Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, Vol. One (Book # 2 of 30 in Defrauding America series.)

by Rodney Stich

This practice of destabilizing a government, country, or region has been repeated time and time again throughout the world by the CIA in one form or another. The CIA has compounded this horror by training, arming, and funding the locals to engage in assassinations and other brutalities upon innocent people. After receiving training at various military bases, the first group was flown by an Air Force C-131 aircraft to the U.S. Naval Base at Manila, where they then boarded a navy submarine. The submarine surfaced at night off the coast of Vietnam and the team was taken to shore by a rubber boat. At this point an Air America helicopter flew them to a remote jungle site, which was the start of nine years of assassinations. Start of CIA Assassinations Within a few weeks of their arrival, the CIA assassination team annihilated their first village. In December 1957, they had their first meeting with their CIA handlers, John Richardson and Ed White, at a base outside of Saigon that was known by its original French designation, P-42. In 1958, among the randomly selected targets were a combined power station, radar facility, and transmitter, operated by U.S. military personnel. Freeman said that his group killed 23 people, including five members of the U.S. White Star Force. Another 1958 target resulted in killing 15 American advisors in the Bio Lio Forest. In each of the assassinations the scene was arranged to make it look like the attackers were Viet Minh or some group other than...