Podcast appearances and mentions of Edward Lansdale

Millennium, X-Files, Chris Carter, Chip Johannessen, how season 3 is different from other seasons of Millennium, David McGowan, Programmed to Kill, Gladio, spree killings, Brabant murders, military veterans, decapitation, Gulf War syndrome, Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh, Art Bell, conspiracy theories, how conspiracy theories are used to discredit legit whistleblowers, remote viewing, eugenics, breeding programs, Mormonism, fundamentalist Mormonism, All Seeing Eye, Edward Lansdale, psychological operations, occult symbols used for psywar, Monarch conspiracy theories, 1990sMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  Request a FREE copy of the Garrison Files from Len. Email Len . Read Paul's latest article on Kennedys and King, Cuba 1960 and Lansdale's Playbook Revisit Paul's article from 2016 The JFK Assassination According to the History Textbooks - Part 1 Listen to Col. Fletcher Prouty discuss details regarding JFK's assassination Watch here. Edward Lansdale in Dealy Plaza on 11/22/63? Watch 50 Reasons for 50 Years - Episode 18 Purchase the "Collected Works of Col. L. Fletcher Prouty" - direct download". Available Here. Len & Paul reflect on how they first started to communicate & their meeting in Quebec City. Len thanks Paul for going through the Garrison Files & expanding on Garrison's investigations. Paul Abbott from Australia has created a Master Index to accompany the Garrison Files. Paul will always cherish his time in Quebec City visiting with Oliver Stone, Jim DiEugenio & Len. Watch Oliver Stone's documentary "JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass". Watch Here. Researching on the Mary Ferrell site, Paul discovered a significant letter from 1960. Read more. Explicit information in the letter is regarding the removal of Castro from power in Cuba. As early as 1960, Lansdale was influencing in the dirty tricks category in respects to Cuba. Tactics like manipulation of information, planting false evidence, setting up Patsies, blaming people etc.. Ed Lansdale had been involved in Operation Mongoose & was a key figure in Kennedy's assassination. Col. Fletcher Prouty worked with Ed Lansdale, having detailed information about Lansdale's history. Lansdale position in the world of espionage was to aid the French resistance during WWII. During WWII, Lansdale was in the OSS & sent to the Philippines by General Charles Willoughby. Paul Helliwell will be revealed to be money behind the assassination Allen Dulles stated Lansdale was one of his best men, helping to fight off communism in Vietnam. Prior to WWII Lansdale was involved in the advertising world. Advertising is mass psychology. Both David Atlee Phillips & Ed Lansdale were experts in the art of psychological warfare. An advisor to Ramon Magsaysay, Lansdale was given the role by Dulles to fight off the Huks movement. The Huks farmers were rebelling against the forced rural reformation that was taking place in the Philippines. Lansdale later became an advisor to the French in Vietnam. Excom was the Executive Committee that Kennedy organized to help him problem solve during the crisis. Robert Kennedy, CIA's John McCone, JCS members & others were on the board of the Excom Committee. Ed Lansdale's go to person at the CIA was William K. Harvey. Harvey is another key figure in JFK's murder. Policy would be set up, directions sent to SAS, SAS would create plan to follow through with objective. Prouty had been sent to the South Pole escorting VIPS, conveniently out of the way for JFK's murderers. Previously Prouty had been involved in Eissenhower's security when he visited Mexico City. Fletcher Prouty identifies Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Listen as Len gives a detailed background of Prouty's timeline before the assassination. Prouty believed Lansdale was involved in Prouty being sent to the South Pole just before the assassination. Was Ed Lansdale captured walking in the photos that were taken of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza? Why would Lansdale be in Dallas? Did anyone ever asked him? No one has thought that Lansdale was a shooter in Dealey Plaza, more of an organizational support person. Prouty was able to remove documents before his retirement by having his secretaries not stamp TOP SECRET. In Prouty's last days, he offered his collection of records & government papers to Len. A small van would have been needed to transport documents, surely to bring attention at the border crossing. Oswald was made to look like he had backing from ...

In this gripping two-part podcast series, we delve into the unexpected and strange overlap of history and modernity. In Round 1, we explore how the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used Filipino folklore, particularly the terrifying aswang, to wage psychological warfare during the post-WWII Hukbalahap Rebellion. Learn how Air Force Officer Edward Lansdale and the CIA weaponized vampire myths in the Philippines to turn the tide of insurgency. Round 2 takes a shocking turn to modern times, where nine athletes from Tufts University's men's lacrosse team were hospitalized after a dangerous workout led by a Navy SEAL. Discover the risks of high-intensity training and the dangers of rhabdomyolysis. Available now on YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify. SEO Keywords: CIA, Filipino folklore, aswang, Edward Lansdale, Hukbalahap, psychological warfare, Filipino vampires, post-colonial Philippines, U.S. military history, Navy SEAL training, Tufts University, rhabdomyolysis, athlete health risks, extreme workouts, modern sports injuries, historical espionage, paranormal warfare. @Mentions: @CIAHistory @USMilitary @TuftsUniversity @NavySEALs @FolkloreExperts @HistoryUnpluggedPodcast @AthleteRecovery Hashtags: #CIA #Folklore #Aswang #PhilippineHistory #PsychologicalWarfare #NavySEAL #Rhabdomyolysis #AthleteSafety #HistoricalEspionage #SupernaturalWarfare #Podcast #SportsInjury #Mythology #TrueStoryYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana, the Syndicate, the Chicago Outfit, The Outfit in Hollywood, the relationship between Giancana and Roselli, Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, John F. Kennedy (JFK), Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), Joseph P. Kennedy, (JPK), the Kennedy family's relationship with the mob, Judy Campbell, Cuba before the revolution, the Syndicate in Cuba, Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs, Santos Trafficante Jr, Tampa, Trafficante's relationship with Castro, the CIA's attempts to assassinate Castro, the CIA's use of the Syndicate in anti-Castro operations, Sidney Gottlieb, the Technical Services Staff (TSS), Gottlieb's role in attempting to assassinate Castro, Edward Lansdale, Lansdale's role in exposing the assassination efforts, the Mafia Spies docu-series, the discoveries Thomas' made in the recently declassified CIA documents, the JFK assassinationMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[originally published on Patreon Nov 10, 2023) Today I'm joined by S. William Snider aka Recluse (@RecluseS9) to discuss his third and recent book, The Art: The Secret History of Psywar, Conspiritainment and the Shattering of Reality (2023). The book spans centuries  and really speaks for itself, but he and I discuss various things in it ranging from the American Security Council, Edward Lansdale, psychological operations in Hollywood and against the New Left, and we even find time to discuss psychotronic weaponry.  Note: Recluse refers to an upcoming, as-yet-unreleased appearance on P2C, but I didn't splice it out because it would have cut out his train of thought, lol. episode artwork is the book's cover, used w/ permission from the author Links: https://thefarmpodcast.store/ https://visupview.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/thefarmpodcastII/posts  https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/ Devil's Work by Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

This week Izzo and Magnum discuss Project Blue Beam, the most dangerous conspiracy! Find out why! EPISODE 121 OF THE SWERVE PODCAST ↩️

  Watch all 50 episodes of 50 Reasons for 50 Years Jeff worked with Len to produce the series 50 Reasons for 50 Years Article: Prouty on Vietnam: NSAM 263 and 273: 60 years on by Jeff Carter How Jeff became interested in researching the JFK case All articles by Jeff Carter at Kennedys and King Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963 Download this Ebook in EPUB or MOBI format National Security Action Memorandum 263 LBJ reversed NSAM 263 with NSAM 273 that he signed on Nov 26, 1963; just 4 days after JFK's murder Book: JFK and Vietnam (Second Edition 2017) by John Newman: Paperback, Kindle Kennedy could not have been allowed to win in 1964 Video: Edward Lansdale in Dealey Plaza, Dallas on 22 Nov, 1963 comfirmed by Col. Prouty & Gen. Victor Krulak Krulak Letter Re: Dealey Plaza Photos And Lansdale Identity Photos of Edward Lansdale (and others in Dealey Plaza) Part B: John Armstrong; beginning at 56:08 Book: Harvey and Lee (2003) (.pdf) by John Armstrong John's website: www.harveyandlee.net The website contains the latest updates to John's JFK assassination research How could Oswald be in two different places at the same time? Articles: The Pre-Arranged Murder of J.D. Tippit by John Armstrong: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Article: Dallas Police Transcripts by John Armstrong Dallas PD collected 225 items of evidence on Oswald and handed it over to the FBI The FBI returned 455 items of evidence of on Oswald back to the Dallas PD How can 225 items turn into 455 items? At what exact time did the Tippit assassination occur? Commission Exhibits 705 and 1974 The changing of the timing of the Tippit shooting to 1:16pm allowed Oswald just enough time for him to have allegedly shot Tippit Tippit was declared dead at the Methodist Hospital at 1:15pm Quit reading books and instead read documents Capt. Fritz never asked Oswald even a single question about the Tippit murder  

