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Claims (80)
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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 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
“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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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
“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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 carried_out_attack
Philippines 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
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 carried_out_attack
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 Finale (9) @ 30:47
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 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
Edward Lansdale appointed
Lucien Conein 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 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 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
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
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
“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
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
Mentions (120)
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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'…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This one starts out with, you guys remember Ed Lansdale, the PR guy from Northern California that we keep stumbling across in the Philippines and then eventually in Vietnam. And he's the guy that come up with the campaign to pretend like th…
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So they killed the one guy that was the last guy in the formation and they poked holes and bled him out. And the holes were poked to look like vampire fangs. Yeah, that's this guy. So he is obviously and remember, he brought a whole bunch o…
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He was involved in all of those psychological operations. And then it says his other work at the Pentagon in the Office of Special Operations. Lansdale occasionally got the chance to vocalize his views. One such occasion happened in 1959. N…
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And it says that Eisenhower had authorized the Air Force C-130 supplies, special aid supplies of construction equipment to certain upland villages in Laos. They were carrying things like construction equipment, blah, blah, blah. Lansdell ma…
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And then he came back and wrote a very long report about civic action needed in the form of counterinsurgency. Again, this is actually going to be insurgency window draft as quote unquote counterinsurgency. Lansdale argued his case with gre…
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H.U.K. campaign for which he was awarded a National Security Medal, you know, because psychological operations of murdering people and pretending that they were attacked by vampires definitely gets you recognized back in the day. Despite hi…
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even in the CIA, where political action was more widely accepted as opposed to counterinsurgency. There was some people there that favored direct responses, but not necessarily, they weren't as enthusiastic as Lansdale. At the beginning of …
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Briefly, he found that the government had increasingly been ineffective in the countryside and was losing the guerrilla warfare. Civilian control over the armed forces was such that Diem, the South Vietnamese fake president that the CIA ins…
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The U.S. military advisory group with which Lansdell himself had served from 54 to 56 was too small and too hampered by local restrictions. Lansdell spent a little over two weeks in Vietnam. He spoke with Diem and other political and milita…
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which is very interesting because they're actively murdering Lumumba right about that time, too. In the normal fashion, the report presented a vision of an operation, quote, changed sufficiently to free these Americans to do their job that …
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of the French and the Vietnamese in Hanoi in 1953 and four. He believed Vietnam was undergoing a psychological attack that in 1961 would be a fateful year and that Vietnam was in critical condition and should be treated as a combat area of …
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a hardcore of experienced Americans who know really like Asia and the Asians, unquote. Then the new U.S. ambassador should be sent immediately. A new sorry, a new U.S. ambassador should be sent immediately, as well as mature American like p…
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and he never uttered one word to JFK about Vietnam. They talked about Laos, never about Vietnam. The SecDef wanted to hear from the author himself, so Robert McNamara asked Lansdale to come to his office. Casting about for some kind of dram…
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which he had gathered to ensure the special forces could include them in their new museum. He literally dumped the stuff on McNamara's mahogany desk, explaining that the U.S.-equipped South Vietnamese were being beat by rebels with these in…
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Watching his faith as I talked, I got the feeling that he didn't understand me. Imagine that. It was the Pentagon that derailed Kennedy's plan to appoint Lansdale as the new ambassador to South Vietnam. Reportedly, with threats of McNamara'…
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overrode all opposition. In the meantime, Ed Lansdell had retired in 1963 with the rank of major general. In Vietnam, psychological warfare would function strictly as an adjunct to the conventional military force. One recommendation of the …
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Kennedy formed a committee to canvas the alternatives and present him with a list of options. Given the Pentagon's status as the biggest player in Vietnam, it was not surprising that McNamara's deputy, Roswell Gilpatrick, chaired the group.…
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who had just returned from a trip, was suggesting that that's probably something that was needed. Rostow had taken Ed Lansdale along with him on a special assignment to compile a survey for unconventional warfare. The Taylor-Rostow report a…
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about a coup. Those early days in Vietnam were an adventure for Americans, much like Korea had been a few years earlier. In the first days of South Vietnam, it had been Lansdale who had established a close relationship with Diem. When Lansd…
