(1908-02-06)February 6, 1908 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died
February 23, 1987(1987-02-23) (aged 79) McLean, Virginia, U.S.
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Army
United States Air Force
Years of service
1943–1947 (USA) 1947–1963 (USAF)
Rank
Major (USA) Major General (USAF)
Battles/wars
World War II Hukbalahap Rebellion
Vietnam War
First Indochina War
Operation Mongoose
Awards
Distinguished Service Medal National Security Medal Philippine Legion of Honor Philippine Military Merit Medal
Spouse(s)
Helen Batcheller (m. 1933–1972) Patrocini[a] Yapcinco (m. 1973–1987)
Relations
2 sons
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. In the early 1950s, Lansdale played a significant role in suppressing the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines. In 1954, he moved to Saigon and started the Saigon Military Mission, a covert intelligence operation which was created to sow dissension in North Vietnam. Lansdale believed the United States could win guerrilla wars by studying the enemy's psychology, an approach that won the approval of the presidential administrations of both Kennedy and Johnson.
^Pace, Eric (February 24, 1987). "Edward Lansdale Dies at 79; Advisor on Guerrilla Warfare". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908 – February 23, 1987) was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing...
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of Miami. The operation was led by United States Air Force General EdwardLansdale on the military side and William King Harvey at the CIA and went into...
Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by EdwardLansdale. Harvey was born on September 13, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son...
to move to the south, and Diệm authorizing U.S. CIA adviser Colonel EdwardLansdale to stage campaign intended to convince more people to move to South...
history. In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of EdwardLansdale, and The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, which details...
United States approved the assignment of CIA operative Col. EdwardLansdale to Saigon. Lansdale was given much credit for advising Philippine President Ramon...
to have been modeled on the real-life U.S. Air Force Major General EdwardLansdale, who was an expert in counter-guerrilla operations. The book was serialized...
EdwardLansdale and the war over the war". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 63–69. Reviews Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: EdwardLansdale and...
Vietnam. During the 300 days, Ngô Đình Diệm and CIA adviser Colonel EdwardLansdale staged a campaign to convince Northerners to move to South Vietnam...
propaganda campaign to get Catholics to come to the south. However Colonel EdwardLansdale, the man credited with the campaign, rejected the notion that his campaign...
positively in the mathematics of warfare. US Air Force Brigadier General EdwardLansdale reportedly told McNamara, who was trying to develop a list of metrics...
He then went to South Vietnam for two years, working for General EdwardLansdale as a member of the State Department. On his return from South Vietnam...
Major General EdwardLansdale as the villain. Greene had covered the Vietnam war in 1951-52 as a newspaper correspondent where he met Lansdale who appears...
the name Plan F-6 with the government of South Vietnam in control. EdwardLansdale Nguyễn Hợp Đoàn Operation Condor Russell Tribunal Special Activities...
expert EdwardLansdale, who was stationed in Vietnam 1953–1957, is sometimes cited as a model for Pyle's character. In fact Greene did not meet Lansdale until...
his body before leaving the body to be discovered on a road. Colonel EdwardLansdale was likely among those who encouraged and spread word of the practice...
Allen Dulles assigned EdwardLansdale to Indochina, he told Lansdale "to do what you did in the Philippines [in Vietnam]." Lansdale's successes in the Philippines...
despite the popular belief that the referendum was put forward by EdwardLansdale, it was Diệm who decided to organise the referendum as a way to burnish...
he took up from a former advertising expert and CIA agent, Colonel EdwardLansdale. In the counterinsurgency the two utilized deployed soldiers distributing...
Director Allen Dulles with C.I.A. Counter-insurgency expert Colonel EdwardLansdale, United States Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining,...
be able to withstand the Viet Cong. The papers identified General EdwardLansdale, who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and worked for...
southern region. He remained in the south until 1957. 31 January Colonel EdwardLansdale head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Saigon Military Mission...