Napoleon
Valeriano - Filipino associate of Lansdale, who became part of Lansdale's
team in Laos and Cuban operations, and trained Bay of Pigs Brigade in
Guatemala.
VALERIANO
NAPOLEON D.
Philippines
1946-1954 Vietnam 1954-1956 Guatemala 1959 Cuba 1961-1962
Seagrave,
Sterling. The Marcos Dynasty. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 485 pages.
Edward
Lansdale had just installed Ramon Magsaysay as Philippine defense minister and
planned to run him for president, but first he had to deal with the peasants.
"In an area thought to be harboring a team of Huk guerrillas, Lansdale's
ambushers snatched a peasant one night, punctured his neck with two holes,
vampire-fashion, hung the body by the ankles to drain it of blood, then
put the corpse back on the trail. When the peasants found the toothmarked
bloodless corpse, the entire Huk unit moved away. The novelty of these games
amused Lansdale, who slyly passed them on as combat anecdotes, enchanting his
CIA superiors....
Lansdale's experiments were given top priority." (page
145) '
With friends like these, the Philippine elite had little need to maintain
democratic appearances. Fake war hero Ferdinand Marcos was elected in 1965,
declared marshall law in 1972, and then defrauded his countrymen and partied
his way into the hearts of U.S. celebrities for the next 14 years. Also
included are several chapters on "Yama's Gold" -- the apparent source
of much of Marcos' wealth. There's still $100 billion or so that hasn't been
recovered, which attracted treasure-hunters such as the John Birch Society and,
as recently as 1986, John Singlaub, who wanted the gold to fund his
anti-communist campaigns.
ISBN
0-06-015815-8
From
Joseph Smith's Portrait of a Cold Warrior (Putnam, 1976, p. 94)
A large
psychological warfare unit was developed and trained...History and
traditions in all of the Huk areas were studied for clues to the appropriate
appeals to make to wean the populace from supporting the Huks. Paul
Linebarger made a number of trips to the Philippines to advise Lansdale on
operations.
It was
in connection with Linebarger's involvement in Philippine operations that I had
one of my few direct contacts with the events that transpired there. In the
fall of 1952, I was given the assignment of picking up one of the Lansdale
team, Napoleon Valeriano, at the Philippine Embassy and taking him to
Linebarger's house for a training session. Valeriano was not only one of the
key members of the team, but he was one whom Lansdale counted on in future
operations. When Valeriano was in Vietnam helping Lansdale in the early days of
the Diem regime, he carreied off to Saigon the wife of a wealthy Filipino
businessman. The injured husband immediately put out a contract on Valeriano,
and he was never able to set foot in Manila again. It would have meant instant death.
Subsequently, Valeriano worked in the Pentagon, trained the Cuban brigade
preparing for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and was involved in post-Bay of Pigs
activities with which Lansdale was concerned.
Valeriano
and I arrived at Linebarger's at five o'clock one afternoon and stayed four
hours. Paul concentrated on his con-man line concerning how to use a subject's
own hopes and longings to achieve results desired in a psychological
operation.....
...Supporting
this basic program were propaganda efforts - films, special radio programs, and
so forth. George Aurell, the new division chief, never felt comfortable about
any of this. He used to come over to our Plans offic and unburden himself to
Kay. "What in hell is an intelligence agency doing running a rural
resetlement program?" he used to ask. "I'm glad to help fight the
Huks, but is it our job to rebuild a nation?" Ed Lansdale and his team in
the Philippines, and later elsewhere, were convinced it was. Des Fitzgerald had
no trouble tolerating this sort of diversity....
From Joe
Smith's Portrait of a Cold Warrior (p. 94)'
....."You'll
never get the Huks to surrender because the Philippine government wants them
to," Paul (Linebarger) stressed. "They'll give up only if they think
they're going to get something they want which is even more important to them
than the satisfaction they get from defying authority by fighting in the
hills...."
(p335)...First
of all, Howard Hunt would have liked to have used in a key role a Batista
follower who was a friend of J.C. King and especially of former ambassador to
Cuba William D. Pauley....Gerry (Droller) of course, was following the line
laid down by Tracy Barnes - the official position of taking care not to remove
Castro in order to bring back the Batista gang, which was the reason the task
force had to be established under Tracy Barne's control and not left to J.C.
King....
...After
August 1960, the operational planning of the Cuban task force changed course.
Since Hunt and Droller couldn't form a political organization sufficiently
coherent to confront Castro, the emphasis shifted to a larger-scale military
action.
Napoleon
Valeriano, Ed Lansdale's man, who had been training the Cuban exile guerrilla
fighters, was dismissed and $13 million to train a full-fledged fighting brigade
was approved. John Kennedy didn't know it, but there was no chance that the
operation, which had originally been approved in March, 1960, could be
undertaken before the November elections....
(p.342)
...J.C. King and his crew of former FBI men were more disturbed by Goodwin and
Schlesinger than by General Taylor's investigating committee. They believed
they had a chance with Maxwell Taylor - he and King had gone to West Point together
- while they thought there was no hope with Goodwin and Schlesinger.....
SO
PHILLIPINE NAPOLEON VALERIANO WAS GIVEN PERSONAL PSYCH-WAR LESSONS FROM
LANSDALE'S PRIMARY MENTOR IN THE BLACK ARTS, PAUL LINEBARGER, AND THEN BROUGHT
TO NICARAGUA TO TRAIN THE CUBANS AS GUERRILLAS - BK
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