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Jun 10, 2024 · On June 5 th, IWP hosted a one-day colloquium titled Liaison & Legacy: Edward Geary Lansdale, focusing on the late U.S. military intelligence officer, advisor, and expert on irregular warfare who practiced his craft in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Jun 10, 2024 · Many assumed (incorrectly) that Pyle was based on the covert-operations legend Edward Lansdale. Journalists called Lansdale the Lawrence of Asia, but that was a stretch, as Wilford makes...
5 days ago · Meanwhile many of Lansdale’s men—including his CIA number two—took Vietnamese mistresses (Landsdale had brought his from the Philippines), lived comfortably in colonial villas, spoke bad French, and dressed like colonial officials with their de rigueur uniform of khaki shorts and knee length stockings.
Jun 9, 2024 · He served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force until his retirement in 1963. Even after reaching the rank of major general, he dedicated himself to serving the
Jun 12, 2024 · Sam, I was aware, had worked closely with Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, operating politically and militarily against the forces of North Vietnam in the late 1950s in South Vietnam. But I did not know until after his death that he had joined Lansdale in running the ill-fated Operation Mongoose, a secret Kennedy-authorized program ...
Jun 21, 2024 · He tried briefly to send a CIA operative, Edward Lansdale, to deal with the problem surreptitiously, and when that idea was shot down by the Pentagon, turned to an advisor, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, in the hopes that his counter-insurgency concept could achieve what the Army in the usual way could not.
Jun 25, 2024 · After the Japanese surrendered, OSS officer Edward Lansdale succeeded in finding out from the Japanese POWs where the treasure was hidden and found the relevant files. The intelligence officer who worked under him was Severino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana.
