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[2013] How did the Gates of Hell open in Vietnam? By Jonathan Schell
[1987 Lecture] THE SECRET
WARS OF THE CIA: by John Stockwell
See: White phosphorus Napalm Cambodia
Critics
Daniel Ellsberg.
John Stockwell
Nick Turse
Books
[2013]
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
Deadly Deceits by Ralph McGehee
The Phoenix Program by Douglas
Valentine
[2009] Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975 by John Prados
Quotes
One of the most disturbing books I read was National Suicide. There Antony
Sutton documented the fact that we financed the Soviet
Union during the Vietnam era, which allowed them to finance the North Vietnamese
war effort. Over eighty percent of the weapons that
were used to kill and cripple our men in southeast Asia came from Russia, and
by the time the war ended we and our allies had loaned the USSR and its
Eastern European satellites over $40 billion.[40
Antony C. Sutton, National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union, Arlington
House, New Rochelle New York, 1974, p. 44.] Later, many of those loans
were written off. Unless we can convince the American people that we have
financed communism since its inception, the sacrifice of those who died
in the rice paddies of South Vietnam will have been
meaningless, and their lives will have been lost in vain.[41
See the videos What Is Little Known About the History of Modern Wars, and The
Best Enemies Money Can Buy, available from Radio Liberty.]
Brotherhood of Darkness by Stanley Monteith
[2012 Feb] DECEPTION WAS MY JOB KGB Operative/Soviet defector, Yuri Alexander Bezmenov, describes long standing Soviet Manipulation of the United States public opinion. A 1985 video interview by G. Edward Griffin. Several thousand so of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by Vietcong for only two days. And American CIA could never figure out, how could possibly Communists know each individual, where he lives, where to get him, and would be arrested in one night, basically in some four hours before dawn, put on a van, taken out of the city limits and shot. The answer is very simple, long before communists occupied the city there was extensive network of informers, local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion including barbers and taxi drivers. Everybody who was sympathetic to the United States was executed. Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi. To my horror I discovered that in the files where people were doomed to execution there were names of pro-soviet journalists with whom I was personally friendly......They were idealistically minded leftists who made several visits to USSR and yet the KGB decided that contra-revolution or drastic changes in the political structure of India, they would have to go...... they know too much. Simply because, you see, the useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned they become the worst enemies. That's why my KGB instructors specifically made a point, never bother with leftists.
Here is the secret in plain words. In the fall of 1968, Richard Nixon and some of his emissaries and underlings set out to sabotage the Paris peace negotiations on Vietnam. The means they chose were simple: they privately assured the South Vietnamese military rulers that an incoming Republican regime would offer them a better deal than would a Democratic one. In this way, they undercut both the talks themselves and the electoral strategy of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. The tactic "worked," in that the South Vietnamese junta withdrew from the talks on the eve of the election, thereby destroying the peace initiative on which the Democrats had based their campaign. In another way, it did not "work," because four years later the Nixon Administration tried to conclude the war on the same terms that had been on offer in Paris. The reason for the dead silence that still surrounds the question is that in those intervening years some 20,000 Americans and an uncalculated number of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians lost their lives. Lost them, that is to say, even more pointlessly than had those slain up to that point. The impact of those four years on Indochinese society, and on American democracy, is beyond computation. The chief beneficiary of the covert action, and of the subsequent slaughter, was Henry Kissinger. [2001] The Case Against Henry Kissinger. The making of a war criminal by Christopher Hitchens
On August 25, 1970, an article appeared in The New York Times hinting that
the CIA, through Phoenix, was responsible for My Lai. The story line was
advanced on October 14, when defense attorneys for David Mitchell — a sergeant
accused and later cleared of machine-gunning scores of Vietnamese in a drainage
ditch in My Lai — citing Phoenix as the CIA’s “systematic program of
assassination,” named Evan Parker as the CIA officer who “signed documents,
certain blacklists,” of Vietnamese to be assassinated in My Lai. When we spoke,
Parker denied the charge.
