Author Sterling Seagrave reads sections from his book “Red Sky in the Morning”Gives a glimpse into the raw wild, machiavellian world of Manilla after WWIIDocuments from Ed Lansdale’s G2 Manilla file led to the book (3 foot tall stack of papers)Philip Mehan, adventures in the Philippines, Pete Peterson, escaped imprisonment“Cheez”, arrested, liberated, and vanished, an anti-Communist White Russian, ChirskoffIt was Lansdale who really started the Cold War, murder as many Huks as they could findDemonizing Vietnamese dirt farmers, Laos and Cambodia, then Central America, death squads“The Manila File” – three feet high, declassified portion, Bohannon, secret agendas, private armiesBillions in funds, rich tycoons, crooked banks, dirty tricks, total control of the mediaPhilip Mehan, missed combat, part of Operation Magic Carpet, USS Admiral C.F. HughesFilipinos have mixed feelings regarding the U.S., big U.S. corporations, President Manuel QuezonElpidio Quirino, Americans welcomed as liberators, scams, bribery and kickbacksPhil was assigned to a freighter and there met Pete Peterson, Java China Trading Company jobsReconditioning and selling U.S. surplus ships, Lansdale, warning of the Red Beast of CommunismHuks retreated, guerrilla warfare, Lansdale, mailed-fist policy, a campaign of terrorKilled men, women and children, hundreds of villages were mortared, Bohannon, Napoleon ValerianoLansdale, was shown 12 vaults of solid gold ingots, Dulles, Bissell, Braden, Meyer, Wisner, FitzgeraldCounting ears, Vadim Chirskoff, the Manila Hotel, Mina, time to get out of the PhilippinesLansdale had the three spied on as Communists agentsEd Lansdale – “If we can’t find one (a Russian agent), we’ll invent one”Logging hardwoods, needing to flee, Bilibid Prison, escape by Harley-Davidson, Clark Air Base“Cheez” arrested, for inciting Huks, on October 26, 1951 he was released, then he simply vanishedPerhaps he was dropped into the ocean from a helicopter, Lansdale’s favorite means of disposalRed Sky in the Morning available here
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