Posted by Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin
The Unconventional Warrior
Thu Dec 8, 2005 01:39
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The Unconventional Warrior
Weblog of Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin, author of Expendable Elite
Saturday, December 3. 2005
Secret Orders and Compartmentalization
http://expendableelite.com/blog/
I was asked to serve in what was described to me as an “unusual” airborne activity in France. I arrived at the US Army Aerial Support Center at St. Andre, a small town 60 miles southwest of Paris, on 16 May 1960, and assumed the duties of officer in charge of unconventional airborne logistical support. This assistance was for special operations conducted by units of the 10th Special Forces Group out of Bad Tolz, Germany and included storage and maintenance of parachute equipment and classified stocks (from guns & ammunition to c rations) of equipment and supplies necessary to support their cloak and dagger type operations throughout the European Theater.
The center was established at a former WWII German air base with substantial concrete runways that had been used to launch Luftwaffe raids against Great Britain in World War II and included a railroad siding built to service the base.
“The impossible just takes a little longer,” boasted the Green Beret Captain whom I met there during the summer of 1962, shortly after I was promoted to Captain. I would soon learn his boast was actually a true statement of his elite organization’s proven prowess. He’d brought two Special Forces (SF) “A” Teams to St. Andre to coordinate logistical support of a TOP SECRET [1]/COSMIC mission to arm, train and lead Polish patriots on the ground against the Russian occupiers. Those men in their Green Berets had done and would yet do what most others, with the notable exception of the US Navy SEALs, would consider unattainable.
The preparations for SF military assistance to Poland were directed by the headquarters of Special Operations Task Europe, (SOFTE) a super-secret organization. The mission would be to support Polish patriot forces in guerilla warfare against their Russian oppressors. Once the SF teams from the 10th SF Group were on site at St. Andre, we developed a [2] bundle code tailored to their projected on-the-ground operational needs.
When cleared for the operation, we would prepare and load the two A Teams with pre-rigged 500-pound bundles aboard C-130 aircraft that would arrive at St. Andre from Evreaux-Fauville Air Base on order of SOFTE headquarters. The bundles would carry weapons, ammunition and other supplies to equip a guerilla force of approximately 200 irregulars.
It was during this waiting period that the SF Captain briefed me on the concept of compartmentalization. Basically it is a way that covert operations are controlled in an environment of deniability. He commanded the force to be inserted and reported to a control unit at SOFTE rather than his own SF unit once his group was on the ground in the objective area. At St. Andre, I would be his only contact. He made that clear by reminding me that I was the only officer at St. Andre cleared for TOP SECRET/COSMIC, a matter that angered our Center Commander, LTC Edward J. Downing, when messages from SOTFE were marked for my eyes only.
It was an exciting time and I felt good knowing that I was playing a small part in helping the Poles get out from under Russian domination. Once in the air they would cruise at an altitude of 30,000 feet to a specified area where they would be guided by an Air Force homing device dropped in earlier. Polish guerilla forces would be there to meet the Green Berets who would drop in using the HALO method.
One hour prior to scheduled loading time I received a message from the White House through SOFTE, simply saying, “Mission aborted,” We were not told why. I wonder yet what happened to those brave Poles who waited in vain for the arrival of people and material to aid their struggle.
1. COSMIC: TOP SECRET (TS) security classification that permitted access to TS material in all of NATO to cleared individuals.
