The CIA, Thailand & Corrupt Uses of Anthropology

PPT posted a comment by a U.S. operative on the manner in which the Americans helped re-make the monarchy in the teeth of the Cold War. We still haven’t been through all the more than 900 pages of reminiscences that download in one document, and there’s a lot of interesting material.

We felt the following might interest some of our readers, especially given the links between the royal family and the Border Patrol Police, “hill tribes” and many of the other people and interests listed in the account.

These comments are from James L. Woods, who was with the Research Analysis Division, Department of Defense in Bangkok from 1964 to 1967 and then was Advisor, ARPA [Advanced Research Projects Agency] Unit, Bangkok in 1969-1973. with annotations and bold by PPT:

…[I]n the fall of ‘64 I was in Thailand, probably working on a Long-range Assistance Strategy, and found an old management intern friend out there, Lee Huff, running a little office for the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and we got together. He said, “I’ve just been called. They told me I’m going to be posted back to Washington rather abruptly. We’re looking for a replacement. Would you be interested?” I said, “What are you doing?” He explained that this was a special project – Project AGILE – under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…. In Thailand it was still operating out of a hotel downtown and at the SEATO Graduate School of Engineering on the Chulalongkorn University campus, with a very small staff under Marine Colonel Tom Brundage…. Lee was running the social-behavioral science research program and asked if I would be interested….

…[W]e worked closely with them [the CIA] in the field, because they were operating out of AID/USOM, running the Border Patrol Police program, and also they were very interested in general in the issues of internal security and they had their advisors in many of the same agencies that we had ours…. We also did some work for something called CSOC, which was a Thai organization, the Communist Suppression Operations Command, run by General Saiyud Kerdphon, and there were a number of CIA advisors over there operating for the most part out of the embassy. We were all part of the country team and the ARPA field unit in Thailand was a U.S. component of that…. The U.S. approach was that this was a counterinsurgency-oriented program. Thailand was the laboratory for the soft side and Vietnam was the laboratory for the hard side or things that go boom. So in Vietnam – I would go over there from time to time, and they would come over to Thailand from time to time to escape Vietnam mainly – they were doing a lot of systems work – village information system, hamlet evaluation system, territorial forces evaluation system. They were doing stuff trying to evaluate how was the war going, for MACV. They were also doing ordnance testing; the Armalite rifle which developed into the AR-15, which developed into the M16…. On our side we were doing studies and analyses and systems research and a good bit of electronic research including remote sensing, trail sensors, testing different kinds of mobility equipment and communications equipment…. Our office – the Research and Analysis Division – was in charge of social and behavioral and systems research, and we worked for the most part through contractors. We brought in rather sizable teams from RAND, RAC – Research Analysis Corporation … – Stanford Research Institute, Cornell Aerolab, BMI, AIR – you name it, we had it – and a lot of individual scholars on contract.

We built some systems and libraries, which were turned over to the Thai, which hopefully they have found useful –for example, the Thailand Information Center with a gazillion documents. Everything useful that had ever been written about Thailand that we could find in the scholarly community was in there. We turned that over to a Thai university actually. Our hill tribes data base, we turned that over to another Thai institution, the Tribal Research Center, in Chiang Mai. The Village Information System, we turned over to a Thai ministry, although it was still very much in an embryonic state…. [PPT: Readers might find this related article of some interest, although the extent of U.S. involvement is not discussed in any detail.]

… [T]hey have Border Patrol Police, which was very much a U.S.-funded program, a lot of it. The CIA provided a lot of the equipment and guidance and so on, but the Thais have kept it up….

After going back to the U.S. and completing a course at Cornell University, with the doyens of Southeast Asian Studies there – George McT. Kahin is mentioned – Woods returned to Thailand:

I went back to the ARPA field unit, or research center, but I was posted immediately to Chiang Mai University in the north for a year as advisor to the dean, which sounds odd but we knew the dean from his previous position in Bangkok and he was trying to establish an expanded research program on northern Thailand, especially the tribal minorities problem. There was a Tribal Research Center, which the Thai government was attempting to operate, co-located at the university, and so my job was trying to build a tribal research program in the north working out of the university….

Much of their [RTG] information came from the Thai Border Patrol Police who were posted to the outermost fringes of the kingdom and were basically a CIA project or at least were getting support and training through the CIA part of USOM…. We were also sponsoring basic ethnographies by a number of anthropologists, European and American, at the time, again trying to collect in-depth ethnographic understanding of several selected lesser known tribal groups. So that’s how I spent a rather odd year as the advisor to the dean of the faculty of social sciences at Chiang Mai University….

This, of course, eventually came to the attention of the American Anthropological Association and some others and got them greatly excited. It’s cited in a book which was published some years later calledAnthropology Goes to War featuring me as one of the devils they identify as corrupting the practice of anthropology…

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Before the war went bad and became greatly unpopular, we had the leading American anthropologists on Southeast Asia on the consultant payroll and they were hard at work, and some of them stayed at work. Dr. Gerry Hickey – an expert on the Montagnards of Vietnam – worked with us throughout the war….

… We had Dr. Ladd Thomas, Northern Illinois University. Now, Ladd, I recall, was a political scientist, and he reported that students invaded his office and threw his furniture and books out the window….  The same thing was going on all over. We had a couple of very senior professors out in California, David Wilson, political scientist, and Herb Phillips, anthropologist, and they had been cutting-edge scholars on Thailand.Herb capitulated. David basically got up on his feet and told all his student and faculty critics to go to hell; they could think what they wanted but they weren’t going to interfere with his right to speak out. But Herb went over; Herb gave up.

Project Camelot is also mentioned. On the impact of this work, Woods says: “So I would say to the extent there was an impact, it was over on the counterinsurgency side where the CIA was very much involved as well and USOM with the USAID development programs…”.

Internet Decides Sandy Hook Is A Corporate Media Confabulation

Four million hits and climbing on Youtube because real people are asking real questions unlike the corporate media who have painted themselves into a corner that at some point requires them to announce their own toxicity and corrosiveness as lead news item. 

You think I'm kidding don't you?

Watch the video and have a think.

Jimmy Savile - Royal Insider - Child Provider - MI5 & MI6 (SIS) Asset

The British Official Secrets Act is a one way, don't pass go, don't collect 200, straight to jail piece of legislation designed to put anyone away with no details except 'charged under the official secrets act'. It's like the D Notice that Tony Blair issued to conceal the paedophiles the FBI discovered in his cabinet from their investigations that led to Operation Ore child pornography sting of politicians before the invasion of Iraq. 

It's a secret. You can't talk about it or they'll put you away.

If you're a spy there's negotiation room because more secrets can be spilled and so British whistleblower spies Peter Wright, David Shayler, Annie Machon and Richard Tomlinson all had dirt on the UK power elite that kept them out of jail, but not without putting up a fight.

So allow me to  lay out the obvious. 

We know British spooks take great interest in the paedophile world for blackmail, power broking, and in some cases recreational reasons that I've written about over here. Paedophilia is rampant within the power elite beyond most peoples wildest comprehension for blackmail and power dynamics, not immediately comprehensible to the person who enjoys watching sports personality of the year, Strictly Ballroom or Inspector Morse.

We also know from the unparalleled intimacy that Jimmy Savile had with Downing Street and Buckingham Palace that his security clearance was as high as it can possibly be. Eleven consecutive New Years and Christmases with the Thatchers and a mentor relationship with Prince Charles as well as a mediator role within the Royal Household are concrete proof that MI5 knew everything the BBC management gossiped about for decades and a whole lot more.

Jimmy Savile was not blackmailed by MI5 Per se. He collaborated with them and the Royal household and Downing Street by trading the information he was intimate with, of the power elite's predatory sexual abuse of young children in exchange for a life of affluence and security. 

He loved it.

We've all probably experienced when somebody has shared information that is fatally damaging to someone else's reputation, and if we're honest we usually know the person sharing this kind of information has dark secrets of their own we would rather not learn.

That is how Sir James Savile moved with such extraordinary ease in MI5, MI6, Royal and Downing Street circles.

I guess you want to know why Savile eventually fell out with Prince Philip? 

The best answer is not to ask yourself what upset Philip. Ask yourself what upset Jimmy....What could Prince Philip have possible shared with Sir Jimmy that even Jimmy could barely stomach it?

Getting closer.

Update: Sir Jimmy had a microphone installed in his private lift so he could eaves drop on visitors.

Archontic Patterns In Sandy Hook

Kick ass interview with Jay Weidner.

CIA Triggered Tiananmen Square By Pumping In Guns To Students

Sound like Syria or Ukraine anybody?

