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Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908 – February 23, 1987) [1] was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing his work with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Lansdale was a pioneer in clandestine operations and psychological warfare.
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LANSDALE, Edward Geary (b. 6 February 1908 in Detroit, Michigan; d. 23 February 1987 in McLean, Virginia), U.S. Air Force intelligence officer famous as a counterinsurgency expert. Lansdale was the first of four sons of Henry Lansdale, an automobile parts company executive, and Sarah Frances Philips.
Feb 7, 2018 · Set in 1951, a decade before the United States became seriously involved in the war, the main character Alden Pyle, everyone claimed, must have been modeled on Lansdale, the lone American operative whose disavowable anti-Communist gambits were starting to gain fame in 1951.
- Early Life and Education
- Gains Reputation as Top American Spy in Philippines
- Lansdale's Mission in Vietnam
- Lansdale Returns to Vietnam
- Sources
- Fictional Treatments of Edward Lansdale
Edward Geary Lansdale was born in Dayton, Ohio, on February 6, 1908. His parents were Henry and Sarah Frances (Philips) Lansdale. According to biographer Cecil Currey, "Lansdale grew up as a typical American boy of his time. He was a Boy Scout, had a paper route, worked on a bread route, fought and played with his brothers, sold the Saturday Evenin...
In 1950 Lansdale used his cover as an Air Force officer to undertake a CIA mission in the Philippines, where guerrillas known as Hukbalalhaps, or "Huks," wanted to overthrow the regime and institute a Communist government. But the United States fiercely opposed the Communist political philosophy. As a result, Lansdale was assigned to help defense m...
Lansdale arrived in Vietnam in June 1954. Once he arrived in the capital city of Saigon, he immediately set up the Saigon Military Mission (SMM). This secret group of a dozen or so American soldiers and intelligence agents specialized in psychological warfare. Over the next several months, Lansdale and the other members of the SMM worked hard to gi...
From 1957 to 1963, Lansdale worked for the U.S. Defense Department as deputy director of the Office of Special Operations, a department devoted to spying and other intelligence activities. In 1961, however, President John F. Kennedy(see entry) sent Lansdale back to South Vietnam. The president shared Lansdale's belief that Diem needed to make refor...
Currey, Cecil B. Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American.Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Farrell, Barry. "The Ellsberg Mask." Harper's,October 1973. Geyer, Georgie Anne. "Lansdale's Lament." Washington Monthly,June 1989. Lansdale, Edward G. In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. Lansdale, Edward...
Two well-known novels of the 1950s featured major characters that were based at least in part on the life and career of Edward Lansdale. In 1955 British writer Graham Greene published The Quiet American, in which a Lansdale-like CIA agent named Alden Pyle resorts to ruthless and immoral actions to complete his mission against Communist forces in Vi...
General Edward Geary Lansdale was an advisor to French forces on special counter-guerrilla operations against the Viet Minh. From 1954 to 1957 he was in Saigon and served as an advisor to the American-backed government of South Vietnam.
Galula’s writings were first promoted during the 1960s by an American counterinsurgency expert, Edward Geary Lansdale. Though Lansdale was instrumental in promoting the ideas of Galula, he was also critical of them as Lansdale’s ideas about counterinsurgency differed from Galula’s.
Lansdale helped the Philippine Armed Forces develop psychological operations, civic actions, and the rehabilitation of Huk prisoners in projects such as EDCOR. He was given a temporary promotion to colonel in 1951.