......As in any large-scale Phoenix operation, two of Task Force Barker’s companies
cordoned off the hamlet while a third one — Calley’s — moved in, clearing the
way for Kotouc and Special Branch officers who were “brought to the field to
identify VC from among the detained inhabitants.” .....The
CIA, via Phoenix, not only
perpetrated the My Lai massacre but
also concealed the crime.
....As
Jeff Stein said, “The first thing
you learn in the Army is not
competence, you learn corruption.
And you learn ‘to get along, go
along.’” Unfortunately not everyone learns to get along. On September 3, 1988, Robert
T’Souvas was apparently shot in the head by his girl friend, after an argument
over a bottle of vodka. The two were homeless, living out of a van they had
parked under a bridge in Pittsburgh. T’Souvas was a Vietnam veteran and a
participant in the My Lai massacre.
.....T’Souvas’s attorney, George Davis, traveled to Da Nang in 1970 to investigate
the massacre and while there was assigned as an aide a Vietnamese colonel who
said that the massacre was a Phoenix operation and that the purpose of Phoenix
was “to terrorize the civilian population into submission.”
Davis told me: “When I told
the people in the War Department
what I knew and that I would attempt
to obtain all records on the program
in order to defend my client, they
agreed to drop the charges.”
.....Bart
Osborn (whose agent net Stein
inherited) is more specific. “I
never knew in the course of all
those operations any detainee to
live through his interrogation,”
Osborn testified before Congress in
1971. “They all died. There was
never any reasonable establishment
of the fact that any one of those
individuals was, in fact,
cooperating with the VC, but they
all died and the majority were
wither tortured to death or things
like thrown out of helicopters.”
[book
extract] The My Lai Massacre and The
“Tiger Cages” by Douglas Valentine
Future historians will refer to the Vietnam War as “the drug war” akin to the British Opium Wars of the nineteenth century. In 1964, the number of U.S. addicts had dropped to 48,000 down to 60,000 in 1950. Then 15% of all American soldiers in Vietnam returned home as addicts. The drug monopoly was back in business. Two of the leading CIA operatives in Vietnam during that war are Mitch Werbell from Powder, Ga., and Three Fingered Louie Conein, who wore a gold decoration from Union Gorse, the Sicilian Mafia, around his neck. [1984] The World Order Our Secret Ruler by Eustace Mullins
But the American establishment and media denied it then, and continue to deny
it until today, because Phoenix was a genocidal program -- and the CIA
officials, members of the media who were complicit through their silence, and
the red-blooded American boys who carried it out, are all war criminals. As
Michael Ratner a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights told
CounterPunch: "Kerrey should be tried as a war criminal. His actions on the
night of February 24-25, 1969 when the seven man Navy Seal unit which he headed
killed approximately twenty unarmed Vietnamese civilians, eighteen of whom were
women and children was a war crime. Like those who murdered at My Lai, he too
should be brought into the dock and tried for his crimes."
......A famous Phoenix operation, known as the My Lai Massacre, was proceeding
along smoothly, with a grand total of 504 Vietnamese women and children killed,
when a soldier named Hugh Thompson in a helicopter gunship saw what was
happening. Risking his life to preserve that "social contract," Thomson landed
his helicopter between the mass murderers and their victims, turned his machine
guns on his fellow Americans, and brought the carnage to a halt.
.....It was the CIA that forced soldiers like Kerrey into Phoenix operations, and
the hidden hand of the CIA lingers over his war crime. Kerrey even uses the same
rationale offered by CIA officer DeSilva. According to Kerrey, "the Viet Cong
were a thousand per cent more ruthless than" the Seals or U.S. Army.
[2001] Bob Kerrey, CIA War Crimes, And The Need
For A War Crimes Trial by Douglas Valentine
The reason why Kennedy was assassinated was he
wanted to end the Vietnam War, and he wanted to end the rule of the CIA. That
begets two questions: Did Rome want the Vietnam War? And, did Rome control the
CIA? The answer is yes on both counts. We know, on its
face, that the Vietnam War was called 'Spelly's War'-Cardinal Spellman's war.
He went over to the warfront many times and he called the American soldiers the
'soldiers of Christ'. The man who was the Commander of the American forces was a
Roman Catholic, CFR member, possibly a Knight of Columbus, I don't know, but he
was General William Westmoreland.
So, Westmoreland was Cardinal
Spellman's agent to make sure that war was prosecuted properly. And another
overseer of Westmoreland was Cardinal Spellman's boy, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was a 33rd-degree Freemason. He was also part of the
assassination, with J. Edgar Hoover, another 33rd-degree Freemason.
........Spellman wanted the Vietnam
War, why? Spellman was controlled by the Jesuits of Fordham. Why did the
Jesuit General want the Vietnam War? The people of Vietnam, the
Buddhists, were unconvertible. They would not convert to Catholicism. They
didn't need Rome.
There had been a Jesuit
presence in Vietnam for centuries, so it had been decided that about a million
or so Buddhists would have to be 'purged'. They would later continue this purge
of Cambodia, with Pol Pot, and the purge is yet for Thailand. It was a purging
of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam of all these Buddhists, just like they purged the
Buddhists of China with Mao Zedong, because Mao Zedong was completely controlled
by the Jesuits. So, they wanted the Vietnam War. Eric
Jon Phelps
The other thing is that Rome is in control
of the drug trade. The Vatican controls all of the drug trade-all of the
heroin, all of the opium, all of the cocaine, everything going around in
Columbia. Columbia has a concordat with the Pope. A
concordat is a treaty with the Pope. Hitler had a concordat. Mussolini
had a concordat. Franco had a concordat. They want to set
up a concordat here, which was the reason for Reagan formally recognizing the
sovereign state of Vatican City in 1984. The greatest traitor we ever
had was Ronald Reagan.
So, they had a concordat. Columbia
has a concordat. Do you think that drugs running out of Columbia, with a country
that has a concordat with Rome, is not controlled by Rome? If Rome didn't want
the drug trade out of Columbia, they'd end the concordat. The whole drug trade
is run by high Mafia families out of the country of Columbia, subject to the
Jesuit General.
And the Jesuit General ran the
Opium trade, a couple of centuries ago, out of China. They ran the silk trade,
the pearl trade. The movie Shogun is but a slight scratching of the
surface of the Jesuit 'black ships' that trafficked in all of this silk and
pearls and gold and opals and everything they could pull out of the East,
including opium.
The Vietnam War was to consolidate
and control this huge massive drug-trade that would inundate every American city
with drugs, being brought in by the CIA with their Air America, and then
distributed by the Trafficante family throughout the United
States-Santos Trafficante out of Miami.
So we have the Mafia and the CIA
working together in the drug trade. We have the Mafia and the CIA working
together in the assassination of Kennedy. Eric Jon Phelps
Well, the Jesuits had brought in all of their
top Nazi SS soldiers into the CIA because the Jesuits were using the SS to kill
the Jews in Europe. When the Einsatzgruppen went into Russia, the Jesuits
followed with the SS and purged Western Russia of all its Jews. That's why
Stalin deliberately killed 40,000 of his best officers. That's why he kicked out
his best generals, purged them, because he wanted to make sure that the Red Army
would lose with the advance of the German army, because following that would
come the SS and purge Russia of the Jews that Stalin so hated. And by the way,
justice is often poetic because Stalin's daughter married a Jew.
Now, the CIA was composed of the
SS. The CIA now was an arm-and the intelligence arm-of the Vatican. The Knights
of Malta were throughout. Casey was a Knight of Malta. Angleton was a Knight of
Malta. The Knights were through and through. Angleton manned the 'Vatican desk',
and that is a desk within the CIA that has a direct link to the Vatican.
Eric
Jon Phelps
Thus for anyone attempting to end the CIA, and
attempting to end the Vietnam War, and also because he attacked the Jesuits'
Federal Reserve Bank by printing United States Notes, they got rid of him. They
killed our only Roman Catholic president.
And it's
another piece of poetic justice that a Roman Catholic-not Protestants, like
Harry Truman, FDR, and others-it's a Roman Catholic who truly sought to
resist the temporal power of the Pope in this country. And in many
ways, even though Kennedy was, in fact, a socialist and communist, at least he
resisted the temporal power of the Pope. And for that we should be thankful and
remember his name.
But what have they done to his
name? They've slammed it. They drag it into the dirt. Every time you see it on
TV, they parade before you his womanizing, which I don't deny, but my goodness,
can't we give him some credit where credit is due? That's why they got rid of
John F. Kennedy.
And then, of course, as soon as
he's assassinated, John McCone, the head of the CIA, the following day
goes to the White House and they reverse Kennedy's Memorandum of reversing the
Vietnam War and make a full-scale, carte blache war.
The CIA then is tremendously
and heavily funded, because it was a CIA war. And there they tried all of their
new technology, their anti-gravity machines, their men who they're trying to
make like the 'million-dollar man'. They tried out all their new technology in
Vietnam. It was a great experimental theater, and Kennedy knew this. He knew it,
and he knew that the American people had no idea what was going down, and he
still tried to resist it, against his father's warnings. Because his father was
the most powerful Knight of Malta in the Empire. The Black
Pope: Interview of Eric Jon Phelps
they needed doctors because they were going to have a war. This was before the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Obviously, as we now know -- it was kind of like the burning of the Reichstadt -- they tooled up for the Viet Nam War. They said, "We need a war, and we'll have it in Viet Nam, and we have to fill these ranks before we decide to have the war because these guys may not want to come if we're having a war. So, in any case, even then I didn't know exactly what was going on. [1993 Interview with Dr. Alan Levin.] Modern Medicine and its Military Links
The kids were given the M-16, and the M-14 was taken away from them. The M-14
was a pretty good rifle. It wasn't great, but it was good rifle. It was being
used since the Korean War or shortly after the Korean War, and it was well
worked-out.
These kids were in active combat with this weapon that didn't
work. Basically, what they were given was something like a baseball bat. That's
all they had. So the enemy would shoot 'em in the pelvis so they'd die slowly,
or they'd shoot 'em in the legs. You know, the kids were trying to drag a buddy
out, so they'd shoot the buddies.
A big joke was that one of the enemy stole one of the
Marine's rifles, and got into a spider hole and then got up and smiled and then
tried to spray these kids, and his gun jammed and so they blew his head off with
an M-79. So everyone was laughing because the "gook" got it because of Colt
Industries' weapon. You know, they said, "The M-16 is our best weapon. Give them
to the enemy and we're in great shape! But you know, this was absolute hell.
I mean, you're talking about arms and legs and guts and
shit on the floor and you're sloshing through clots of blood, and bodies coming
in and out, and everybody is upset, and, you know, the biggest issue was that
the weapon didn't work. And you're in a bunker, and there's shooting going on,
and it stinks like hell, and you're in there for thirty hours, you know,
non-stop. You don't piss, you don't shit, you don't eat, you don't drink water.
You just keep on going from one body to another.
So, anyway, in the midst of this, I ran out to this Colonel
and I said: "Look, you gotta give these guys their M-14's back. The M-16's are
not working. So he looks at me and says: "Doc, you are too close to this." He
says: "I'm a Colonel, the Marine Corps is my life, I'm an Academy graduate, I'm
up for General, I don't give a shit about these kids."
[1993 Interview with Dr. Alan Levin.] Modern Medicine and its Military Links