We are joined by Steven Snider (aka Recluse) to discuss some subjects from his new book "The Art Book 1: The Secret History of Psywar, Conspirintainment, and the Shattering of Reality". We discuss with Steven the strange life of Edward Lansdale and his great influence on proponents of Psychological Warfare, strange right wing organizations, the John Birch Society, and much much more.https://www.patreon.com/conspirinormalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/conspirinormal-podcast/donations

Recorded January 16th, 2024https://www.patreon.com/conspirinormalWe are joined by Steven Snider (aka Recluse) to discuss some subjects from his new book "The Art Book 1: The Secret History of Psywar, Conspirintainment, and the Shattering of Reality". We discuss with Steven the strange life of Edward Lansdale and his great influence on proponents of Psychological Warfare, strange right wing organizations, the John Birch Society, and much much more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/conspirinormal-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today I'm joined by S. William Snider aka Recluse (@RecluseS9) to discuss his third and recent book, The Art: The Secret History of Psywar, Conspiritainment and the Shattering of Reality (2023). The book spans centuries  and really speaks for itself, but he and I discuss various things in it ranging from the American Security Council, Edward Lansdale, psychological operations in Hollywood and against the New Left, and we even find time to discuss psychotronic weaponry.  Note: Recluse refers to an upcoming, as-yet-unreleased appearance on P2C, but I didn't splice it out because it would have cut out his train of thought, lol. episode artwork is the book's cover, used w/ permission from the author Links: https://thefarmpodcast.store/ https://visupview.blogspot.com/?m=0 https://www.patreon.com/thefarmpodcastII/posts  https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/ Songs: Devil's Work by Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Gimme Danger by Iggy Pop & the Stooges

Khi rời khỏi sân bay Tân Sơn Nhất vào ngày 16/06/1968, Lansdale đã cố gắng thể hiện một bộ mặt dũng cảm, nhưng ông biết rằng mình đã thua trong cuộc chiến. Xem thêm.

In today's episode we cover the strange animal research laboratory on Plum Island and its possible role in the creation of Lyme Disease. We discuss the initial outbreak of Lyme in the closest mainland town from Plum Island which is Old Lyme, Connecticut. We also discuss Nazi Biological Warfare Scientist Erich Traub who was brought over to America under Operation Paperclip. Both Traub's Nazi past and his work for the US Biological Weapons program underneath Fort Detrick are discussed. We briefly touch on the naysayers of the bioweapon leak theory and discuss some of the problems of believing that Lyme comes from changing ecological factors. Stay tuned next episode where we will dive even deeper and discuss the discoverer of Lyme Willy Burgdorfer and a bioweapon attack using ticks carried out by none other than Edward Lansdale who we have previously discussed on our imperial Japan seriesSources:Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory - Michael Christopher CarrolBitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons - Kris NewbyLyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness - PubMed (nih.gov)Did Lawmakers Demand the Pentagon Disclose If It Developed Weaponized Ticks? | Snopes.com (I guess I'll put this here but ew)

Links For Occult Rejects & Friends, The NY Patriot Show, The Spiritual Gangsters and Our Element Server https://linktr.ee/occultrejectsandfriendsCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@NYPatriot1978

