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Claims (188)

John F. Kennedy appointed Edward Lansdale documented document

“President Kennedy's November 30 1961 memorandum formally established the MONGOOSE program and named Edward G Lansdale as its Chief of Operations…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.349

Edward Lansdale met_with Maxwell D. Taylor documented document

“Early in the MONGOOSE Program on December 7 1961 Gen Lansdale sent a memorandum concerning the Cuba Project to Maxwell Taylor U A Johnson Roswell Gilpatric and John McCone then DCI…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.349

Edward Lansdale met_with Alexis Johnson documented document

“Early in the MONGOOSE Program on December 7 1961 Gen Lansdale sent a memorandum concerning the Cuba Project to Maxwell Taylor U A Johnson Roswell Gilpatric and John McCone then DCI…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.349

Edward Lansdale met_with Roswell Gilpatric documented document

“Early in the MONGOOSE Program on December 7 1961 Gen Lansdale sent a memorandum concerning the Cuba Project to Maxwell Taylor U A Johnson Roswell Gilpatric and John McCone then DCI…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.349

Edward Lansdale met_with John McCone documented document

“Early in the MONGOOSE Program on December 7 1961 Gen Lansdale sent a memorandum concerning the Cuba Project to Maxwell Taylor U A Johnson Roswell Gilpatric and John McCone then DCI…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.349

Edward Lansdale met_with Caribbean Survey Group documented document

“After the Attorney General addressed the group on that occasion Lansdale sent a memorandum to the members of the "Caribbean Survey Group (another euphemism for the Cuba Project) dated the next day…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.350

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Bounty documented document

“On January 30 1962 a Defense Department proposal was sent to Lansdale entitled "Operation Bounty.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.350

Edward Lansdale worked_for Special Mission Group documented document

“A Lansdale memorandum of March 13 1962 to the Special Group Augmented advised that…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Mongoose documented document

“Lansdale's basic concept for the MONGOOSE program was to overthrow Castro through an internal revolt of the Cuban people…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.151

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose documented document

“General Lansdale Named Chief-of-Operations of MONGOOSE…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.6

John F. Kennedy appointed Edward Lansdale documented document

“President Kennedy gave General Edward Lansdale the task of coordinating the CIA's MONGOOSE operations…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.154

Edward Lansdale operated_in Philippines documented document

“Lansdale had developed a reputation in the Philippines and Vietnam for having an ability to deal with revolutionary insurgencies…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.154

Edward Lansdale operated_in South Vietnam documented document

“Lansdale had developed a reputation in the Philippines and Vietnam for having an ability to deal with revolutionary insurgencies…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.154

John F. Kennedy met_with Edward Lansdale documented document

“In the fall of 1961 Landale was asked by President Kennedy to examine the Administration's Cuba policy…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.154

Edward Lansdale met_with Robert F. Kennedy documented document

“Lansdale transmitted a copy of the tasks to Attorney General Kennedy on January 18 1962 with a handwritten note...…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.156

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Bounty documented document

“Lansdale said that he "tabled this concept when he received it because "I did not think that it was something that should be seriously undertaken or supported further."…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.158

Special Group (Executive Committee) approved Edward Lansdale documented document

“The SGA approved Lansdale's 33 tasks for planning purposes on January 30 1962…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.157

Special Group (Augmented) ordered_assassination_of Edward Lansdale documented document

“he was ordered to cut back his plan and limit it to an intelligence collection program…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.159

Edward Lansdale met_with Special Group (Augmented) documented document

“While Harvey was still in Miami Lansdale told the SGA that 'Upon the return of Mr Harvey from his current field visit more specific information on the status of agent training and operations should be made available.'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.167

Robert F. Kennedy worked_for Edward Lansdale documented document

“He testified that Robert Kennedy dealt directly with Lansdale outside SGA channels…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.169

Roswell Gilpatric did_business_with Edward Lansdale documented document

“Gilpatric had previously recommended Lansdale for promotion to Brigadier General and had worked closely with him earlier on a Viet Nam operation…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.173

Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented document

“On August 13 1962 Lansdale directed Harvey to include in a proposed plan for Phase II of MONGOOSE an option for the "liquidation of leaders."…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

Edward Lansdale worked_for Special Group (Augmented) documented document

“Lansdale's August 13 memorandum was sent to Harvey and to the other members of Lansdale's interagency working group.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

Edward Lansdale met_with Robert Hurwitch documented document

“Lansdalesent copiesof his memorandumto RobertHurwitch(State Department)…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

Edward Lansdale met_with Benjamin Harrison documented document

“Lansdalesent copiesof his memorandumto ... GeneralBenjaminHarris (DefenseDepartment)…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

Edward Lansdale met_with Donald Wilkon documented document

“Lansdalesent copiesof his memorandumto ... DonaldWilkon(UnitedStatesIn formationAgency)…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.175

Edward Lansdale met_with William Harvey documented document

“Lansdale stated that he had one brief conversation with Harvey after the August 13 memorandum in which Harvey stated 'he would look into it * * * see about developing some plans.'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.181

Edward Lansdale met_with David Martin documented document

“One report was based on statements made by Lansdale to David Martin of the Associated Press…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.181

Edward Lansdale met_with Jeremiah O'Leary documented document

“another on Lansdale's statements to Jeremiah O'Leary of the Washington Star-News…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.181

Edward Lansdale worked_for John F. Kennedy reported document

“Lansdale replied 'on that project I was working for the highest authority in the land.'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.182

Edward Lansdale operated_in Cuba documented document

“At the same time we were getting intelligence accumulating very quickly of something very different taking place in Cuba than we had expected…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.181

Edward Lansdale invested_in United States documented document

“Lansdale stated 'I just wanted to see if the U.S had any such capabilities'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.182

Richard Goodwin worked_with Edward Lansdale documented document

“Goodwin and Lansdale worked closely with Robert Kennedy…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.153

Edward Lansdale worked_with Robert F. Kennedy documented document

“Goodwin and Lansdale worked closely with Robert Kennedy who took an active interest in this preparatory stage…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.153

Edward Lansdale worked_for CIA documented document

“A cover memorandum by Lansdale transmitting the CIA estimate to Robert Kennedy...…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.151

Lee Harvey Oswald attempted_assassination_of Edward Lansdale alleged document

“he had not known that Oswald allegedly shot at General Walker in April 1963.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.37

John McCone met_with Edward Lansdale documented document

“On April 26 Harvey was sent a memorandum informing him of General Taylor's request and McCone's wish to meet with Harvey and Lansdale 'immediately on your return to discuss the Task Force Activities.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.118

Edward Lansdale member_of Operation Mongoose documented document

“General Lansdale informed the agencies cooperating in Operation MONGOOSE that 'you're in a combat situation where we have been given full command.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.288

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Mongoose documented document

“Lansdale's plan which was submitted to the Special Group in January 1962 aimed at inducing 'open revolt and overthrow of the Communist regime.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.289

Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro reported document

“General Lansdale issued an action memorandum assigning the CIA the task of preparing contingency plans for the assassination of Cuban leaders…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.290

