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	Edward Lansdale - Biocrawler
		Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908–February 23, 1987) was a US military officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, died in McLean, Virginia, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
		Recent interest in Lansdale was sparked, in part, by Oliver Stone alleging in his 1991 film JFK that Lansdale was the operational head of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Edward_Lansdale (0 words)

	Chapter 8: Edward Geary Lansdale and the New Counterinsurgency
		Lansdale's eccentricities apparently failed to detract from the appeal his imagination exerted on influential members of the Kennedy circle, even though his views on "practical counterinsurgency," while simple, were rarely practical.
		Lansdale was a prime example of the counterinsurgent who convinced himself that he understood the people he was working with and that, as a consequence, he could outthink and manipulate them.
		Lansdale's advocacy of special operations, "practical jokes," and individual initiative was, however, shared by the creative counterinsurgents of the 1960s and continues to inform the doctrine of low-intensity conflict in the 1990s.
	www.statecraft.org /chapter8.html (6654 words)

	Edward Lansdale - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908–February 23, 1987) was a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency.
		According to Daniel Ellsberg, who was at one time a subordinate to Lansdale, Lansdale claimed that he was fired by President Kennedy's Defense Secretary Robert McNamara after he declined Kennedy's offer to play a role in overthrow of the Diem regime.
		Fletcher Prouty, who first recognized Lansdale in a photograph taken that day by a Dallas Morning News photographer immediately after the assassination, which allegedly shows Lansdale, from behind, walking past "the three tramps" in Dealey Plaza.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Edward_Lansdale (688 words)

	Edward Lansdale - SourceWatch
		Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), born in Detroit, Michigan, "was a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an organization that was given the responsible for espionage and for helping the resistance movement in Europe" during World War II.
		Lansdale was appointed chief of the Intelligence Division in the Philippines, where "his main task was to rebuild the country's security services.
		Lansdale warned him that these figures would not be believed and suggested that he published a figure of around 70 per cent.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Edward_Lansdale (0 words)

	Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. - book reviews Washington Monthly - Find Articles
		Edward Geary Lansdale was born in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio, emerging out of all the parts of America he was to fight to make understand.
		Lansdale himself, when he was in Vietnam in the formative 1950s, said that he had the terrible feeling that he was seeing the beginnings of World War III in these Third World conflicts.
		Lansdale was a jack-of-all-trades for a while: he worked in advertising, wrote plays, and drew cartoons (artistic talents, it should be noted, are rather surprisingly present in many military men).
	www.looksmartmoney.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n5_v21/ai_7675543 (622 words)

	Edward Lansdale - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, died in McLean, Virginia, and is buried in Arlington_National_Cemetary.
		He was sent to Vietnam in 1953 as an advisor to French forces against the Viet_Minh, and from 1954 to 1957 was stationed in Saigon as an advisor to the US-backed government of South_Vietnam.
		After the widely discredited re-election of Ngo_Dinh_Diem in 1955, Lansdale is said to have advised Diem to revise the 98.2 percent victory he claimed down to 70 percent to make it more plausible, advice which Diem did not take.
	www.erdmond.com /Edward_Lansdale.html (360 words)

	Edward Lansdale - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908– February 23, 1987) was a US military officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Lansdale continued to work for the Central Intelligence Agency and after the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation he was appointed project leader of Operation Mongoose, whereas William Harvey became head of what became known as Task Force W.
		Yet the story fairly reeks of Lansdale's M.O. At one point Lansdale was the CIA's psy-war point man in the Philippines.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Edward_Lansdale (702 words)

	OUR BEST-KNOWN COVERT OPERATIVE - New York Times
		He struck Lansdale and Lansdale's superiors in Washington as just the kind of man to wrest the newly independent islands from their corrupt politicians and lead them to American-style democracy.
		He was, then, both the Lansdale thinly disguised as Alden Pyle in ''The Quiet American'' and the somewhat more sympathetic fellow barely disguised as Col. Edwin Barnum Hillandale in ''The Ugly American.'' That is considerable notoriety for a man who was supposed to be a covert operative at the time.
		Lansdale's return to Vietnam was strongly resisted by the Government establishment, but in 1965 President Lyndon Johnson sent him back for three more years as a pacification expert for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DF1E30F935A15751C0A96F948260&sec=&pagewanted=all (1039 words)

	1954 was a pivotal year in the relationship between Vietnam and America (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lansdale himself ran the team that conducted operations in the South and Conein was given the responsibility of commanding missions that the SMM undertook in the North.
		Lansdale convinced Diem to call on his contacts in the Northern Catholic churches to assist in convincing their parishes to move to the South.
		Lansdale was occupied with the logistical problem of transporting and then settling those refugees that would soon be coming.
	www.vietnam.ttu.edu /vietnamcenter/events/2002_Symposium/2002Papers_files/coy.htm (3919 words)

