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Mar 31, 2014 2:14:37 GMT portofleith said:

We are all lucky the 1980's are behind us- including the old cadences and attitudes.. . but Semper Fi to the good guys.

youtu.be/kQohgyKnlYQ

Port

I remember that there was somehow an ear connection to Alan Cranston. I noticed that he was Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee 1977–1981 during much of the crimes. Do you have any articles or details about it?

I also found these two articles about Dan Hood. I also found 25 addresses for him but none are in CA or NY, so I wonder what he was doing with Maverick and those gentlemen. Was Hood somehow involved with LBJ's companies? I believe a poster recently mentioned the Seventh Day Adventist Church, to which the article below also mentions. I read recently that children of G.I.s and Vietnamese women were not able to be brought back to the states. I guess that changed at some point before the end of the war. The movie The Beautiful Country portrays the hardships these children faced. They might have been the most innocent and harshly treated victims of that war.

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20117756,00.html

On the front lawn of Dan Hood's home in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains, the family dog is racing in circles, creating a dizzying blur of motion above the neatly trimmed grass. Inside, however, the house is still and tense. Dan's adopted Vietnamese-born son, Kevin, 19, has turned his back to his father, who is describing how he brought Kevin out of Saigon in 1975. As Dan picks up a folder that holds his son's official papers, a thin airmail letter falls to the ground. "Hey, Kev, you ever seen this before?" he asks. Kevin shakes his head and reaches for the letter, sent five years ago by his birth mother, who still lives in Vietnam. Dan, 46, and his much younger third wife, Teresa, watch him read, but no emotion crosses Kevin's face.

community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900423&slug=1068077

WASHINGTON - My Lai. Napalm. Nixon. For many Americans, such are the memories of the Vietnam War - memories largely devoid of heroes or heroism.

Yet, as did the wars that came before it, the conflict in Southeast Asia did have heroes. Dan Hood was one.

Hood, a Pan Am World Airways pilot who lives in Carnation, was honored over the weekend in the nation's capital by some of the people he helped - dozens of Vietnamese who fled their country on the last commercial flight out before the communists captured Saigon.

The reunion was organized in connection with the first screening of a made-for-television movie about the incident, titled ``Last Flight Out.''

In 1975, Hood was a flight engineer on a Pan Am jet based in Seattle. He also volunteered for the Seventh-day Adventist Church adoption service.

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This is month before the Toltec Way murders.

www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/us/senate-votes-to-aid-veterans-exposed-to-toxic-herbicide.html

WASHNGTON, June 16— The Senate today overwhelmingly approved federally financed medical treatment for veterans of the Vietnam War who were exposed to the defoliant Agent Orange.

The Senate action, by a vote of 98 to 0, marks the first time that Congress has approved legislation for treatment of Vietnam veterans exposed to the herbicide. Similar legislation was approved two weeks ago in the House.

Agent Orange was the code name for a defoliant sprayed by the Air Force on Vietnamese crops and jungles to reduce food and cover for the enemy. The defoliant contains dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals known, and veterans have blamed the herbicide for causing cancer, liver damage, malfunction of the body's disease-fighting system, numerous miscarriages and a broad range of birth defects in their children.

Medical Care Opposed by V.A.

Until now, the Veterans Administration has refused to provide free medical care to Vietnam veterans who have attributed their health problems to Agent Orange and has contended that there was no documented evidence that exposure to the defoliant resulted in longterm health defects.

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In 1974, Kovic led a group of disabled Vietnam War veterans in wheelchairs on a 17-day hunger strike inside the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston. The veterans protested the "poor treatment in America's Veterans Hospitals" and demanded better treatment for returning veterans, a full investigation of all Veterans Affairs (V.A.) facilities, and a face-to-face meeting with head of the V.A. Donald E. Johnson. The strike continued to escalate until Johnson finally agreed to fly out from Washington, D.C., and meet with the veterans. The hunger strike ended soon after that. Several months later Johnson resigned. In late August 1974 Kovic traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he spent a week in the Catholic stronghold of "Turf Lodge," interviewing both political activists and residents

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I liked the ref to "random, disjointed killing sprees"

"The Police Commandos were formed under the experienced tutelage and oversight of veteran US counterinsurgency fighters, and from the outset conducted joint-force operations with elite and highly secretive US special-forces units (Reuters, National Review Online).