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Bounty documented document

“One of the programs forwarded to General Lansdale by the Defense Department in the MONGOOSE program was entitled 'Operation Bounty'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.290

Edward Lansdale worked_for CIA documented document

“Lansdale assigns32planningtasks against Castro regime…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.307

Edward Lansdale worked_for CIA documented document

“Lansdale was quite out of order in tasking the Central Intelligence Agency to consider the matter…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.335

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose documented document

“President Kennedy's November 30 1961 memorandum formally established the MONGOOSE program and named Edward G Lansdale as its Chief of Operations…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.349

Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro reported document

“Lansdale could not explain why he ordered the CIA to draw up an assassination plan…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.336

Edward Lansdale founded Operation Mongoose documented

“The Church Committee report says in November 1962, the proposal for a new covert action program to overthrow Castro was developed. The president's assistant, Richard Goodwin, and General Edward Lansdale, there's that twit again, who was exp…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 59:44

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose documented

“A special group was created to oversee Mongoose, and Lansdell was made its chief of operations. Those operations included assassination, or the favored term, executive action. The memo written by Lansdell and introduced during the hearing i…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:00:10

Edward Lansdale joined Ronald Reagan book_quoted

“Shackley went private the next year after a dispute with Carter's CIA director, Admiral Stanford Turner. Sinklib and Lansdale then joined the Reagan campaign headed by William Casey. There's so much bad about the Reagan administration that …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 13 @ 29:05

Edward Lansdale founded Civil Affairs Office host_asserted

“As a former advertising man, Lansdell was no stranger to the use of market research, motivation techniques, media, and deception. In CIA parlance, such art falls under the heading of psychological warfare. To this end, Lansdell fashioned a …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 42:52

Edward Lansdale founded Economic Development Corps host_asserted

“Out of this came the Economic Development Corps to lure Hux with a program of resettlement on their own patch of farmland with tools, seeds, cash loans. It was an undertaking wholly inadequate to the land problem, and the number that respon…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 45:33

Edward Lansdale recruited Ramon Magsaysay documented

“Masese also benefited from these splits internally and used them to their advantage, strategy of tension. Lansdale began promoting Masese using all the resources of the Wisner operation, eventually making the Filipino a larger-than-life fig…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 13:53

Edward Lansdale headed Saigon Military Mission documented

“The Americans then had to regroup in South Vietnam under quote-unquote regroupment zones that had been established in 1954's Geneva Agreement. A unit called Saigon Military Mission was set up in July 1954 to cover for intelligence operation…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 43:18

Edward Lansdale objected_to Operation Pluto documented

“There were also changes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Office of Special Operations. The Office of Special Operations got abolished after the Bay of Pigs, although some of its representatives, like Ed Lansdale, had cons…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 46:04

Edward Lansdale coordinated Operation Mongoose documented

“Edward Lansdale served as the Pentagon's contact man for matters concerning Operation Mongoose, coordinating military support as well as arranging for the agendas and keeping the records of the NSD special group, which effectively replaced …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 21:26

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose host_asserted

“the chief of operations task force running Mongoose, with a CIA group under him called Task Force W and headed by William K. Harvey from the new CIA headquarters at Langley. Harvey supervised the activities of Ted Shackley's Miami station. …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 35:37

Edward Lansdale recruited Philippines host_asserted

“Do you remember? The Korean people? Where did they bring the paramilitary? No, not Ukraine. Where did they bring the paramilitary people in with General Lansdale? Where had he just been? Was it not Taiwan? He had actually been in the Philip…”

▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:33:08

Edward Lansdale brought_officers_from Philippines host_asserted

“the advisory group that was already there, the CIA PSYOP war and the paramilitary officers that had been brought over by Lansdell from the Philippines. Remember them? They're all there. So they all had big ideas on what they needed to be do…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 31:12

Edward Lansdale member_of John Birch Society host_asserted

“where it added to the society's fund for anti-communist activities. Like other conservative groups in America, the individuals like General Lansdale, who was a Birch Society member, who had been forced out of the CIA and the Pentagon by lib…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 38:05

Edward Lansdale operated_in Philippines host_asserted

“background before he ever even entered the OSS. A lot of this was used during World War II as well. He did use it in the Philippines with the whole vampire thing that we talked about where he pretended like somebody had been bit by a vampir…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam and the Phoenix Program Part 2 @ 30:41

Edward Lansdale reassigned Miami documented

“Three teams had already left for points on the north coast of Cuba when one Cuban who wanted assurances that the cause was good phoned Robert Kennedy. The attorney general now facing a horrifying prospect of nuclear war was not the gung-ho …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 38:10

Edward Lansdale member_of The Enterprise book_quoted

“But anyway, they found it spelt both ways. And again, it's just like the gold certificates that we talked about, how they have intentional misspellings. However, in 1974, Lansdell had been out of government for a decade and one of the found…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 41:10

Edward Lansdale relationship_with Santa Romana book_quoted

“If Lansdale and Santee always had shared control of the big UBS account, Lansdale might have been able to have the UBS transferred to his name. $300 an ounce, this account would have been worth $192 billion, a lot more than the net worth of…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 41:40

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Santa Romana book_quoted

“Immediately after Santi's death, Lansdell also was involved in a mysterious movement of gold from Santi's account at Citibank in Manila to Citibank in New York, possibly done to get the assets out of the Philippines before Marcos could take…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 44:35

Edward Lansdale supervised_by Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana book_quoted

“to reveal each place to which he had taken Yamashita, where the bullion and other treasure were hidden. Supervising Santee, we learned, was Captain Edward Lansdell, who we know ends up in the CIA. He was part of the OSS. Later, one of Ameri…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 23:31

Edward Lansdale briefed Douglas MacArthur book_quoted

“including two that were easily opened. What lay inside astonished everybody. While Santee and his team set to opening the rest of these vaults, Captain Lansdale flew to Tokyo to brief General MacArthur, then on to Washington to brief Truman…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 26:05

Edward Lansdale briefed Douglas MacArthur host_asserted

“There were all in the high valleys north of Manila in a triangle and near the northern tip of Luzon. When they returned to Manila in mid-October, Lansdale reported to Colonel McMickering, then flew to Tokyo where he briefed Willoughby, Whit…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 49:10

Edward Lansdale reassigned Counterintelligence Corps book_quoted

“Captain Lansdale was one of the 50 office staff given a chance to transfer to the Army G2 in the Philippines. This is incredibly important because G2 is the intel arm of the U.S. Army. And this man, Lansdale, had no intel experience whatsoe…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 25:04

Fletcher Prouty exposed Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“He shared office space, Prouty did, with Lansdale for many years and identified Lansdale in photographs taken during the assassination of President Kennedy, identification confirmed by others. In the movie JFK Oliver Stone produced, it was …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 42:36

Robert Anderson did_business_with Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“and the Black Eagle Trust growing out of them, how General MacArthur and Robert B. Anderson had toured the Golden Lily sites with Santee and Lansdell, and how John McCloy, CIA, had been the key man in setting up the M Fund and other politic…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:01

