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The station chief at the time is Gordon Jorgensen, J-O-R-G-E-N-S-O-N. We've already talked about Pierre DeSalva on a previous show. He's there. And he ends up going home shortly after this guy gets in theater because he got hurt in an explo…
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And so this Jorgensen guy who had been his deputy takes over as the CIA station chief. So there's another guy that by the name of John Hart and he ends up taking over shortly. So the De Silva guy doesn't last very long. So John Hart comes i…
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Proclaiming a rival revolutionary committee in southern Laos, Fumi's first announcement of his opposition took the form of leaflets dropped out of a CIA airplane. In the next three months, according to Schlesinger, a United Embassy, includi…
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If you label him a communist, you get to kill him. So, of course, he's going to be a communist. Hong Lee became the strongman in Laos and asked Stuvana Fulmer to form a new government. Like his predecessor, Ambassador Brown counseled Washin…
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Meanwhile, on the ground, the CIA recovered its earlier momentum. In search of some means to counter the National Liberation Front in the villages, several agency officers innovated armed bands of villagers within months that accounted for …
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the most pro-Western leader suitable in Laos. Brown believed the CIA station chief, Gordon Jorgensen, agreed. In fact, the Eisenhower administration was pursuing its own game in Laos with the CIA at the center of it and Jorgensen squarely o…
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as in the CIA office in Saigon. Relations between the field command and the CIA station in Laos varied. The agency chiefs of station had different styles and manners. Gordon Jorgensen left for Saigon in 62. Charles Whitehurst presided over …
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Agency Secretary Barbara Robbins died while several more persons from the typing pool and at least two case officers like Da Silva were wounded. Eliezer Williams stepped into the breach to act as the temporary station chief until Langley pr…