- Vietnam was CIA from the start, 1954-1964
- The military was unprepared to fight brush-fire wars
- Regular U.S. military was still in Europe
- CIA absorbed the people and methodology of the OSS
- Guerilla and covert wars, Army Special Forces
- General Erskine, Office of Special Operations, (OSO)
- The liaison between CIA and the military
- U.S. war of suppression in the Philippines (1899 – 1902)
- The OSO provides CIA with personnel, planes, material
- Military in civilian clothes, civilians with military rank
- The OSS fought behind enemy lines with partisans
- They’re cutthroats, they like this kind of work
- Guerilla war, there are no rules, anything goes
- You have to be able to torture and kill civilians
- Throwing people out of a helicopter is the least of it
- Atrocity and crime on an industrial scale
- Zionists poured into Palestine, guerilla warfare
- Communists want to take the land back
- Vietnam, ideological civilian warfare
- CIA managing police operations, root out the enemy
- Lansdale becomes the guru
- Charles Bohannon, Napoleon Valeriano
- Counterguerrilla Operations: The Phillippine Experience (1962)
- Lansdale becomes an Air Force colonel
- An ethic of war crimes as policy
- The (Hukbalahap) Huk Rebellion, United Fruit, Allen Dulles
- Communists were the good guys in the Philippines
- Rampant fascist capitalism turns people into commodities
- Lansdale put down the Huk Rebellion (1946–54)
- Paramilitary police work, quasi-military police units
- Dress up like Huks, wipe out neutral villages
- Project a boy scout propaganda image back home
- The Dulles brothers loved Lansdale
- He packaged lies, bullshit, that was what his genius was
- Magsaysay gave Ford and Westinghouse franchises
- CIA and the military, most important to show success
- Operation Mongoose, Task Force W, second coming of Christ
- Overthrowing Guatemala not for democracy, for United Fruit
- “For Democracy” is all a lie, colonial United States
- Fletcher Prouty explained all this
- CIA in Saigon, C-4 explosives, kill dozens, blame communists
- Freedom Company and Operation Brotherhood
- WWII, OSS, the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army
- Anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists
- The world is a laboratory for these mad scientists
- Church Committee Interim Report, Operation Mongoose
- Lansdale‘s programs failed, the communists won
- Ed Murphy worked in Phoenix in Vietnam
- Military Intelligence in D.C, identify protest leaders
- Go in and start bonfires and fights
- U.S. citizens are not considered as different from peasants
- You’re just a commodity to be exploited for your labor
- Kennedy was killed, Civil Rights, you’re a communist
- Making war has become America’s business
- CIA, military, arms industry, politicians, indistinguishable
- Doug corresponded with Lansdale, they never met
- www.douglasvalentine.com
- The CIA As Organized Crime: (Valentine 2016)
How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Podcast: Play in new window | Download