U.S. Army Special Forces organization
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Claims (11)
CIA trafficked
U.S. Army Special Forces book_quoted
“anywhere from four to 12 each, and mostly had all came from Green Beret backgrounds. Basically, they were mercenaries under contract to the CIA. Aside from Long Tien, there were three other CIA training bases in Laos. At least one was a maj…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 1:04:06
CIA trained
U.S. Army Special Forces host_asserted
“It was later documented that many of the instructors at the Texas school were Green Berets from Fort Bragg that the CIA, having also been present at Fort Bragg, got to teach the classes. The Office of Public Safety could have had an unsalab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 24:19
Ivan Rankin member_of
U.S. Army Special Forces host_asserted
“and Operation Gladio, and I've exchanged emails with him, and he's amenable to discussing that. So I will be asking very different questions than you've heard asked of him. So I definitely encourage you, because he has made comments being a…”
▶ Tim Walz military; Ukrainian arms dealer-Operation Gladio @ 1:18:14
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. member_of
U.S. Army Special Forces host_asserted
“He rose to the rank of Master Sergeant in Special Forces.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists @ 0:32
Andy Messing commanded
U.S. Army Special Forces documented
“going to school abroad, that U.S. plans will aggravate the country's problems. Perhaps the most important testimony came from former proponents of this counter-revolutionary approach who were at the heart of the Reagan's efforts in Central …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 22:52
William Yarborough headed
U.S. Army Special Forces documented
“Well, in Nicaragua's case, we mine their harbor, attack ships delivering goods to them. And then when they make that one phone call, that lifeline phone call at the time to the Soviet Union, they call him a communist and go in and kill him.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 33:58
Brazil trained
U.S. Army Special Forces book_quoted
“On the island of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, the Brazilian military had set up a camp modeled after the Green Berets. The students were kept awake, starved, and caged. They were hung on beams and mocked crucifixions. As a way of break…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 48:08
U.S. Army Special Forces member_of
U.S. Army documented
“It was later documented that many of the instructors at the Texas school were Green Berets from Fort Bragg that the CIA, having also been present at Fort Bragg, got to teach the classes. The Office of Public Safety could have had an unsalab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 24:19
U.S. Army Special Forces carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“how the roles of special forces has been used as sacrificial lambs for Operation Gladio. He's very aware of that, whether he was while he was there or it dawned on him while he was there or it's come to him afterwards. I don't know, but I a…”
▶ Tim Walz military; Ukrainian arms dealer-Operation Gladio @ 1:18:37
CIA trained
U.S. Army Special Forces host_asserted
“operation to check out the rumors. American military supplies for combating the guerrilla forces there immediately was dispatched, communication equipment, helicopters. They ended up with a unit of 16 Green Berets dispatched from the Panama…”
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Randy Weaver member_of
U.S. Army Special Forces host_asserted
“Weaver told people that he had become a Green Beret in the Army. His discharge paper says that he was not necessarily associated with special forces.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins på X CIA are the terrorists @ 7:11
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where he served for 20 years. He rose to the rank of Master Sergeant in Special Forces. He served two tours in Vietnam. He supposedly got radicalized while he was in the military and was responsible for, he founded the White Patriot Party.…
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That sounds very much like several other people that we've met along the way. And he meets our first villain, Frazier Glenn Miller, who murders a bunch of people because he's now a white nationalist too after serving 20 years in the U.S. mi…
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at Fort Bragg. So he gets locked away for murder. And weirdly enough, he's executed on April 19th, 1995, which is the anniversary, which is the day Oklahoma City bombing took place. So this guy, special forces guy, is getting put to death.…
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He graduated from Jefferson High School in Iowa, went to community college for two years, and he dropped out of college to join the Army at the height of the Vietnam War, where he was stationed at Fort Bragg. Huh. Weaver told people that he…
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that are emerging about all of this, but they are trying to build a narrative of white male Christians are domestic terrorists. They are also, by ensuring now that the Special Forces Fort Bragg thread is ran through all of this, there's goi…
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finding time to rape several of the teenage girls in the houses. Earlier the same month, the New York Times had published an interview with the deserter from the Salvadorian Army who described a class where severe methods of torture were de…
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operation to check out the rumors. American military supplies for combating the guerrilla forces there immediately was dispatched, communication equipment, helicopters. They ended up with a unit of 16 Green Berets dispatched from the Panama…
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what they referred to as on-the-spot training and counter-insurgencies. But come on, all of these, their entire apparatus had been already trained there. They weren't doing training. They were doing operational support. They're just not all…
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It was a major area of operations. It constituted the area of heaviest guerrilla support, freedom fighter support. The installation was directed by a team of U.S. Special Forces Green Parade of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent to make it le…
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Green Berets, as I just did, and the one colonel that was murdered in Guatemala for his activities of being part and teaching people how to be death squads.…
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assassins, kidnapping, and murder, were also part of the impetus of the U.S. Army forming a special forces entity in 1952. So they used Korea as the foundational element of setting up special forces.…
