Operation White Star operation
also: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, White Star Project, White Star Advisors
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Claims (3)
Dwight D. Eisenhower approved
Operation White Star documented
“President Eisenhower not only approved the White Star Project, but had certain other decisions that clearly indicated his concept of the conflict in Laos as a secret war to be hidden from Americans. He approved the movement of B-26 bombers …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 36:02
Operation White Star carried_out_attack
Laos guest_asserted
“to include the Phoenix program, was part of a Gladio operation. Does that help? Yeah, I was, I met a, and Miles will tell you this, I met a CIA officer that was in Laos, and that's where they ran Igloo White out of. And I didn't know if Gla…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 1:44:33
Robert F. Kennedy headed
Operation White Star host_asserted
“they were working together. They're absolutely interconnected, but it was always, it was initiated from the military and McNamara, but I a hundred percent agree that it's, yeah, they were working together. So, oh yeah. Okay. I'm, I'm lookin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 1:46:23
Mentions (14)
▶ 1:41:44
Thank you, Colonel. Can I ask you a question? I ask Mal all the time, but we're not real sure. Is Igloo White a part of Gladio? Is what? Operation Igloo White. Igloo White. Why does that ring a bell? Vietnam, when they started doing the tra…
▶ 1:44:33
to include the Phoenix program, was part of a Gladio operation. Does that help? Yeah, I was, I met a, and Miles will tell you this, I met a CIA officer that was in Laos, and that's where they ran Igloo White out of. And I didn't know if Gla…
▶ 1:45:53
Basically, that had not necessarily been a formal agency within the government. It had been embedded in the military any time there was a military operation. So, yeah. Colonel? Yeah. Igloo White was absolutely military in origin, but as you…
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most part of the panhandle opposite South Vietnam and Cambodia borders were the KHA, the White Star was soon to extend to them as well. The biggest tribal mobilization of all and the very foundation of the CIA's secret war in Laos was among…
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Foamy's forces, in contrast, abandoned a strategic base in the Plain of Jars, so named for its use of the burial ground of the ancient Lao people. At the first hint of the challenge, the White Star Advisors had to be extracted by three Air …
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The contract flight crews reported sighting seven Russian aircraft, presumably those of the Soviet airlift, to the Pashin-Lau. It was not surprising that the White Star advisors were exposed by the open combat. Although the deputy chief of …
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One of the RLAF colonels to whom the Foamy gave command of Mobile Group 15 had been in charge for several days before he accidentally encountered his Green Beret advisors, not at his command post, but with the foremost detachments. When the…
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President Eisenhower not only approved the White Star Project, but had certain other decisions that clearly indicated his concept of the conflict in Laos as a secret war to be hidden from Americans. He approved the movement of B-26 bombers …
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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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As a full colonel, he taught at West Point. Then he was an advisor in Vietnam and commanded a special group at Fort Bragg. And in 1960, it was Blackburn who got the assignment for setting up White Star in Laos. After that tour with the spec…
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On August 8th, a joint contingency task force was expanded with Air Force Brigadier General Leroy Manor, M-A-N-O-R, to carry out the raid. The chief of the ground element, Blackburn, handpicked Special Forces Colonel Arthur Bill Simmons, S-…
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Simon was a legendary figure with two tours in charge of White Star, one with special operations and one with a military advisory group, where he helped develop contingency plans for an invasion of Laos and the command of special forces gro…
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functions as an arm of the CIA. In the Phoenix program, in the Condor programs, the Snow White and the Seven Dwarf computer systems, IBM can always be counted on. So they offered, Netezza was a publicly traded company with 500 employees. Th…
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And that's what they used it for in the Phoenix program, the prisons, the black site prisons. They used it in Operation Condor, not just for the prisons, but also to track the dissidents as they went from country to country. When they were …