On this spooky season edition, join us for the Filipino legend of the Aswang, and the CIA agent who used it as psychological warfare!

Sources:

Clark, Jordan. “The Maximo Ramos Taxonomical Classifications of the Aswang • the ASWANG PROJECT.” THE ASWANG PROJECT, 1 Oct. 2023, www.aswangproject.com/ramos_aswang/.

Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II. London, Zed Books, 2014.

Boot, Max. The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam. Liveright Publishing, 9 Jan. 2018.

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Lansdale, Edward Geary. In the Midst of Wars: An American’s Mission to Southeast Asia. New York, Fordham University Press, 1991.

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