Communist Party of China organization
also: Chinese Communist Party, Communist Party in China, Communist Party elements, Pathet Lao, Peosian Lao, Pei Ocean Lao, communists, CCP, Chinese communists, communist control, Communist Party, People's Republic of China
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Communist Party of China overthrew
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) book_quoted
“efforts to mediate between Chinese factions, President Truman aligned the U.S. with Chiang Kai-shek against the communists. Mao's field army nevertheless swept through mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chine…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 4:38
U.S. Air Force carried_out_attack
Communist Party of China book_quoted
“Yet within one or two weeks after the agreement was signed, reconnaissance flights carried at very low level over Pei Ocean Lao camps by U.S. Air Force's RF-101 Voodoo jets. According to Dolman, this was part of a regular aerial surveillanc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 55:27
Communist Party of China member_of
Laos documented
“In this election, the Peotian Lao and their allies obtained 32% of the votes in 13 of the 21 contested seats, showing that they had grown considerably in popularity in four years since the 1954 Geneva Agreements. The leader of the Peotian L…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 34:05
Communist Party of China member_of
Kang Li book_quoted
“The Laotian army drove the neutralist troops of General Kang Li, Suvana's military chief, to the north and into a temporary alliance with the Pei Ocean Lao. After Kang Li captured the Plain of Jars from Fumi's troops, the Pei Ocean Lao move…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 43:12
Royal Laotian Army carried_out_attack
Communist Party of China book_quoted
“By all accounts, the Royal Lao Army ran from that area as soon as the first shell started to fall, claiming falsely, as they had done and continued to do in other crises, that they had been attacked not by Laotians, but by North Vietnamese …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 48:28
Communist Party of China carried_out_attack
Air America documented
“incident in the resumption of fighting was the shooting down of an Air America plane in November 1962, three days after the Pei Ocean Lao had warned that they were going to do it. What made the Pentagon, CIA, and Air America hang on in Laos…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:00:05
John Birch assassinated
Communist Party of China host_asserted
“He refused to give up his arms. And Birch's corpse was bayoneted. I guess they were beaten up. The rest of Birch's party were taken prisoner. Birch's aid survived. The prisoners were later released. Birch's remains were recovered. There was…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 1:13:55
David Rockefeller spied_on
Communist Party of China documented
“David Rockefeller served with a special army intelligence unit in Algiers in World War II, where he was assigned to spy not on the Nazis, but on the country's anti-colonial movement, which was the subject of the French, primarily because th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 49:11
Alexander Duncan member_of
Communist Party of China host_asserted
“In the press, they call him Putin's brain. He's not really that important in Russia, but he's way more important than he should be. He co-wrote the Communist Party of Russia's platform, and he's signed his book on geopolitics in the militar…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 1:10:23
Communist Party of China member_of
Laos host_asserted
“Perot was immediately removed from the position. And in a heart-rending statement made to the POW and families in 1987, he said, I have been instructed to cease and assist. You saw too much. The Pei Ocean Lao continued to hold 308 American …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 56:14
Communist Party of China carried_out_attack
Laos book_quoted
“When both Sullivan and Westmoreland had returned to Washington for a meeting, the Vietnamese army went ahead with an invasion of the Panhandle using the code name Lam Sung 719. The operation turned into a major military debacle. Warfare on …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 29:33
Vietnam supplied_arms_to
Communist Party of China documented
“The general's own troops were of very poor quality and the Hmong were very good fighters. So the Hmong held and even gained ground in the face of Cong Ly's forces, who now were augmented by North Vietnamese and their weaponry, which had bee…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 33:52
Hmong carried_out_attack
Communist Party of China book_quoted
“to have air and sea ports accessible by these people. It wasn't because they just was cooperative. They were paid to do it. In 1964, the Hmong units cooperated in an ambitious counteroffensive during the rainy season, attacking...…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 16:19
World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack
Communist Party of China host_asserted
“The Anti-Communist Revolution Movement of the Youth. Who's that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Are you getting the trend here? Nothing like controlling the narrative, huh? Holy crap. And these are not like books. These are like pamp…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:45:18
World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack
Communist Party of China host_asserted
“Chinese communist criminal acts and persecution of religions. Who is that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Taiwan. Communist parties of the world. Who's that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Europe. The imminent storm situation …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:44:49
World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack
Communist Party of China host_asserted
“Oh, the World Anti-Communist League, China chapter, meaning Taiwan. The Anatomy of Chinese Communist Peaceful United Front Intrigue Towards Taiwan. Who's that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Chinese Communist Criminal Acts in Druggin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:44:21
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If I look down through the World Anti-Communist League, I find addresses and messages of President Chiang Kai-shek, Republic of China, to Asian People's Anti-Communist League, World Anti-Communist League, and the Asian Parliamentary Union. …
