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The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, US Army intelligence collection units from MACV, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.
The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong). The CIA described it as "a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong". The major two components of the program were Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers. PRUs would kill or capture suspected NLF members, as well as civilians who were thought to have information on NLF activities. Many of these people were then taken to interrogation centers where many were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area. The information extracted at the centers was then given to military commanders, who would use it to task the PRU with further capture and assassination missions.
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The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the US Army School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel in US-allied Latin American nations.
The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed to WHINSEC.
The US Army School of the Americas was founded in 1946 and originally located at Fort Gulick in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1984 the school was expelled from Panama under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty. From 1961 (during the Kennedy administration), the School was assigned the specific Cold War goal of teaching "anti-communist" counterinsurgency training to military personnel of Latin American countries. At the time and in those places, "communists" was, in the words of anthropologist Lesley Gill, "... an enormously elastic category that could accommodate almost any critic of the status quo."
Ralph Walter McGehee (born 1928) served for 25 years in American intelligence, being a former case officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Since leaving intelligence work in 1977, he has publicly expressed a highly critical view of the CIA.
McGehee was born in 1928 at Moline, Illinois. His father, originally from the Kentwood, Louisiana (three generations there, of Scotch-Irish), had moved to Illinois when a teenager. His mother was from neighboring Osyka, Mississippi. Along with his older sister, they then had moved from Moline to Chicago about 1930. Ralph McGehee, at a "lower middle class" high school in south Chicago, was All State in football, and class president. Although a Baptist, he attended the University of Notre Dame where he was an All-American tackle on the football team. For the four seasons 1946 to 1949, they never lost a game, and won three national championships. McGehee obtained a B.S. in Business Administration, cum laude.
In 1950 he had married. His future wife, Norma, he had met at a Presbyterian Church in south Chicago while home on vacation from Notre Dame. Eventually, they parented four children, two girls followed by two boys. Often but not always, his wife and children would move their family home to accompany him, while on foreign assignments with the CIA.
SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=21592 As The Corbett Report reported last year, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has slithered out from his hiding place and re-emerged as a figure on the political stage. He is now advocating for a rebirth of the US' infamous "Phoenix Program" to target the ISIS terrorists the US created, and he is advising Trump from the shadows. Today Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program and The CIA As Organized Crime joins us to discuss what The Phoenix Program is and why its resurrection is so ominous.
Cointelpro type operations are presently being incorporated into the development of microwave weapons. INSCOM is perfecting nonlethal microwave weapons and at the same time neutralizing potential enemies by enfolding all the previous illegal government operations into one program as a force multiplier. The legacy of half a million US citizens used as human guinea pigs in nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons experiments during the Cold War as well as Cointelpro and MKULTRA crimes against humanity lives on today. Dissidents that in the past were visibly attacked or assassinated in a traditional manner are now targeted for elimination using electromagnetic weapons. The targets of nonlethal microwave weapons fit a common profile similar to the targets of previous illegal government pr...
Sean Stone interviews journalist and author Douglas Valentine about his new book "The CIA as Organized Crime" and they discuss the ramifications of the Phoenix Program and just how deep the CIA’s underworld goes. LIKE Watching the Hawks @ http://fb.me/WatchingTheHawks FOLLOW WATCHING THE HAWKS ON INSTAGRAM @ https://instagram.com/watchingthehawks/ FOLLOW Tyrel Ventura @ http://twitter.com/TyrelWatching FOLLOW Tabetha Wallace @ http://twitter.com/TabethaWatching FOLLOW Sean Stone @ http://twitter.com/WatchingSean
Documentary explores Operation Phoenix in the Vietnam War.
Nick and Michael invited me back on the Spearhead Transmission Podcast to discuss my new projects and the endlessly fascinating topics of CIA mind control, the Phoenix Program and split personalities. We mention the work of Dr. Colin Ross, Hollywood celebs and the uncharted territory of the psyche. Purchase my book here: https://jaysanalysis.com/jays-book/
It's a copy of the video from archive.org's Community Video collection. http://archive.org/details/SecretsOfTheCIA The IMDB page provides the full cast list and other information, some of which is provided below. Some related information sources are added at the end of this text. This video was directed and written by James L. Otis and the cast list for the people appearing as themselves, "in credits order", are: Ralph McGehee (see Wikipedia), Verne Lyon (see Wikipedia for "Operation CHAOS" -- the page has a reference link for a piece by him), Mary Embree, Phil Agee (see Wikipedia), Phil Roettinger, Peter Kombluh, Stansfield Turner (see Wikipedia), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (see Wikipedia) Gene R. LaRocque (see Wikipedia) From archive footage, and according to the ordering specified b...
Marshall Thomas Project Monarch, Chapter 01 The Phoenix Program
Douglas Valentine discusses his recent article "Inside the CIA's Use of Terror During the Vietnam War" and his book The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam. He provides a brief history of the Vietnam War-era counter-insurgency program and explains how Phoenix is being implemented today both internationally and domestically. Doug is an author, researcher, investigator, and poet. He has written several books including The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, The Strength of the Pack: Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA, and has recently published the anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century. His website is douglasvalentine.com.
SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=21592 As The Corbett Report reported last year, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has slithered out from his hiding place and re-emerged as a figure on the political stage. He is now advocating for a rebirth of the US' infamous "Phoenix Program" to target the ISIS terrorists the US created, and he is advising Trump from the shadows. Today Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program and The CIA As Organized Crime joins us to discuss what The Phoenix Program is and why its resurrection is so ominous.
Cointelpro type operations are presently being incorporated into the development of microwave weapons. INSCOM is perfecting nonlethal microwave weapons and at the same time neutralizing potential enemies by enfolding all the previous illegal government operations into one program as a force multiplier. The legacy of half a million US citizens used as human guinea pigs in nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons experiments during the Cold War as well as Cointelpro and MKULTRA crimes against humanity lives on today. Dissidents that in the past were visibly attacked or assassinated in a traditional manner are now targeted for elimination using electromagnetic weapons. The targets of nonlethal microwave weapons fit a common profile similar to the targets of previous illegal government pr...
Sean Stone interviews journalist and author Douglas Valentine about his new book "The CIA as Organized Crime" and they discuss the ramifications of the Phoenix Program and just how deep the CIA’s underworld goes. LIKE Watching the Hawks @ http://fb.me/WatchingTheHawks FOLLOW WATCHING THE HAWKS ON INSTAGRAM @ https://instagram.com/watchingthehawks/ FOLLOW Tyrel Ventura @ http://twitter.com/TyrelWatching FOLLOW Tabetha Wallace @ http://twitter.com/TabethaWatching FOLLOW Sean Stone @ http://twitter.com/WatchingSean
Documentary explores Operation Phoenix in the Vietnam War.
Nick and Michael invited me back on the Spearhead Transmission Podcast to discuss my new projects and the endlessly fascinating topics of CIA mind control, the Phoenix Program and split personalities. We mention the work of Dr. Colin Ross, Hollywood celebs and the uncharted territory of the psyche. Purchase my book here: https://jaysanalysis.com/jays-book/
It's a copy of the video from archive.org's Community Video collection. http://archive.org/details/SecretsOfTheCIA The IMDB page provides the full cast list and other information, some of which is provided below. Some related information sources are added at the end of this text. This video was directed and written by James L. Otis and the cast list for the people appearing as themselves, "in credits order", are: Ralph McGehee (see Wikipedia), Verne Lyon (see Wikipedia for "Operation CHAOS" -- the page has a reference link for a piece by him), Mary Embree, Phil Agee (see Wikipedia), Phil Roettinger, Peter Kombluh, Stansfield Turner (see Wikipedia), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (see Wikipedia) Gene R. LaRocque (see Wikipedia) From archive footage, and according to the ordering specified b...
Marshall Thomas Project Monarch, Chapter 01 The Phoenix Program
Douglas Valentine discusses his recent article "Inside the CIA's Use of Terror During the Vietnam War" and his book The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam. He provides a brief history of the Vietnam War-era counter-insurgency program and explains how Phoenix is being implemented today both internationally and domestically. Doug is an author, researcher, investigator, and poet. He has written several books including The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, The Strength of the Pack: Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA, and has recently published the anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century. His website is douglasvalentine.com.