Unconventional Warrior

Mustang Report # 14 - Part II

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:00:35 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 14 20 August 2007

AIDING THE ENEMY -
THEN AND NOW

Part II: Present
& Future Aiding of the Enemy: Stone-walling by Commanding Generals,
Commandants and Admirals

LTC Daniel Marvin,
U.S.
Army (Retired)

Author of Victory Edition - EXPENDABLE ELITE - One
Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

As reported in part I of MR#14, I
had written the military commanders of the Army War College, the Command &
General Staff College, West Point Service Academy and the Special
Operations Command. Having received no
response by 1 August 2007 I wrote follow-up
letters to MG David H. Hutton, Jr. (War College Commandant), General Bryan
Brown (CG of the US Special Operations Command) who has since been replaced by
Admiral Eric T. Olson, LTG Franklin L. Hagenbeck (West Point Superintendent), and
MG William B. Caldwell IV (CG US Army Combined Arms Center). Thus far none of these ranking officers have
responded. Only Colonel Thomas W. Weafer, Assistant Deputy Commandant of the
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College has written what I consider to be a
letter of little value inasmuch as he does not relate to actions taken by the
Commanding General in response to my communications with him of 16 June 2007
and 1 August 2007: all to do with our government's aiding the enemy and the
killing of our own personnel.

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Mustang Report # 14 - Part I:

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:48:16 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 14 27 July
2007

AIDING THE ENEMY -
THEN AND NOW

Part I: Vietnam, General Westmoreland, and the White House

By LTC Daniel Marvin,
U.S.
Army (Retired)

Author of Victory Edition - EXPENDABLE ELITE - One
Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

It was to be a time of solemn remembrance that summer afternoon in 1988 when
I stepped through the doors of the Special Warfare Museum
on Smoke Bomb Hill at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina. I wanted to revisit my past, to reflect on
that time when I was a part of a very special organization that would and could
tackle any mission, anytime, anywhere, even against overwhelming odds and get
the job done. Our motto was "The impossible just takes a little longer.â€

I was enjoying the many and varied exhibits in that small, but awesome
collection of unconventional warfare memorabilia until I was stopped in my
tracks by an exhibit designed to honor General William C. Westmoreland. I
understand fully that one should not despise another, but I own up to despising
that military man who, by his own inaction and lack of integrity and courage
before the U.S. Congress and his military superiors, aided and abetted the
enemy in the Vietnam
conflict, the same enemy that had killed my four best friends.

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Mustang Report # 13 - The Dog Lab at Fort Bragg

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:19:32 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 13

U. S Army Special
Forces: The Dog Lab at Fort Bragg

LTC Daniel Marvin,
U.S.
Army (Retired)

Author of Victory Edition - EXPENDABLE ELITE - One
Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

This is about the Special Forces Medic: the Sergeant in the Green Beret who
often is called to perform as the sole provider of medical, dental and hygienic
training support and treatment to the men of his team and even hundreds of
irregular fighters, dependents and civilians alike when serving on an operational
mission.

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Mustang Report # 12

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:10:58 -0700

A President's Fantasy
is a Soldier's Curse

By LTC Daniel Marvin,
U.S.
Army (Retired)

Author of Victory Edition - EXPENDABLE ELITE -

One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

General William C. Westmoreland, in his Â©1976 book, A
Soldier Reports, (Doubleday & Company New York) tells the reader,
â€œUnder a panel of glass on my desk from the time I assumed command in Saigon I
kept a quotation from Napoleon Bonaparte: â€˜A commander-in-chief cannot take as
an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his
minister, when the person giving the order is absent from the field of
operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of
affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a
plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons,
insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather
than be the instrument of his armyâ€™s downfall.â€™â€

In that same book, he writes, â€œThe
enemyâ€™s obvious use of Cambodia as a sanctuary and the refusal of Washington authorities to allow me to do anything about it was
frustrating.â€ For me that was General Westmorelandâ€™s personal admission of what
I consider cowardly behavior. Not only General Westmoreland, but every general
or admiral between him and the White House who refused to stand up to those who
would deny our fighting men and those of the allies a fair chance on the
battlefield were guilty of aiding the enemy. Why wasnâ€™t there a torrent of
resignations when those who led our forces in battle recognized that the
President and the Congress were aiding and abetting the enemy?