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Oh, the World Anti-Communist League, China chapter, meaning Taiwan. The Anatomy of Chinese Communist Peaceful United Front Intrigue Towards Taiwan. Who's that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Chinese Communist Criminal Acts in Druggin…
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Chinese communist criminal acts and persecution of religions. Who is that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Taiwan. Communist parties of the world. Who's that written by? The Anti-Communist League. Europe. The imminent storm situation …
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And they had these world meetings and they had all these people come and they produced these pamphlets. Well, these pamphlets are propaganda. And they basically are all saying, because they were trying to demonize, and I'm not saying that's…
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In the press, they call him Putin's brain. He's not really that important in Russia, but he's way more important than he should be. He co-wrote the Communist Party of Russia's platform, and he's signed his book on geopolitics in the militar…
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though hardly because of any inherent aggressiveness in the Laotian people themselves, who basically were the victims of this whole sordid mess. In 1958, a non-aligned government that had been established in Laos under Prince Fuma appeared …
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on what in 2002 had become a familiar regime change agenda, telling the National Security Council, December 23rd, 1958, that drastic changes in the Laotian government will be required if the Pao Shin Lao element was to be restrained. The CI…
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That led to further destabilization in Laos, or I'm sorry, in Laos, the ambassador in Laos, and hastened the growth of the communist sympathetic Pei Ocean Lao. The CIA's plotting on behalf of General Fomi has therefore frequently been derid…
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two military battalions to accept integration into the royal Laotian army. One accepted, and these two elements were sympathetic to the Pathan Lao, but the other comprised largely of tribal Black Thies, Hmong, and Kast minorities.…
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in October, and at this point, Air America began supplying them separately with their own materiel as well as special forces. Why did the U.S. officials deliberately foment a conflict between non-communist forces in Laos, a conflict that le…
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Quote, the aim, explained the CIA, who called Fumi our boy, was to polarize the communist and anti-communist factions in Laos, unquote. If so, the aim was achieved. The country became a battlefield where U.S. bombings with between 400 and 5…
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The agreements called for withdrawal of foreign civilian connected with supply, maintenance, storage, and utilization of war materials. Air America continued to fly into northeastern Laos, and it appeared that some of its uniformed U.S. mil…
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when Nixon was vice president. A Rand Corporation report on Laos concluded, for example, that in 1959, it was not the pro-communist Laotian Lao that was the right wing, but the right wing Sakakoni government, which had been installed by the…
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The final crisis followed a probe by a government patrol into a small but sensitive disputed area of the Hmong on the North Vietnamese border, which had been governed as part of Vietnam in the days of the French. When the patrol was predict…
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It then obtained a vote of emergency powers from the assembly and soon ordered the two remaining battalions of the Pei Ocean Lao to be integrated into the National Army. The Pei Ocean Lao had previously, in November of 1957, agreed to this …
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In this election, the Peotian Lao and their allies obtained 32% of the votes in 13 of the 21 contested seats, showing that they had grown considerably in popularity in four years since the 1954 Geneva Agreements. The leader of the Peotian L…
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that doesn't go their way. Well, they interfere with all elections, but especially the ones that they fear either is not going to go their way or didn't, they'll just overthrow the government. The Peos and Lau were then excluded from the ne…
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when it's the CIA doing it the entire time. So this group went to a valley on the North Vietnamese border. The Sena Kony government then declared that the Pao Sin Lao had committed an act of open rebellion and that only a military solution …
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linked the phony invasion scare to a U.S. congressional expose at this time of major scandals in the Laos aid program and to a very real risk that the U.S. military aid would be curtailed. It is frequently claimed that the Pei Ocean Lao was…
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and his cadre had fought with the Viet Minh against the French, the dubious growth in popularity of the Pao Shin Lao between 54 and 58, by which time it had established a countrywide network at the village level and would be attributed to t…
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The Laotian army drove the neutralist troops of General Kang Li, Suvana's military chief, to the north and into a temporary alliance with the Pei Ocean Lao. After Kang Li captured the Plain of Jars from Fumi's troops, the Pei Ocean Lao move…
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But by early 1961, the United States had brought in AT-6s armed with bombs and rockets, U.S. pilots to fly them, and Special Forces White Star teams to encourage guerrilla activity among the Hmong tribesmen against the Pei Ocean Lao. Furthe…
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After giving repeated warnings fired on those troops, Fomi's troops withdrew into Thailand. Thus, the further advances of the Pao Shin Lao were achieved after a flurry of firefights, but no Pao Shin Lao attack. The Thai government now reque…
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101 was hit over the plane of jars, but it made it back to Bangkok. The reconnaissance flight continued until May 1964, when they were belatedly authorized by a new administration that had came to power in the United States, meaning LBJ. Th…
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and its trail in southern Laos than with the Plain of Jars, some 200 miles northwest. This was the area in which CIA and Air America were training and equipping Hmong to be terrorists. Second, in as much as the Pei Ocean Lao objected vigoro…
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The agreements called for the withdrawal of foreign military advisors, experts, instructors, and foreign civilians connected with this operation. Yet Air America continued its airlift every single day. Roger Hilsman observed, quote, arming …
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support of their enemies. They objected even more violently to Air America's overt airlift in October 1962 to Kong Lee. The first military incident in the breakdown of the 1962 agreement was the shoot down of an Air America C-123 plane over…
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Another statement Nixon made during that speech. The political arrangement for a three-way government survived only until April 1963, when the Pei Ocean Lao communist leaders departed from the capital and left their cabinet post vacant. Fig…
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that the resumed fighting on the Plain of Jars in April of 1963 was chiefly, if not entirely, between two neutralist factions rather than the Pei Ocean Lao. Again, they had a breakaway faction that didn't like the fact that the CIA was ther…
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In mid-May 1964, the Pei Ocean Lao supported the North Vietnamese attacked the Prime Minister's neutralist military forces on the Plain of Jars. So this is Nixon describing what I just told you actually happened. Two breakaway factions are,…
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to have air and sea ports accessible by these people. It wasn't because they just was cooperative. They were paid to do it. In 1964, the Hmong units cooperated in an ambitious counteroffensive during the rainy season, attacking...…
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Forces regained critical positions on the Plain of Jars before the rainy season ended in November. The retreating Peot and Lao and the North Vietnamese troops were repeatedly ambushed by the Hmong. Operation Triangle set the pattern for the…
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When both Sullivan and Westmoreland had returned to Washington for a meeting, the Vietnamese army went ahead with an invasion of the Panhandle using the code name Lam Sung 719. The operation turned into a major military debacle. Warfare on …
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was not a backwater, but rather the front lines in the effort of Laos. And, let's see, Pony Express was still helicoptering in equipment to the Site 85 when the Paiute and Lao preparations for the 1968 dry season offensive made it clear tha…
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side would have created a dilemma in Europe. But in the Far East, that dilemma was multiplied a thousandfold. In China, cooperation between nationalist and communist parties broke down, talking about during the war. And soon after the defea…
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With China and India and Southeast Asia in the Cold War, the potential for enormous power hung in the balance. The U.S. was involved in the struggle for Asia from the beginning, because remember, we've been in the Philippines for decades by…
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Mao fielded armies, nevertheless swept through the mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chinese communists overran Peking and southern China, which basically is where he was hanging out. This happened despite m…
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The proposals were soon afoot in Washington to exploit the still contentious communist control of mainland by using a new nationalist base in the islands off the coast of China. The Korean War injected tremendous momentum into this program.…
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The Chinese communists had no navy at the time, only small vessels, mostly what they called junk, that were available to be commandeered. Mao's army made one big effort in early 1950s to fight their way back on to Hainan, the H-A-I-N-A-N is…
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The morale in the nationalist ranks of Chiang Kai-shek basically kind of broke down, and that's the reason why they were finally able to overtake them. Superior force was no guarantee against defeat. Chiang ordered the nationalist survivors…
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and corporate headquarters set up in none other than Hong Kong, ending the chaos of existence on mainland China. Chenault's friendship with Chiang Kai-shek and his exclusive alliance with the Nationalists meant the end of demand for domesti…
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That was never a problem. The earliest arms request from General Ma Hufang, a Muslim leader in northwest China. Isn't that interesting? A Muslim leader in northwest China who was thought to have 50,000 troops plus a trained reserve four tim…
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Aid to the Muslims in the Northwest was the sole covert action known to have been specifically mentioned by President Truman in a November 1949 meeting on assisting anti-communist Chinese. But before shipments could be organized, General Ma…
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Ma escaped on a civil air transport plane and then departed China on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Recruits willing to undertake missions to the mainland had to be found. This was not difficult because the nationalists ardently wished to return. C…
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a four-point program to President Truman, including the organization of guerrilla warfare, underground activities, penetration of overseas Chinese, and mobilization of liberal elements dissatisfied with both the communists and the nationali…
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You just can't make this shit up. So, despite all of the political struggles among the nationalists, some intelligence officers in Wisner's office continue to believe that Lee Sung-jin offered a viable alternative for what we have come to k…
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in China to conduct military operations. So the CIA is attacking China. Deep inside China in a province called Sinkang, S-I-N-K-I-A-N-G, American money was reportedly funneled into tribal minorities and some white Russians who formed a cava…
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K-I-E-R-N-A-N, the American vice consul in the area, with providing aid to these small stay-behind units. Before the end of the year, Taiwan leaders had claimed to have more than a million active guerrillas throughout mainland China. The U.…
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The Chinese communists openly admitted the existence of this resistant force and conducted bandits suppression operations against the guerrillas. Reporting to a party Congress in June of 1950, Mao mentioned a figure of 400,000 bandits and e…
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Shortly before, Peking claimed the arrest of an astonishing 20,000 agents of U.S. military intelligence since the beginning of 1949. During the course of the 1950s, the People's Liberation Army mobilized more than 1.2 million men in central…
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kind of basically like civil war infighting. In many places, the China, many places in China, there were nationalist remnants, local warlords and bandits. The fact that is that the guerrillas didn't hinder Peking from withdrawing from south…
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The Socialist Lao People Front, also known as NLHX, and especially its parent, the Laotian Communists, or the Pathet Lao, dominated in the provinces of Phong Solly and Sam Nua. In November 1958, Prince Sup,…
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accepted the king's authority within those provinces and the Pathet Lao troops were integrated into the Royal Lao Armed Forces, while the NLHX was supposed to be represented as a neutralist coalition cabinet to form under Suvanna Bo. In a c…
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joined the RLAF while 4,000 of them were discharged. But the accord disintegrated when the Suvanna cabinet fell apart in July of 1958. So it only lasted a few months. Suddenly, these minority Les Hunas…
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took center stage, gaining seats in the cabinet formed in August, even though some of the four CD&I ministers had lost in the elections. At the same time, two of the Patent Lao ministers were dismissed. Trouble quickly followed when the RLA…
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FOMA, the renunciation of all of their ties to the patent law, in effect, abandoning any chance of them ever being neutral. Subana refused. Shortly thereafter, 5412 group, you know, the assassin group, member John Irvin, I-R-V-I-N,…
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The Kongli forces inflicted several defeats on the Fumi's men before they retreated from the capital by mid-December. By that time, the neutralist had virtually been driven into the arms of the patent Lao because everybody else were CIA sto…
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On October 18, 1960, a little over two weeks later, in December, the Soviet Union began to airlift military supplies to Kongli, and the patent Laos began a military offensive of their own. Political intrigue had turned Laos, the land of a m…
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The general's own troops were of very poor quality and the Hmong were very good fighters. So the Hmong held and even gained ground in the face of Cong Ly's forces, who now were augmented by North Vietnamese and their weaponry, which had bee…
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There wasn't any fucking communist in Laos before you started your shit. In Laos, the effect of the U.S. actions was to undermine the delicate political balance. Kong Lee and Ling with the hat in Lao represented one of the worst conceivable…
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Then 15 Air America C-46s and C-47s based at Bangkok moving 1,000 tons of supplies a month into the area. The Hmong force, calling itself Armee Clandestine, the Secret Army, harassed the Paos and Lao positions and made some raids into some …
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Eight White Star Green Beret teams reportedly accompanied the Vang Pao forces. At this point, Kang Li's neutralist forces retreated from the capital and made straight for the Hmong Plain of Jars area to engage. Vang Pao lost his own village…
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to the Hmong. The Peotin Lao joined in the Plain of Jars offensive to threaten the entire Hmong tribal village and the high plateau. In the spring and summer of 1961, they witnessed a mass exodus from the Plain of Jars by the Hmong. Whole v…
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And they basically had destroyed a Paiotlao supply road by dynamiting it and bringing down the side of a mountain. The clandestine group was significantly stronger now, thanks to his training. And Vang Pao and Tony Po worked out a program t…
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post-World War II for a significant period of time. So in China, cooperation between the Nationalist, which is Chiang's forces, and the Communist Party broke down soon after the defeat of Japan. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao merely resumed their …
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argue that it wasn't interrupted during World War II because they still fought each other. They just were more focused on the Japanese. Religious and nationalist movements recast China, India, and Southeast Asia as actors in a global ideolo…
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efforts to mediate between Chinese factions, President Truman aligned the U.S. with Chiang Kai-shek against the communists. Mao's field army nevertheless swept through mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chine…
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American military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek. And at precisely the time when the U.S. covert action capabilities was coalescing within the CIA and the Pentagon. Now, keep in mind, basically the fighting is over in 1945. This is fou…
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and continued to support Chiang Kai-shek while he's in China as part of that fight. And that's a logical perpetuation, but a fact that most people don't know. Washington soon considered exploiting the still tenuous communist control of the …