	EDWARD LANSDALE:THE UNQUIET AMERICAN
		The essence of Lansdale can be found in a dialogue he had with SecDEF McNamara on Vietnam.
		Lansdale advised the Secretary always to keep in mind that the struggle went far beyond the material things.
		Based on interviews with Lansdale shortly before his death, this book provides both an important contribution to literature of the Vietnam war as well as a monument to a legend.
	www.afio.com /reviews/unquiet_american.html (0 words)

	Edward Lansdale
		Edward Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, on 6th February, 1908.
		In 1953 Lansdale was sent to Vietnam to advise the French in their struggle with the Vietminh.
		Lansdale's specialty, according to Prouty, who claims to have also worked closely with him, was staging real-time covers, diversions, and the general "smoke screens" under which assassinations took place.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDlansdale.htm (0 words)

	Kennedy assassination homepage
		Lansdale had successfully used propaganda and deception to halt communist-backed guerrillas in the Philippines and the action-oriented Special group coordinator was expected to do the same in Vietnam.
		Lansdale produced a memorandum and asked Harvey to look into the question of liquidation of leaders and McCone was so infuriated that he "blew up, called McNamara and demanded that it be withdrawn." McCone made it clear that "the United States would not, as a matter of general policy, endorse assassinations".
		Lansdale certainly made that very clear when he exposed his transferable will to "fight off interference from more conventional people for the right to apply these lessons that win." It may have worked in the Phillipines, but Vietnam proved to be an unparalleled fiasco.
	www.geocities.com /zzzpeace/specialgroup.htm (3050 words)

	Colonel Cassandra: ThingsAsian
		A king-maker and nation-builder, Lansdale fully swallowed the myth that the Communist bloc and the "free world" were engaged in a death struggle; and that the free world, as represented by documents like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, clearly represented the better option.
		Lansdale believed that to win hearts and minds it was insufficient, even counterproductive, to kill Communists or belittle Communism; instead one had to offer a better alternative (Lansdale formerly worked in advertising.) He would repeatedly say that the Vietnamese were "real live human beings" and not statistics, gooks, or insects.
		Then again, Lansdale himself made the chillingly Kurtz-like assertion that if the "only alternative" is genocide ("to kill every last person in the enemy ranks"), he was not "morally opposed" to it; nevertheless he thought it "humanly impossible." He believed that the indiscriminate American retaliation to the Tet Offensive signaled the end of the war.
	www.thingsasian.com /stories-photos/20500/236586/2/itm0_art (1679 words)

	Hau Nghia: Part 1
		McNaughton was referencing a nation-building strategy that had been devised some years before by Edward Lansdale with the advice and support of British counter-insurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson and Roger Hilsman, a former American guerilla in Burma and the director of intelligence for the Department of State in the Kennedy administration.
		Lansdale's role in the creation of the Republic of South Vietnam had earned him praise as well as blame for interfering in Vietnamese affairs, but Lansdale was adamant that the advisory effort he now recommended would be led not by meddling ugly Americans who would who would themselves direct military and rural development operations.
		In keeping with Edward Lansdale's repeated recommendations that this effort be led by as much as possible by independent, specially trained civilians, much of the responsibility for reinvigorating this aspect of the war fell to the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
	www.vietvet.org /gilbert1.htm (0 words)

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		Lansdale began covert operations work in the Phillipines, where he organized a campaign against leftist guerillas.
		Lansdale was an early CIA operator Vietnam, as well, helping to establish the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
		Others cite Lansdale as the source of a bizarre plan to convince Cubans that Castro was the anti-Christ.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/spies/master.spies/lansdale.html (122 words)

	E-Mail schreiben an: 20010430
		In early 1953, Lansdale, then posing as a USAF Lieutenant Colonel, was in charge of a false flag operation in the Philippines which fabricated the existence and threat of the HUK Communist guerrilla movement bent on the overthrow of the existing Philippine Government.
		By 1956, Lansdale had hatched a plan, with nods from Washington, to import 1.1 million North Vietnamese Catholics, using CIA proprietary aircraft and ships, to support the Diem Regime (Catholic) much to the angst of the Buddhist's who were the great majority in "South" Vietnam.
		By 1962 Lansdale had been on the periphery of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and, as noted in the Northwoods document, he recommended responsiblity for the overt and covert operations associated with Northwoods, be at the Joint Chief's of Staff.
	www.vfvs.com /EMail_SchreibenAn_20010430.html (647 words)

	MAJOR GENERAL EDWARD G. LANSDALE
		Major General Edward G. Lansdale was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1908, the second of the four sons of Sarah Frances Philips of California and Henry Lansdale of Virginia.
		Lansdale helped the Philippine Armed Forces develop psychological operations, civic actions, and the rehabilitation of Huk prisoners in projects such as EDCOR.
		General Lansdale was an early proponent of stronger U.S. actions in the cold war, as expressed in a number of speeches and articles on counter-insurgency, psychological operations, and civic action, which have received wide attention in the U.S. Government.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio_print.asp?bioID=6141&page=1 (568 words)

