31-03-2009, 06:49 PM
Pre-Kennedy inauguration (Jan 1961) coup and assassination attempts against Diem:
Here's a contemporary - nay, topical, even - example of the kind of operation I mean:
In the good old days, CIA used to run this kind of end-run round its station chiefs through Angleton’s CI department.
Quote:In late February 1957, an “armored car regiment stationed at Go Vap, six miles from Saigon stood paused to roll on the capital, when the plot was disclosed by a sergeant” (1). Days later, that perennial spook favourite, an angry “young student,” shot at Diem in the village of Ban Me Thuot (2). It is probable that these attempts were organised outside the aegis of the Agency’s Saigon station, most likely by the Agency-within-an-Agency that was the counter-intelligence (and much else besides) section of James Angleton.
Here's a contemporary - nay, topical, even - example of the kind of operation I mean:
Quote:Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Counties, Including in Latin America
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir earlier this month when he said the Bush administration ran an “executive assassination ring” that reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney. “Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving,” Hersh said. Seymour Hersh joins us to explain. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/31/se...es_carried
In the good old days, CIA used to run this kind of end-run round its station chiefs through Angleton’s CI department.