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Indeed, 99 graduates of the first four Special Forces training courses were selected for service in Korea with the guerrillas, making Korea the first combat employment of that new Army specialty. In addition, Ranger veterans were also assig…
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Unfortunately for the Army, the high classification level of the guerrilla command operations prevented any lessons learned from being realized and utilized to train future operations. That's bullshit, by the way. He's double speaking here,…
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government. When this individual arrived at these local villages, they knew who he was and hated him. So a lot of, what's the word, dysfunctionalness and inaccurate information was gathered as a result of that. Also involved in the Phoenix …
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They participated in some of these PRU units and conducted the covert war elements of it. There was mention of Navy SEALs who had trained, but this was basically their first combat use of...…
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kind of mimicking a CIA agent with the torture and stuff like that. And after teaming up with the PRU and their CIA advisors, these special forces guys found that their role in the war, dressed up as Viet Cong, hiding during the day and tra…
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And if you extrapolate that into today, you find that we have special forces that have been in over 140 countries conducting missions that in large part were based on CIA intelligence. So you have to ask yourself, what the hell were they do…
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Military intelligence advisors assigned to 5th Special Forces also entered the districts at this point. However, coordination among the advisors, the CIA officers, and their Vietnamese counterparts were still very ad hoc and spotty because …
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and was met by Special Forces Colonel who briefed him on his mission. Manzoni was told that he would be working for the Special Operations Group under a number of directives called O-Plans, which is operational plans, which had been drawn o…
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Another goal was to deal with the enemy violations of the international accords. This is hilarious. That meant taking out command centers in Laos. They weren't supposed to be there at all. Manzoni was next assigned to Nam Dong in the Centra…
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Another goal was to deal with the enemy violations of the international accords. This is hilarious. That meant taking out command centers in Laos. They weren't supposed to be there at all. Manzoni was next assigned to Nam Dong in the Centra…
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Basically, they said, welcome to Dam Dong. This is a town you'll work out of. You're going to get orders to do something and the orders are going to be verbal. The orders were always verbal and never said, do this specifically. It was alway…
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trail, counting enemy troops and trucks. Other times they moved from one set of coordinates to another, and they also shot field-grade northern officers, kidnapped prisoners, escorted defectors from the north to the south, and demolished do…
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counter-terrorist units whom Manzoni described as a combination of deserters, Viet Cong turncoats, and bad MF-er criminals from the South who they couldn't deal with in prison, so they put them under the command of these guys to kill people…
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If they killed so many designated Viet Cong, they actually got years off of their prison sentence. Not kidding. The counter-terrorists taught Manzoni and his SEAL comrades the secrets of PSYOP's campaigns, which in practice meant exploiting…
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Life magazine. And I was like, well, why were you on Life magazine? He was Special Forces in Vietnam. He's Vietnamese. And he got on Life magazine for some of the stuff he was doing over there. But he wouldn't talk about certain things, eve…
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In fact, sources close to Schiller told Goodman that he ended all contact with the ex-Green Beret after May 2019 meeting in Miami because he thought it was crazy. Despite limited resources and wanting interest from would-be patrons, Goudrea…
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He went on to become, once he was forced to enlist, to become a Navy SEAL. Then after he got out, he had some friends in Virginia. Essentially, Scott was involved in the same kind of bullshit that Ron was, providing, quote unquote, providin…
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Oh, sorry, demerits. That's how he got kicked out. He joined the SEALs, the Navy's most elite band of fighters, and became a demolition and weapons expert, thus earning him a living when he got out. He was awarded two Bronze Stars in Vietna…
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The U.S. Customs agent told federal investigators that Weakley's stint with the Navy SEALs gave him, quote, unquote, contacts in the intelligence community, including the CIA and NSA, unquote. In 1983, he and several other Americans were ar…
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This information showed up in the CIA and DOJ's files. Outside of Miami's Cuban Bay of Pigs veterans who were put up in training camps for the Contras to train new recruits, and some even invited local press to witness…
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quote-unquote counterinsurgencies or actual insurgencies. The key stages that had occurred is, number one, the CIA and Special Forces program in 1962 had began training police and paramilitary groups under the guise of counterinsurgency tec…
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going to school abroad, that U.S. plans will aggravate the country's problems. Perhaps the most important testimony came from former proponents of this counter-revolutionary approach who were at the heart of the Reagan's efforts in Central …
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pouring cold water on towels placed over their face until they gagged. We know that as waterboarding now. On the Army side, Donald Duncan, a Green Beret, went through training at Fort Bragg, where the sergeant giving a lesson in hostile int…
