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  1. 4 hours ago, Matt Cloud said:

    Studies in Intelligence Vol. 48 No. 3 (2004) The Pond: Running Agents for State, War, and the CIA The Hazards of Private Spy Operations Mark Stout

     

    See the the thread on "The Pond."

    This is from the website:

    "In a memorandum to Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that his department wants to withhold two types of documents.

    The first are 11 records that discussed “a joint intelligence program” of the State Department and the CIA that the two are still operating to this day.

    “Release of the details of that program, as found in these 11 records, would greatly harm the CIA’s intelligence capabilities and cause extreme difficulties in the Department’s conduct of relations with other documents,” Blinken wrote.

    The remaining 20 documents are “not believed relevant” to the assassination but detail a joint program between the State Department and the FBI that was terminated in 1974."

  2. This is from the website:

    "In a memorandum to Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that his department wants to withhold two types of documents.

    The first are 11 records that discussed “a joint intelligence program” of the State Department and the CIA that the two are still operating to this day.

    “Release of the details of that program, as found in these 11 records, would greatly harm the CIA’s intelligence capabilities and cause extreme difficulties in the Department’s conduct of relations with other documents,” Blinken wrote.

    The remaining 20 documents are “not believed relevant” to the assassination but detail a joint program between the State Department and the FBI that was terminated in 1974."

  3. 4 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

    Stu:

    Treitz and Hansen turned down an opportunity to debate me.

    Kind of telling I think.

    What interested me is how they dismissed any of the following investigations into the INSLAW case.

    So I read them, plus some other stuff.  I just conclude that their whole approach is flawed.  To leave out the later investigations is just not being candid with the viewer. 

    That Netflix let it all slide is another question.

    James,

    Covertactionmagazine.com accuses Netflix of continuing the coverup

    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/11/netflix-series-on-the-octopus-murders-continues-cover-up-of-reporters-death-and-cia-crimes-he-threatened-to-expose/

  4. On 3/5/2024 at 7:36 AM, Robert Burrows said:

    Do you have an opinion on whether the same forces that assassinated JFK were involved in the  assassinations of Malcom X, MLK and RFK?

    Robert, there is an book called Why The CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X: The Secret Drug Trade in Laos by John Koerner that implicated the CIA in the death of Malcolm X, MLK and RFK

  5. 16 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

    He wasn't.  IF he was involved in the JFKA it was through Dulles, Angleton and Harvey in particular.  He, COS Berlin in the early 1950's, put in charge of ZRifle, his notes about foreign assassins, which the Cuban refugees were not at that point as part of Operation 40.  From WWII they all dealt with both east and west Germans, The Black Prince, Rat lines, Paperclip and more. 

    Is what some have mentioned before, a piggybacked operation, in a different context, plausible?  Cubans roused up about assassinating JFK, a few used for various purposes (keeping Oswald busy?), maybe a shooter from the swamp group?  Ultimately used as scape goats.  IDK. Nothing sticks to the wall?  Preposterous, I guess.

    Both the Nazis  and CIA were involved in drugs

  6. 29 minutes ago, Michael Griffith said:

    If you are unwilling to read anything that disagrees with what you want to believe on the subject, then there is no point in discussing it with you. Personally, I would never get on a public board and make sweeping, adamant statements on a controversial historical subject unless I had read at least two books and/or several articles on both sides of the issue. And I would certainly not dismiss a book published by a major publishing house and written by a qualified scholar unless I had read the book. But that's just me.

    I only commented because the members failed to include an certain aspect

  7. 14 minutes ago, Michael Griffith said:

    Based on what? You might want to read Moyar's book and all the evidence he presents before you reach a conclusion, if you are interested in making an informed judgment. A basic tenet of critical thinking is to consider both sides of an argument before drawing a conclusion about it.

    For starters, Moyar's version is based on the new information from North Vietnamese sources. Chapman did not even try to address a single item of this historic evidence. Let me summarize some of the things the North Vietnamese sources document:

    -- The Communist war effort was going badly in 1962 and 1963 but began to improve a few months after Diem's death.

    -- The Communist war effort went very badly throughout 1967, and this development was the reason the Hanoi regime decided to launch the Tet Offensive in January 1968.

    -- The Viet Cong were tightly controlled by Hanoi and relied on Hanoi for most of their arms and supplies.

    -- South Vietnam's army, aka ARVN (ar-vin), was a formidable fighting force in the majority of cases. ARVN usually defeated the Viet Cong during 1962 and 1963 and performed well during the Tet Offensive.

    -- The Hanoi regime was unpleasantly surprised by the performance of ARVN during the Tet Offensive. Most of the Communists' attacks were aimed at ARVN units, since Hanoi believed they could be easily defeated. Hanoi's leaders were surprised when this failed to occur.

    -- Hanoi's leaders were stunned by the refusal of the South Vietnamese to rise up against the Saigon government at the start of the Tet Offensive. The Hanoi Politburo firmly believed that once their forces attacked, most South Vietnamese would welcome them as liberators. 

    -- After the Tet Offensive, the Communists lost control of most of the areas they had held in South Vietnam before the offensive. They had lost control of a number of areas in 1967, but they lost control over even more areas after the offensive.

    -- From 1967 through early 1972, the Saigon government and MACV steadily increased their control of the countryside.

    -- The Viet Cong's ranks were so decimated during the Tet Offensive, and recruiting became so difficult after the offensive, that from that point onward, most of the Viet Cong's soldiers were North Vietnamese.

    -- The 1967-1968 bombing of North Vietnam did even more damage than MACV and the Pentagon estimated it did at the time, even when the bombing did not include targets near and around Hanoi.  

    -- The Operation Linebacker I and II bombing campaigns and the mining of Haiphong Harbor in 1972 brought North Vietnam to the verge of collapse. 

    -- Hanoi's leaders had no intention of honoring the Paris Peace Accords.

    -- The Hanoi regime launched a propaganda campaign to blame South Vietnam for violating the Accords in an attempt to draw attention away from Hanoi's egregious violations of the Accords. 

    -- Even with American aid slashed, ARVN often put up stiff, sometimes "ferocious," resistance in 1974 and 1975. 

    I have no interested in reading Moyer's book

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