Blood and Gold: Golden Lily, the Golden Buddha, and Edward Lansdale with Luke Mitchell of the Things Observed Podcast.  Things Observed Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/thingsobserved/ Luke Mitchell Twitter: @thingobserver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we cover the blood-soaked career of Ed Lansdale who would be involved with the looting of Yamashita's gold as well as attempts at killing Castro, operation Northwoods (plan for false flag on America blaming Cuba), pioneering new psychological warfare techniques and maybe even something to do with the assassination of JFK according to L Fletcher Prouty. We also conclude our series on Yamashita's gold by explaining how funds derived from this black gold was used to rig foreign elections, thwart communist movements across the globe and finance Yakuza and other members of the Japanese underworld. Make sure to follow the pod if you enjoy this because we've got some saucy stuff in the future my brothers and sister

In today's episode we continue on our odyssey into the golden lily gold. We Talk about Jose Roxas and the golden buddha that would bring him a lot of trouble. We talk about former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and continue discussing Santy the man who would torture Yamashita's driver Kojima and would go on to act as a CIA cutout man for multi-billion-dollar black budgets for men like Edward Lansdale.

How did a succession of US administrations become stuck in Vietnam?   How did Diem's policies create the conditions for insurgency?   What did the early activities of the NLF look like? Time Period Covered 1954 - 1961 In part two of our exploration of the path to the Second Indochina War, we focus on early American efforts to create a stable regime in South Vietnam. The activities of the CIA and Edward Lansdale in the aftermath of Geneva are used to introduce this relationship, as well as the growing realisation in some quarters that perhaps Diem was not the best person for the job of leading the country. We look at the 'paradox' of Vietnam, why escalation slowly continued in the face of private doubts. NLF operations in the Mekong Delta are discussed from the point of view of those staging these actions, as well as those civilians who were effected by the authoritarianism of Diem and the intimidating tactics of those that wished to overthrow him. Sources Christopher Goscha Vietnam: A New History Fredrick Logevall The Embers of War Edward Miller The Vietnam War Neil Sheehan The Pentagon Papers Geoffrey Warner The United States and Vietnam 1945-1965 (International Affairs October 1972) Show Content https://www.shadowsofutopia.com/dramatis-personae.html Support https://www.shadowsofutopia.com/support.html

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Len Osanic JFK Master ArchiveI'm Looking Through You 2-27-2022 Len OsanicBob Wilson welcomed Len Osanic to I'm Looking Through You. They discussed Len's Black Op Radio program and extensive archive. The conversation ran from Fletcher Prouty, Edward Lansdale, suppression of evidence in the case, to the overall cover-up. Len has put names such as Mark Lane, Jesse Ventura, Oliver Stone, Cyril Wecht, Robert Groden, and many more into the historical record. Listen in for a fascinating interview. Len OsanicBLACK OP RADIO: https://blackopradio.com/Prouty Reference Site: http://www.prouty.org/50 Reasons For 50 Years https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT8L13rH2ZvtyvDz01EuLznX0Bpz_0wwuBOB WILSON: Check out The Show: https://ochelli.com/series/im-looking-through-you/OCHELLI LINKS:HELP KEEP US GOING:https://ochelli.com/donate/Ochelli Effect - Uncle - Age of Transitions - T-shirts and MORE: https://theageoftransitions.com/category/support-the-podcasts/

On this week's episode we explore the world of CIA spookery unleashed in Vietnam as the French exited the region and the United States began escalating its involvement in Vietnamese affairs. From the gangster-style machinations of the Dulles brothers to the psychological warfare practiced by characters like Edward Lansdale and Dr. Tom Dooley, this is the story of America's covert war to manipulate the situation in Vietnam in the years 1954-1956, as it tried desperately to build an anti-communist alternative to Ho Chi Minh and to undermine the existence of a united, independent Vietnam. For full episodes of NAM-TV go to patreon.com/nostalgiatrap. 