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On the island of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, the Brazilian military had set up a camp modeled after the Green Berets. The students were kept awake, starved, and caged. They were hung on beams and mocked crucifixions. As a way of break…
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It was later documented that many of the instructors at the Texas school were Green Berets from Fort Bragg that the CIA, having also been present at Fort Bragg, got to teach the classes. The Office of Public Safety could have had an unsalab…
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In 1968, as a gift, Vang Pao gave President Johnson a flintlock musket that the Hmong had for, I mean, it was an antique. On two occasions, the Americans rewarded Vang with secret visits to the U.S. On one of those trips, Vang was referred …
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called Operation About Fate. The secret army spilled onto the plain of jars from the mountains and about 15,000 men, according to Lau's sources, the CIA was backing him with a command team of three officers. About 30 more Americans were in …
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And it is those times when the military ends up dying for a CIA operation gone bad. So, yes, you're right. They have a lock on military support. And that's the whole thing with the SF guys, the Green Berets, the Deltas and all those guys. S…
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The navies are the SEALs and stuff like that, very easily identifiable. The Army tried to do, in some point, part what the Marines did, but the Marines were successful in doing it. The Marines said that they don't have special forces. All o…
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equipment package that goes on a standard 130. So in the Air Force budget, they budget for the 130. And then SOCOM goes to Congress and says in a separate line item, I need this amount of money to retrofit Air Force hardware to make it miss…
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tells you unequivocally there was no accountability in this covert action. There was so much money that was approved as a result of lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C. An illustration of this was Andrew Eiva, E-I-V-A, a West Point-trained …
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What do you do with a former secret warrior? The CIA and Special Forces veterans often have difficulty reintegrating into civilian life. In the early years, this became a problem with the Vietnam vets. They have intelligence and military op…
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And this guy leaves off a lot of them, actually, because we know they were in Cambodia. He does mention Vietnam. And, of course, they were in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala. What was true of the agents was true of the operators as well. …
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1978 through 1979 was the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza. And there were several people that were hired to include Green Berets. And they were there to train his National Guard. The men trained, the troops went on patrol and participated in som…
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He then made millions of dollars exporting sensitive American technology. And we've already went over him. So I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on him because we know at the end of the day, they basically set him up and stole his c…
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gladiocel-type terrorism. This project was ran by a guy whose codename was Daniel Boone. He was part of the military advisory group. So at the foot of the Central Highlands, the military advisory group established a command element in Novem…
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Far from wiping out North Vietnamese-based areas, the Operation Menu bombing had little apparent effect. Salem House teams found the enemy infuriated but not dazed. One bombing assessment patrol under Special Forces Captain Bill Orthman, O-…
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Several were arrested, but the military advisory command could hardly court-martial soldiers publicly for refusing to violate the neutrality of Cambodia, so no further action was taken. Green Beret morale was affected, however, by other cou…
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ended in January 68 with charges against its commander, Captain John McCarthy Jr., in the killing of a Cambodian interpreter suspected as a double agent. The most celebrated trial occurred in 1969 when eight Green Berets, including Colonel …
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Army charges in the case were dropped after CIA officers refused to testify at the court-martial. The Green Beret affair, which is what it was called, resulted in Washington in one of the few meetings ever held by the U.S. Intelligence Boar…
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They were airlifted into the country by the CIA. As early as February 1970, the special forces captain in charge of the camp that was across the border in South Vietnam was ordered to send two companies of Hmong strikers into Cambodia in or…
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other prisoner camps. The Sante Raid was the brainchild of Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, one of Army's premier special warfare enthusiasts, who by 1970 was head of SECDEF's Office Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Ac…
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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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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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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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Planning reached an advanced stage by the late summer, practice exercises had began, and it was ready for Richard Nixon's approval. The Sante operation was christened Ivory Coat. This spectacular mission was planned down to the last detail,…
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TRAX lacked any counterintelligence officer for a long time, while Radio Swan spent months looking for an announcer. Late in October, Hawkins renewed the request for Green Beret instructors. The Special Forces trainers, whom Eisenhower appr…
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So let's see, Dick Drain also had psychological operations experience, but he didn't know how to speak Spanish. The closest he'd ever been to Latin America was Arizona. The top trainer at Camp Trax was an Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colo…
