Anthony Poshepny person
also: Anthony Poshpenny, Tony Poe, Anthony Paschepi, PIN, Poe, Anthony Pasveni, Tony, Po, Anthony Sofini, Anthony Poshempy, Tony Polk
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Claims (8)
Anthony Poshepny trained
Tibet documented
“He also had a staff of about a dozen who included several more veterans of the Indonesian adventure. So the guys that screwed up the Indonesian coup are training the people for the Tibetan rebellion. Tony Poe, soon to become notorious in La…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 43:51
Anthony Poshepny trained
Vang Pao documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 55:41
CIA trained
Anthony Poshepny book_quoted
“in Vietnam and Laos. John Kenneth Knott, who trained Tibetan agents and later headed the Tibetan Task Force in the early 1960s, went on to hold senior positions at Langley. Roger McCarthy, the head of the Tibetan Task Force at the height of…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 36:31
Anthony Poshepny member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Tony came from the big CIA Thailand base and had been a senior advisor to Vang Pao. Pao transferred up from the Cambodian border where he had been working with the anti-government rebels. He had also been at Camp Perry, class of 53, and a v…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 53:05
Anthony Poshepny member_of
CIA documented
“How could we possibly not help the United States government when we've got such a hideous drug problem in the country? You created the drug problem. Helms insisted the CIA helped. Tony Poe, for example, threatened to throw out of his plane …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 42:29
Anthony Poshepny worked_with
Khmer Serei host_asserted
“Tony Poe, their legendary ground operative who spearheaded the guerrilla operations against Tibet and in Laos and South China from 1958 to 1970, has been identified as also working with the Khmer Syri insurgents in Cambodia. Again, they use…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 43:45
Anthony Poshepny recruited
Tibet host_asserted
“He also was intimately involved in the Laotian opium set up. And they also, he was the guy that was the liaison for bringing all the Tibetans into Colorado as well. Definitely should look him up. A second reason was political to maintain co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 52:58
Anthony Poshepny trained
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“So he is a stay-behind trainer of the same accord that Otto Skorzeny was at the beginning. Poe had an extensive paramilitary resume. At Long Tien, he presided over the intensification of the struggle. Bent Loris manned the base while Poe ra…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 53:38
Mentions (23)
▶ 36:31
in Vietnam and Laos. John Kenneth Knott, who trained Tibetan agents and later headed the Tibetan Task Force in the early 1960s, went on to hold senior positions at Langley. Roger McCarthy, the head of the Tibetan Task Force at the height of…
▶ 37:01
Thomas Fossmeyer and Anthony Poshpenny, also went by Tony Poe as his secret name, also served in the Vietnam Theater of Operations for several years. And again, let's just look up this one guy because I did not do that ahead of time. And le…
▶ 43:19
foreign involvement reemphasized the central coordinating role of U.S. intelligence, especially paramilitary factions of the CIA, and that they used these front companies like Civil Air Transport and Air America, that the Civil Air Transpor…
▶ 52:31
to use the KMT troops and raids to be a thorn in attacking mainland China, which we did repeatedly, especially during the operations in Tibet, they had to have a reason to have those planes over there. One of the CIA agents involved in that…
▶ 52:58
He also was intimately involved in the Laotian opium set up. And they also, he was the guy that was the liaison for bringing all the Tibetans into Colorado as well. Definitely should look him up. A second reason was political to maintain co…
▶ 5:43
The CIA station appears to have taken no action against people like Tony Poe, who was in the middle of it and who suffered more than a dozen wounds in firefights because he was actively engaging in combat. In large part, Air America made it…
▶ 50:49
But its attitude was ambivalent at best. Tony Poe, for example, threatened to throw out of his plane anyone carrying drugs, but he did nothing about the caravan traffic or drug laboratories in the sectors where he was in charge. Nor could t…
▶ 48:39
Sofini, P-O-S-H-E-P-N-Y, landed with one of the teams and had already seen fierce action in Tibet earlier and found the Indonesia fight quite tame, which is interesting because, remember, they trained the Tibetan stay-behind units in Colora…
▶ 53:39
They were the epitome of the style embodied by another American who attained legendary status, which was Anthony Poshempy. And I'm going to spell his last name. P-O-S-H-E-P-N-Y. He was a CIA cowboy. He was also nicknamed Tony Poe.…
▶ 54:11
like T-O-N-Y-P-O, because his name's Anthony Poe something. Okay, he went everywhere with a mouth guard like he was still on a boxing team. He flew in from the CIA Thailand base in 1963 and was assigned as a senior advisor to Vang Pao, or a…
▶ 54:44
He had been transferred up from the Cambodian border where he had been working with anti-government rebels in the country, in Cambodia. He also had been in the CIA training Camp Perry class of 1953. He had been one of the paramilitary offic…
▶ 55:11
working extensively on the Tibetan operation. So, in other words, just another guy in the CIA doing CIA Operation Gladio all over Asia. Tony Polk presided over an intensification of the clandestine war. Van Pauw struck his greatest blow yet…
▶ 55:41
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…
▶ 43:51
He also had a staff of about a dozen who included several more veterans of the Indonesian adventure. So the guys that screwed up the Indonesian coup are training the people for the Tibetan rebellion. Tony Poe, soon to become notorious in La…
▶ 36:37
and command the Hmong secret armies. Two agency officers, Anthony Paschepi and Vinton Lawrence, established a CIA base in the Hmong center of Long Tien. In the spring of 1963, the assassination of neutralist Laotian officials led to a fresh…
▶ 46:17
which became the main centers of the secret army. Long Tien served as Vang Pao's headquarters, a major mountain commercial center with Hmong population of about 40,000 people, which is huge as far as villages go. The CIA created a base ther…
▶ 52:35
Secret warfare in Laos assumed a dynamic, freewheeling style of sky air operations. The epitome was embodied by Tony Poe, who attained legendary stature in the war, identified by his CIA acronym PIN, P-I-N. Poe, P-O-E, which is his real nam…
▶ 53:05
Tony came from the big CIA Thailand base and had been a senior advisor to Vang Pao. Pao transferred up from the Cambodian border where he had been working with the anti-government rebels. He had also been at Camp Perry, class of 53, and a v…
▶ 53:38
So he is a stay-behind trainer of the same accord that Otto Skorzeny was at the beginning. Poe had an extensive paramilitary resume. At Long Tien, he presided over the intensification of the struggle. Bent Loris manned the base while Poe ra…
▶ 55:05
Poe, Tony Poe has been in many of these stories as well. And again, now that we've got this book and it names all of those people, it provides a critical link for us to be able to kind of track these operations around the world. They just m…
▶ 15:36
He says that, quote, when I found those orders were willfully disobeyed, I removed the offenders from the country, unquote. But despite Sullivan's orders, the CIA station appears to have taken little action against the, quote, unquote, cowb…
▶ 16:02
a 30-mile trek to safety carrying a wounded native comrade. Disciplining Po meant giving him another assignment to a different tribal strike force. Just move them around. Air America made it all happen. In South Vietnam alone, by late 1965,…
▶ 42:29
How could we possibly not help the United States government when we've got such a hideous drug problem in the country? You created the drug problem. Helms insisted the CIA helped. Tony Poe, for example, threatened to throw out of his plane …