Sam hosts author Scott Anderson to talk about his new book, "The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War — A Tragedy In Three Acts." On today's show: GOP State Rep J. Todd Smith confuses epidemiologist with epistemologist. Sam hosts author Scott Anderson to talk about his new book, "The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War — A Tragedy In Three Acts." In this book, Anderson chronicles the exploits of the CIA’s four original spies: Michael Burke, Frank Wisner, Peter Sichel and Edward Lansdale, from their glamorous double lives to their operations to contain the spread of communism. In many cases, he believes, the CIA went too far in tampering with other countries' governments and permanently damaged America's moral standing. On the fun half: Cuomo says a reporter is the only one confused about measures. Yesterday: Cuomo blames Covid spread on lack of personal responsibility, compares wearing masks to not eating cheesecake. Rudy Giuliani quotes "My Cousin Vinnie" at press conference as hair dye drips down his face. Will Tom Cotton be the next Trump? Dianne Feinstein walks around maskless pre Facebook/Twitter CEO hearing. Plus, your calls and IMs! Become a member at www.JoinTheMajorityReport.com Check out the Brand New Majority Report Merch Shop https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) The AM Quickie is now on YouTube Subscribe to the AM Quickie at https://fans.fm/amquickie Make the AMQ part of your Alexa Flash Briefing too! You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.substack.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein’s newsletter at theend.substack.com Check out The Nomiki Show at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover, or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @jamie_elizabeth @BF1nn

Our Remembrance Day podcast features Mark Sutcliffe in conversation with Canadian historian Tim Cook on how World War Two has been remembered and taught over the past 75 years, and CBC's Laurence Wall in conversation with Scott Anderson on his bestselling look at the early years of the Cold War and the CIA's covert battles against communism. Both authors examine military history and its role in our culture today. Tim Cook's The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events. From Scott Anderson, the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, comes a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect the world today The Quiet Americans chronicles the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times; Frank Wisner, the scion of a wealthy Southern family; Peter Sichel, a sophisticated German Jew who escaped the Nazis; and Edward Lansdale, a brilliant ad executive. The Quiet Americans is the story of these four men. It is also the story of how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Quiet Americans chronicles the exploits of four spies – Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times, Frank Wisner, the scion of a wealthy Southern family, Peter Sichel, a sophisticated German Jew who escaped the Nazis, and Edward Lansdale, a brilliant ad executive. The four ran covert operations across the globe, trying to outwit the ruthless KGB in Berlin, parachuting commandos into Eastern Europe, plotting coups, and directing wars against Communist insurgents in Asia. But time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of stupidity and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government – and more profoundly, the decision to abandon American ideals. By the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union had a stranglehold on Eastern Europe, the U.S. had begun its disastrous intervention in Vietnam, and America, the beacon of democracy, was overthrowing democratically-elected governments and earning the hatred of much of the world. All of this culminated in an act of betrayal and cowardice that would lock the Cold War into place for decades to come. Anderson brings to the telling of this story all the narrative brio, deep research, skeptical eye, and lively prose that made Lawrence in Arabia a major international bestseller. The intertwined lives of these men began in a common purpose of defending freedom, but the ravages of the Cold War led them to different fates. Two would quit the CIA in despair, stricken by the moral compromises they had to make; one became the archetype of the duplicitous and destructive American spy; and one would be so heartbroken he would take his own life. The Quiet Americans is the story of these four men. It is also the story of how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

Proud Boys, St. John, St. John's Eve, Sovereign Order of Saint John, unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency, Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, boogaloo boys, Gavin McInnes, Augustus Sol Invictus, people of color found hanging, nooses, Antifa, agent provocateurs, psychological warfare, political warfare, Edward Lansdale, Strategy of Tension, Years of Lead, Propaganda Due, Gladio, Orange Order, Orange Lodges, twilight language, synchromyticism, Smiley Face killers, George Floyd, Minneapolis, Roger Stone, 2020 presidential elections, military coup, Mike Pence, Council for National Policy, The Family, Dominionism, terrorism, destabilization of government, Michael A. Hoffman II, James Shelby Downard, Richard Nixon, DOnald Trump, assassination, Albert Pike, freemasonry, red triangles, 88, 33, Freemasons vs Nazis, John Brisson, Steven Snider, Recluse, VISUP blog