…A key figure in the development of the Special Police Commandos was James Steele, a former US Army special forces operative who cut his teeth in Vietnam before moving on to direct the US military mission in El Salvador at the height of that country’s civil war. …

Another US contributor was the same Steven Casteel who as the most senior US advisor within the Interior Ministry brushed off serious and well-substantiated accusations of appalling human right violations as ‘rumor and innuendo’. Like Steele, Casteel gained considerable experience in Latin America, in his case participating in the hunt for the cocaine baron Pablo Escobar in Colombia’s Drugs Wars of the 1990s …

Casteel’s background is significant because this kind of intelligence-gathering support role and the production of death lists are characteristic of US involvement in counterinsurgency programs and constitute the underlying thread in what can appear to be random, disjointed killing sprees.

Such centrally planned genocides are entirely consistent with what is taking place in Iraq today [2005] …It is also consistent with what little we know about the Special Police Commandos, which was tailored to provide the Interior Ministry with a special-forces strike capability (US Department of Defense). In keeping with such a role, the Police Commando headquarters has become the hub of a nationwide command, control, communications, computer and intelligence operations centre, courtesy of the US. (Max Fuller, op cit)"

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"It was in El Salvador that Steele first came in to close contact with the man who would eventually command US operations in Iraq: David Petraeus. Then a young major, Petraeus visited El Salvador in 1986 and reportedly even stayed with Steele at his house.

But while Petraeus headed for the top, Steele's career hit an unexpected buffer when he was embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair. A helicopter pilot, who also had a licence to fly jets, he ran the airport from where the American advisers illegally ran guns to right-wing Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. While the congressional inquiry that followed put an end to Steele's military ambitions, it won him the admiration of then congressman Dick Cheney who sat on the committee and admired Steele's efforts fighting leftists in both Nicaragua and El Salvador"

Here is James Steele

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On 28 August 1976 three managers working on the project were killed while driving through Tehran. The killings were initially blamed on Libyan Marxists but Gene Wheaton, the security chief at the time later admitted that they were killed due to corruption in the project. Gene Wheaton was the IBEX and Dark Gene Director of Security. He ran an investigation into those involved in the project, finding that four had a historical record of corruption, including then head of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran, Richard Secord. These complaints were passed on to George Bush who was at the time the head of the CIA.

John Harper became Director of Security after Wheaton and was told by Frank Terpil after the killings that the Rockwell employees had been taken care of. The allegation was that the people involved in the project were in fact involved in the corruption and were skimming from funds assigned to it and ordered the killings to cover up their complicity.[4]

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There isn't a reference for this wiki. Notice the term "character"

Jedburgh operations in the Far East[edit]


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Jedburgh teams, or parties organised on a similar basis, also operated in the South East Asia Command (SEAC) in 1945, including Japanese-occupied French Indochina, where sixty French Jedburghs joined the newly created C.L.I. fighting the Japanese occupation in French Indochina. In Burma, Jedburgh teams were used in operations 'Billet' and 'Character'. Operation Billet was the plan to raise Burman resistance to the Japanese, primarily through the largely communist Anti Fascist Organisation (AFO). Operation 'Character' was the scheme to raise the Karens in the Karen Hills between the Sittang and Salween Rivers. The first Jeds to go on Character operations were flown into Burma in February 1945 with Lt/Col Peacock's Special Groups.

France and the United States would both use similar operations a few years later in Vietnam

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Notice the "james"

Singlaub was born in Independence, California on July 10, 1921.[1][dead link] After graduating from Van Nuys High School[citation needed] in 1939 he attended the University of California at Los Angeles and received after graduation his commission as a second lieutenant of infantry on January 14, 1943.[1]

As a member of the distinguished Operation Jedburgh (Singlaub was part of the three man team code name JAMES), Singlaub parachuted behind German lines in August 1944 to work with the French Resistance fighters or Maquis groups that had swelled the resistance ranks after the D-Day invasion during World War II. He headed CIA operations in postwar Manchuria during the Chinese Communist revolution, led troops in the Korean War, managed the secret war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, and worked with the Contras in Nicaragua.

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"Secord served as a flight instructor from 1956 to 1959 at Laredo Air Force Base,[4] and from 1959 to 1961 as an instructor and operations officer at Tinker Air Force Base.[4] In August 1961 he joined what would become the 1st Air Commando Wing, remaining there until 1965. As part of the 1st Air Commando Wing, Secord flew over 200 combat missions in Vietnam (March 1962 to January 1963, flying AT-28s), and was assigned to the Iranian air force as an adviser (January to July 1963, January to May 1964, January to March 1965).[4]

After graduating from the Air Command and Staff College in 1966, Secord returned to Vietnam as an air operations officer, before being transferred to Thailand's Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base in August 1966, acting as an air adviser until August 1968.[4] During this time Secord was involved in the Secret War in Laos, with responsibilities including security for Lima Site 85, an airstrip in Laos which came under attack in March 1968 in the Battle of Lima Site 85.[5]

Having flown 285 combat missions in Southeast Asia,[6] Secord served at Eglin Air Force Base from September 1968 to November 1969, as assistant deputy chief of staff for operations, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Force, Tactical Air Command, and then as commander of the 603rd Special Operations Squadron until entering the Naval War College in 1971.[4]"

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American use during the Vietnam War[edit]

During the Vietnam War the base was a front-line facility of the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1964 through 1976. The USAF forces at Udorn were under the command of the United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Thirteenth Air Force (13th AF).

Udorn RTAFB was also the Asian Headquarters for Air America, an American passenger and cargo airline covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

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Dieppe Raid[edit]

Main article: Dieppe Raid





Canadian prisoners being led away through Dieppe after the raid. Credit: Library and Archives Canada / C-014171
On 19 August 1942, during this raid, a Canadian brigadier took a copy of the operational order ashore against explicit orders.[4][page needed] The order was subsequently discovered on the beach by the Germans and found its way to Hitler. Among the dozens of pages of orders was an instruction to 'bind prisoners'. The orders were for the Canadian forces participating in the raid, and not the commandos. Bodies of shot German prisoners with their hands tied were allegedly found by German forces after the battle.[5][6]

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On the night of 3–4 October 1942, ten men of the British Small Scale Raiding Force and No. 12 Commando (attached) made an offensive raid on the isle of Sark, called Operation Basalt, to reconnoitre, and take some prisoners.

During the raid, five prisoners were taken. To minimize the task of the guard left with the captives, the commandos tied the prisoners' hands. According to the British personnel, one prisoner allegedly started shouting to alert those in a hotel, and was shot dead. The remaining four prisoners were silenced by stuffing their mouths, according to Anders Lassen, with grass. En route to the beach, three prisoners made a break. Whether or not some had freed their hands during the firefight has never been established, nor is it known whether all three broke at the same time. Two are believed to have been shot and one stabbed. The fourth was conveyed safely back to England. Officially-sanctioned German military accounts of the time assert unequivocally that the dead German soldiers were found with their hands bound, and later German military publications make many references to captured Commando instructions ordering the tying of captives' hands behind them, and the use of a particularly painful method of knotting around the thumbs to enable efficient, coercive, single-handed control of the captive

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The following song is about the children of American soldiers and Vietnamese women, who were not welcome to go to America:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUtborIaiU

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What if it wasn't AFC but instead FAC. Forward Air Control. I am wondering now which A4 pilot had the call sign "Schlitz". I wonder if he ever got a tattoo. Do you think he might have served with any poi's we know of? Or maybe a pilot of one of the spectre planes? A pilot who became a poi in another famous unsolved Air Force murder investigation and was said to have possibly hired an assassin?

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BELTON ETHER SCHLITZ BARFLY O'HARA HOPPER MASCOT MILLER PAULA BRUSHY FLEECY GREASY BLADE 1 TORPEDO MOTION 3 PACKER DUSTER cone HYDRA

RIBBON MOTION 2 GUNGHO JASPER FENWAY MERCO CARSON NILE CLAMMY ELIOT HEADPIN TIGER JODY LAREDO DWELL CHISEL DUDLEY OLYMPIA SENIOR OXTEAM

PEELER RICK RANCHO LARIET PIN CITRUS CHUNKY CARVER CANE GRANNY CRAFTY FURL BUCKET PUNCHY CD DINO GASKET PREVIEW PARKAY JUNIOR HUNT BOWER

TINT BEAR WOLF SPECTRE6