2. US Army FM 31-21 Sep 61, Appendix II.
Posted by Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin in Unconventional Warrior at 22:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Friday, December 2. 2005
We need Senators and Congressmen and women w/GUTS
Isn't it a crying shame that what we hear is often so controlled by the power structure so as to steer our thoughts in a direction that avoids investigatory work that may crucify them? A good example is the recent furor over who leaked the information about secret prisons in foreign countries being use by our CIA as convenient locations to take prisoners of one stripe or another to so they can do to them what is illegal in this nation and most civilized nations. I am speaking of torture and I happen to have had some experience in that field while commanding an indpendent operation which in fact is like having your own geographical kingdom to do in as YOU feel is right to do. Why else would they have nick-named me "King of the Hoa Haos" when I commanded US Army Special Forces Detachment A-424 in An Phu District of South Vietnam from 27 Dec 65 thru 1 Aug 66? When I first began my crusades to bring the truth to light about illegal activities of our CIA who used us (The US Army Special Forces - yes, those darling Green Berets!) and the Mafia (Which I know of from personal contact with a Boston area Don in 1964) to do what is otherwise illegal such as assassinations, terrorism and sabotage. I can recall when a resident FBI Agent from the Ithaca, NY office came to my shop and we discussed an illegal activity that involved Texas Banks, the CIA and others in the D.C. area that I had reported to him. He told me flat out that I should not mention his name or that I'd talked to him about the "Billion Dollar Scam" that I had reported to him and then asked me "Aren't you afraid 'they' will put a bomb under your car?" He meant the CIA as "them." I reported all the illegal activities that I was personally knowledgeable of to my Congressman and Senators and the only two that had the courage to try and I do mean try to do something about the activities were D'Amato and later, Clinton. None of them can do anything by themselves against the monster that pervades our government and it is up to us as citizens of this great nation to get people into our government who have the guts to represent us and the truth. Senator D'Amato and later, Senator Clinton were instrumental in helping me struggle against some of the evil tentacles that attempt to maintain control over what this nation does and doesn't do. I pray that each of you who read this ask me any specific questions that the answer to may help you to understand what is obvious to me because I lived in it for so many years. Go to www.TrineDay.com and you will find books written by courageous men wanting to help put the truth to you fine folks. But, you have to want to know what is going on that needs to be stopped if you are to help stop it and you have to be willing to put your self in sometimes precarious circumstances to prove your steadfastness if you are to be one of the stepping stones to America once again being a true Republic and a nation known as one that comes to the aid of threatened nations and not one that invades and threatens to increase its influence. Remember the British Empire and wonder if that is what some in our White House would want to be their goal....the American Empire.
Your friend in Cazenovia,
Posted by Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin in Political Corruption at 19:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
http://expendableelite.com/blog/
Weblog of Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin, author of Expendable Elite
Saturday, December 3. 2005
Secret Orders and Compartmentalization
http://expendableelite.com/blog/
I was asked to serve in what was described to me as an “unusual” airborne activity in France. I arrived at the US Army Aerial Support Center at St. Andre, a small town 60 miles southwest of Paris, on 16 May 1960, and assumed the duties of officer in charge of unconventional airborne logistical support. This assistance was for special operations conducted by units of the 10th Special Forces Group out of Bad Tolz, Germany and included storage and maintenance of parachute equipment and classified stocks (from guns & ammunition to c rations) of equipment and supplies necessary to support their cloak and dagger type operations throughout the European Theater.
The center was established at a former WWII German air base with substantial concrete runways that had been used to launch Luftwaffe raids against Great Britain in World War II and included a railroad siding built to service the base.
“The impossible just takes a little longer,” boasted the Green Beret Captain whom I met there during the summer of 1962, shortly after I was promoted to Captain. I would soon learn his boast was actually a true statement of his elite organization’s proven prowess. He’d brought two Special Forces (SF) “A” Teams to St. Andre to coordinate logistical support of a TOP SECRET [1]/COSMIC mission to arm, train and lead Polish patriots on the ground against the Russian occupiers. Those men in their Green Berets had done and would yet do what most others, with the notable exception of the US Navy SEALs, would consider unattainable.
The preparations for SF military assistance to Poland were directed by the headquarters of Special Operations Task Europe, (SOFTE) a super-secret organization. The mission would be to support Polish patriot forces in guerilla warfare against their Russian oppressors. Once the SF teams from the 10th SF Group were on site at St. Andre, we developed a [2] bundle code tailored to their projected on-the-ground operational needs.
When cleared for the operation, we would prepare and load the two A Teams with pre-rigged 500-pound bundles aboard C-130 aircraft that would arrive at St. Andre from Evreaux-Fauville Air Base on order of SOFTE headquarters. The bundles would carry weapons, ammunition and other supplies to equip a guerilla force of approximately 200 irregulars.
