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Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908 – February 23, 1987) was a United States Air Force officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He rose to the rank of Major General and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1963. He was an early proponent of more aggressive U.S. actions in the Cold War. Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan and died in McLean, Virginia. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He was twice married and had two sons from his first marriage.
Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 6, 1908. He was the second of the four sons of Sarah Frances Philips of California and Henry Lansdale of Virginia. Lansdale attended school in Michigan, New York and California before attending UCLA where he earned his way largely by writing for newspapers and magazines. He moved on to better paying work in advertising in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In World War II, he served with the Office of Strategic Services and in 1943 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, working various military intelligence assignments throughout the war. In 1945 after several wartime promotions, he was transferred to Headquarters Air Forces Western Pacific as a major, where he became chief of the Intelligence Division.
Ed Lansdale Vietnam Interview 1979 | Part 1
Ed Lansdale Vietnam Interview 1979 | Part 2
Ed Lansdale Vietnam Interview 1979 | Part 3
Ed Lansdale Vietnam Interview 1979 | Part 4
Ed Lansdale Vietnam Interview 1979 | Part 5
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty on Ed Lansdale being in Dealey Plaza on Nov 22 1963
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Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza Nov 22 1963
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http://AssassinationOfJFK.net - Ed Lansdale speaks with Stanely Karnow in 1979 about Vietnam. General Edward Geary Lansdale was an advisor to French forces on special counter-guerrilla operations against the Viet Minh. From 1954 to 1957 he was in Saigon and served as an advisor to the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Lansdale recalls his experience fighting communist groups in the Philippines and credits that success for his being called to duty for Vietnam. Lansdale discusses the differences between fighting in the Philippines and Vietnam. He recalls that the Vietnamese had a strong distrust for foreigners and this resulted in a distrust of the government. However, Lansdale contends that it was not a mistake to support the French in Vietnam during 1950 as the French had been ...
http://AssassinationOfJFK.net - General Edward Geary Lansdale was an advisor to French forces on special counter-guerrilla operations against the Viet Minh. From 1954 to 1957 he was in Saigon and served as an adviser to the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Lansdale recalls his experience fighting communist groups in the Philippines and credits that success for his being called to duty for Vietnam. Lansdale discusses the differences between fighting in the Philippines and Vietnam. He recalls that the Vietnamese had a strong distrust for foreigners and this resulted in a distrust of the government. However, Lansdale contends that it was not a mistake to support the French in Vietnam during 1950 as the French had been our allies in World War II and the United States had close cult...
http:AssassinationOfJFK.net - Please pardon the sound quality in this upload. We removed the "noise" as much was possible, but it can still be difficult to understand. This Lansdale interview is significant, however. Please have patience and give it a listen. General Edward Geary Lansdale was an advisor to French forces on special counter-guerrilla operations against the Viet Minh. From 1954 to 1957 he was in Saigon and served as an advisor to the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Lansdale recalls his experience fighting communist groups in the Philippines and credits that success for his being called to duty for Vietnam. Lansdale discusses the differences between fighting in the Philippines and Vietnam. He recalls that the Vietnamese had a strong distrust for foreigners and...
http://AssassinationOfJFK.net - This is the 4th of 5 installments of an interview Ed Lansdale gave to Stan Karnow in 1979. General Edward Geary Lansdale was an advisor to French forces on special counter-guerrilla operations against the Viet Minh. From 1954 to 1957 he was in Saigon and served as an advisor to the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Lansdale recalls his experience fighting communist groups in the Philippines and credits that success for his being called to duty for Vietnam. Lansdale discusses the differences between fighting in the Philippines and Vietnam. He recalls that the Vietnamese had a strong distrust for foreigners and this resulted in a distrust of the government. However, Lansdale contends that it was not a mistake to support the French in Vietnam during...
http://AssassinationOfJFK.net - This is the fifth and final installment of an interview given by Ed Lansdale to Stan Karnow in 1979 on the subject of Vietnam. General Edward Geary Lansdale was an advisor to French forces on special counter-guerrilla operations against the Viet Minh. From 1954 to 1957 he was in Saigon and served as an advisor to the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Lansdale recalls his experience fighting communist groups in the Philippines and credits that success for his being called to duty for Vietnam. Lansdale discusses the differences between fighting in the Philippines and Vietnam. He recalls that the Vietnamese had a strong distrust for foreigners and this resulted in a distrust of the government. However, Lansdale contends that it was not a mistake to ...
Col. Fletcher Prouty discusses photos of Dealey Plaza www.prouty.org http://www.youtube.com/user/blackopradio
In this first episode of the new season Pearse and I discuss the 1958 spy drama The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene. We focus in on the role of Air Force and CIA officer Ed Lansdale's relationship with the film-maker Joseph Mankiewicz, and how the CIA were involved in assisting Mankiewicz the first major American movie to be filmed in Vietnam. Mankiewicz met Lansdale in Vietnam while doing research for the movie and, apparently unaware that Lansdale is one of the inspirations for the Pyle character in the original book, befriended him. Lansdale later reviewed the script and wrote to Mankiewicz encouraging the changes he had made to the storyline and characters. Another angle is Graham Greene's transition from an MI6 agent in World War 2 to an anti-establishment ...
Col. Fletcher Prouty discusses photos of Dealey Plaza - www.prouty.org
Edward Lansdale became prominent during the Cold War. Lansdale was a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an organization that was given the responsibility for espionage and for helping the resistance movement in Europe during World War II. In the 1950's he was asked by Philippine president Magsaysay to help the government fight the Communists. Under the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Lansdale help train and develop the Philippine military in counter-insurgency. The strategy did not only involve combating the revolutionists but also winning them back through series of political or social campaigns called "hearts and minds". The COIN campaigns was so successful it is possibly responsible for helping the country herald its greatest era in Philippine history. Lansdale was the...
Nick Redfern shares about Military General Major Edward Lansdale's Aswang Vampires and Fake Second Coming during his presentation on The Pyramids and the Pentagon at Satori. 12/10/12
Description..... The three (tramps) in Dealey Plaza as looked at through the eye's of an intelligence officer. Why would just retired Gen. Ed Lansdale be in Dealey Plaza? Why would Gen. Lansdale be hanging around the three tramps? Frank Sturgis? Howard Hunt? James Files?
Col. Fletcher Proudy discusses his co-worker Edward Landsdale in Dealey Plaza after the President was killed.
The son of a prominent CIA agent, Kris Millegan explains how uncovering his father’s secrets about US involvement in Asia--from Vietnam to Indonesia and the Philippines--expanded his mind to the government brainwashing that rules the media and population. Was the US government involved in making heroin in Thailand in the 1950’s? What were the CIA connections to the North Vietnamese before the war? The government agenda to keep the country ‘opiated’ and the need to produce works that tell the truth about conspiracy is shared in this Buzzsaw interview, hosted by Sean Stone. GUEST BIO: Kris Millegan is a writer, researcher and publisher whose father was in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Military Intelligence (G2), and later was in the CIA, rising to Branch Chief, Head of Intelligenc...
Cay cú vì bị CIA cướp mất nguồn lợi, Salvani, trưởng phòng nhì Bộ tư lệnh quân viễn chinh Pháp quyết chơi 1 canh bạc cuối cùng, cho người ám sát Edward Lansdale.
Colonel Leroy Fletcher Prouty served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy.