Cambodian Incursion operation
also: strikes... in Cambodia, bombing a bunch of airplanes
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Laird wanted the strikes, but in a super secret program whose records could be falsified. Such B-52 missions were already underway in Cambodia, another place we weren't supposed to be. Growing congressional opposition and increasing enemy s…
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Further details were added in April 70 when continuing pressure forced the administration to relent and release the 1969 congressional testimony. Any chance of limiting the damage was lost when Nixon ordered an invasion of Cambodia. Perfect…
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That is covered in, I think the operation was Red Rock, where we took special forces on a no return mission. They didn't know that. We dropped them in wearing basically Chinese uniforms, had Chinese soldiers that had been captured, Chinese …
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and bombed a bunch of airplanes, the special forces guys did. The entire operation, they did not know the purpose of it, was to pretend that the communists were attacking Cambodia. So they dropped off these prisoners, most of which died in …
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They literally had opportunity after opportunity to rescue these SF guys. They wanted them dead because they didn't want any witnesses to the fact that they were setting up a sabotage of a Cambodian airport. And then that was used as the ju…