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Mustang Report # 11 - To Assassinate a Prince?

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:36:08 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 11

Â U. S Army Special
Forces: First to take the war into Cambodia

By LTC Daniel Marvin,
U.S.
Army (Retired), Author of Victory Edition - EXPENDABLE ELITE - One
Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Everything
to do with my first six months as commander of Special Forces Team A-424,
situated on the Cambodian Border in the district of An Phu had been an
unconventional experience. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It
was late December in 1965 when I accepted the Top Secret mission that would
allow me and my team of Green Berets to take the war into sovereign Cambodian
territory for the first time in that war, I naively thought all the others
would follow as we proved successful. LTC William Tuttle, the commander of all
Special Forces units in the IV Tactical Corps, looked me in the eye and told me
that we would be â€œon our ownâ€ no matter what we faced once inside Cambodia.
There would be no support from our higher headquarters.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œNot
even medical evacuation?â€ I asked. Almost nose to nose with me, he replied, â€œIf
you accept, you are on your own." There wouldÂ be no support inside Cambodia.
"Once you walk out that door, it will be as if we never met. Understand?â€

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Mustang Report # 10 - Psychological Operations

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:59:54 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 10

U.S. Army
Special Forces

Psychological Operations

We were taught the fundamentals of psychological warfare operations by
military instructors on Smoke Bomb Hill at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina in the spring of 1964 using
their own personal experience and Department of the Army Field Manual 31-21
Guerrilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations, dated 29 September 1961 as relevant references.

â€œUnconventional warfare,â€ we read in chapter 9 of FM 31-21, â€œinvolves
ideological, religious, political and social factors which promote intense,
emotional partisanship. Resistance organizations tend to attract personnel who
accept violent change as a means of social action; they are motivated by hope
for change. But, the fluid nature of resistance activity, the alternate periods
of isolation and combat, the surreptitious life make resistance personnel
particularly susceptible to propaganda affects.

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Mustang Report # 9 - Civic Action

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:35:13 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 9.

U.S. Army
Special Forces

Civic Action: The Building of Loyalty & Trust

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Before I get into the meat of this report I would like to
introduce you to a very special website and a real hero of mine. Major Glenn MacDonald has voluntarily assumed
the role of a modern day crusader for justice.
Every day he goes up against those who would undermine law and order
within the military establishment. It is those who, through use of devious or
downright illegal actions to protect persons of rank, that deny the victims of
their actions justice in the truest sense of the word. Perhaps I am
particularly concerned because I have two grandsons in the military and would
want Major MacDonald, a man of courage and unquestioned integrity working with
other brave men and women to help rid the "System" of evil men and
women who are not mentally equipped to lead our troops.

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First to Take The War INto Cambodia

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:58:21 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 8

U. S Army Special
Forces: First to take the war into Cambodia

By LTC Daniel Marvin,
U.S.
Army (Retired)

Author of Victory Edition - EXPENDABLE ELITE - One
Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

It was
three days before Christmas in 1965 when I headed for South
Vietnam with 63 other Green Beret volunteers
aboard a plush Southern Air Transport jetliner out of Seattle,
Washington.
We were enjoying the perks offered by the CIA in their own aircraft with
pretty stewardesses, excellent food, drink and John Wayne movies! We knew not what was in store for us once we
hit the ground in Saigon and were then flown to the 5^th
Special Forces Group Headquarters in Nha Trang, but we were all there because
we wanted to be and because we were looking for a real challenge.

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Courage Needed

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:49:28 -0700

COURAGE NEEDED

In the Press, the Pulpit, the Politicians & the People

I fought in two wars and I have two grandsons who
are combat veterans
of the Iraq War. One is Air Force security man and the other
is an Army paratrooper, once wounded in action and now back in Iraq
with his buddies. Our armed forces are the bravest and the best and we need to
back them in what they do.