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale's professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale's life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale’s professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale’s life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale’s professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale’s life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale’s professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale’s life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale’s professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale’s life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale’s professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale’s life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot‘s latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018). One of the most prolific and iconoclastic commentators on American foreign policy currently active in American letters, Max Boot examines the life and career of General Edward Lansdale, in this detailed and quite personal biography. As he considers the various successes and failures of Lansdale’s professional life, as well as his role as the inspiration for some of the most telling fictional accounts of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Boot also develops a context for counterinsurgency that positions strategic empathy as the most essential characteristic for its success. Yet the story of Lansdale’s life and career is also a riveting chapter in the great American tragedy that is the Vietnam War, one of which Boot offers an unvarnished and stark assessment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vietnam was temporarily partitioned at the 17th parallel, and under the terms of the Geneva Accords, civilians were to be given the opportunity to move freely between the two provisional states for a 300-day period. Elections throughout the country were to be held in 1956 to establish a unified government. Around one million northerners, mainly minority Catholics, fled south, fearing persecution by the communists. This followed an American psychological warfare campaign, designed by Edward Lansdale for the CIA, which exaggerated anti-Catholic sentiment among the Viet Minh and which falsely claimed the US was about to drop atomic bombs on Hanoi. The exodus was coordinated by a U.S.-funded $93 million relocation program, which included the use of the Seventh Fleet to ferry refugees. The northern, mainly Catholic refugees gave the later Ngô Đình Diệm regime a strong anti-communist constituency. Diệm staffed his government's key posts mostly with northern and central Catholics. In addition to the Catholics flowing south, up to 130,000 "Revolutionary Regroupees" went to the north for "regroupment", expecting to return to the south within two years.The Viet Minh left roughly 5,000 to 10,000 cadres in the south as a "politico-military substructure within the object of its irredentism." The last French soldiers were to leave Vietnam in April 1956 The PRC completed its withdrawal from North Vietnam at around the same time Around 52,000 Vietnamese civilians moved from south to north Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/mLXoeelZ7XA Public Access America 
PublicAccessPod Productions
Footage edited by PublicAccessPod producer of Public Access America Podcast Links Stitcher: goo.gl/XpKHWB  
iTunes: goo.gl/soc7KG  
GooglePlay: goo.gl/gPEDbf  
YouTube goo.gl/xrKbJb

Max Boot's great new book "The Road Not Taken" about American intelligence officer Edward Lansdale not only offers great insights into an intriguing character and a pivotal moment in American and modern world history, it is searingly relevant to today. Would an expert like Lansdale even be heard today by a disconnected president who is trying to discredit the intelligence community? Would the kind of carefully built expertise he accumulated be valued in a government that doesn't even care to have ambassadors in key outposts worldwide? Max Boot joins Rosa Brooks of Georgetown and Deep State Radio host David Rothkopf for a discussion of the book and why its lessons are so important today.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Max Boot's great new book "The Road Not Taken" about American intelligence officer Edward Lansdale not only offers great insights into an intriguing character and a pivotal moment in American and modern world history, it is searingly relevant to today. Would an expert like Lansdale even be heard today by a disconnected president who is trying to discredit the intelligence community? Would the kind of carefully built expertise he accumulated be valued in a government that doesn't even care to have ambassadors in key outposts worldwide? Max Boot joins Rosa Brooks of Georgetown and Deep State Radio host David Rothkopf for a discussion of the book and why its lessons are so important today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Max Boot, author of "The Road Not Taken", tells the story of Edward Lansdale, a man that tried to stop the Vietnam War through diplomacy - not force.

There was a saying during the Vietnam era, the attribution of which is a bit fuzzy, that said “if you grab them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” I suppose this was not inconsistent with another quote of that era that said, “come let us reason together...or we’ll burn down your village.” Vietnam, like so many counterinsurgency efforts, before and since, was or should have been, about winning those hearts and minds. Unfortunately, the political, foreign policy and military establishment never seemed to get it right. However, during the Vietnam era, one man did. He was Maj. General Edward Lansdale. He was military and CIA, and in retrospect he maybe the only true wise man of the time. Now, foreign policy scholar Max Boot gives us The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.  The fist full look at Lansdale and why this obscure figure from the period, should be a household, My conversation with Max Boot:

The Vietnam War 50 years later, China...we're taking a trip east this week on TALKish, The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, when joining Halli at her table is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and renowned military historian, Max Boot, the author of THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, and in our second half-hour, The Economist's Cuba correspondent and the author of LEFTOVER IN CHINA, Roseann Lake. Max Boot is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a renowned military historian, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. The author of SAVAGE WARS OF PEACE and the New York Times bestseller INVISIBLE ARMIES, Boot's latest work, his contribution to the 50 year debate over why the Vietnam War went so wrong is THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: EDWARD LANSDALE AND THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY IN VIETNAM, a biography of profound historical consequence, rescuing the legendary CIA operative, Lansdale, the man claimed to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN and a co-conspirator in the Kennedy assassination, at least according to filmmaker, Oliver Stone -- from historical disgrace. Might Vietnam been different had we only listened to Edward Lansdale? After extensive research including Boot's access to never before-seen documents, love letters, and dozens of interviews the historian has recast this cautionary American story, tracking the daring rise and utter fall of the roguish “T.E. Lawrence of Asia” from the battle of Dien Bien Phu to the humiliating American evacuation in 1975. Boot is a Conservative "Never Trumper".What it is like to be a woman in today's China? How do Chinese womens lives compare to American womens lives in the Twenty-first Century? To coin a phrase, it's complicated. In LEFTOVER IN CHINA; THE WOMEN SHAPING THE WORLD'S NEXT SUPERPOWER journalist Roseann Lake answers those questions and chronicles the lives of young Chinese women, whom she first met during her years working as a television reporter in Beijing. Women are on the move in China: highly-educated, acquiring wealth, property, and a measure of independence in record numbers. But in spite of an overwhelmingly large male population, many struggle to find suitable romantic partners. Known as “leftovers” if they fail to marry by age twenty-five, these women represent a China in which gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of it. The result is a mounting social quagmire: a generation of millions in limbo, torn between past and future, and whose lives at once seem straight out of a Jane Austin novel, a bevy of mothers hacking their daughters' dating profiles to secure a quick proposal, and the Chinese version of Sex and the City.For more vist Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

The debate over why the Vietnam War went so wrong still rages as we reach its 50th anniversary. But as Max Boot argues in THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, one figure looms especially large as a symbol the war’s many missed opportunities: .   Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for @KGNU with Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and renowned military historian,Max Boot () and the author of  and the New York Times bestseller . (WW. Norton; Jan 2018) is a biography of profound historical consequence, rescuing Lansdale from historical disgrace. Perhaps Vietnam could have been different, had we only listened… In this legendary profile of Edward Lansdale—the man claimed to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American and a co-conspirator in the Kennedy assassination (Oliver Stone) -  best-selling author Max Boot manifests Lansdale’s “heart and mind” diplomacy in the Philippines and Vietnam. Never before-seen documents, love letters, and dozens of interviews recast this cautionary American story, tracking the daring rise and utter fall of the roguish “T.E. Lawrence of Asia” from the battle of Dien Bien Phu to the humiliating American evacuation in 1975.

Edward Lansdale is truly a forgotten man in American history. Yet he once wielded enormous influence, and his methods and tactics hold valuable lessons for leaders today, argues best-selling historian Max Boot. The post Max Boot on Edward Lansdale and Vietnam appeared first on Octavian Report.

On The Gist, the bad news from Freedom House. U.S. Air Force officer Edward Lansdale promoted a “hearts and minds” approach to diplomacy in the Philippines and Vietnam, only to be steamrolled by America’s elite class of policymakers. Max Boot tells us about Lansdale and his own newfound recognition of white privilege and other ideas from the left. Boot’s new book is The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.      In the Spiel, why the continuing resolution is sucking all the fun out of politics.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, the bad news from Freedom House. U.S. Air Force officer Edward Lansdale promoted a “hearts and minds” approach to diplomacy in the Philippines and Vietnam, only to be steamrolled by America’s elite class of policymakers. Max Boot tells us about Lansdale and his own newfound recognition of white privilege and other ideas from the left. Boot’s new book is The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.      In the Spiel, why the continuing resolution is sucking all the fun out of politics.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices