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Battle of Dien Bien Phu event

also: Battle of Denbenfu, overrun the fort, Waterloo at Dinh Binh Phu, Den Ben Phu, French failure at Den Ben Phu, French defeat at Dien Bien Phu

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Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church
▶ 39:24 And over a million of these people did this because they were scared to death they were going to die because the Catholic infrastructure in the North had told them that's what was going to happen to them. So, it says, in the wake of the Fre…
Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church
▶ 41:07 the entire country of Vietnam. They're now basically allowed to even function up in the north. They eventually, eight years later, lose the war in a humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu and sign the accords. They go home in disgrace. And it …
Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie
▶ 41:20 from the opposite side to draw attention. And then they'd all run up with their dirt and pretend like they're carrying, you know, your rice out and blah, blah, blah. But over a nine month period of time, they built that entire tunnel system…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b
▶ 30:19 both in the war efforts and for trafficking drugs. Both husband and wife had, through their involvement with the China lobby and the CIA's complex private corporations, played a profound role throughout the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asi…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b
▶ 52:36 For the French at Dien Bien Phu, the planes were on quote-unquote loan from U.S. Air Force, and some of the civilians flying them were in fact U.S. military pilots. According to Bernard Fall, who flew in these planes, the pilots were quietl…
The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14
▶ 43:54 formed an important auxiliary force for the French to use when they needed to, and they were actually involved in the French failure at Den Ben Phu. One veteran of the Den Ben Phu debacle was a young officer by the name of Vang Pao, who had…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7
▶ 4:52 Ike institutionalized covert operations precisely by creating a staff and a mechanism to manage them. He did this to create a central command and control for global operations of this network. He began to consolidate control over the covert…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16
▶ 56:08 By April 54, when Kennedy stood on the Senate floor and challenged the Eisenhower administration for supporting the doomed French war in Vietnam, he had become an informed critic of Western imperialism. Even as French headed towards its Wat…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13
▶ 1:03:38 very well known. And from May 1947 onward, the economists saw the world embroiled in a third world war with Russia using totalitarian methods of propaganda, slander, and infiltration to secure their expanded zone of influence. In the period…