First Indochina War event
also: French war in Vietnam, this war, Indochina, France... in Vietnam
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Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
First Indochina War book_quoted
“She even included a lot of military jargon in order to make it more believable that she had consulted with the military and that she was talking with authority on psychological operations. Laben evokes neither Indochina nor Algeria in any o…”
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and the French were up to their old tricks with a vengeance. The French shelled Haiphong Harbor, killing 6,000 Vietnamese, and Ho slipped underground, and American officials passively observed while the French conducted punitive missions. D…
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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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that had served as proprietary operations under the CIA. The DCI directive in 1972 ordered that Air America be maintained only through the end of the Indochina War, that Southern Air Transport be sold, and its Pacific Division immediately l…
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when the Church Committee and the Pike Committee began poking into the CIA's proprietary empire, which began during the Nixon administration of serious questions being asked because of Vietnam. They formally started the commissions a little…
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West-style wanted posters sprouted up all over Washington. This mimicked a technique used in the Phoenix program. The posters featured the Ace of Spades used by Americans in Vietnam to annotate death or a killing, within which was a sketch …
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as well as Otto Skorzeny himself. During the 1950s, elements of the French armed forces had devised a counter-revolutionary doctrine based on the military writings of Mao Zedong and other proponents of revolutionary guerrilla war, as well a…
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The two Dulles brothers were slow to realize that if the young Senator Kennedy was their pupil, he was also increasingly rebellious one. Kennedy began questioning the rigid Cold War paradigm that dominated Washington's policymakers as early…
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On the rooftop restaurant overlooking the Parisian-styled streets below, Kennedy met with an astute American embassy officer called Edmund Gullion. The diplomat told the inquisitive congressman that French would never win this war. He said …
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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…
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There's, well, I guess my first question is, I'm a little confused. Maybe you can help clarify because the French, before we were in Vietnam, the French were in Vietnam, right? Correct. For the Indochina War. They were hustling the opium wh…
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NATO thing of doing the CIA hustle and they rebrand themselves. But it seems a lot of these OAS guys who were in the Indochina war, then the Algeria thing, and then the terror stay behind units in France with De Gaulle and whatever, a lot o…
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She even included a lot of military jargon in order to make it more believable that she had consulted with the military and that she was talking with authority on psychological operations. Laben evokes neither Indochina nor Algeria in any o…
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colony, Algeria, you would have called, well, you could have called France a whole lot of names, but she never talks about it. Her focus is strictly on the Soviet Union, not on oppression overall, because obviously the future civil war in A…