Dien Bien Phu place
also: Benbenfu, Ben Ben Phu, Benfenfu, Benvin Fu, Den Ben Phu, Dinbinfu, Dinbin Fu, Din Bin Thu, Dinh Ben Phu, Dinh Binh Phu, Dinh Vinh Phu
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Claims (6)
James McGovern carried_out_attack
Dien Bien Phu documented
“at 59. Pilots recalled flak over Dinbin Fu as being heavy, heavier than anything that they had experienced in World War II. Cusack himself was flying a mission alongside James McGovern on May 6, 1954, when McGovern was shot down in his C-11…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 30:22
Air America carried_out_attack
Dien Bien Phu documented
“brought everything they needed down to their own refrigerators and beer. The first civil air transport flight in Indochina was a supply lift to a camp, not in Vietnam, in Laos. You know where all the opium is. That was on May 6th, 1953. Wit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 27:46
Henry Eugene Nafare carried_out_attack
Dien Bien Phu book_quoted
“which was the disaster for the French in Vietnam that finally made them withdraw from recolonizing Vietnam. And it said that General Henry Eugene Nafare had started what he thought was going to be a simple assignment on 28 May, 1953.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 10:25
Hmong people operated_in
Dien Bien Phu documented
“and this is back in the day in the early 50s. Lai Phong, a pro-French notable and the first of his tribe to graduate from college. Lai Phong's Hmong formed an important auxiliary force for the French to use when they needed to and they were…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 43:42
France launched_operation_at
Dien Bien Phu documented
“They too had an Operation Condor, which is not the same as the Operation Condor in South America. It began as a 1,800 battle-hardened French paratroopers descending into Dien Bien Phu. Now, I'm going to read this and then I'm going to tell …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 26:10
Battle of Dien Bien Phu about
Dien Bien Phu structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Battle of Dien Bien Phu' is a work/event about 'Dien Bien Phu'…”
Mentions (28)
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to take over the Vietnamese army from the French. The Special Technical and Economic Mission provided CIA officers under Station Chief Emmett McCarthy with the cover they needed to mount political operations and negotiate contracts with the…
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What was the most interesting while I was over there, we went to Den Ben Phu and they have this elaborate tabletop display that's about 10 feet by 10 feet, maybe 20 feet by 20 feet. It was huge. And it showed the, it was kind of like up on …
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more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the…
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in 1953, which would be at the end of the Korean War. 17 days after the civil air transport using planes and pilots loaned by the U.S. Air Force began its military airlift to Dien Bien Phu. So, I'm sure that's just a coincidence. The inaugu…
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We flew 100% of the airlift missions into Benbenfu, which Ho Chi Minh eventually gets them cornered into Benbenfu. That's the only French left in the country. And it's a massacre. We provided the entire aircraft, supplies, munitions, everyt…
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during the entire time the French occupied Vietnam. That's where they were getting the preponderance of their opium from. Once Ben Ben Phu falls, the Corsican Mafia has to change gears and they go to Turkey, Northern Iran, and one other cou…
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as Cabell confirmed for Foster Dulles, but CIA had a lot of confidence in the man. Hope had flown in Korea for this civil air transport, including 57 missions to Dinbinfu. He had been recruited for the Indonesian operation in Saigon. His fi…
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Within a year, a detachment of 24 civil air transport pilots would be caught up in the French debacle of Benfenfu. 21 civil air transport pilots had familiarized themselves with the C-119 at an airbase in Japan. A whole class went to Indoch…
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And they basically went through orientation in the aircraft at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Squaw 2 was a civil air transport project named for the Ben Ben Phu airlift. Squaw 1 had been the Laotian lift in the spring of 1953. The civi…
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He had 59. The original chief pilot's name was Paul Holden, H-O-L-D-E-N. He was on his fifth mission to Dien Bien Phu when he was wounded by anti-aircraft fire. Pilots recall that the flak over the entrenched camp as being heavy and said it…