John Magruder reassigned Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“who still headed the Strategic Services Unit, the last vestige of the OSS office, and before the new Central Intelligence Group was created under General Hoyt Vandenberg. It was Magruder who had moved Lansdell to Manila two months earlier. …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 49:37

John Singlaub worked_with Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“Not that ours is any good. So in the course of his long CIA career, Singlib worked with the most famous Cold War warriors like Ted Shackley, Klein, and Lansdale. In the 1970s, he was an American top military commander in Korea when he had t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 26:04

Lyman Lemnitzer installed Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“And I mean, they're desperate at this point. So as soon as General Lemensker became Army Chief of Staff in 1959, he installed Lansdell at a desk in the Deputy SecDef's office in the Pentagon. Now, Lansdell is a CIA. He was put in charge of …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 50:35

Douglas MacArthur did_business_with Edward Lansdale book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:01

Sante Romano did_business_with Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“The verification of his tax records in the state of New York at Albany, legal evidence of his fortune deposited in the United States, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and elsewhere provided hard evidence that the world is awash with clandestine bank…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 55:24

Santa Romana relationship_with Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“that he maintained. And the way he remembered this is they set up. So remember, he's a protege of Lansdale from the CIA. Lansdale's favorite thing, because he was basically in PR and wrote jingles, was to create a jingle to remember the cod…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 53:01

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana invited_by Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“In the midst of the turmoil, Santee was invited to Washington as a private guest of the disaffected old guard, including Lansdale, Helliwell, and Klein. For over a month, they told him stories of the OSS days, slapped each other on the back…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:12:24

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 34:27

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 50:35

Edward Lansdale ran Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“and overthrew their governments too. Lansdell, while still a colonel on active duty, ran Operation Mongoose, the effort to kill Castro. When Lansdell was forced to retire by President Kennedy, he simply went into the private military force,…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 13 @ 23:38

Edward Lansdale briefed John Magruder host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 49:10

Edward Lansdale member_of Military Assistant Group host_asserted

“while assigned to the Military Assistance Advisory Group, but in fact, he was a CIA agent. Ho Chi Minh's defeat of the French in 1954 at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, ending the first Indochina War, it just was not going to be his last one. …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 9 @ 43:31

Edward Lansdale member_of Inger Ingersoll host_asserted

“They're not journalists when they're in a foreign country and they're caught with classified information. That makes them a spy by default. So just know that all of our international companies still do this. So Captain Lansdell was one of t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 46:41

Edward Lansdale protege_of Napoleon Valeriano book_quoted

“He also inherited the secret war that they're doing with Cuba that nobody was even aware of. And Kruger writes about that remarkable fanatical group of conspirators then assembled to create finance and train Bay of Pig invasion forces. The …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 48:08

Edward Lansdale laundered_money_for Black Eagle Trust book_quoted

“Japan had also been greatly enriched. Ray Klein and others, between 45 and 47, the gold bullion recovered by Santee and Lansdale was discreetly moved by ship to 176 accounts at banks in 42 different countries. Secrecy was vital. The very ex…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 36:56

Edward Lansdale member_of United States Department of Defense documented

“Although NSC directives following the Bay of Pigs made the Department of Defense primarily responsible for advice on activities, its operational role remained minimal. Edward Lansdale served as the Pentagon's contact man for matters concern…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 20:04

Edward Lansdale visited Philippines book_quoted

“is in American banks, and they will not give it to the rightful owners. And like I said, we'll get into more of that as we get into the book. McCloy, Lovett, and Stimson, as well as others and Captain Lansdale, would go to Tokyo in November…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 35:47

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Philippines host_asserted

“heard of Santee's interrogation of Major Kojima. Electrified, he seized the initiative, taking administrative control of Santee's interrogation. Lansdell was able to do this because most of MacArthur's team, including Willoughby's senior st…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 47:46

Edward Lansdale studied_at United States host_asserted

“During the Depression, Lansdale had studied journalism at UCLA. He enlisted, and then he went to intelligence school, then eventually made it into the OSS. And Lansdale's life changed in a big way when President Truman ordered the OSS close…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 45:15

Edward Lansdale headed Philippines book_quoted

“and overthrew the populist person that they wanted to become their president. And this author is drawing the direct corollary to what they're setting up in Taiwan as a terrorist government to attack China as being the exact same thing they …”

▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 2 @ 48:54

Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of Ngô Đình Diệm guest_asserted

“Ed Lansdale said, I think we should never have done it. We destroyed the Vietnamese constitution. Not we, but the people we were working with. We, not the people you were working with, is correct. Okay. There would be several more coups bef…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 32:40

CIA recruited Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“In 1954, Edward Lansdell arrived in Vietnam on assignment for the agency. His orders were straightforward. Stop the communists. Lansdell pulled together a unit that waged paramilitary operations in political psychological warfare against th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 6:34

Edward Lansdale funded Ngo Dinh Diem book_quoted

“sabotage to noise buses and railroad equipment. In South Vietnam, Lansdale bribed religious and political sect leaders to support Diem. The effort in Vietnam mirrored much of the efforts in the early 60s in Cuba. American forces would openl…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 7:04

Edward Lansdale operated_in Philippines host_asserted

“that we i'm talking about in the immediate aftermath of world war ii now lansdale was there during world war ii as well um and um but he all of his trained guys that he worked with there were picked up and moved to vietnam okay what i mean …”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 28:59

CIA recruited Edward Lansdale documented

“being taken over by the CIA. In June of 1954, an agency special unit, 10 men under Colonel Lansdale arrived undercover as Saigon military mission. They worked independently of John Anderton's Saigon station. Geneva provided a two-year hiatu…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 38:10

Edward Lansdale funded Ngo Dinh Diem documented

“Instead, Lansdale funneled the money to Diem, who took over and made that his first power base. The tab amounted to tens of thousands of dollars a month and steadily increased. Several additional CIA subsidies went directly to Diem's palace…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 40:45

CIA recruited Edward Lansdale documented

“Lansdale's mission specific for operations had that much time to fuck it all up. Lucien Koenig, who we see later on in, he's a big drug dealer, weapons guy, and was in close personal contact with the French mafia and drug trafficking in Mar…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 38:40

Edward Lansdale member_of South Vietnam documented

“was backing the entire time. The elections had nothing to do with democracy. It had everything to do with consolidating the Western power in South Vietnam. For much of this period, Ed Lansdale resided in Saigon in one last incarnation. This…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 9:47

Edward Lansdale managed Operation Mongoose documented

“Moving on to Chapter 15, where we get into Southeast Asia. Although not cut from the same cloth as Maxwell Taylor, Ed Lansdale also considered himself something of a theorist. Managing Operation Mongoose and backstopping covert actions at t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 39:02

Edward Lansdale appointed Ngo Dinh Diem documented

“and provide medical help to villagers, all under the guise of helping but inserting spies along the way. General Lansdale also happened to be an American behind the rise of South Vietnamese President Diem. Despite his...…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 40:35