It was during this waiting period that the SF Captain briefed me on the concept of compartmentalization. Basically it is a way that covert operations are controlled in an environment of deniability. He commanded the force to be inserted and reported to a control unit at SOFTE rather than his own SF unit once his group was on the ground in the objective area. At St. Andre, I would be his only contact. He made that clear by reminding me that I was the only officer at St. Andre cleared for TOP SECRET/COSMIC, a matter that angered our Center Commander, LTC Edward J. Downing, when messages from SOTFE were marked for my eyes only.
It was an exciting time and I felt good knowing that I was playing a small part in helping the Poles get out from under Russian domination. Once in the air they would cruise at an altitude of 30,000 feet to a specified area where they would be guided by an Air Force homing device dropped in earlier. Polish guerilla forces would be there to meet the Green Berets who would drop in using the HALO method.
One hour prior to scheduled loading time I received a message from the White House through SOFTE, simply saying, “Mission aborted,” We were not told why. I wonder yet what happened to those brave Poles who waited in vain for the arrival of people and material to aid their struggle.
1. COSMIC: TOP SECRET (TS) security classification that permitted access to TS material in all of NATO to cleared individuals.
2. US Army FM 31-21 Sep 61, Appendix II.
Posted by Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin in Unconventional Warrior at 22:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Friday, December 2. 2005
We need Senators and Congressmen and women w/GUTS
Isn't it a crying shame that what we hear is often so controlled by the power structure so as to steer our thoughts in a direction that avoids investigatory work that may crucify them? A good example is the recent furor over who leaked the information about secret prisons in foreign countries being use by our CIA as convenient locations to take prisoners of one stripe or another to so they can do to them what is illegal in this nation and most civilized nations. I am speaking of torture and I happen to have had some experience in that field while commanding an indpendent operation which in fact is like having your own geographical kingdom to do in as YOU feel is right to do. Why else would they have nick-named me "King of the Hoa Haos" when I commanded US Army Special Forces Detachment A-424 in An Phu District of South Vietnam from 27 Dec 65 thru 1 Aug 66? When I first began my crusades to bring the truth to light about illegal activities of our CIA who used us (The US Army Special Forces - yes, those darling Green Berets!) and the Mafia (Which I know of from personal contact with a Boston area Don in 1964) to do what is otherwise illegal such as assassinations, terrorism and sabotage. I can recall when a resident FBI Agent from the Ithaca, NY office came to my shop and we discussed an illegal activity that involved Texas Banks, the CIA and others in the D.C. area that I had reported to him. He told me flat out that I should not mention his name or that I'd talked to him about the "Billion Dollar Scam" that I had reported to him and then asked me "Aren't you afraid 'they' will put a bomb under your car?" He meant the CIA as "them." I reported all the illegal activities that I was personally knowledgeable of to my Congressman and Senators and the only two that had the courage to try and I do mean try to do something about the activities were D'Amato and later, Clinton. None of them can do anything by themselves against the monster that pervades our government and it is up to us as citizens of this great nation to get people into our government who have the guts to represent us and the truth. Senator D'Amato and later, Senator Clinton were instrumental in helping me struggle against some of the evil tentacles that attempt to maintain control over what this nation does and doesn't do. I pray that each of you who read this ask me any specific questions that the answer to may help you to understand what is obvious to me because I lived in it for so many years. Go to www.TrineDay.com and you will find books written by courageous men wanting to help put the truth to you fine folks. But, you have to want to know what is going on that needs to be stopped if you are to help stop it and you have to be willing to put your self in sometimes precarious circumstances to prove your steadfastness if you are to be one of the stepping stones to America once again being a true Republic and a nation known as one that comes to the aid of threatened nations and not one that invades and threatens to increase its influence. Remember the British Empire and wonder if that is what some in our White House would want to be their goal....the American Empire.
Your friend in Cazenovia,
Posted by Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin in Political Corruption at 19:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
http://expendableelite.com/blog/
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