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Napoleon Valeriano person

also: Napoleon Valerana, Napoleon Valerano, Napoleon Valerino, Valerino

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CIAintelligence service · 2U.S. Army Special Forcesorganization · 2Guatemalacountry · 1United Statescountry · 1William F. Buckleyperson · 1Edward Lansdaleperson · 1

Claims (5)

Napoleon Valeriano trained Operation Pluto book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 27:08
CIA removed_from_power Napoleon Valeriano book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 32:40
Edward Lansdale protege_of Napoleon Valeriano book_quoted
“He also inherited the secret war that they're doing with Cuba that nobody was even aware of. And Kruger writes about that remarkable fanatical group of conspirators then assembled to create finance and train Bay of Pig invasion forces. The …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 48:08
Gregory Araneta relationship_with Napoleon Valeriano host_asserted
“might be done on the premises. Any project you plan to do there can afford to wait until we shall have located and retrieved the treasure, unquote. In 1983, Zobel was a patron of the wedding of Irene Marcos to sports star Gregory Araneta. H…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 13 @ 46:10
Edward Lansdale brought Napoleon Valeriano host_asserted
“completely worthless. In the late 1950s, he was in and out of Tokyo on secret missions with a hand-picked team of Filipino assassins, including his favorite and cold-blooded killer, Napoleon Valerino, the daughter of an American officer who…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:29:08

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The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22)
▶ 27:08 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22)
▶ 27:38 as suspicious, and they had their own doubts about whether they were actually committed, especially their Filipino trainer, Valerino. Exile veterans often romanticized this Guatemala training phase. The truth was different. The Cuban pilots…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22)
▶ 32:40 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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