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Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist forces established themselves on the islands offshore, chiefly Taiwan. At the time, originally it was Formosa. Then they just renamed it to Taiwan. The Chinese communists had no navy to speak of and no experien…
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onto Hainan, H-A-I-N-A-N, the next largest island to Taiwan. They succeeded after 10 invasions and considerable casualties. When, as so happens on the mainland, the morale of the nationalist troops broke. Superior force was no guarantee aga…
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the nationalist survivors back to Taiwan. Although there were fears the communists would follow, an invasion of Taiwan was a much more difficult proposition and was not even attempted. Proposals for covert action predated nationalist defeat…
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And the CIA had went into Southern Korea because that was their, you know, how we talked about them being divided up. The Soviet Union ally was supposed to be kicking out the Japanese in the northern sector. The southern sector was under U.…
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disintegrated. So now they've lost their foothold in mainland China, forcing a shift of operations mounted from outside of China. Civil Air Transport acquired greater prominence because now you're going to have to ferry the fighters in. The…
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No longer were they located on mainland China. Claire Chenault's friendship with Chiang Kai-shek meant the end of Civil Air Transport's domestic air service since the communists had taken over. But CIA money did not solve all of their probl…
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whose third force, Resistance, based itself in Hong Kong, and again, that's basically Chiang Kai-shek's deputy, hoped to become CIA's exclusive Chinese ally, but the agency dealt with anybody that would come around. Chinese politics embarra…
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60-year-old acting President Lee went to New York for medical treatment. Invited by President Truman for an official visit, Lee claimed to have almost 200,000 guerrillas loyal to him, not Chiang Kai-shek, him personally. In a memorandum dat…
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That deprived Lee of any perceived power in Washington, D.C. Despite internal struggles, Wisner's group of officers continued to think Lee offered a viable alternative, his third force, untainted by either communism or the corruption of the…
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during the war. Korean hostilities reinvigorated the China programs, especially after November 1950. The People's Republic of China and their intervention in the war in Korea. So it puts, for me, in completely different context, what went o…
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It quickly became an open secret that American special services were paying all of their expenses. In the 1958 elections, they were supposed to complete reintegrating the nation, which was under military control by different factions. The S…
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And especially its parent organization, the Pei Ocean Lao, dominated two large provinces. In November of 1958, the neutralist prince accepted the king's authority. The Pei Ocean Lao's troops in those provinces joined the Royal Lao Armed For…
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as a coalition under Souvana Foma. But the accord disintegrated when Souvana's cabinet fell in 1958. Suddenly, the CIA-supported group took center stage, gaining seats in the cabinet, formed in August, even though some ministers had lost th…
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were all dismissed. Trouble quickly followed when the Pei Ocean Lao revolted, rekindling a civil war. The Eisenhower administration increased aid when fighting resumed and increased it again as the conflict widened throughout the entire cou…
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and then claimed that it was at the fault of the North so that we could expand an already expanding presence in Laos. Fleeing the capital after Fumi's coup, Sovana and Kong Li made an alliance with the Pei Ocean Laos. A little over two week…
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the Peocean Laos forces. They started an offensive of their own. Political intrigue had turned Laos, the land of a million elephants, into a Cold War battleground, their favorite kind. The effects of the U.S. actions would be to undercut th…
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Feeling too old for another war, Toby left the main leadership role to Feng Pao. While some Hmong sided with the Pei Ocean Lao clan leader, Fei Dang, becoming a member of the Pei Ocean Lao Central Committee, Toby and Feng Pao made their all…
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and ran into a group of 300 armed Chinese communists. Birch and his Chinese officer aide approached them and ordered them to surrender. Birch refused, and after arguing about it, they were allowed to proceed. Along the way, Birch's party en…
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He refused to give up his arms. And Birch's corpse was bayoneted. I guess they were beaten up. The rest of Birch's party were taken prisoner. Birch's aid survived. The prisoners were later released. Birch's remains were recovered. There was…
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That had played a role in the French resistance and were emerging as a strong political force in France. Rockefeller also set up a spy ring inside the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle and soon came to dislike Charles de Gaulle, w…
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Perot was immediately removed from the position. And in a heart-rending statement made to the POW and families in 1987, he said, I have been instructed to cease and assist. You saw too much. The Pei Ocean Lao continued to hold 308 American …
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And I got cleared on it and everything else. They did give me a non-punitive letter of caution because I said that the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated our entire government and referenced Radcliffe's statement saying the exact same …