Vietnam War
Where each worldview places it
William Cooper: named but not placed in a tier
"Just another engineered human catastrophe", a CIA-engineered problem-reaction-solution for bank and arms profits, US destabilisation, divide and rule in the Far East and cover for the hard-drug trade[1].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Places
- Vietnam
- Key events
- 1954-01-29: Allen Dulles secures approval for the Saigon Military Mission, which under Edward Lansdale creates the "Viet Cong"[2]
- Kennedy plans withdrawal, which Lyndon Johnson reverses after his death[3]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01"The Elite wanted a war instead", and Averell Harriman was "one of the main architects"[2].
- 0258,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese died while the public thought the war was against Communism; the CIA used it as cover for drugs, smuggled into America in the body cavities of dead soldiers[4].
- 03William Westmoreland commanded there as the war served the same agenda[2].