sullivan's orders, the CIA station appears to have taken little action against the, quote, unquote, cowb…
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At this October 69 hearing, Senator Symington nudged William Sullivan into the admission that there had been no formal U.S. obligation to Laos or the Hmong. In his own testament, Mone, Richard Helms refused to be drawn out on the authority …
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Angry Hoover would later mete out punishment for errors such as this, quietly disciplining 17 agents. But the FBI director was desperate to avoid public censure, and he fully supported the commission's lone gunman story. Angleton, who had a…
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of the CIA Intelligence Medal for heroism. I felt like one of the knights at the King Arthur's table. I was sitting on one side of a long table with a clutch of executives from the IG office while the acting head of the operations directora…