Project Tiger operation
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William Colbyperson · 4CIAintelligence service · 4Gilbert Lawtonperson · 2West Germanycountry · 1Hawaiicountry · 11963 South Vietnamese coupevent · 1Vietnamcountry · 1Lyndon B. Johnsonperson · 1John F. Kennedyperson · 1
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William Colby created
Project Tiger documented
“quote-unquote politicians they're propping up got pissed off. Another task on the CIA's list was to infiltrate North Vietnam using Vietnamese special forces, people that the CIA had trained as early as 1958. Also, paramilitary teams that we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 54:58
Gilbert Lawton ran
Project Tiger documented
“It made no difference. They were just sending these people to their death. Colonel Gilbert Layton of the Army ran the Combined Services Division of Colby CIA Station, controlling Project Tiger and other paramilitary efforts. Chink Layton, t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 57:37
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▶ 54:58
quote-unquote politicians they're propping up got pissed off. Another task on the CIA's list was to infiltrate North Vietnam using Vietnamese special forces, people that the CIA had trained as early as 1958. Also, paramilitary teams that we…
▶ 56:37
Navy detallees to the CIA prepared boat crews. South Vietnam Air Force manned CIA planes for airdrops. But Hanoi swept up every team and even mounted a show trial in late 1961 of a Saigon air crew captured when their plane crashed. More tha…
▶ 57:37
It made no difference. They were just sending these people to their death. Colonel Gilbert Layton of the Army ran the Combined Services Division of Colby CIA Station, controlling Project Tiger and other paramilitary efforts. Chink Layton, t…
▶ 59:21
The 50-year-old Layton knew a losing proposition when he saw one, but kept on going with Project Tiger. Layton, Colby, and other CIA officers had greater success with a paramilitary effort in South Vietnam's Central Highlands, organizing ar…
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Langley's Far East Chief William Colby went to Honolulu within weeks of Diem's fall to discuss this with U.S. military commanders. Colby now opposed missions of the sort that he had carried out in Project Tiger, but the CIA's view was overr…