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Authors: Stuart Methven
Tags: #History, #Military, #Nonfiction, #Retail
Black Thai,
66
Black Virgin Mountain,
108–9
Blind Bronze,
81
boa constrictors,
98
Bongo Wa Za Zenga: background,
136
; and damaged plane,
145
; and fishing boats,
149
; meetings with,
137–38
; on mercenaries,
151
; misadventures of,
159–61
; on Portuguese,
144
; role in Operation Uhuru,
139–41
; U.S. relationship with,
135–38
; and weapons,
156–57
Brown, Ralph,
144–45
Bulanda, Patrice,
136
Burchett, Wilfred,
104
Bureau of Narcotics,
75
Bushido: history,
28
; labor movement in,
34–45
; operations in,
27
; paramilitary in,
23
; trade fair,
45
Buwana: and Angafula,
135
,
138–39
,
160–61
; boats in,
149–51
; “coup” in,
136–37
; purpose of CIA station in,
131–33
,
167
; security in,
140
,
144
; U.S. senator’s visit to,
161–62
.
See also
Operation Uhuru
Bwang Karno,
112
Cabrola,
160–61
Cao Dai cathedral,
108–9
Carbo (coal miners union),
34–45
case officers: and agents,
38
,
41–43
,
113–14
; in Cham,
54
,
78
; description,
33
; in Operation Uhuru,
140
,
167
; in Vietnam,
109
; vulnerability of,
66
caseworkers,
33
CAT (China Air Transport),
71
Caxico,
147
Central Intelligence Agency: on college campuses,
109
; establishment of,
27
; interview and hiring,
8–9
; last day in,
169–70
; and mercenaries,
154–55
; recruitment,
3–4
; reputation, xi–xii; and separation of church and state,
102
; and Vietnamese coup,
104
Cercle Sportif,
80–82
,
81
Cham: assignment in,
45–46
; Cold War in,
96
; and communism,
49–50
; description,
50–51
; election,
76–77
; evacuations from,
79
; fall of,
94
; fertility festival,
62–63
; flags,
59–61
,
76
; low morale in,
85–86
; political action program in,
53–59
; station chief in,
51–55
.
See also
Luang Prabat
;
Viensiang
Cham Union Banda Soldaire (CUBS): in election,
76–77
; end of,
78
; and flags,
59–61
; organization of,
57–59
; in Phong Saly,
75–76
; pins,
60
,
76
,
78
; tools and techniques of,
60–63
,
76
Cham Women’s Association,
59
,
60
Charleston, SC,
139
China: and Bushido trade fair,
45
; and communist threat,
49
; flap in,
28–29
; and Rebello,
138
Chinese agent,
29–32
Cholon,
103
Ciano, Galeazzo,
53
Ciao Sopsana,
58
civic action programs.
See
political action programs
clandestine techniques: in Bushido,
40
,
43
; tools of,
47
; training in,
11
,
12
,
27
Cold War: in Cham,
96
; and recruitment of agents,
120
,
125
; in Samudra,
112
; and Southeast Asia,
49
; and weapons,
14
Comp (comprehensive field exercise),
17–20
Con Son Island,
105–6
Conein, Lou,
103–4
Congo River,
131
Congressional Record
,
53
Coolidge, Calvin,
160
Country Team,
56–57
Le Coup Manque,
136–37
cover stories,
10–11
covert operations: in Angafula,
135
; and Black Virgin Mountain,
108–9
; in Cham,
54
; history and nature of,
47–48
; personnel for,
33
; and Pi,
82
; training for,
27
.
See also
case officers
;
Operation Uhuru
Cubans,
142
,
145
,
155–60
,
162
,
164–68
Cullen, Lance Corporal,
151–55
D-day run-up simulation,
19
de Silva, Peer,
104
Diem, President,
103
Directorate of Intelligence (DI),
27
Directorate of Operations (DO),
23
,
27
displaced persons camp,
21–22
Do Van Dien,
101–3
Domino Theory,
49
Dulles, John Foster,
49
Duong Van Minh,
103
eclipse,
85
Erawan Hotel,
79
The Farm,
12–20
Filipino Operation Brotherhood (OB),
64
,
66
First Military Region (Cham),
85–86
Force Publique,
136
Ford, Gerald,
163
foreign intelligence (FI) officers,
23
Foreman, George,
132
Front for the Liberation of Angafula (FLA): and Cubans,
155
,
158
,
162
; demonstrations by,
134
; and end of Operation Uhuru,
163–64
; and mercenaries,
152–54
; military advisers,
146–48
; program for,
138–39
; supplies for,
140–41
,
156
FULRO (Force for Liberation Highlands),
100–101
Geelong School,
112–13
Geneva settlement (1954),
49–50
,
97
Germany,
53
Gia Dinh Province,
98
GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence),
113
,
119
Guevara, Che,
149
Halberstam, David,
98
Harriman, Averell,
94
Harvard University,
110
Heinzleman, Dr.,
134
,
135
,
140
,
162
,
168
helio: air drop from,
69–72
; design,
67
; to Phong Saly,
76
; recoilless rifle in,
91–93
Hoai, Colonel,
99
Hoare, Mike “Major Mike,”
151
,
160
“horns,” drinking of,
74
Ilongo, Captain,
157–58
Impeng Soolay,
58
International Nickel Company,
113
International Trade Fair,
115
J building,
21
Jakanda,
114
Kaltenborn, Bavaria,
21–22
Kennedy, John F.,
94
KGB: and CIA reputation, xi; and cover stories,
10
; and psychological warfare,
159
; and recruitment of agents,
113–17
; in Viensiang,
51
; and weapons,
14
Kham Kong,
94
Khamouane,
77
Kisangani,
132
Kong Le coup,
81
Kontum,
99
Korean War,
70
Ladolite,
141
Leopold II, king of Belgium,
131
,
136
leper colony,
101–3
Lisette, Anne Marie,
136
Luang Prabat: assignment in,
80–85
; as capital,
50
; weapons to,
94
,
96
Lunda: boats from,
150–51
; and Cabrola,
160
; demonstrations in,
134–35
; and Korean cannons,
157–58
; mercenaries in,
154
; Portuguese volunteers from,
143–44
; Rebello’s plan to invade,
147–48
,
155
,
156
; Soviet supplies in,
149
Magoon, “Earthquake,”
71
Maree, Tom,
149–50
McNamara, Robert,
110
Meo: Pang Vao on situation of,
67–68
; visits to,
72–75
,
94–96
Mercedes Benz,
54
MiGs,
145–46
“mini-Country Team,”
82
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
109–11
Moh Lam team,
61
montagnards: in Nam Bac,
93
; and opium,
75
; recruitment,
83
,
96
; in Vietnam,
98–101
; visit to,
63–69
Mossad agents,
116
Mountain Scout program,
98–101
Muong La,
84
Mussolini, Benito,
53
Nam Bac,
85–93
nation building: in Cham,
49–50
,
54
,
58
,
63
,
68
; and covert action,
47–48
; in Vietnam,
97
National Pacification Program,
109
Naugatuck, CT,
4–9
Nelson, Oliver,
82–85
New
York Times
,
107
Ngo Dinh Diem,
97
Ngo Van Chieu,
108
Nguyen Van Buu,
105–6
Nhu,
103
Nong Het: fall of,
94–95
; supplies for,
68–74
; visit to,
72–75
North Korea,
156–57
North Vietnam: Chau as spy for,
107
; communism in,
49
,
94
; and Nong Het air drop,
71
,
72
; and Pathet Cham,
52
,
53
,
74
; raids on Meo,
68
; troops of,
101
.
See also
Vietnam