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Began, I guess. Go ahead. It's Okinawa. It's not Philippines. Was it Okinawa? Yeah. There was an island that belonged to the Philippines but was given to the Japanese after World War II, I think.…
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Well, we had Okinawa and there was a lot of controversy over us having that. And we eventually ended up giving it back except for the base that we have there. We have never. And there's a lot of movement even today that they want the entire…
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Okay, let's try that. I want to try that. All right. Do you want to try again? Yeah, sure. Good morning. Thank you, Colonel Towner. Can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you. Okay, awesome. Yeah, I just hopped in a little bit ago. I didn't h…
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The whole situation with the Japanese mafia and the Okinawans is still going on today. And how we talked about Operation Gladio and the stuff going on in Hawaii. The Okinawan governor, Ige of Hawaii, that's why they were keeping the COVID m…
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going for so long was to drive out the, the Japanese, uh, small business owners. And it's like cutthroat, you know, like there's different, um, competing mafias for that. And Okinawa really wants independence from, you know, Japan and that …
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And we're going to refer to the Netherlands, New Guinea as NNG. Netherlands, New Guinea. So they've kept that part, which is the western part of this particular island. During the war, Admiral Maeda was in charge of West New Guinea. In Japa…
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So that's very important. We also used it on a quote unquote test in Okinawa and Guam and the Philippines. And notice that that's very interesting.…
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Okinawa has always been a location that the indigenous people in Okinawa does not want us there. But we have absolutely refused to leave, regardless of what type of opposition arises there. And of course, we basically ran the Philippines fo…
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known demonstration in riot police. Yeah, I've obviously had several of my friends stationed there as well, and that was kind of their takeaway too. But what I have noticed is something else, which happens in Okinawa too, is there is a lot …
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Obviously, being in the military, you primarily are in areas that are frequented by the military, and you see a lot of those riots. The same is true in Okinawa. But like my girlfriend going over there with her daughter for 30 days, going al…
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of Korea. Huh. All three of them got together and they're the ones that are starting in Asia, this anti-communist league that has to do with Operation Gladio. Oh, and look, the other participating states, South Vietnam, Thailand, Okinawa, J…
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Special forces participation increased dramatically from one medic on temporary duty in late 1961 to the first A-team deployment from Okinawa in February of 62 to a peak of 3,480 by 1968. Until November of 1962, this new civilian irregular …
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Police advisors in Okinawa and Japan were under army control, along with those in Korea and the Philippines. So Eisenhower had set up the same type of capability in Korea, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. Berlin's police advisors report…
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So they have the same, and that's the SABAC, by the way. And we know that Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. set up the SABAC national police training and basically turned them into terrorists. So the fact that it's being administered in different loca…
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films where superheroes save civilization with military weapons in alliance with the U.S. military. Strub had a scene removed from The Wind Talkers in 2002, where U.S. Marines took out the gold teeth of Japanese soldiers they had killed as …
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Corson said that in 1974, North suffered an emotional problem. At one point, North was hospitalized after an incident with a handgun. North had just returned from assignment to Okinawa and was committed to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for se…
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Because Air America owned no C-130s, the Air Force lent it some for their special air warfare from their E-flight at Okinawa. Of four Air America crews trained on C-130s in the mid-1960s, one was left by 1970. So the hub of the Hmong War wa…
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CIA's civil air transport, which could parachute instructors and weapons into the Chinese-occupied, the Chiang Kai-shek-occupied area of Burma. Airplanes flew missions that had been set up in Bangkok, Thailand, with personnel shuttled down …
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The assistance of Lee Me and the existence of Sea Supply were open secrets in Bangkok. Sherman Joost, experienced as a team leader with the OSF in the same Burma area, loved the attention. Operation Paper began with three civil air transpor…
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the capability of these people to do these covert missions. At home in 1956 maneuver, special forces troops caused enormous disruption to other teams, even penetrating the opponent's tactical command and control radio networks. Detachments …
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This provisional detachment became the nucleus of the first special forces group established on Okinawa in June of 1957. Men from special forces conducted certain missions into Laos as early as 59 and were included in the assistance command…
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For top-secret airlift missions over longer distance, Military Airlift Command, which used to be called MAC, now it's called AMC, established special e-flights in certain ones of its C-130 squadrons. The unit for the Far East, for example, …
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special warfare units called Air Resupply and Communication, or ARC wings. Five of those units were formed and stationed at bases in Great Britain, Libya, Okinawa, and the Philippines. The ARC wings operated a wide variety of transport airc…
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Set C-130s that flew in the Far East belonged to the Air Force's 315th Air Division based in Korea and Okinawa. Their use was controlled by General Erskine's office in Washington. Clandestine work did consume Air Force resources, but not on…
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within the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron equipped with C-130s. Highly qualified air crew were vital to the Tibet flights. These were made at night at low altitude and within the Himalayan mountains. To find remote drop zones, you needed navig…
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and the resistance commanders made an increasingly desperate plea for supplies. When JFK took the oath of office on January 20th, 1961, the CIA had already prepared proposals for what to do in Tibet. Not like they were setting them up or an…
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That has endured ever since. A permanent presence in the Far East began in 1956 when provisional teams went to Hawaii, then to Okinawa. In 1957, this became the first Special Forces group. Special Forces began missions in Laos as early as 1…
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The first airborne weapons delivery to Sumatra took place on February 23rd. Packed on Okinawa by CIA officer James McElroy and coordinated from Clark Air Base by John Mason's deputy Garfield Thorsrud and Roger McCarthy, the loads were put a…
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Switching to caravans moving over land. This meant a loss of volume delivery. But the agency had little choice. At least the CIA could use the stockpiles that it had already accumulated in Okinawa, Taiwan, and Thailand. Desmond Fitzgerald a…
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It's technically in Illinois, but everybody refers to it as being in St. Louis. They established what was referred to as E-Flight, which was a designation of some C-130 squadrons. The unit for the Far East, for example, was E-Flight of the …
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the system that would help with the secret army for the next 11 years. That would be Major Harry Adderholt, commander of the Air Force's small unconventional warfare detachment in Okinawa from 59 to 60. And by the way, Henry Adderholt is li…
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Appearing as a character witness in the court-martial of a Marine buddy, North misrepresented himself as a pre-med in college, where in fact he had earned D's in geometry. Other times he claimed that during his Okinawa tour that he had comm…
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We've talked about them. ARC Wings was used in Korea. ARC Wings was used in Taiwan, out of the Philippines, to supply Operation Gladio-type capability. Three of these units were formed. Weirdly enough, they were stationed in Great Britain, …
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and communications wing, ARC. Similarly, plans of the 380th wing flying from Wilis, which is in Libya, in the mid-1950s, ferried critical fuel and chemical supplies to Turkey for the CIA's U-2 mission. And you're going to find a direct corr…
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tons of it had been entered into the black market, not the least of which included Okinawa. The other half, coincidentally, was secretly sent to Vietnam by the CIA to help the French. Some weapons, medium tanks and artillery pieces in parti…