Walt Rostow showed Edward Lansdale documented

“Foundation for more democratic government. Not the democratic government you and I think about. One controlled by these guys. The report created a stir in Washington. Walt Rostow showed it to the president days after he entered office. Busy…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 44:01

Robert F. Kennedy asked Edward Lansdale documented

“You know, Eisenhower never mentioned any of this. He talked in length of Laos, but never said a word about Vietnam. The Secretary of Defense wanted to hear from the author himself. Robert McNamara asked Lansdell, quote, somehow I found him …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 44:35

John P. Cabot Lodge overrode Edward Lansdale documented

“Maybe because he thought you were crazy. Several attempts to assign Lansdell to Vietnam were blocked until 1965 when none other than Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge overrode all opposition. In the meantime, Ed Lansdell had been occupied with M…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 45:06

Edward Lansdale regretted 1963 South Vietnamese coup documented

“Two decades later, for his opinion, the U.S. support for the Diem coup, Ed Lansdale replied, quote, I think we should never have done it. We destroyed the Vietnamese constitution. I'm sorry, I did that out loud. Not we, of course, but the p…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 1:08:30

Edward Lansdale appointed General Thang book_quoted

“that as a way of monitoring the Saigon station in 1965 in August, the special group assigned Ed Lansdale, he's back, as a senior liaison to General Thang, P-H-A-N-G, who instantly advocated transferring the entire Revolutionary Development …”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 1:01:10

CIA coordinated_with Edward Lansdale documented

“and Bissell's initial overview paper borrowed heavily from Walt's speech. Very well known, once Rusto gave the talk at Fort Bragg. At the Pentagon, Ed Lansdale also prepared a paper, the first of several, which recited in bold numbers the s…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 41:25

Edward Lansdale recruited Jose Valerano book_quoted

“Among the Filipinos were Jose Valerano, who had begun his CIA contract work with who? Yes, Ed Lansdale. Esterling calls being knocked off his original timetable in August or September for not having this whole crew ready.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 48:30

John P. Cabot Lodge appointed Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“It's basically just a turf war. That's the easy way of saying it. In 1965, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who we've talked about quite a bit, totally corrupt, had handed the problem to Ed Lansdell, whom he appointed as his senior liaison to …”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program @ 50:04

Edward Lansdale coined_term Viet Cong host_asserted

“So Lansdell is the one who coined the term Viet Cong as opposed to Viet Minh. So he did not. And it's all about labeling. OK, keep in mind, Lansdell is a PR guy from San Francisco. That's what he did before he went in the OSS. He is the qui…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 52:05

Edward Lansdale advisor_to Allen Dulles host_asserted

“who had been over in the Philippines assassinating people over there to install their fake president there. He was a confidential advisor to Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles. Lansdale defeated the United Sec Front in the Philippines, so h…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 51:31

Edward Lansdale defeated United Sect Front host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 51:31

Edward Lansdale installed Ramon Magsaysay host_asserted

“and the installation of his Magsaysay guy. The Philippines, his tactics earned him the nickname Ugly American. He brought those same tactics to Saigon. And you'll never guess, an entire team of Filipino assassins came with him, almost like …”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 53:36

Edward Lansdale managed Freedom Company host_asserted

“From the north. So Lansdale was involved in that migration that we've already talked about and how they did that. So he adds some interesting aspects to it. So let's go on. He talks about a Lansdale set up a fake company. That fake company,…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 56:31

Edward Lansdale hired Freedom Company host_asserted

“Lansdale's program was aimed at several thousand Viet Minh stay-behind agents organizing secret cells and conducting propaganda among the people. As a way of attacking these agents, Lansdale hired Freedom Company to activate Operation Broth…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:00:32

Edward Lansdale left_program_to Rufus Phillips host_asserted

“It had, in fact, obtained some results in the field, but soon it became a repressive tool to liquidate any opponent. Ed Lansdell had served his purpose and was being unceremoniously rotated out of Vietnam, leaving behind the civic action pr…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:11:35

Edward Lansdale talked_to George Reinhardt host_asserted

“My first inkling came when several families appeared at my house one morning to tell me about the arrest at midnight of their men, all of whom were political figures. The arrest had strange aspects to them. Having come when the city was asl…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:12:00

Edward Lansdale member_of Pentagon book_quoted

“Many of these other books all said that the Pentagon did not view it as viable in any way. Lansdale spoke up, but Allen Dulles interrupted to say he was not a principal in the committee. In other words, Ed Lansdale was representing the Pent…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 9:53

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“for the new Cuba project. In an effort to obscure the project, Halpern looked at a list of code names that had been set aside for Thailand and selected Mongoose. Lansdale became the man of Project Mongoose, planning and supervising this cov…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 16:57

Edward Lansdale appointed United States Information Agency book_quoted

“on what it will take to win against a communist team, unquote. He anticipated problems. He said that there needed to be a spirit among the bureaucrats, but doggone it, we have to work with what we have. A month later, Lansdale asked the Att…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 18:24

Maxwell D. Taylor appointed Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“Robert McNamara and Bobby Kennedy sat in on the meeting. A Goodwin note on November 22nd indicates that the secret warrior had already put his thoughts on paper. When Maxwell Taylor convened the special group the same day, he said that Edwa…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 15:18

Edward Lansdale targeted_for_regime_change Cuba book_quoted

“according to Lansdale. Lansdale would look over the situation vis-a-vis the U.S. and Cuba and see what ideas he had. Lansdale reported back within days. He estimated Castro's overthrow to be possible, but the Cuban sugar crop should be atta…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 14:48

Edward Lansdale member_of National Security Council book_quoted

“gave Lansdale the role, even nicknaming him FM, I guess for Field Marshal. Almost daily, Lansdale informed Bobby in a quick handwritten note or memorandum or a conversation in the hall of progress. Before a special group session in early De…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 17:55

Edward Lansdale member_of Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted

“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53

Edward Lansdale member_of United States Information Agency book_quoted

“Lansdale's authority to give him orders. So he wanted to have the U.S. Information Agency working under Lansdale on this project. A week after Lansdale warned Bobby of his presentation to the special group, when Lansdale actually presented …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 18:55

Edward Lansdale member_of Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“instructed the Secret Warriors to proceed in such a fashion as to permit disengagement. General Lansdell would continue as the project chief. The CIA's next day promised to ensure a steady flow of intel on Cuba. This flaw of the Bay of Pigs…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:23

Edward Lansdale headed Operation Mongoose documented

“There were restrictions that RFK had set telling McCone that Mongoose had lots of data but little to show for it. At the time, Mongoose remained mired in phase one. Lansdale worried that the agencies were protecting their interests and that…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 4:54

Edward Lansdale recruited William Harvey documented

“He persuaded Bill Harvey and the CIA to prepare a revised alternative course B and then went to discuss it with Bobby Kennedy. The latest plan aimed at strengthening the atmosphere of resistance in Cuba. Teams of three to five fighters woul…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 5:21

Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented

“rears its ugly head again, the paper General Lansdale sent to his agency managers after the August 10th meeting assigned Bill Harvey to write a paper on the CIA's role, listing under the rubric of political, the aspect of splitting the regi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 13:55

Edward Lansdale covered_up Operation Mongoose documented

“had himself brought up the question of assassination in Russ' office on August 10th. Staff took the Lansdale memo and whited out the offending phrase, but it survived in Harvey's notes to help. In Lansdale's deposition to the Rockefeller Co…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 15:02

Edward Lansdale covered_up Operation Mongoose documented

“Recollection improved before the church committee where Lansdale testified that the idea had been shot down on the August 10th meeting, but that he had included it in the instructions to Harvey because it might be a possibility someplace do…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 16:20

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Mongoose book_quoted

“Lansdale told the group that half a dozen new raids were planned and another strike on a major target would be added. Some talked of mining Cuban territorial waters. On October 4th, the meeting concluded that more dynamic action was indicat…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 17:46

Edward Lansdale proposed Operation Mongoose documented

“The only political warfare would trigger a Cuban revolt, he reiterated. He also said that a scheme to have a submarine surface and fire star shells over Cuba for all souls day night igniting Cuban superstitions, that seems to be a favorite …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 18:14

CIA recruited Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“Lansdell arrived in the Philippines. The Civil War had all the markings of a long drawn out affair with victory not in sight for neither side. Ostensibly, Lansdell was just another American military advisor attached to the just mag. But in …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 40:28

Edward Lansdale appointed CIA host_asserted

“Brought with threat and opportunity. One moment up and the next moment down. Lansdale's promotion to Brigadier General, and I'm telling you, he's a sheep-dipped CIA agent working in the military, had been confirmed. It was capped by the sug…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 2:46

Edward Lansdale member_of CIA host_asserted

“But Lansdale's forte had always been propaganda, back to advertising before World War II. McNamara's shot proved insufficient to move him to dismiss Lansdale. Probably because he wasn't allowed because he's actually CIA. Because any other g…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 4:11

Edward Lansdale rotated_out_of Vietnam host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:11:35

Edward Lansdale recruited Vietnam host_asserted

“who were in regular liaison with the Dem government, had been influencing the Vietnamese towards a more ominous environment. We Americans were to give what assistance we could to the building of a strong nationalistic party that would suppo…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 1:12:29

Edward Lansdale trained Brigade 2506 book_quoted

“Exile groups were providing recruits for paramilitary training, and the CIA had a 35-man commando unit that was part of the Nino Diaz element of the Cuban Brigade, ready for action any minute. Propaganda efforts were in the best shape. Radi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 7:12

CIA recruited Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“nefarious shit that the mafia, Traficani, all of those people were involved in that. And Colonel Edward Lansdale, talk about another sheep dipped person only the other way. This was a CIA guy wearing a military uniform, was involved in it. …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 8 @ 39:40

Edward Lansdale member_of CIA book_quoted

“who bridged both the French and the CIA's intel community. He offered the Americans their entire guerrilla force. Against Koenig's advice, this guy says it was refused. It was not refused, by the way. In 1955, CIA agent General Edward Lansd…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 28:28

Edward Lansdale protege_of Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted

“who was the chief of the Saigon military mission and protege of General Lemitsker, who we talked about. What? Gosh, his name now just like boils my blood. They were going to send a submarine to Havana and have all these great lights. And be…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 50:05

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Fidel Castro book_quoted

“and unelected officials of the National Security Council, Pentagon, and CIA, basically, we know, were intimately involved in the Iran-Contra. And that, more than just about any other operation, showed how closely they worked together. The o…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 13 @ 21:01

Edward Lansdale briefed Harry S. Truman book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 26:05

Edward Lansdale briefed Harry S. Truman host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 49:37

Edward Lansdale member_of CIA host_asserted

“Did you know the Washington Times was actually owned by the Unification Church? Yes. He actually bought the UPI, the actual news index that went out and gave stories to everybody. They own all media. They own all Hollywood. They are. And so…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio with Wesley @ 1:03:28

Edward Lansdale member_of CIA documented

“but actually as a conduit for his South Vietnamese contacts. Lansdale functioned as an intelligence collector. He left soon after the enemy's 1968 Tet Offensive. William Colby and John Hart shared Lansdale's perception that the road to succ…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 14:33

Edward Lansdale operated_in Vietnam documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 14:07

Edward Lansdale operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“Lansdale brought in all of his paramilitary Gladio trained people from the Philippines because we just basically overthrew and installed our guy in the Philippines. And so all of his trained guys were brought into Vietnam. And most of the p…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 28:31

Edward Lansdale moved_to United States documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 14:33

Lucien Conein informant_for Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“which was within control of the NATO Gladio unit. In 1955, CIA agent Edward Lansdell began a war to liquidate the Korsian supply network. The Lansdell-Korsian vendetta lasted several years. Oddly enough, his principal informant on Korsian d…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 9 @ 55:41

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Philippines host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 30:47

Edward Lansdale targeted Corsican Mafia book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 9 @ 55:41

Edward Lansdale founded BINH Xuyen host_asserted

“like covert secret service, but it looks the same as like a police force or a National Guard or something like that to the outside people. So it's almost like a secret society within the police forces. So, and this is what General Lansdell …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 6:45

Edward Lansdale member_of U.S. Air Force host_asserted

“Let's see. There was one more I wanted to get to, and that is Edward Lansdell. Now, we all know him from CIA. He pretended to be a general, but he definitely was in the CIA. And he was the assistant air attache in the Saigon U.S. Embassy in…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 59:18

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Operation Passage to Freedom host_asserted

“that aided the Catholic Church in the mobilization of those people to scare the hell out of them to get them to move to the South. And that, to me, was kind of like the, you know, the final bow on the top of the present when you find out th…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:00:09

Edward Lansdale member_of United Wa State Army host_asserted

“That's what he did. And he basically got commissioned in the army. And then he was commissioned to he was switched over to the Air Force in the aftermath. But he was never really a military officer. He was a CIA agent posing as one.…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:01:30

Edward Lansdale member_of U.S. Air Force host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:01:30

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Operation Golden Lily host_asserted

“He was sent immediately to the Philippines, and we know why, because he had to do with Golden Lily and the securing of the gold deposits there that the Japanese had put there. And he comes up routinely in the Operation Golden Lily series th…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:01:48

Edward Lansdale worked_for Frank Wisner host_asserted

“After a few months at its strategic intelligence school in Colorado, where he rose to lieutenant colonel, Lansdale was sent back to the Philippines as a full colonel working for Frank Wisner. And Frank Wisner is definitely one of the premie…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:49

Edward Lansdale moved_to Citigroup book_quoted

“where he died in a bed a few days later. The cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. According to a source in the Marcos family, Major General Lansdell immediately arranged to move all of Santee's remaining gold bullion at Citibank Vanil…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:22:36

Allen Dulles gave_money_to Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“In the 1950s, Alan Dulles gave Lansdale $5 million to finance CIA operations in the Philippines, but after the money was spent, Lansdale's protege, President Magsaysay, died prematurely in a plane crash. What? He must have outlived his usef…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:28:04

Edward Lansdale associated_with Operation Gladio book_quoted

“Psychological warfare is probably man's oldest weapon, aside from bare hands, and using it in today's dirty secretive wars, meaning Operation Gladio, or in the future, the important thing to remember is that it is a weapon and that a weapon…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 5:19

Edward Lansdale transported_gold_to Clark Field host_asserted

“knew more about it than Lansdell. His role at first was strictly as a facilitator, supervising the recovery of some of the gold vaults, inventorying the bullion, having it trucked to warehouses to the U.S. Navy base in Subic Bay or the Air …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:21:21

Allen Dulles sent Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“because they were primarily focused in Europe. So writing to the U.S. ambassador in Manila, Admiral Raymond Spruces said, Alan Dulles called Lansdell our mutual friend. When he sent Lansdell to Vietnam in 1954, Dulles told Eisenhower he was…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:26:31

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Ramon Magsaysay host_asserted

“finally hitting the presidential candidate so hard that it knocked him out. Massese won the election, but not before the CIA had smuggled in guns for use in a coup in case their man lost. Once Massese was in office, the CIA wrote his speech…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 51:23

Hubert Humphrey appointed Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“was an invention of Hubert Humphreys. And the idea was, we did it before, we can do it again. So Lansdale came out two years too late. He brought a lot of his old cohorts because he's not really there to do this. He's there to start the dru…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 1:01:38

Edward Lansdale member_of CIA host_asserted

“But he trained his disciples as well. And the CIA was notorious for hiring people that had Bernays-like capability. Lansdale was another one. He was a PR executive. They're all into the propaganda marketing of...…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 1:09:06

Allen Dulles called Edward Lansdale host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:26:31

Edward Lansdale secretly_owned UBS book_quoted

“a magic wand. Some of Santee's big accounts at other banks, notably the UBS bank in Geneva, said to contain 20,000 metric tons of gold and listing Santee as the account of record was changed to list Major General Lansdale as the account hol…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:23:31

Edward Lansdale transported_gold_to Subic Bay host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:21:21

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Hukbalahap host_asserted

“and their lures, their taboos, and the myths, and examined for clues any appeal that they could wean the people off of supporting the insurgents. In one operation, they flew over these areas in small planes hidden by the cloud cover.…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 43:47

United States recruited Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“And I wanted to talk about the Philippines again. We talked about it a long time ago. But what we learned recently is people like Lansdell that was in the Philippines training up guerrilla gladio operators that are basically assassins for h…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 11:59

Edward Lansdale supervised Santo Romano Recoveries host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:21:21

Edward Lansdale backed Diem family host_asserted

“$12 million in black money in a misguided attempt to reverse the flood tide of events by backing the Dem family, D-I-E-M. Lansdale loved the power he gained by having access to unlimited covert funds. And like Willoughby, he was largely suc…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:28:39

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Philippines host_asserted

“actions, including one to obstruct westward movement of the Soviets into Eastern Europe. So I find it interesting that they say that the guerrilla commanders in the Philippines, because you remember that the guerrilla commanders in the Phil…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 55:45

Edward Lansdale brought Napoleon Valeriano host_asserted

“completely worthless. In the late 1950s, he was in and out of Tokyo on secret missions with a hand-picked team of Filipino assassins, including his favorite and cold-blooded killer, Napoleon Valerino, the daughter of an American officer who…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:29:08

Edward Lansdale close_to Richard Nixon host_asserted

“and recounted with humor and heavy irony, Lansdell was also close to Richard Nixon, which led to a number of unsavory consequences. Remember that Nixon is Eisenhower's vice president. Others noticed that Lansdell had a curious gleam in his …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:27:02

Edward Lansdale funded Kurdish people documented

“stood with him every step of the way, basically directing the effort. Lansdale would arrange for the different sects to basically pay for anybody that didn't want to work with the CIA to be cued, handing out money along the way. Lansdale ad…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 41:41

Edward Lansdale involved_in Fidel Castro book_quoted

“who had himself been involved in at least one of the attempts on Fidel Castro's life. Basically, we already talked about the small army of CIA people amassed in Miami to pull this off. The CIA reassembled for the Bay of Pigs. The old Guatem…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 48:37

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Hukbalahap host_asserted

“They allowed the Hux military people to travel along a path and they grabbed the last guy and they murdered him and poked two holes in his neck. And then when the people realized he was missing because he was the last guy in the formation, …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 44:36

Edward Lansdale groomed Ramon Magsaysay host_asserted

“This usually is attributed to his success in grooming a guy by the name of Ramon Sagsaysay. It's spelt M-A-G-S-A-Y-S-A-Y, Magsaysay, to be the America's boy in the newly independent Philippines and Lansdale's much exaggerated success in sup…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:23:49

Edward Lansdale appointed Lucien Conein documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 38:40

Edward Lansdale trained Cuba host_asserted

“This guy has done all kinds of nefarious shit. Killed people, trained terrorists. Yeah, yeah, it's Castro that did it. If there was one thing he could take back, that would be it. Not the vampire shit they were doing in the Philippines, sca…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 5:11

Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack Philippines host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 5:11

Edward Lansdale recruited Philippines host_asserted

“This would have been a covered job to the South Vietnamese. As a consequence, those involved would be highly motivated to please their superiors, namely the South Vietnamese government and the CIA. And I'm glad that he acknowledges that the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 22:11

Hoyt Vandenberg transferred Edward Lansdale host_asserted

“In later chapters, some of these shipments will be described. General Willoughby, a man of limited imagination, detested Lansdell as a smartass and blocked his promotion to major until 1947, when Lansdell also made deputy director of G2 at …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:17

Charles Willoughby blocked_promotion_of Edward Lansdale host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:22:17

Everett Bumgartner succeeded Edward Lansdale book_quoted

“B-U-M-G-A-R-T-N-E-R, who was the chief of the U.S. Information Services field operations in Vietnam. A Lansdale disciple, Bumgartner had launched wanted posters and defector programs in Laos in 54 and implemented similar programs in Vietnam…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:09:58

Edward Lansdale funded The Enterprise host_asserted

“That all became part of this front organization or private CIA. And basically Lansdell moved all of the gold to fund this new black CIA off the books thing called the Enterprise. That's crazy. So if Marcos thought Santee's death would give …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:25:33

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Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 11:59 And I wanted to talk about the Philippines again. We talked about it a long time ago. But what we learned recently is people like Lansdell that was in the Philippines training up guerrilla gladio operators that are basically assassins for h…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 39:59 And that may have been why that guy was allowed in the 1001 Club when no other African leader was, because that was the host site of the mega paramilitary training facilities. But there does seem to be one, and definitely the Philippines fi…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 40:28 Lansdell arrived in the Philippines. The Civil War had all the markings of a long drawn out affair with victory not in sight for neither side. Ostensibly, Lansdell was just another American military advisor attached to the just mag. But in …