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An Offer From the Don

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:41:57 -0700

MUSTANG REPORT # 7

Equipment Testing in Natick Massachusetts led to

AN OFFER FROM THE DON

By:

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin

United States
Army Special Forces (Retired)

Author of Expendable
Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

In the fall of 1964 Special Forces Master Sergeant Joseph Hill and I were selected by General William Yarborough's Special Warfare
Center headquarters to finalize the
testing of newly designed tubular-frame rucksacks and armor insole jungle
boots. Actual laboratory work would be accomplished by engineers at Natick
Laboratories located just west of Boston
not far from Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
MSG Joe and I would secure the rucksacks, filled with 55-70 lbs of rations,
supplies and clothing, to our parachute harness, board an Army single-engine
Otter aircraft and jump out at 1200 feet above a drop zone located at nearby Fort
Devens, Massachusetts.

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Mustang Report # 6 - Blow the ASWAN High Dam

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:03:47 -0800

MUSTANG REPORT # 6

U.S. Army Special Forces Mission:

BLOW the ASWAN High Dam

by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel
Marvin
United
States
Army Special Forces (Retired)

Author of Victory
Edition - Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

Some of the most interesting, even fascinating, subjects taught us in
the Special Warfare School Officer's Course in the spring of 1964 were included
in the special demolition techniques portion of training. The "ear muff" charge was taught by
way of a dramatic demonstration that left no doubt in our minds of its unique
nature and explosive effectiveness. Instructors would diametrically oppose two
identical charges of plastic explosives (C-4) on a round bridge support column,
arming each with an identical detonator and attaching equal lengths of lead
wire to the one detonating device. When the device was triggered both charges would
explode simultaneously, sending the force of the explosion into the center of
the column from opposing directions. When those forces collided in the middle
of the column, as was surely demonstrated, the column itself seemed to explode
outwardly from its own center with sufficient force to destroy it. The earmuff
charge was designed to be used on wood and concrete columns or trusses, etc.

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Mustang Report # 5

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:52:17 -0800

MUSTANG REPORT # 5.

U.S. Army
Special Forces

The Nitty Gritty of the "Green Berets"

by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin

United States
Army Special Forces (Retired)

Author of Victory Edition - Expendable Elite -

One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare

There is little doubt in the minds of most Americans, even those who know
only what they have gleaned from the papers or seen on TV telling of the
training or exploits of the US Army's Special Forces (the men who wear the
Green Beret) that they are the most highly trained and effective unconventional
warriors available.

Special Forces teams are commonly asked to do what
conventional military forces would consider impossible, even insane. Missions
might include forays into strange places with perilous missions against unknown
forces - situations never before explored; much less taken on full force. It
may seem unlikely or even impossible to most, but knowing these uniquely
trained, fearless and highly motivated fighters and how they have been trained
and used in the past would somehow convince you that they can get the job done.
They would emerge victorious even when outnumbered, outgunned and on their own,
with little or no outside combat support. I know - I've been there and done
that!

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Mustang Report # 4 - Without Smoking Gun.. The Book

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:33:58 -0800

MUSTANG REPORT # 4

WITHOUT SMOKING GUN

The Untimely Death of LCDR William Bruce Pitzer

A Book Review By

LTC Daniel Marvin, US Army
Special Forces (Retired)

    Without
Smoking Gun, a nonfiction work by Kent Heiner, should get your blood
boiling and, unless you are a mild-mannered Mr. Milquetoast, your body
functioning in whatever way you so decide to do your part in helping bring
those to justice who not only inspired and developed, but perpetrated some of
the most heinous political crimes of the past century including the
cold-blooded murders of President John F. Kennedy, Lt. Cmdr. William Bruce
Pitzer and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

     What would you do if you knew that our government was lying
about the greatest crime of your time and a dear friend who had shown you proof of this government’s cover-up died
violently and without warning? Would you tell anyone? Meet retired U.S. Navy
Chief Petty Officer Dennis David who recalls the day in 1963 that U.S. Navy
officer and beloved mentor Bill Pitzer showed him a film taken by a remotely controlled
camera of the actual autopsy of President John F. Kennedy’s dead body and some
still photographs of that same autopsy. These images, the two men agreed, made
it clear that the President had been shot from the front, not the rear, despite
what the American public was being told.

