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Operation Popeye carried_out_attack
Ho Chi Minh Trail host_asserted
“the capability of the North in Vietnam from moving around supplies and creating landslides and all this other stuff and basically destroying villages. So those same weather modification programs were conducted over Thailand, Cambodia, and L…”
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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…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 20:50
Yankee Team spied_on
Ho Chi Minh Trail book_quoted
“parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail recently used to infiltrate the North Vietnamese regular divisions that had already crossed the boundary into the South. In his report, Sullivan noted, all our Yankee team photo reconnaissance missions over th…”
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Special Operations Group spied_on
Ho Chi Minh Trail book_quoted
“from special forces camps into Vietnamese border region. The patrols identified the Ho Chi Minh Trail routes and marked them for bombing by Steel Tiger. This effort was supplemented by a road watch program in which the patrols scouted for s…”
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that had to do with the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And for those of you who are not geographically familiar with Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail had the river that was basically a thoroughfare between North and South and went down along the Laos and…
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trail, counting enemy troops and trucks. Other times they moved from one set of coordinates to another, and they also shot field-grade northern officers, kidnapped prisoners, escorted defectors from the north to the south, and demolished do…
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One technique was based on the Buddhist belief that a person cannot enter heaven unless his liver is intact. So Manzoni would snitch a North Vietnamese courier off the Ho Chi Minh Trail, sneak him into a tent at night, crush the man's laryn…
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the Western-installed government. The nonviolence policy practiced by the Viet Cong changed abruptly in 1959 when, in response to the 1059 Law and CIA intrusions into the North, the Lao Dong Central Committee organized the 559 Transportatio…
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The possibility arose in the context of the Laos situation, but it was desirable also from a Vietnamese standpoint. The American occupation of Laos might have had the effect of blocking Ho Chi Minh Trail, which the North Vietnamese had buil…
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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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from special forces camps into Vietnamese border region. The patrols identified the Ho Chi Minh Trail routes and marked them for bombing by Steel Tiger. This effort was supplemented by a road watch program in which the patrols scouted for s…
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The Laotian Air Force averaged 400 tons a month in 66 through Air America. The CIA was moving 6,000 tons a month plus 16,000 passengers. That year, the Air Force flew 7,000 strike missions in a place they're not even supposed to be. The cam…
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to actual regular forces on both sides. Cambodia became increasingly vital, according to the Americans, because of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Cambodia's neutral position became more of an irritant to the United States. Beginning in the mid-1967…
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The only question that remained was how long would it remain secret? By now, the system had assumed its final form. The ambassador had the last word. Aware of the CIA's major projects, ambassadors were then consulted on activities. He retai…
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Emergency requests often came through the station chief. He supervised at least three parallel programs. One out of the embassy assisted the Laotian government directly. A second set of initiatives in tandem with U.S. forces in South Vietna…
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supposedly secret, and he's touring the United States. He had six wives. The Hmong chief had a lot of shopping to do while he was here. At Disneyland, the CIA reciprocated Vang's gift with a replica of a Zorro costume. Vang Pao actually wor…
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The purpose of it was to make the Ho Chi Minh Trail impassable for the North, but it did exactly the same thing for the American forces that were having to operate in that area. And there was little regard, number one, for the effects of do…
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in the northern area. For the military and the CIA, it was a critical part of the war in the north. For as long as the Americans' navigational and communication site on top of the, they're about at 6,000 feet altitude, was permitted to exis…