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of the Pentagon's foot dragging, specifically the refusal of special forces personnel for temporary duty in training. It was true. Since August, the Office of Special Operations, which advised the Secretary of Defense on covert operations, …
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Agency trainers like Napoleon Valerino and William Buckley knew a lot, but lacked the up-to-date awareness of the professional military standards. Without special forces trainers, the CIA believed their Cubans would not be set until the fal…
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On January 13th, Lieutenant Colonel David Crowe finally arrived with 40 Special Forces soldiers. Meanwhile, divisions sharpened between exiles from the student groups and those of the former Cuban military that are now Cuban exiles. When th…
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A hundred exiles remained adamant even after mediating a working arrangement. The agency, among other things, agreed to banish trainer Valerino, whose role had much diminished anyway with the arrival of the special forces. That's the Filipi…
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Cold War Encounter Revolution. And we are talking about, we closed up talking about the special forces, which is kind of ironic given the fact that I just watched that video from Redacted of the murder of the commander of one of the SEAL te…
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If you guys haven't watched that video, I highly recommend you do. Unfortunately, he's not the first. He probably won't be the last. That entire culture has to be dealt with. And of course, it's not ironic that the Special Forces guys are i…
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They're interwoven into Operation Gladio and not in a good way. There were special forces at Waco. There were special forces at the assassination of MLK. So it definitely has to be dealt with. Okay, so that's where we left off. A few months…
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to impose a serious disease on those societies attempting to transition to modernization, unquote. That's literally a bold-faced lie. A bold-faced lie. But they have to have that lie in order for the special forces to go in and basically ac…
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is powerful and effective only when we do not put our minds clearly to work on how to deal with it. Kennedy perceived special forces to have done just that. Restow returned to Fort Bragg in late 1961, this time accompanying the president on…
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took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the prescribed Green Beret. The President came and saw, spoke supportively, and helped Special Forces gain new impetus. On April 11, 1962, JFK released an official message to the Army, call…
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Henceforth, special forces would be known as the Green Berets, with official regulations to govern their size, color, and how they should be worn. In a remarkable expansion of the franchise decades later, the entire U.S. Army clamored for b…
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In March 1961, the Army doubled the number of units. Now, groups specialized geographically. The 10th group for Europe. The first group for Asia. The new 8th group would focus on Latin America. The 3rd and 6th group was for Africa and the M…
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10-1, according to revelations in the British press in 1962, provided for the 10th group to disperse into 49 guerrilla warfare zones throughout Eastern Europe. Not joking, this is what the text says. Its A-teams were each credited with the …
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for a potential resistance force of almost 80,000 within six months. This is 1962, and they're acknowledging that the A-teams associated with special forces are there to lead the stay-behind units that the Galen organization and the CIA has…
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On behind-the-lines warfare activity, the 10th group became an exception. Green Berets working other areas of the globe focused more on counterinsurgency and military assistance. The future looked bright, not for indigenous people. For the …
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They referred to him as the VP of Laos. He toured the Green Beret Training Center at Fort Bragg. The agency sent Stuart Methvin as his escort officer. During another trip, Vang went to Colonial Williamsburg and Disneyland. Isn't that nice? …
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appropriated dollars. That's not counting how much covert money was spent. Director Casey made his first visit to the front in June 1982. Soon after that began the military exercises in which hundreds of American troops and engineers for co…
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by Brad Birkenfeld, the UBS whistleblower and intelligence source Scott Bennett, Bennett's military whistleblowing report, and the release of intelligence computers database Swiss bank accounts donor list, allegedly obtained by Navy SEALs i…
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It was his construction company. We all know that. But it managed a school in rural Spain. And by rural Spain, they mean up near the French border, which is where he set up all of his schools because the OAS was one of his biggest customers…
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following the British model. Triple Canopy was a 2003 startup, you know, right at the same time that they're deciding that they're going to basically do Iraq and then Afghanistan by contract. It was founded in Chicago by Special Forces vete…
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was one of the several firms that began shortly after 9-11. Its founder was a former Army Ranger and, conveniently, a former CIA agent. But the most visible of the newcomers would be Blackwater, which would easily qualify as a bona fide mer…
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Force recon scouting missions occasionally resulted in some of their members being lost and presumed captured. Other highly dangerous and clandestine activities also added to the missing in action toll. Navy SEAL teams, PBR swift boats crew…
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and Operation Gladio, and I've exchanged emails with him, and he's amenable to discussing that. So I will be asking very different questions than you've heard asked of him. So I definitely encourage you, because he has made comments being a…
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how the roles of special forces has been used as sacrificial lambs for Operation Gladio. He's very aware of that, whether he was while he was there or it dawned on him while he was there or it's come to him afterwards. I don't know, but I a…