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Cusack himself was flying a mission alongside James McGovern on May 6, 1954, when the latter was shot down in his D-119. Nicknamed Earthquake Magoon, McGovern died just hours before the final collapse of the French at Dinbinfu, one year to …
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but could nonetheless be very effective. This is a quote. I refer to our efforts to get a good guerrilla organization going in the region, unquote. So Ike wants a guerrilla unit in Vietnam, and he's willing to do just about anything to get …
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Benvin Fu was the last stand. They got their butt kicked from Ho Chi Minh, who, again, was a nationalist. He had OSS troops working for him during World War II. He was on the Allies' side. He thought that the U.S. was on his side. He went t…
▶ 27:46
brought everything they needed down to their own refrigerators and beer. The first civil air transport flight in Indochina was a supply lift to a camp, not in Vietnam, in Laos. You know where all the opium is. That was on May 6th, 1953. Wit…
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At least one of the Air Force pilots, Alan Poe, resigned to join Civil Air Transport, which paid a lot more for the same work. Beginning in late 1953, the French tried to break the Viet Minh by tempting them to attack a strong male camp at …
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Squad 1 having been the Laotian mission in the spring. In all, the CIA proprietary flew 684 times to the camp. Chief Pilot Paul Holden was wounded by anti-aircraft fire on his fifth mission. The top flyer, A.L. Junkins, made 64 flights. Nex…
▶ 30:22
at 59. Pilots recalled flak over Dinbin Fu as being heavy, heavier than anything that they had experienced in World War II. Cusack himself was flying a mission alongside James McGovern on May 6, 1954, when McGovern was shot down in his C-11…
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comic strip, McGovern died just hours before the final collapse of the French at Din Ben Phu, one year to the day after civil air transport had first flown in Indochina. McGovern's body and other artifacts were discovered in 2002 at a crash…
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If you have an ambassador that doesn't want to go along with what the CIA is going to do, regardless of what the ambassador says, you just fire the ambassador, get a new one that's in bed with the CIA, and the problem's solved. Only three w…
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had hidden effects on the conflict in Indochina since the French War when both sides had used opium money, though the Hmong mostly sided with the French under the leadership of Taobi Lai Fong, a pro-French notable and the first of his tribe…
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Vang Pao, a veteran of that debacle, led a French commando unit on the expedition. When Taobi Lai Phong functioned as a tribal politician, Vang remained the military commander. When Stuart Methvin met him in 1959, Vang held the allegiance o…
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each in their closed up nation as the wise and responsible leaders of our time who are doing the best they can under trying circumstances. Foster seemed to have a chilling remote perspective on what it meant to drop a nuclear bomb. When the…
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Without having to do much thinking on the subject, he pointed out to Foster that if those drums are dropped near Den Ben Phu, our side will suffer as much as the enemy. Likewise, during the Formosan Strait crisis, Foster was surprised to le…
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And this is just another one that we will lay to rest that CIA was involved in domestically. Okay, we're on chapter 13, page 115. For those of you following along, this chapter is called Casualty of Wars. And again, yes, you will be pissed …
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And that was to protect the little kingdom of Laos and their precious heroin. The kingdom of Laos had remained loyal to France from a threatened invasion of Ho Chi Minh. They thought that the Dien Bien Phu encampment would be a blocking for…
▶ 11:55
And they have like a little town set up with the choo-choo train that goes around the outside of it. And it has little things that light up the different businesses. When the train comes by, the lights will go on. They had a mock-up of Din …
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Former U.S. Marine POW Bobby Garwood, who managed to escape captivity in Vietnam in 1979, instead of being welcomed home as a hero who managed to survive 14 years as a POW in Vietnam, was court-martialed as a defector. This action by the go…
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But after the war, Washington's Cold Warriors supported France's bid to regain its colony, an effort that led to war between Viet Minh and the French. Unquote. That war would end up with the French defeat at Dinh Ben Phu in 1954, with the c…