Article about Edward G. Lansdale

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Article about Edward G. Lansdale

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Original title: "focus." Article draft about Edward G. Lansdale, a counter-insurgency and psychological warfare expert who had been sidelined by the US military for criticizing their tactics that alienated civilians and destabalized the South Vietnamese government. Written for the Christian Science Monitor

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SAIGON, JULY 22 An American real-life legend in Asia has returned
to the United States. But, discreet predictions are being made that he
will return to Vietnam when his friend is elected the new American President
this year. The name:
Edward G. Land Lansdale. He was the model for the
famed Colonel Hillandale, the fa legendary rag-time kid in the "Urg
"Ugly American" as well as the model for the college-graduate-turned-diplomat
in Graham Greene's "The Quiet American."
Lansdale was known as the
kingmaker of Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay during the pro-Communist
After a long absence,.
Huk insurrection there after World War II. Then, he moved to South Vietnam
to advise President Ngo Dinh Diem, since deposed.
Lansdale returned to Vietnam in 1965 as a special Haio liaison officer
for the American Ambassador. His advise was largely ignored in American
circles. Known as a hawk, he nonetheless disagreed with the predominantly
military emphasis of American strategy. He left Vietnam last month, but
informed sources predict he will be assigned an important post-possibly
He is a close
even Ambassador-in Vietnam following the American elections.
friend of both leading Presidential candidates-HH Humphrey and Richard Nixon.
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Last spring,
the Thai government scheduled in Bangkok a surprise
conference of American Peace Corps volunteers,
some of whom speak
the language of tribal minorities better than Thai officials and are
more closely involved with the hi minority groups than any other American
agency.
While absent from their areas of work in north and northeast
Thailand, the Thai government reportedly made extensive napalm and
bombing raids in the
socalled "insurgency areas" north and northeast
at the minimal
of Bangkok. The Peace Corps volunteers were flabbergasted when they
returned from their conference. And when Thai officials surveyed the
results on the ground, they were reportedly "shocked"
damage done to the "insurgents" and the terrible distruction deen done
to its own territory. Now, much to the relief of American officials,
the Thai government has "moved away" from this destra destructive
policy, informed sources report.
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The Communists in general and North Vietnam specifically are
considered to be trying to exploit the American Negro issue both
in American politios and among American G.I.'s serving in Vietnam.
The nomination of an American Negress to represent the American Communist
Party on the ballot for the U. S. Presidency is considered designed to
fulfill this objective. Some American Negro troops in Vietnam
have privately voiced disagreement with American policy here, arguing the
war budget should be diverted to American ghettos and a small number of
American Negroes are known to have defected to the Communist side here.
near American perimeters
n
Recently, outside Saigon,, the Communists distributed pro
an American Negro trooper
printed propaganda leaflet showing a photo of
(born in Oakland; living in Texas)
na med McKinley Nolan address), who had deserted from the U. S. First
Infantry Division.
The propaganda leaflet also contained his hand-written
letter to "his dear colored friends of U. S. troops in South Vietnam." He
wrote, "We are the first im line, but the last one to receive the bread....
Refuse to go to field, refuse to fight. Maybe you will be y called
chickens. I rather to be chicken than dead. How many of your friends have
(sic)
live through this war. How many been sent home in a rubber bag...."Radio
Hanoi also carried long broadcasts following the assassination of Martin
Luther King and has since hailed the
surging in the United States."
"black people's struggle now
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Date

1968, Jul. 22

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Lansdale, Edward Geary, 1908-1987; Intelligence service

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6311

Size

20 x 26 cm

Container

B10, F38

Format

dispatches

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Copyright Information

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English