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 40:57 His apparent success in the Philippines was to make him a recognized authority in many other countries that he would then travel to because we saw him show up in Vietnam. In his later days about this period in his life, Lansdale relates his…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 41:27 Carino government was, that its atrocities matched those or attributed to the Hucks, that the government was the rotten with corruption part, not the Hucks. Down to the policeman in the street, Lansdell observed on his own that Carino himse…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 41:55 They were the wave of the future, and violence was the only way for the people to get a government of their own. The police wrote a correspondence for the Saturday Evening Post saying, quote, bands of uniformed thieves and rapists more fear…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 42:24 Accordingly, he told himself that if the huck's over, there would only be another form of injustice by another privileged few, backed by even force. By the next chapter, he had convinced himself that he was working on the side of those comm…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 42:52 As a former advertising man, Lansdell was no stranger to the use of market research, motivation techniques, media, and deception. In CIA parlance, such art falls under the heading of psychological warfare. To this end, Lansdell fashioned a …

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 43:18 that a popular guerrilla army cannot be defeated for so long. Lansdell's team confronted or conducted a careful study of the superstitions. And this is where we're going to get to the part of him acting like a vampire. But I'm going to go a…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 45:05 So those are the kind of shit things that the CIA guys do in their quote-unquote psyops. Lansdale regularly held coffee catches with Filipino officials and military personnel in which new ideas were tossed around. Kind of like a Madison Ave…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 46:01 persuasive arguments. Among other tactics introduced or refined by Lansdell was the production of film and radio broadcasts to explain and justify government actions, infiltration of the government into the ranks of the huts to provide info…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 50:05 The high point of this effort was the elections to presidency in 1953 of Ramon Massese, the cooperative former defense head. Cooperative as in we bought him. Lansdell, it was said, invented Massese. His CIA front organization.…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 50:54 The CIA on one occasion drugged the drinks of Masese's opponent, incumbent President Carino, before he gave a speech so that he would appear incoherent. Maybe that's what they're doing to Kamala. On another occasion, when Masese insisted on…

Operation Gladio - Philippines

▶ 56:49 By 1953, the Hucks were scattered and demoralized, no longer a serious threat. Although their death would be distributed over the next few years, it is difficult to ascertain to what extent their decline was due to the military force employ…

Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 2

▶ 48:54 and overthrew the populist person that they wanted to become their president. And this author is drawing the direct corollary to what they're setting up in Taiwan as a terrorist government to attack China as being the exact same thing they …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 59:18 Let's see. There was one more I wanted to get to, and that is Edward Lansdell. Now, we all know him from CIA. He pretended to be a general, but he definitely was in the CIA. And he was the assistant air attache in the Saigon U.S. Embassy in…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 59:46 And he had a particular specialty, psychological warfare operations. And now you see the correlation between the CIA and the military operations. Lansdell was responsible for the air operations to drop those leaflets.…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:00:09 that aided the Catholic Church in the mobilization of those people to scare the hell out of them to get them to move to the South. And that, to me, was kind of like the, you know, the final bow on the top of the present when you find out th…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:00:39 Before he got into the OSS, he was, and you guys, if you follow me, you know I'm always making fun of the PR, the media being the PR arm of the CIA and how all PR organizations work for the CIA. Well, guess what Lansdell did? He worked in S…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:01:00 As a PR person, he was an advertising executive going into World War Two. And that's where while Bill Donovan found him because they had been using him on the West Coast just as an international syndicate guy to give good press. He had been…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:01:30 That's what he did. And he basically got commissioned in the army. And then he was commissioned to he was switched over to the Air Force in the aftermath. But he was never really a military officer. He was a CIA agent posing as one.…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:01:48 He was sent immediately to the Philippines, and we know why, because he had to do with Golden Lily and the securing of the gold deposits there that the Japanese had put there. And he comes up routinely in the Operation Golden Lily series th…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:02:15 The Japanese, he was all in on that as well. And so it was no surprise to find him transferred in the immediate aftermath of the Philippines and trying to get that all under control in the aftermath of World War II. Because, you know, that'…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:02:44 And so he's in Saigon. He's helped writing the psychological warfare campaign to get all of those people crazed up and moving south in order to set up where we will go tomorrow as we continue this expose. So we're going to stop there. We wi…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 30:21 the mind of the people domestically back home. They used propaganda to terrorize, as we talked about at the very beginning. Edward Lansdell, we know, was one of the originators with his quote-unquote advertising PR propaganda.…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 30:47 background before he ever even entered the OSS. A lot of this was used during World War II as well. He did use it in the Philippines with the whole vampire thing that we talked about where he pretended like somebody had been bit by a vampir…

Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3

▶ 1:05:48 William Colby, the future CIA director, and Edward Lansdale, who posed as a military general many times, and other prominent figures in American quote-unquote counter-surgency circles. They're all CIA. These Americans liked Mr. Child's insi…

Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program

▶ 1:33:08 Do you remember? The Korean people? Where did they bring the paramilitary? No, not Ukraine. Where did they bring the paramilitary people in with General Lansdale? Where had he just been? Was it not Taiwan? He had actually been in the Philip…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 6:38 And keep in mind, as we said yesterday and before, the Filipinos that we taught how to do this were accompanied Lansdell into Vietnam. He had already trained them to do these things. And they bring them with them.…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 13:02 World War I, the Eye of God trick called for pilots and small aircraft to fly over enemy camps and call out the names of individual soldiers. Ed Lansdale applied the technique in the Philippines. At night, when the town is asleep, a Psyops …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 44:35 wait for it, Filipino trainers, like the ones brought over by Lansdell, to train these people how to be basically gladio operators, for lack of a better word, or Phoenix program operators. They had flags, they had, I mean, it was all pagean…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 1:01:10 that as a way of monitoring the Saigon station in 1965 in August, the special group assigned Ed Lansdale, he's back, as a senior liaison to General Thang, P-H-A-N-G, who instantly advocated transferring the entire Revolutionary Development …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 1:01:38 was an invention of Hubert Humphreys. And the idea was, we did it before, we can do it again. So Lansdale came out two years too late. He brought a lot of his old cohorts because he's not really there to do this. He's there to start the dru…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 1:02:08 And he names Jordan Gorganson, who had by this point replaced the guy we talked about earlier, De Silva, said, tell them everything. I said, OK. And I spent two and a half hours briefing his full group, Lansdale's, about a week after they a…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program

▶ 29:26 The people that were over there doing the paramilitary at the time, because remember, we've already talked about the guys coming in from the Philippines with Lansdale. They had a sort of checkered past within the agency because most of them…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program

▶ 50:04 It's basically just a turf war. That's the easy way of saying it. In 1965, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who we've talked about quite a bit, totally corrupt, had handed the problem to Ed Lansdell, whom he appointed as his senior liaison to …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 8 Phoenix Program

▶ 50:33 By 66, the problem was back in Washington, where it was determined that the pacification was failing. And as a result of the combination of poor management and the resistance of the Viet Cong, the nationalistic tendency. So as a way of reso…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program

▶ 6:45 like covert secret service, but it looks the same as like a police force or a National Guard or something like that to the outside people. So it's almost like a secret society within the police forces. So, and this is what General Lansdell …