Stunning scoop by Voltaire Net over here.

Don't give me that cold war bollocks either because that was rigged by the same industrialists and Wall Street bankers who funded the Bolsheviks (who then crushed the Mensheviks), Lenin, Trotsky and the Nazis. Even the CIA are just useful idiots until you get to boardroom level. Then at least a start can be made on getting to the bottom of the cesspit.

Obama Soetoro's Historical Discrepancies

A more practical explanation of Obama's foreknowledge of his presidency might be remote viewing. I absolutely don't accept that the CIA are some kind of all seeing all pervasive power even if they were central to his grooming for the presidency. 

My research tells me most CIA are mid level bureaucrats who are largely uninformed. However Alfred's research is well worth spending an hour with. One killer fact after another. I still think Obama is more complex than anyone has articulated yet.

Christopher Hitchens & A.C. Grayling - Bombing Morality

I wish I could have had the opportunity to correct Hitchens on the neoconservative war on Iraq that 9/11 was not the handiwork of a man in a cave but a sophisticated attack by a criminal cabal group.

I would not have relented either because I'm in the right and he was in the wrong on the most important issue of his  life. Other than that he's easily the finest orator of the 20th and 21st century thus far. I don't care much for his writing but his speaking is devastatingly lucid. A.C. Grayling is marvellous too here and I learned so much more about the history and morality of bombing citizens. I will come back to this video again and again. It's top quality history and if you're paying attention Hitchens pays a nod of respect to historian David Irving. That's fuck yeah fuck you if you're a loser when it comes to reality checks.

Big Brother Corporation

Growing up in British Armed Forces Germany I could never understand the love of 'Auntie' as the BBC is called by the children in my schooling days when my family returned to the UK. Now I realise that they were programmed to love the British Broadcasting Corporation or the Beeb as some referred to it. 

It may take some time but until the BBC accepts it has no business pimping government propaganda, particularly for their immoral wars it runs the risk of losing it's entire portfolio of entertainment and information. Some of this content is world class. 

As is their mind control propaganda. The best of the best. Look at the witless British during the Jubilee celebrations for concrete evidence of that. 

The Great British Paedophile Conspiracy

The corporate media in the UK are playing the people like a charm. Each day there's a new distraction for them to play with. If the British establishment including James Bond, the Queen and the PM can get away with this rather obvious conspiracy then it stands to reason they can get away with anything. It's no surprise that somebody as loathed as Nick Clegg and David Cameron are talking seriously about power till 2020. 

I hope the Brits have to endure that just for the sake of the kids they all forgot so quickly. You disgust me with your silence. You disgust me with your triviality and your gossip. Kids are getting raped right now by the power elite and you're swallowing the corporate media's story that it's all a done deal. 

Why Were Spells & Spelling Considered Magic?

For most people magic is some form of entertainment or trickery yet we all understand Arthur C Clarke's assertion that any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic. Well, take that thought back a few millennia and suddenly the alphabet is more than just a means  of communication. It's a way to speak from the grave.

Jan Irving has been deep sixing interesting subjects for the last year or so and this is up there with Terence McKenna worked for the CIA and Jesus was a Flavian dynasty creation. If discovering talent is a talent. Jan Irving is talented. Meet Jose Maria Barrera. He's very original.

And I'll Shoot My Bloody Mouth Off Telling You Good Folks Just What I've Seen

Was Phil Schneider telling the truth? That's not my job. You figure that our for yourself. 

He was however suicided not long after hitting the lecture circuit.

Why Did Queen Elizabeth's Private Secretary Lie About His Location When Diana Was Murdered?

@charlesfrith Robert Fellowes at BP, Robin Janvrin Balmoral
— Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) December 26, 2012

Tony Blair's Director of Communications Alistair Campbell kindly reminded me that the Queen's principal private secretary at the time of Diana's death was at work in Buckingham Palace. My question to Sir Robert Fellowes (mysteriously awarded a peerage after executing his duties for the Royal Family) is why did he lie that he was on vacation during the period of and just after Diana's murder? 

It's a simple question and will require more lies to answer which suits me just fine. His name is now Baron Robert Fellowes and I want to know what he has to hide.

Update, the 2006 drama The Queen makes a glaring mistake about Robin Janvrin's role during this episode drawing attention to his actions in a none to subtle way.

