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Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908 – February 23, 1987) [1] was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing his work with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Lansdale was a pioneer in clandestine operations and psychological warfare.
Mongoose was led by Edward Lansdale at the Defense Department and William King Harvey at the CIA. Lansdale was chosen due to his experience with counter-insurgency in the Philippines during the Hukbalahap Rebellion, as well as because of his experience supporting Vietnam's Diem regime. Samuel Halpern, a CIA co-organizer, conveyed the breadth of ...
It was Edward Lansdale who convinced Ngo that Operation Brotherhood was vital to his fight against his communist counterparts in North Vietnam. It was however disclosed that Operation Brotherhood was run by Filipino medical staff but had nominal support from the Central Intelligence Agency through Lansdale.
The CIA's experiments in psychological warfare would have a lasting impact on American counterinsurgencies throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; When CIA director Allen Dulles assigned Edward Lansdale to Indochina, he told Lansdale "to do what you did in the Philippines [in Vietnam]." [33] Lansdale's successes in the Philippines ...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels, or underground complexes in different cities in the Philippines.
Lansdale, Magsaysay, America, and the Philippines: A Case Study of Limited Intervention Counterinsurgency (PDF). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-9885837-6-4. DTIC ADA569506
This election also saw the involvement of the United States with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with agent Edward Lansdale running Magsaysay's campaign. [2] Other candidates competed for CIA support too and many normal Filipinos were interested in what the United States citizens views were on it. [3]
Colonel Edward Lansdale arrived in Saigon from the Philippines to create and lead the CIA's Saigon Military Mission (SMM). Lansdale, a former advertising executive, was tasked with helping pro-Western elements in Vietnam wage psychological and political warfare against the communist-dominated Viet Minh.