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program

▶ 27:03 and turned them into double agents so that they could return to their former units with electronic tracking devices that enabled the CIA to launch air attacks against them. Other double agents returned to their units to lead them into ambus…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program

▶ 38:06 garrisoned communities, forcefully relocated people, who, by the way, a large portion of them, over a million, had already been forcibly relocated from the North. And it was all developed by the Michigan State University group in 1959 in re…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 51:01 were the French and their elite society, as well as the Vietnamese mafia. Together with the Cao Dai religious sects, these groups formed the United Sect Front and conspired against the U.S. and its candidate, Dem. So by January 1954, it's a…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 51:31 who had been over in the Philippines assassinating people over there to install their fake president there. He was a confidential advisor to Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles. Lansdale defeated the United Sec Front in the Philippines, so h…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 52:05 So Lansdell is the one who coined the term Viet Cong as opposed to Viet Minh. So he did not. And it's all about labeling. OK, keep in mind, Lansdell is a PR guy from San Francisco. That's what he did before he went in the OSS. He is the qui…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 53:06 And so he first, classic psyops, create a term, label them, and then go after that. Ed Lansdell arrived in Saigon fresh from having managed the successful anti, quote, anti-communist counterinsurgency in the Philippines, where his bag of di…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 53:36 and the installation of his Magsaysay guy. The Philippines, his tactics earned him the nickname Ugly American. He brought those same tactics to Saigon. And you'll never guess, an entire team of Filipino assassins came with him, almost like …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 54:02 And the word on the street at the time, this is an actual quote about those people he brought. These are the anti-Castro exiles that the CIA established in the United States. That's who we're talking about. I mean, I'm not saying these are …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 54:33 Lansdale goes on to write this. A combat psywar, psychological warfare, team was brought in. It planted stories among town residents of a vampire living. So this is one of the things that he did in the Philippines. And I've read this story …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 55:30 They snatch the last guy in the patrol. They kill him. They puncture two holes in his neck. So they actually believe that it is a vampire that attacked the guy and killed him. So when the Hucks return to look for the guy that they found mis…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 56:01 Let's see. Lansdale managed several programs once he got to Vietnam that were designed to ensure Dem's internal security, which would later evolve into incorporate the Phoenix program. In 1954, when posing as an assistant Air Force attache …

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 56:31 From the north. So Lansdale was involved in that migration that we've already talked about and how they did that. So he adds some interesting aspects to it. So let's go on. He talks about a Lansdale set up a fake company. That fake company,…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 59:03 That's what's happening in your country. That's why you guys hear me screaming all the time when somebody says something. It's the Phoenix program. It's the Phoenix program. Lansdale, which is why I'm going to take as long as it takes to ge…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:00:32 Lansdale's program was aimed at several thousand Viet Minh stay-behind agents organizing secret cells and conducting propaganda among the people. As a way of attacking these agents, Lansdale hired Freedom Company to activate Operation Broth…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:01:25 who, while building roads and dispensing medicine, assisted Dem security forces of identifying and eliminating Viet Minh agents. So, you see how that works? In 1955, using resettled Catholic refugees trained by the Freedom Company as cadre,…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:02:31 induce enemy soldiers to defect, to organize rural people into self-defense forces to insulate their villages from the dreaded Viet Cong, to create political cadres who would sell the idea that Dem, not the Viet Minh, represented national a…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:03:55 Lansdale's words, quote, were afraid that it was some scheme of mine to flood the country with secret agents, which it probably was. In May 1955, Dem formed a new government and banished the French, who kept 80,000 troops in the South right…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:06:22 In case, after the election, he didn't like you, he would just make you resign. He'd fill in the date for you. Dim, in 1956, issued Ordinance 57A, marketed by Lansdell as an agrarian reform. It replaced the centuries-old custom of local vil…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:11:35 It had, in fact, obtained some results in the field, but soon it became a repressive tool to liquidate any opponent. Ed Lansdell had served his purpose and was being unceremoniously rotated out of Vietnam, leaving behind the civic action pr…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:12:00 My first inkling came when several families appeared at my house one morning to tell me about the arrest at midnight of their men, all of whom were political figures. The arrest had strange aspects to them. Having come when the city was asl…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 1:12:29 who were in regular liaison with the Dem government, had been influencing the Vietnamese towards a more ominous environment. We Americans were to give what assistance we could to the building of a strong nationalistic party that would suppo…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 28:45 President John F. Kennedy formed a National Security Council special group to manage U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. A special assistant for covert activities was assigned to the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, a…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 31:12 the advisory group that was already there, the CIA PSYOP war and the paramilitary officers that had been brought over by Lansdell from the Philippines. Remember them? They're all there. So they all had big ideas on what they needed to be do…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 32:08 forces, and you had the five colonels installed. Well, one colonel ended up being the leader, but the five colonels overthrew the Greece government. They came in from Korea, which we've already talked about. We know there's a whole bunch of…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 37:30 the program that the North was already imposing. CIA officer Johnson formulated his theory in the Philippines in the 50s, which is where Lansdale was, you remember. They also used it in Indonesia in 1957 and 58 prior to the failed Sukarno c…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 51:39 are using, like, remember Lansdale was from the PR world, they are using slogans and packaging to sell this entire BS narrative. And basically waging psychological warfare is the bottom line to the whole thing. And, of course, we see that h…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 55:55 While language allowed Ed Lansdale to wrap the dim dictatorship in the robe of Jesus Christ because they harped on the fact that he was a Catholic forever, and to sell that then as a democracy, got to love that word. The difference in Vietn…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 56:24 while Lansdell declared that Christ had moved south. That was their PR slogan. And basically, they had used that same slogan inside the United States. Well, they never explained inside the United States that Christ moving south was them act…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 56:55 That didn't come out anywhere, but that's in fact what he did. Lansdale was not unaware of what he was doing. The first objective in a covert action program is to create plausible deniability, specifically in the South, and to cloak the CIA…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 59:44 The Church Committee report says in November 1962, the proposal for a new covert action program to overthrow Castro was developed. The president's assistant, Richard Goodwin, and General Edward Lansdale, there's that twit again, who was exp…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:00:10 A special group was created to oversee Mongoose, and Lansdell was made its chief of operations. Those operations included assassination, or the favored term, executive action. The memo written by Lansdell and introduced during the hearing i…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:00:39 Special target operation. CIA defector operations are vital here. Gangster elements might prove the best recruitment potential for actions against police officials, unquote. When questioned about his language, Lansdale testified the word ac…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:09:58 B-U-M-G-A-R-T-N-E-R, who was the chief of the U.S. Information Services field operations in Vietnam. A Lansdale disciple, Bumgartner had launched wanted posters and defector programs in Laos in 54 and implemented similar programs in Vietnam…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:42:49 all of which were classified at the time. And then they're moving these people into theater to work behind the lines. Were there people that did that, that had the best interests of the country at heart? Yes. I will also tell you that peopl…

Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady

▶ 56:56 And when some of these were dug out eventually and discovered, they literally had the dead bodies. So they arranged the Burke Society was involved in this as well. They financed a miner from Las Vegas, Nevada area, a gold miner. What they w…