Timeline for Was America behind any 'false flag' bomb attacks in Saigon in the early 1950s?
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 17:14 | history | edited | Colin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 16:04 | comment | added | Colin | Also worth noting that Sherry discredits the idea (stemming from Greene's novel) that the American legation was forewarned to avoid the sites of the Jan 9 bombings. | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 15:50 | history | edited | Colin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 15:42 | comment | added | Colin | From the Sherry source: the French commander in chief in Vietnam Salan indeed told Greene that the French had arrested an american diplomat in possession of "plastic [explosive]". The American ambassador to French Vietnam who arrived later in 1952 cabled back to Washington regarding French documents which concluded regarding the Jan 9 attack that "explosive devices were provided by US". | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 15:00 | comment | added | Colin | > Jean Lartéguy, Soldats perdus et fous de Dieu: Indochine 1945–1955, Paris 1986, pp. 179–81. > Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II (1939–1955), London 1994, p. 431. | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 14:56 | comment | added | Colin | You can find the ultimate source for those claims in the citations of Davis's book, which i reproduce below. Regarding Larteguy, my understanding of the claim is that Larteguy reported a leak of an internal French government finding, not something the French ever publicized. | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 13:27 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | 4) If that had happened, we'd probably know about it from other sources by now. For example, the CIA carried out similar false-flag operations (a point in this posts' favor admittedly) against the Iranian Prime Minister this same year (1953). But we know rather a lot about their TPAJAX Project today. Here's a full paper on it. | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 13:15 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Problems with this: 1) I'm unable to find any corroboration (online at least) for this claim of Larteguy's and its suspiciously hearsay-ish. If investigators had actually concluded that, that conclusion should be recorded somewhere. 2) Even if true, having supplied a terrorist some materials doesn't means said supplier directed the use they were eventually put to. 3) What we do have recorded is that the US negotiated to have him back up the NVRC 2 years later. If they were a simple US cat's paw, no negotiation would have been necessary. | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 11:39 | history | edited | Colin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 23:54 | history | edited | Colin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 23:45 | history | answered | Colin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |