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Claims (33)
Crypto AG supplied_arms_to
Thailand book_quoted
“The U.S. and its allies exploited other nations for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. Besides Malaysia and those listed above, crypto clients included Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi …”
▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 28:56
Charles White appointed
Thailand documented
“That's Mr. CIA. Yes. So our next guy who we talked about before is Charles Whitehouse. His son is Senator Whitehouse. He was the U.S. ambassador to Thailand in 1975 to 1978. What was happening then? Well, let's see what ChatGPT says about t…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 1:05:45
Thailand supplied_arms_to
Royal Laotian Army book_quoted
“After giving repeated warnings fired on those troops, Fomi's troops withdrew into Thailand. Thus, the further advances of the Pao Shin Lao were achieved after a flurry of firefights, but no Pao Shin Lao attack. The Thai government now reque…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 47:58
Phow Sirion member_of
Thailand host_asserted
“In Thailand, also, the farming of the opium franchise was used by the government as a means of controlling local Chinese populations, and the enormous profits from the opium traffic were traditionally a source of corruption in the governmen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 56:26
CIA carried_out_attack
Thailand host_asserted
“Set C-130s that flew in the Far East belonged to the Air Force's 315th Air Division based in Korea and Okinawa. Their use was controlled by General Erskine's office in Washington. Clandestine work did consume Air Force resources, but not on…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 52:55
Paul Hellyer funded
Thailand host_asserted
“in and out of the airports and they can ship in and out of the seaports because the guards there are all bought off and paid for by this $35 million that Paul Helliwell has arranged for the transit and the buying off of the national police …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 1:03:41
Thailand supplied_arms_to
Vietnam host_asserted
“All I can say is, we've got to live with what might have been the day before yesterday. And as of today, the field marshal of Thailand says, when he's saying it to his own people, they are going to fight in Vietnam, not in Thailand. I take …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Singapore History @ 37:02
Sheldon Whitehouse member_of
Thailand documented
“And Sheldon Whitehouse classifies, but his father, Sheldon, just a reminder, joined the CIA in 1947, served in the Congo, Turkey, Belgium, Cambodia, then joins the State Department. So he's still in the CIA. He was the Congo's desk officer …”
▶ The Shadow State 38Secret Societies 22; Grooming Technocrats @ 44:27
Allen Dulles spied_on
Thailand book_quoted
“and the group cover over 30,000 miles in 57 days. They used the director's personal plane, a modified version of a DC-6. Dulles inspected the stations in Europe, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thailand, South Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, the Ph…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 12:11
U.S. Navy carried_out_attack
Thailand book_quoted
“So here's a quote. The following magnetic studies were carried out during the fiscal year 1968. A complete low level aeromagnetic survey of South Vietnam, including all of the land surface and at least part of the offshore waters for milita…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 16:57
Charles Yost appointed
Thailand host_asserted
“During that time, like in Algiers and stuff like that. So that's a really big deal. Then he moves on. It looks like only to Syria for a month before he's moved on. He also was the ambassador to Laos in the 50s, which is when we were first g…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 26:21
John Hart headed
Thailand documented
“He was actually the guy in charge of the task force that moved the Dalai Lama into India. Hart had headed CIA stations in Thailand in the early 50s, which means he was setting up the drug operation, and in Morocco later, where all kinds of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 7:42
Sheldon Whitehouse appointed
Thailand documented
“And there's White House where CIA central in Vietnam. And of course, he doesn't stop there. He then goes to Laos in 73. He's the guy who defunded the Hmong. And so they got overrun. A lot of them live here now. Laos would fall to the commun…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 41:25
Alabama Ku Klux Klan trafficked
Thailand documented
“Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Customs and Excise, a heroin transport was seized in London and Montreal. Subsequent investigations revealed that the Klan was picking up the heroin in Thailand since 1983. You're joking me. They've…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:05:44
William J. Donovan appointed
Thailand host_asserted
“We talked about earlier when Warhamster and I were doing our show about why Bill Donovan ended up as the ambassador of Thailand. Well, of course he ended up as the ambassador of Thailand because we were setting up Thailand as the narco netw…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 1:15:01
CIA trafficked
Thailand book_quoted
“and had done so for decades. Processed into laboratories, those poppies turned into opium and heroin, morphine, along with other dangerous drugs. The drug trade was lucrative and as pervasive in northern Laos as it had been in Burma and Tha…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 48:01
Ted Shackley traded_network_to
Thailand book_quoted
