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...

At a later date, the group assassinated South Vietnamese Pres...

Green Beret Sergeant Al Combs,

Freeman said that Combs was starting to suspect the existence of an all-black American assassination team.

I passed the key information to several of my CIA sources, including long-time CIA operative Oswald LeWinter, who had spent many years in Vietnam, including during the time that Freeman was operating his assassination team. What LeWinter didn’t know, he asked his contacts at CIA headquarters and they confirmed the existence of all the events and places. However, they knew nothing about the all-black assassination team and this could be expected for an operation as sensitive as this.

One Top Secret document, dated January 21, 1964, described orders for Freeman‘s group to rescue prisoners of war at a certain location, and if that was not possible, to kill them. The Top Secret report confirmed the killing of the American prisoners of war. A copy of that Top Secret report went to the president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson at that time; to McGeorge Bundy, the presidential security advisor, John McCone, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Marine Corps, and the secretary of the navy. The documents also confirmed Freeman‘s position as head of an assassination team. The documents from Washington ordered Freeman’s group to assassinate American prisoners of war; and revealed that the assassinations were carried out.

He also explained that code names given to him by his CIA handlers included Bushmaster, Jungle Cat, and Viper. He explained that Operation Pluto was the over-all operation when referring to total body count from date of activities until November 7, 1963, which he said was approximately 5,361 people killed by his team.

Darlene Novinger,

In some cases his instructions came on computer floppy disks that he would then put into his computer. He described receiving floppy disks on some occasions around 1978 from CIA asset G. Gordon Liddy, who in the mid-1990s was a Washington-area and nationally known talk show host.

Southwest Airlines, a CIA Proprietary? In the past, CIA operative Gunther Russbacher had described to me that Southwest Airlines was a CIA proprietary or used by the CIA. Although the details sounded convincing, I felt I needed other data to support that statement. Crittenden said to me that Southwest was indeed a CIA proprietary, describing details to support what he was saying. I feel that more evidence is needed to make this determination, but the statement of these two key CIA operatives is certainly of interest. Losing CIA Standing Crittenden explained that he lost CIA backing after he repeatedly criticized George Bush, former CIA director and long-time CIA asset. (Russbacher had stated that Bush was head of a powerful CIA faction, of which there were several, each vying for power.)

Crittenden told me of a 1988 C-130 flight to Ireland carrying CIA arms and a stinger missile for the Irish Republican Army. The flight originated at Fort Hood and then flew to Dublin, where it cleared customs. The C-130 then took off and landed in a field south of Dublin, where the arms were off-loaded.

He described his association with John Emery Wolruffa, a screenwriter in Hollywood, involved in the movie, Wild Geese, with Richard Burton. Crittenden said the movie was about mercenaries that Crittenden flew to South Africa. In the original event, Crittenden took the mercenaries in 1983 to Mozambique in Ethiopia via Kingston, Jamaica. Crittenden’s code name was Iron Man in that operation. When the aircraft arrived over Mozambique it was depressurized and the ramp at the rear of the aircraft was lowered, permitting the mercenaries to drop out with their parachutes. As planned, Crittenden later landed to pick them up. However, after landing, he received a message canceling the pickup, and the plane immediately took off, abandoning the mercenaries. Most of them were subsequently killed. Political considerations caused them to be sacrificed.