Young Christopher Hitchens

Nobody has been more critical of the late Christopher Hitchens post 9/11 about-turn and support of the Zionist and Neconservative war for Pentagon-profits than I. However the young Hitchens was sharp as a razor, erudite, pleasant on the eye, wonderful on the ear and not without the kind of humour that has to be suppressed or it laughs at the volume of ridiculous things it is compelled to listen to; particularly on TV phone in programmes. He was a very cool dude.

I regret that the late C.H. felt more upset about God killing the Malachites than the Pentagon killing a million Iraqis [plus plus] but there's hours and hours of rewarding listening and particularly his interviews with the great Brian Lamb of C-SPAN. Just brilliant.

It's such a pity that C.H. couldn't entertain the notion that 9/11 was not the conspiracy theory that a man in a cave brought down the United States but then many intelligent people are incapable of having that rational discussion. Mostly professional journalists and writers I might add.

As a final compliment I might add that Hitchen's war on religion is the greatest work of his later life and there really is no need to listen to the Jews, Christians and Muslims talking such rot. Just skip to Hitch laying it out nice and neat. The way I like it.

Tarantino On Violence - Only If There's A Buck In It

Notice how he does that Valley Girl/New York homosexual finger circling/head waggling "I'm shutting your ass down nigger" body language. I think he uses a form of post-modern racism on Khrisnan Guru-Murthy. Absolutely essential viewing. 

Did QT put his teeth in for the interview? Is that Botox he's done?

Still Convinced Weather & Tectonic Plate Manipulation Is Science Fantasy?

Pakistan, Iran and North Korea have all complained they are being subjected to weather and tectonic plate manipulation. Maybe you will take them more seriously after watching this explosive video.

The ancients (Plato) talked of civilisations that submerged a whole continent under the sea through technologies they were unable to master and used for negative purposes.

Unable To Download Unlawful Killing?

 

Watch Unlawfull Killing - Princess Diana Murder in Channels

Excellent information on the murder of Princess Diana by Prince Philip through his private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes and via British intelligence services MI6 (helped by DGSE of France). The Banned Documentary is sometimes available for download but is immediately removed. 

Make the most of it while it's up there.

All the information in the documentary was previously known to many researchers through MI6 whistleblower Richard Tomlinson

Zbgniew Brzezinski & The Paradox Of Violence

I've written elsewhere about the artificial nature of the cold war. Marx, Trotsky and Lenin were all on the Banker/Wall St payroll and the desired outcome of the cold war required the industrial elite to cut the most secretive business deals such that American men were fighting against Soviet supplied trucks in the Vietnam War that were designed and funded by a Ford/Fiat partnership in the USSR.

Nobody will ever know how much (or little) Zbig lies about what he he really knows but even if he knew nothing (highly unlikely) he is still faced with the paradox of a world that values freedom and liberty for everyone, more than Zbigniew Brzezinski does for entire planet. The proof of this is his scorn for free speech which is self evident in this stunning expose of the man.

My final word is be careful of this man when it comes to his reckless advide on Russia. His ego prevents him recognising that Vladmir Putin is a stablizing force for peace and freedom in the world unlike the CFR, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg groups that Zbig likes to hang out with.

Other than this weak spot for WWIII his analysis is very sound. Particularly Israel's warmongering.

Why I like To Admit I Got It Wrong

I used to think Editor of Veterans Today, Gordon Duff and whistleblower Stewart Webb were both disinformation agents but after listening to this marathon interview I was hasty. I still feel they both get information passed to them that represents the interests of groups uninterested in the progress of humanity but I didn't detect any malice in either of them from this interview. They may not necessarily be the sharpest tools in the box and Gordon Duff's reliance on Webster G Tarpley's claim that Julian Assange is working for blah blah blah is wrong. Naturally the spooks are exploiting everyone including Wikileaks for their own ends but sometimes even we have a matched agenda with spies. Use your nut.

Fantastic information in this important interview. Make notes.

Update the video was taken down so I've posted another. The main thing that was discussed was the Bush Crime family and Poppy Bush's fondness for raping children.

David Icke On George [Poppy] Bush Sr's Paedophile Activity

Remember when people used to laugh it off when he claimed Jimmy Savile was a child abuser and child provider to elite scum? Google is your friend. Lots of video testimony on this one.

Aligned Interests - The New Secret Societies

A short well made clip on the exclusive clubs that are often far more powerful than Governments. Not in every instance but certainly for the profitable business of war and corporate greed.