“and von Marbog were his business associates. Wilson recalled what he had told them. Quote, look, you guys, between you, Shackley, and Secord, you know every head of government, every intelligence chief, and every minister of defense in the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 31:48
CIA paid
Thailand host_asserted
“for Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, distributing drugs through Thailand. And don't forget that the CIA eventually paid a total of $35 million to Thailand's chief of police to basically buy access to their airports and their ports. Because William …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 15:15
CIA funded
Thailand host_asserted
“under the wing of the CIA. And they make all of the deals with Thailand, where they spent $35 million buying off the entire national police. They train them all there. They set up their intelligence function so they can fly.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 1:03:24
William J. Donovan appointed
Thailand host_asserted
“He is now sitting in the ambassadorship to Thailand in the early 1950s. This was repatriation of the Chinese nationalist in northern Burma in accordance with the express wishes of the Burmese government. So for those of you who may be new, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 21:29
CIA paid
Thailand host_asserted
“Vietnam and Thailand, and oh, by the way, right after World War II is over and the CIA is set up, one of the first things they do to perpetuate this drug trade is the CIA ends up giving the chief of police for the national force, kind of li…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 31:15
Air America carried_out_attack
Thailand book_quoted
“And pilots were involved since Air America officials have admitted to extensive defoliation programs having been flown, you know, in every other country but this one during this one time. They flew them in Thailand. They flew them in Taiwan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15
United States Department of Defense trafficked
Thailand host_asserted
“Yeah, because I would remind everybody that Thailand is where we sunk $35 million in establishing their national police force and then bribing them to have free access, both air and sea, in order to traffic all of the drugs out of there and…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 42:23
Howard Baines trafficked
Thailand host_asserted
“Oh, in Bangkok with Paul Helliwell and setting up the entire drug trafficking out of Thailand. See, it just all makes sense when you start looking at this and know the timeline of how these guys operate. So anyway, at least he fits. Interes…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 42:12
Paul Helliwell trafficked
Thailand host_asserted
“Oh, in Bangkok with Paul Helliwell and setting up the entire drug trafficking out of Thailand. See, it just all makes sense when you start looking at this and know the timeline of how these guys operate. So anyway, at least he fits. Interes…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 42:12
Thailand supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“The last weeks of 1960 saw ominous indications that anti-communist forces were only too willing to internationalize every aspect of this conflict, especially the first reports in Times and Le Monde, which is the French leading New York Time…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 44:25
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Thailand host_asserted
“And Paul Helliwell of the CIA is his basically right-hand guy. And he watches Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT army pay for their warfare against Mao by selling opium. And he's selling opium through Thailand, through Vietnam, through Laos, throu…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 8:46
CIA trafficked
Thailand host_asserted
“this function away from Wisner. Lyman Kirkpatrick in Thailand to reconcile OSO and OPC station chiefs who had a little war between themselves. Thailand, like where we spent $35 million to own the ports and run drugs out of there. The OSO an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:12:50
CIA funded
Thailand book_quoted
“people who committed a lot of atrocities in other countries that decided to stay there, not in the country where the atrocities were, but a lot of them are in Thailand because Thailand was a major hub of these operations that were conducted…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:13:08
Allen Dulles carried_out_attack
Thailand host_asserted
“And the question, of course, is, was he setting up CIA operations throughout Southeast Asia from day one? He was not only setting up CIA operations from day one. He was setting up the infrastructure to put Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan and crea…”
▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:11:17
CIA trafficked
Thailand host_asserted
“So they were all trained in torture and kidnapping any dissident. We spent $35 million to buy off the national police guy that we put in charge to open all of their sea and airports to drug trafficking. Thailand was pivotal to everything. Y…”
▶ The Shadow State 48 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 1 @ 1:06:58
Paul Helliwell founded
Thailand host_asserted
“in bed with the CIA. We know Paul Helliwell opened that Tide console in Miami, the whole network. And of course, Paul Helliwell is mentioned in this book as well. So all of that information is known inside our government, and they didn't do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:10:07
Thai Ministry of Interior spied_on
Thailand host_asserted
“This integrated system created an ID card. See if this sounds familiar. ID card, electronic fingerprints, and facial recognition in the 1980s for the entire population of Thailand. It was controlled by the military, the domestic police.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 53:27
Mentions (120)
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Basically locating people. So now we know what they're using the data for. I'm going to give you the list of some names that you need to keep an eye out for because you just hit my radar again, Colonel. All right. This one's even more mind …
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for infrastructure for the Thai Ministry of Interior. This integrated system created an ID card. See if this sounds familiar. ID card, electronic fingerprints, and facial recognition in the 1980s for the entire population of Thailand. It wa…
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Using the interior ministry, it was used for the election system. I'm telling you, every single thing that they're doing here, they have tried somewhere else. It says that it was used to track minority groups that.…
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It had population and house reporting systems. National tax collection system was in here and village information systems. That's like the Phoenix program in Vietnam. It had a public opinion tracking system. It had criminal investigation sy…
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was in Laos, they were in Cambodia, they were in Vietnam and Thailand, and they were ferrying out all of the opium from the north into the Corsican Mafia, who read whatever you do, jigger it into heroin number four, which is like the highes…
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During Horn's tour of duty, the ruling junta of Burma did not control various areas of the country because of financial and military limitations. This was true of the Golden Triangle region that borders Laos, Thailand, and China, which is e…
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that in Vietnam's case, that was largely to do with it being a jumping off point for all of Asia, Southeast Asia, for drug trafficking. Vietnam became like the transient location. And if you look at Vietnam on a map, it makes a lot of sense…
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Vietnam and Thailand, and oh, by the way, right after World War II is over and the CIA is set up, one of the first things they do to perpetuate this drug trade is the CIA ends up giving the chief of police for the national force, kind of li…
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At the same time, there was a lot of drugs being shipped out of Hong Kong and Thailand. So it's just something to pay attention to. Let's see. So one of the other aspects, let me just mention briefly, I have an article on my sub stack about…
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Answered to both Singlib and General Adderholt, who headed the military assistance command in Thailand. Now, for those of you who are not military inclined, General Harry Adderholt is an icon in special operations, like the granddaddy. Both…
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to people as part of the Nugent Hand. Yeah, Bernie Houghton was involved, like probably of the, he was the number three guy at Nugent Hand. You had Nugent and you had Hand and then you had Houghton. So Houghton replaces Paul Helliwell in Ba…
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And the timing's perfect. So this is the late 1970s. And what had just happened was we lost Vietnam. So we lost control of much, not all, but much of our network for opium. It was completely disrupted by us having to leave Vietnam. And it's…
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Like the bird? Project Raven or Operation Raven happened in Vietnam. That was the only one that I'm aware of. That was the CIA flying in. Basically, they had a bunch of military pilots that they brought into Thailand, told them to put all t…
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indigenous people that want to kick out the CIA-installed dictator, they're the bad guys. They're the communists. And anybody that arms them is a sanction buster or a merchant of death. So just want to clear that up for you. And on his wiki…
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This is the $35 million investment by the CIA into the Thailand buying off of the national police that arrest Bout in 2008 in Thailand for the American CIA people, right? So then, of course, his extradition is immediately.…
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as an arms purchaser. And they agreed to meet in Thailand to set the deal up. And it was a trap orchestrated by the CIA and the U.S. government because they own Thailand, basically. And he is arrested there and extradited. And then…
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Where they opened their branches, like Chiang Mai in Thailand, known drug capital. Singapore, known drug capital. Thailand, known drug capital. They had a branch of Nugent Han in every place that they would be taking suitcases of cash to fo…
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Oh, in Bangkok with Paul Helliwell and setting up the entire drug trafficking out of Thailand. See, it just all makes sense when you start looking at this and know the timeline of how these guys operate. So anyway, at least he fits. Interes…
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We're going to move on in our series to Thailand, and I want to kind of go over a couple of things. I'm not going to do an exclusive thing on Thailand today, but I do want to kind of transition from Operation Gladio into...…
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the current events as well. So I'm toying between doing the Korean events and then going into the Thailand so we can transition into it tomorrow. But I don't know how many of you guys saw the earlier show that I did today. It was a very int…
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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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Many of this particular squadron, the 54th, had been stationed in Thailand at Udorn Air Force Base. Now, I was actually there at Udorn when I went to that big, long trip to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. And it does say.…
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which is why supposedly we had to install all of these fascist dictators. So with that, I'm going to open it up for comments. And if we have time, I will go into the article that I wanted to talk to about Thailand. But I just think it's imp…
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for Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek, distributing drugs through Thailand. And don't forget that the CIA eventually paid a total of $35 million to Thailand's chief of police to basically buy access to their airports and their ports. Because William …
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And all of these, Joseph Farrell, that have written about different historical aspects of this entire program. Doug Valentine, who, you know, you wouldn't be able to have an actual conversation with him because he's a very far leftist. But …
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Bangkok around, going down, you've got Vietnam, you've got Bangkok, you've got Laos, Cambodia. So this is the southern part of China. You've got Vietnam, Laos, Burma, which is now Miramar. That's the major opium growing breadbasket of the w…
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And then you have, so to the northwest of Indonesia, you have Burma, Thailand, Laos. And due north, you have like Vietnam. And Malaysia is connected to, basically, there's a peninsula that comes down out of Thailand that's half Thailand and…
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Myanmar or the former Burma. And then by the time it gets down and actually touches Malaysia, it is 100% Thailand. So Thailand and Malaysia share a border. And then literally right across the straits is Indonesia from Malaysia. So they're a…
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which is that tip of that peninsula that's connected to Thailand. But you also have a Malaysia East, which is on a bigger island of Borneo. And so there's lots of politics that goes on with anyone who shares a landmass like the island of Ea…
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is relevant to Australia. And the other thread that I have been running through all of this is the Nugent Hand Bank, which of course was in Australia. So you can see the strategic importance of Nugent Hand Bank's money laundering operations…
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You can see on the one map Chiang Mai up at the very northern part of Thailand in between of Burma and Laos. That was one of their biggest, you know, cash areas. And then, of course, coming down to Malaysia, Indonesia and on into Australia.…
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The U.S. and its allies exploited other nations for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. Besides Malaysia and those listed above, crypto clients included Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi …
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as in the 18th of September, is about five people arrested attempting to leave the country in two motorhomes with a logo on them of GISB Holdings. They were headed towards the Malaysia-Thailand border. Well, global...…
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During that time, like in Algiers and stuff like that. So that's a really big deal. Then he moves on. It looks like only to Syria for a month before he's moved on. He also was the ambassador to Laos in the 50s, which is when we were first g…
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right after the Second World War, which is interesting because Thailand was the hotbed of operations at that time for the setting up of Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually ends up in Thailand because they were trying to figure out where to put …
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of Korea. Huh. All three of them got together and they're the ones that are starting in Asia, this anti-communist league that has to do with Operation Gladio. Oh, and look, the other participating states, South Vietnam, Thailand, Okinawa, J…
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I have done several. If you just type in the search bar Nugent Hand and Murdoch, you'll be able to come up with several of the threads that I've done on that. But Nugent Hand, if you guys don't know, was basically a fake bank that was set u…
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and von Marbog were his business associates. Wilson recalled what he had told them. Quote, look, you guys, between you, Shackley, and Secord, you know every head of government, every intelligence chief, and every minister of defense in the …
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And every single one of these incidents, there is equipment that is left over that supposedly just gets left. But if you realize that in all of these cases that there are still CIA operatives in the area, like we didn't just actually leave …
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detailed outline of things that she had written. Did she produce any scholarly work other than her long-awaited dissertation? Did Anne Sotero work in Ghana and in Thailand? If so, during what years and for whom did she work? What scholarshi…
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Southern California than Northern California, then you'll be giving up the White House. Although the Anti-Communist League strove for a broad grassroots movement, its most active members were state officials and military officers in Taiwan,…
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They also trained Filipino paramilitary and police units and disseminated disinformation, tortured enemies, and employed hunter-killer teams to murder the Huk leaders and sympathizers, which is exactly what they were planning on doing in Ch…
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All I can say is, we've got to live with what might have been the day before yesterday. And as of today, the field marshal of Thailand says, when he's saying it to his own people, they are going to fight in Vietnam, not in Thailand. I take …
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figuring out how to lay cables. It says Singapore started importing energy from Laos through Thailand and Malaysia after a two-year power purchase agreement was signed. And it says that under the agreement, the Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Sin…
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And there was a French missionary, Father Joseph Machard, of the French Foreign Mission Society, another one of those things that we'll look at, was captured in the seas for supporting Khoi and asked help from the Siamese army. And by the w…
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And they're working with these people. So you have a thing called Operation Passage to Freedom. Now, if I zoom out to the 30,000 foot look, we already know by this time that Chiang Kai-shek is doing his opium thing in China. He gets pushed …
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My brother Jim flew C-130s out of Thailand in Vietnam. My brother Mike was a Naval Academy grad who served in Vietnam. They got around the Sullivan Act by having them geographically separated, but there is a rather famous photo of my brothe…
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like that's an okay number. But if you take in totality the numbers in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, you're probably upwards of over 6 million people. Some say it's closer to 8 million for all of this.…
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Because we haven't even got into Laos and Cambodia or even Thailand at this point. This is just Vietnam and the numbers are staggering. But Laos and Cambodia, Cambodia was, you know, it's horrific. But you and you'll see when we get to thos…
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OSS officers could launch missions into Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Indochina, which is basically Vietnam, and Japan. Although the importance of Indochina probably ranked last on that list in 1942, that situation changed. Chinese, America…
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are very interrelated. We throw up a map and you can see the close proximity of the Philippines, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. So they're all kind of in that area. And what was happening in addition to Japan be…
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And Paul Helliwell of the CIA is his basically right-hand guy. And he watches Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT army pay for their warfare against Mao by selling opium. And he's selling opium through Thailand, through Vietnam, through Laos, throu…
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an Asian warlord by the name of Kun Sa, S-A, who died this week. And he commanded an army of thousands and supplied as much as a quarter of the world's heroin. A quarter, 25% of the world's heroin. And this article was written in 2007. So i…
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This guy basically sprang up as like one of Chiang Kai-shek's deputies to reassert the opium trade inside of Burma. The term Golden Triangle was coined during this period because of the drug-producing region of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. An…
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So they could say that they were in a country, not one of the drug countries, Thailand, Burma, and Laos. They were in Vietnam. But what they were actually doing is operations inside of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. All of the Raven flights wer…
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Thailand. Thailand, Chiang Mai was one of the major drug stops in the distribution of getting the drugs out of the Golden Triangle. And Nguyen Han just miraculously, has anybody ever heard of Chiang Mai? You may. If you're an international …
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Had went to Thailand and Cambodia and all over the Southeast Asia, basically. We also met Everett Bumgartner, B-U-M-G-A-R-T-N-E-R, who was the chief of the U.S. Information Office field operations in Vietnam.…
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Again, these guys worked throughout the theater, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. And it's hard when you go back and understand the breadth of what went on to isolate any one program to just one country because a lot of the same people worked in al…
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and worked in that area. And many of these people did this, by the way, but not in Vietnam proper necessarily, most of them in Thailand, because we basically had bought off the entire Thai government. Because remember the national police gu…
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a family member or a neighbor, and they ratted them out just to save their own lives. So we have no idea who was in there for real and who was in there under a pretense that didn't even actually exist. So they also now, around the 1966 time…
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Um, and he was not only just in Vietnam, but he also did a whole bunch of stuff in Laos. Um, and shortly after Chiang Kai-shek had fled to Thailand with his nationalist army, um, the, uh, this Catholic priest went to Laos to get out of the …
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And let's see. All right. So one of the maps is a map like we've seen before that shows South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and where the DMZ is, the 17th parallel. It shows you in relationship to that where Laos is in the Plain of Jars, where Ch…
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Yeah. Even ABC News laughed at him. You know, Elliot Bernstein was laughing at him. He said, really, what about the American bombing in Laos? What about the bases in Thailand you never told us about? It's not an open war. All this hidden st…
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And there's White House where CIA central in Vietnam. And of course, he doesn't stop there. He then goes to Laos in 73. He's the guy who defunded the Hmong. And so they got overrun. A lot of them live here now. Laos would fall to the commun…
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There's a big deal going on there, of course, with the recapture of the USS Mayaguez. It was a ship that had been apparently taken. We finally got that back, and then the Thais wanted the U.S. out of there, so he oversaw the closing of the …
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Yeah, because I would remind everybody that Thailand is where we sunk $35 million in establishing their national police force and then bribing them to have free access, both air and sea, in order to traffic all of the drugs out of there and…
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Look, so we know the CIA was involved. We know that the DEA, who has offices all over the world, had to be involved. As a matter of fact, we found out in Thailand, if you guys recall, like two and a half years ago, we covered the fact that …
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for covert operations off the books was generated by opium being trafficked out of that area, the Golden Triangle, spreading into Laos and all of that area and then into the Vietnam. That entire history, very well documented through Thailan…
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national police, after just having discussed about the Sivak in Iran, all of these countries have that same setup. And they are largely created and funded by the CIA covert operations. So when you look at the network that they had set up or…
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of Thailand and several other quote-unquote anti-communist leaders, my quotes, had founded the group that would become known as the World Anti-Communist League in 1954. Singlem was a committed anti-communist, which means fascist, and that's…
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Millions more were funneled to Sedona for the implementation of false flags. They were funneled and arranged and controlled by the U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In 1970 alone, Sedona received more than $10 million from the ambassador. Now,…
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Another special air warfare unit based in Thailand with the code name Pony Express carried out missions over North Vietnam beginning in January 1967. That year, Pony Express completed eight of 37 missions assigned. It successfully recovered…
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Indeed, as John Evans pointed out, the government was aware the CIA for years had sanctioned heroin traffic from the Golden Triangle of Bermuda, Thailand and Laos into South Vietnam as a way of rewarding top foreign officials in advancing U…
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intelligence units with suspicion. The major strategic intelligence office that they all reported to was harder to implement. Given its arcane function as a tool to help managers formulate plans and strategies, the chief director, John Warn…
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continuation of the rule violence that preceded Plan Lazo in the 1960s. But a broader glance at how the U.S. has intervened in other countries would see Colombia as yet another example of how the U.S., with local drug proxy forces, to incre…
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Hawk and the U.S. State Department argued that America should employ whatever means necessary. Arms here, opium there, bribery, propaganda, anything that it took. Rusk advice was thus implemented through strategies of propaganda and covert …
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and eventually the Crystal Triangle. After the Chinese Revolution, Chinese drug lords collaborated with the American-sponsored KMT, exiled in Taiwan to coordinate the Asian heroin trade, drawing upon the support of the China lobby in the U.…
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The CIA made tactical decisions that led to covert operations with known drug trafficking organizations. And again, just as a reminder for anyone new, the CIA spent $35 million training the National Thai police and buying off the leadership…
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The KMT's drug connection in China was the Green Gate, and shipments of opium arrived in the U.S. through this route to include the CIA. Support for CIA activities in the Golden Triangle was based upon the preservation and restoration of th…
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And the mafias in Italy preeminence in this drug trafficking cycle because they were under the control of the CIA. Okay. The State Department and the CIA maintain that any buyout of the Burmese opium crop would find insurgencies against the…
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The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secre…
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CIA backed military coup in Thailand in 1948 had ensured the Thailand's left would be ensured that Thailand's would be. That doesn't make any sense. Anyway, that Thailand would be under the control of the CIA. So, again, another coup in 194…
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which was eventually bought illegally by BCCI, another CIA front bank. Capital investments were encouraged from South Vietnamese, Chinese, meaning Taiwanese, Chiang Kai-shek, not China, as you and I think about it, and Thai sources, as well…
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that the failure to invade China in the fight against communism forced the CIA to move its covert drug operations westward. The CIA's new focus on the fight against the Vietnamese, meaning Ho Chi Minh, as opium production in Burma, Thailand…
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Who's trafficking drugs? You can guarantee it's not them. An internal CIA survey revealed that 60% of the world's opium came from the Golden Triangle under the control of the CIA. With the four largest heroin labs in Laos, Burma, and Thaila…
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area and they knew that the traffickers in thailand you know and of course we know a lot more about thailand than was even i mean the books a thousand pages already they couldn't put everything in it but we know and it does mention that the…
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in bed with the CIA. We know Paul Helliwell opened that Tide console in Miami, the whole network. And of course, Paul Helliwell is mentioned in this book as well. So all of that information is known inside our government, and they didn't do…
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Yep. Pen narcotic trafficking on them. I mean, we know that they did that in Nicaragua. They've done it repeatedly all over the world. Sure. And at the same time, then, in countries like Thailand or Colombia, like there's so many people tha…
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And so they had to set up elaborate fronts in order to convert Australian money into other money. And that's the reason why Nguyen Han had all of those branches throughout Asia in Chiang Mai, Hong Kong and all of that. So in a lot in Thaila…
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later that same year, that her asylum was granted. Immigration experts agree that normally, even the slightest hint of drug involvement by an alien results not just in not getting a green card, but them being deported. I've had clients, thi…
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According to author Stephen Emerson, the ISA, known in military intelligence circle as the Activity, provided Grits with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cameras, polygraph equipment to check the veracity of people in the theater, radi…
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As he prepared to make another stab at infiltrating Laos in early 1983, word of his mission was leaked to Soldier of Fortune magazine and picked up by the Los Angeles Time and Boston Globe. Exposed, Gritz and his squad were arrested by Thai…
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anti-terrorism expert and the daughter of a missing U.S. pilot were jailed and held for trial. In a letter to the LA Times, Grits said that the CIA and DIA both knew of the mission and provided him with the gear. Both agencies disavowed any…
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Over the next few years, excuse me, few weeks, Foma's new government succeeded in winning the approval of the king, American's ambassador, Warthog Brown, and a new but compliant National Assembly. In due course, his neutralist government wa…
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to oust Suvana supporters from the capital. The proof of this was that while Sarat's forces in Thailand blockaded the capital, Air America was stepping up its military airlift, supplying warlike material to Fumi. It was plain, Doman said, t…
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the actual government. Yet even as he did so, two men flew to Sivanik and gave Fumi the green light to march on Laos capital. The two men were not some CIA spook in the field, but John Irving II, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense f…
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A declassified State Department cable confirms that Ervin and Riley met Fumi in Ubon, Thailand. The thrust of their discussion was that the U.S. was prepared to support, at least secretly, a march on the capital and recapture the government…
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The last weeks of 1960 saw ominous indications that anti-communist forces were only too willing to internationalize every aspect of this conflict, especially the first reports in Times and Le Monde, which is the French leading New York Time…
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Not a legal government. The fact that you now recognize that as a legal government doesn't make it a legal government. The legal government sitting in the Capitol that you're trying to strangle and starve. The official record of this phone …
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counterinsurgency techniques in Laos. For example, the Air America planes and pilots transporting the Laotian Army, the Kennedy administration agreed in May of 1961 to a ceasefire. One day later, Rusk announced the first of a series of step…
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Bernard Fall estimated that the fighting in Laos in 1960 through 62 involved relatively small forces, many of whose men were of the same Thai Hmong stock as the tribesmen on the Laotian side, not even really Vietnamese. The British observer…
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After giving repeated warnings fired on those troops, Fomi's troops withdrew into Thailand. Thus, the further advances of the Pao Shin Lao were achieved after a flurry of firefights, but no Pao Shin Lao attack. The Thai government now reque…
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A State Department spokesman denied the story and others suggest that the subsidy may have been paid by someone in Thailand or even by President Diem. But again, Thailand is completely occupied by the United States. CIA had set up bases. Th…
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country that we spent $35 million buying the national police so that we could fly all of the drugs in and out of the seaports and the airports, that Thailand. And of course, Diem, it was installed by the CIA. So by suggesting that the money…
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referring to intelligence reports of 6,000 North Vietnamese troops in Laos, which, as we have already proven, didn't exist. It appears that at about that time, North Vietnam's Border Patrol battalions began to move into position on the fron…
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assumed a combat role in Laos in May of 1964, at a time when the North Vietnamese Army was still engaged in a support role comparable to that of the Air America. North Vietnam was not formally accused by the U.S. of violating the Geneva Agr…
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from Air America in T-28 fighters based in Thailand, but carrying Laotian markings. So again, the U.S. is disguising itself flying their planes that they've disguised as Laotian planes and attacking while the president is telling you none o…
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I say more about this later on in the chapter. With respect to what I say below about Union Oil, now called Unical's offshore concessions in Cambodia, Unical now has at least three petroleum concessions in what is referred to as Thailand-Ca…
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in Phnom Penh. That's the capital. Another concession held by Chevron with British Gash Asia Inc. is dated March 8, 1972. When in 1995, Cambodia first offered three offshore blocks near Chanakaville for bidding,…
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as a result of which a French company drilled the first oil well unsuccessfully in 1971. Leases in the adjacent offshore waters of Thailand had been awarded in September 1968 to six oil companies, five of which were American. This lent urge…
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So here's a quote. The following magnetic studies were carried out during the fiscal year 1968. A complete low level aeromagnetic survey of South Vietnam, including all of the land surface and at least part of the offshore waters for milita…
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was in an area close to Cambodia and affected by the unresolved border dispute between the two countries over offshore islands. It was also very close to ESSO, another oil company, concession northeast of Malaysia, in which, according to re…
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And pilots were involved since Air America officials have admitted to extensive defoliation programs having been flown, you know, in every other country but this one during this one time. They flew them in Thailand. They flew them in Taiwan…
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which was referred to over there as the KKK, of whom an unflattering portrait is found in Robin Moore's book called The Green Berets. Trained by U.S. Special Forces, the Khmer Syri, and later the Thai officers in Thailand, these troops beca…
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renewed his charges that the CIA was still plotting against him as they had in 1959. The Khmer Syri harassment, especially along the Thai border, markedly increased. The changes had since been, the charges had been corroborated. A Greenbrae…
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does not imply that the Cambodian history in 1970 followed a master blueprint, but it does have CIA fingerprints all over it. The intelligence structures of other nations were also involved, like Thailand and South Vietnam. The prince himse…
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also came first with the initiation of operations against North Vietnam in February 64 with bombing raids with Thai and Air America pilots in Laos. In both cases, these provocations, although inadequate by themselves to prove the U.S. milit…
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all, you know, the whole time, but was there any like data that you look back on and you, you're like, Oh my God. Cause I know you, you traveled back to that region, right? Or Korea. I can't remember exactly where you traveled back to. I we…
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that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading company called Sea Supply. Sea Supply was s…
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which in the early post-war period was still allied with it, so that Pan Am was particularly oriented towards the development of the Pacific Rim. It has also been shown that Pan Am's staggering profits in the 60s were built around its early…