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In addition to being a liaison, the CIA wished to have its own source among South Vietnamese politicians and interest groups. By 1960, the agency was supplying the best information outside of the presidential palace, save perhaps a few of t…
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crazy people in Eastern Europe that were all war criminals that we brought over to the United States. Thanks to this guy. He had also been a Jedburgh and a veteran of the French commando operations in Northern Vietnam in 1945. Koenig had al…
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and also to the Philippines that Lansdale brought over to Vietnam. Of course, the biggest empire within the CIA was Richardson's own. It was customary for station chiefs to maintain certain relationships, in particular with the chiefs of th…
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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…
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use senior military officers to make sure those people are assigned to different locations. Right. You talk about Oliver North, and it just makes me think of Lansdale. That's what I think of. I know I addressed this one time, and I'll make …
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and known since March 31, 1959 as Air America. General Lansdell's memorandum in 1961 to Maxwell Taylor on unconventional warfare, published as part of the Pentagon Papers, confirmed this. This is an actual quote from those papers. Civil Air…
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trips into the United States to train in Colorado in the mountains on how to be a terrorist. That's all Civil Air Patrol, or Civil Air Patrol, Civil Air Transport, and all documented. General Lansdell erred, however, in failing to distingui…
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And where do we find them throughout all of these coups? Well, obviously, they're a CIA front, just like the Lansdale came from the advertising agency in San Francisco before the CIA scooped him up and used him all over Asia. Yeah, that sam…
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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…
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and everything else. McNamara had advised that he did not really need a special assistant for these matters. In a sudden move the day after the defeat at the Bay of Pigs, the Office of Special Operations were reassigned other military tasks…
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After all, Lansdell was already the deputy to Graves Earthen and one of the foremost proponents of counterinsurgency. But there were questions as to whether he had enough knowledge about satellites and some of the other technical issues to …
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to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Deception responsibilities went to a special planning office on the Navy staff, and Lansdell retained a small staff to handle special activities only. Some credit Erston with accomplishin…
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The memorandum written by Lansdell at the time explicitly noted that the CIA station chief controlled the Hmong troops. Assigned to work with them were nine CIA specialists, nine Green Berets, and 99 Thai contract agents from the so-called …
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In the 1950s, the tactic had seemed successful when practiced by Ed Lansdale in the Philippines and with Diem in South Vietnam. You know, because it was accompanied with violence. It was out of fear that they got people to comply with them,…
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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…
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who at the time supposedly was an Air Force colonel, but never did any real Air Force work. All he really did was CIA bullshit and OSS before that. And he, of course, is the guy that was in the Philippines setting up all of the paramilitary…
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He poked holes in their neck to make it look like vampires, hung them upside down, bled them out. And then when their teammates found him, they thought he had been attacked by a vampire. That's the kind of psychological operation Lansdell w…
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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 …
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committee investigation and returned to tell the exiles that Kennedy was all right. Robertson went on to serve throughout the covert operation against Cuba. Operation Mongoose formally evolved from a list of 32 planning tasks assigned by Ed…
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raids against Cuba after they've already been doing them. One commando struck a power plant and sharp arguments erupted as the Mongoose meeting in October 4th, when John McCone, the new director of central intelligence charged that the NFC …
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was not the gung-ho advocate of the covert action that he used to be. On October 30th, the NSC ordered a halt to all Mongoose operations. Lansdale was sent to Miami to close down the operation. There was no more talk, as there had been in O…
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Suspicions were aroused when Dap Chuong, sudden popularity among all of the American visitors. That would be a dead giveaway. The stream included Edward Lansdale of CIA fame. Other generals that were stationed in South Vietnamese, the Pacif…
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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…
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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…
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They lied to JFK. It is suggestive that Edward Lansdell, a political action expert monitoring CIA operations simultaneously underway against Cuba, asked agency officers a few months later why they figured they could provoke a general strike…
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had detailed, had a detailee, a guy loaned from the Air Force working for the CIA, none other than Major General Edward Lansdale, who we just talked about on the Alpha Warrior Show. He was an expert in political psychological warfare. He be…
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In Hollywood, he attended UCLA. Lansdell had served in the OSS and then returned to the Army and then transferred to the Air Force when it was created. In the Philippines, the 43-year-old PSYOP's whiz found the perfect vehicle, Ramon Macese…
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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…