	Edward Lansdale Biography
		"[Lansdale was] one of the greatest spies in history.
		dward Lansdale was a secret agent for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who played an important role in South Vietnam during its first years of existence.
		In 1963 he saw President Ngo Dinh Diem's (see entry) government fall in a military coup, and in later years his advice on conducting the war was ignored by American political...
	history.enotes.com /vietnam-war-biographies/lansdale-edward (155 words)

	Amazon.com: Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American: Books: Cecil B. Currey
		Edward Geary Lansdale was indeed a most unusual character: regarded as a maverick by many in the U.S. Defense and State Departments, yet greatly appreciated and even loved by nationals of the countries in which he spent much of his career: the Philippines and South Vietnam.
		Lansdale's most successful efforts were in the Phillipines in the late 40's and early 50's, helping defeat the communist insurgents (Huks) and establish democratic reforms.
		Lansdale was against the predominant U.S. "big battle" strategy, but rather believed the fight was a "people's war" which required working with villagers to help them defend themselves.
	www.amazon.com /Edward-Lansdale-American-Cecil-Currey/dp/1574881760 (0 words)

	Hau Nghia: Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McNaughton was referencing a nation-building strategy that had been devised some years before by Edward Lansdale with the advice and support of British counter-insurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson and Roger Hilsman, a former American guerilla in Burma and the director of intelligence for the Department of State in the Kennedy administration.
		Lansdale's role in the creation of the Republic of South Vietnam had earned him praise as well as blame for interfering in Vietnamese affairs, but Lansdale was adamant that the advisory effort he now recommended would be led not by meddling ugly Americans who would who would themselves direct military and rural development operations.
		In keeping with Edward Lansdale's repeated recommendations that this effort be led by as much as possible by independent, specially trained civilians, much of the responsibility for reinvigorating this aspect of the war fell to the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
	grunt.space.swri.edu /gilbert1.htm (2948 words)

	Edward Lansdale
		Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6 1908 - February 23 1987) was a US soldier.
		He rose to the rank of Major General, and retired in 1968.
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	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/e/ed/edward_lansdale.html (92 words)

	Books : In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia
		When Lansdale returned to the United States for duty in Washington, he never ceased to promote the advancement of deomocratic ideology as the key tool to 'win the hearts and minds of the people of Asia.' This book is history as Edward Lansdale saw it.
		Lansdale became romanticized in The Quiet American by Graham Greene, The Ugly American by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, and Le Mal Jaune by Jean Larteguy.
		General Lansdale had an enormous fund of experience, contacts, and cultural knowledge of the Phillipines and his memoir about his role in defeating the Huk insurgency in 1950 tells us a lot about all the RIGHT things to do.
	www.myczechrepublic.com /cgi-bin/books-movies/shop.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0823213145 (530 words)

	Amazon.de: Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War (Paperback)): English Books: Jonathan Nashel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At times we see Lansdale as the arrogant "ugly American," full of confidence that he has every right to make the world in his own image and utterly blind to his own cultural condescension.
		This is the Lansdale who would use any conceivable gimmick to serve U.S. aims, from rigging elections to sugaring communist gas tanks.
		The result is less a conventional biography than an analysis of the world in which Lansdale operated and the particular historical forces that shaped him - from the imperatives of anticommunist ideology and the assumptions of modernization theory to the techniques of advertising and the insights of anthropology.
	www.amazon.de /Edward-Lansdales-Culture-Politics-Paperback/dp/1558494642 (344 words)

	Hearts and Minds, Folk Songs, and Psyops
		Lansdale happened to meet him and, impressed by his apparent savvy and politically correct anti-communist philosophies, promptly identified him as a potential solution.
		Not by coincidence, Lansdale was posted to Manila in 1950 on a hush-hush basis, his mission so secret that the Embassy and CIA were told to give him whatever help he needed but not to ask questions.
		While Lansdale's psyops no doubt contributed to the defeat of the Huks, their downfall was in large part the result of a crucial defeat when government agents raided the Huk's supposedly secret headquarters in Manila (proving, I suppose, that nothing is secret in Manila).
	www.apmforum.com /columns/orientseas36.htm (2939 words)

	Edward Lansdale
		Edward Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 6, 1908.
		Lansdale retired in 1968 and his book, The Midst of Wars, was published in 1972.
		Edward Lansdale died in McLean, Virginia, on February 23, 1987.
	www.vietnamwar.net /Lansdale.htm (0 words)

	Lansdale - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Homewood Suites by Hilton Hotel Opens in Lansdale, PA; Fourth Homewood Suites by Hilton Hotel to Open in the Philadelphia Area.
		Hatfield man held in mosque attack: He is charged with peppering cars parked near the building in Lansdale with more than 50 rounds of rifle fire this week.
		While Lansdale police were holding a Hatfield man who allegedly fired scores of bullets into cars in a mosque parking lot, mosque members said they had been the target of a "big-time hate crime."
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Lansdale.html (430 words)

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