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    Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908 – February 23, 1987) was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing...
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    intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project, Brig. Gen. Edward Lansdale, the document listed methods, such as false flag provocations, that...
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    of Miami. The operation was led by United States Air Force General Edward Lansdale on the military side and William King Harvey at the CIA and went into...
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  • Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by Edward Lansdale. Harvey was born on September 13, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son...
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    history. In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer...
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  • the script, Mankiewicz received uncredited input from CIA officer Edward Lansdale, who was often said to have been Greene’s inspiration for the American...
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  • Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers revealed a 1961 memo from General Edward Lansdale to General Maxwell Taylor which states that a CIA support base in Okinawa...
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  • Giorgio Arlorio also drew on the experiences of intelligence agent Edward Lansdale, who served the United States government in the Philippines and Indochina...
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    United States approved the assignment of CIA operative Col. Edward Lansdale to Saigon. Lansdale was given much credit for advising Philippine President Ramon...
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    According to the Seagraves, numerous Golden Lily vaults were found by Edward Lansdale and Severino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana in caves north of Manila in the...
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  • Lansdale is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Lansdale (1908–1987), United States Air Force officer Joe Lansdale (footballer)...
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    to move to the south, and Diem authorizing U.S. CIA adviser Colonel Edward Lansdale to stage campaign intended to convince more people to move to South...
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  • to have been modeled on the real-life U.S. Air Force Major General Edward Lansdale, who was an expert in counter-guerrilla operations. The book was serialized...
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    Director Allen Dulles with C.I.A. Counter-insurgency expert Colonel Edward Lansdale, United States Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining,...
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    Central Intelligence Agency operatives like Edward Lansdale. As Raymond Bonner and other historians note, Lansdale strongly influenced President Ramon Magsaysay...
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    Major General Edward Lansdale as the villain. Greene had covered the Vietnam war in 1951-52 as a newspaper correspondent where he met Lansdale who appears...
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    encounter with Edward Lansdale in the hallways of the Pentagon, a "month or two before" the assassination (as Prouty tells it), Lansdale informed Prouty...
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    Special Group (Augmented), headed by Robert Kennedy and including Edward Lansdale, Secretary Robert McNamara, and others. The group's objective—to overthrow...
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    Vietnam. During the 300 days, Ngô Đình Diệm and CIA adviser Colonel Edward Lansdale staged a campaign to convince Northerners to move to South Vietnam...
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    Chanson at Sa Đéc in 1951. In 1954, United States military advisor Edward Lansdale negotiated with Thế to use his militia to back up Ngô Đình Diệm and...
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    According to the Seagraves, Anderson was with Douglas MacArthur and Edward Lansdale inspecting the Philippine caves containing Yamashita's gold immediately...
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  • expert Edward Lansdale, who was stationed in Vietnam 1953–1957, is sometimes cited as a model for Pyle's character. In fact Greene did not meet Lansdale until...
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    propaganda campaign to get Catholics to come to the south. However Colonel Edward Lansdale, the man credited with the campaign, rejected the notion that his campaign...
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  • casualties can thwart this formula. US Air Force Brigadier General Edward Lansdale reportedly told McNamara, who was trying to develop a list of metrics...
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  • Landale (section Lansdale)
    British businessman Edward Lansdale (1908–1987), United States Air Force officer Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951), American writer John Lansdale Jr., (1912–2003)...
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  • of Pigs Invasion, Shackley dealt with operations in Cuba (alongside Edward Lansdale). JMWAVE employed more than 200 CIA officers, who handled approximately...
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    in Cuba Lucius D. Clay in Germany Douglas MacArthur in South Korea Edward Lansdale, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Creighton Abrams, Ellsworth Bunker, and William...
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    be able to withstand the Viet Cong. The papers identified General Edward Lansdale, who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and worked for...
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  • Edward Lansdale and the war over the war". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 63–69. Reviews Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and...
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    his body before leaving the body to be discovered on a road. Colonel Edward Lansdale was likely among those who encouraged and spread word of the practice...
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