Lou Lapham person
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Lou Lapham succeeded
Pierre de Silva documented
“J-A-N-T-Z-E-N. Laird had known him for over 10 years. Jansen would be followed by Pierre de Silva and Lou Lapham. Both had spent time in the CIA office in Saigon. Relations between the field command and the CIA station in Laos varied. The a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 14:24
Lou Lapham succeeded
John Hart documented
“but South Vietnamese police and military units were side by side with them in the adventure. Phoenix was up and running in the spring of 68, but by then Hart had left. He was replaced by Lou Lapham. It formed part of the fresh organization …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 18:58
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▶ 10:06
and air missions. Lair dealt with the U.S. Command and CIA station in Thailand. Through much of this time, the station chief in Bangkok was Red Zansen, J-A-N-T-Z-E-N. Lair had known him for over 10 years. Jansen would be followed by Pierre …
▶ 14:23
to collect more data. The new paramilitary force, the Provincial Reconnaissance Units, those were called PRUs, became the CIA's enforcement mechanism, but South Vietnamese police and military units were side by side with them in the adventu…
▶ 29:21
This is Louis A. Lapham, Bow and Bones class of 1931. He was a World War II executive general in the command of the San Francisco Port. Why is that important? Tell us. Well, ports are where things come in and out. They may or may not want o…
▶ 29:54
He, in 1945, hang on, I'm going to pull up some more notes on him real quick. Oh, yeah, he also went to high school at the Hotchkiss School, one of our grooming schools. Okay, then he became, in 1945, the president of the Pacific American S…
▶ 31:10
But of course, why is he important here? Because he was the general counsel for the CIA from 1976 to 1979. What was going on 76 to 79 when Jimmy Carter had conducted his Halloween massacre and fired the entire covert operations branch of th…
▶ 31:41
the Jimmy Carter coup called the Revolution in Iran, where the CIA people were working behind the scenes with the Ayatollah in order to hold on to the prisoners, the hostages, which preponderantly were CIA assets and agents that were suppos…
▶ 32:35
Yes. Bush was brought in to clean that up, and he brings Lapham in with him, his fellow bone. This is right when, right before the CIA had to start using NGOs and other things like NED, National Drama for Democracy, to start doing their cov…
▶ 33:03
with Adan Shikogi to house all of those fired covert operators and give them employment to maintain covert operations outside of the CIA during that time as well. Yeah, I'd say Lapham's kind of an important guy in our history that doesn't g…