     Meet the late Lieutenant Commander
William Bruce Pitzer, who in 1966 was found shot and killed in his office at
the National Naval
Medical Center,
where the President’s autopsy had been performed after the tragedy in Dallas.

What would you do
if you realized you had almost been an unwitting pawn in the murder of an
important witness? Meet the author of
this review: I am retired U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel
Daniel Marvin. I am a combat veteran of two wars, and I am willing to testify
before Congress that I was asked to kill Lieutenant Commander Pitzer, "a
man who was going to give secrets to the enemy" or so the CIA agent told
me in a secret meeting under the pines in the first week of August in 1965 at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Is such a
scenario possible? Yes and I am willing to testify to that fact before
Congress, tell them why I am known as "Dangerous Dan" and why I feel
obligated to tell the truth to this nation.- to this world..

Read of retired Green Beret Lieutenant
Colonel James "Bo" Gritz's having admitted his role (then a captain)
as an instructor at the Special Warfare School, writing in an e-mail to Kent
Heiner, "We were teaching assassination and terrorism as part of the UW
[unconventional warfare] fields of Direct Action missions and GW [guerrilla
warfare].

     Meet other
retired military and CIA officers who agree that there was indeed a conspiracy
to assassinate President Kennedy and that the United States does indeed use
assassination and terrorism as a tool of statecraft. .

     Fasten your seatbelts for a
devastating journey through recent history. Read eye-witness testimony that I
believe, if presented in a court of law, would prove that the President’s body
was tampered with before being autopsied. Find out why there is reason to
suspect that LCDR Pitzer recorded that alteration on film and was killed in
order to find and destroy that evidence. Go behind closed doors to see the
infighting and prejudices which plagued the Presidential Commission charged to
investigate the assassination. Go back in time to 1966, when private doubts
about the Commission’s findings snowballed into a public demand for answers,
and the Kennedy family was preparing to turn over JFK’s autopsy photos to the
National Archives. Watch the drama of Pitzer’s final days unfold as a 1963 FBI
report is discovered which describes “surgery” on the President’s body prior to
autopsy, sending the Establishment into panic.

     The author, Kent Heiner, is the
founder and president of Mem Research, a non-profit organization supporting
research into state-organized crime. He graduated from Brigham
Young University
with a degree in International Relations. His work can be seen at
www.MemResearch.org.

Without
Smoking Gun can be purchased through Trine Day Press for $14.95
including postage. Please call
1-800-556-2012 and have your credit card ready. If you want to order by check -
make it payable to Trine Day and mail
to P.O. Box 577, Walterville,
Oregon 97489.

Reflections of a Green Beret

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:55:03 -0800

REFLECTIONS OF A GREEN BERET

THE PSYCHE OF A
TRAINED MILITARY ASSASSIN

Lieutenant Colonel
Daniel Marvin

U.S.
Army Special Forces (Retired)

People
should know who and where I was when, like a human robot, I eagerly and without
question participated directly as an "operative" in government
sponsored illegal activities perpetrated by certain powers against any
individual, government or activity who would attempt to disrupt the absolute rule
of our "hierarchy."

Documented
and corroborated testimony of what I had done during 21 years of military
service that was of an evil or illegal nature now serve as the foundation of my
crusades against evil in our government.
I care because the truth matters.
Those of us who want to must act courageously and with integrity to
communicate what we have experienced, to include direct first-hand knowledge of
what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963 and in succeeding days, months and
years, as those same forces within our government who conspired to kill our
president continue to do what is "necessary" to silence those who
would bring forth evidence to prove the who, what, when and where of the conspiracy
and to judiciously disrupt actions taken to cover them up.

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The FBI and Jack Anderson's Papers

nospam@example.com (Lt. Col. [ret] Daniel Marvin) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:26:02 -0800

The FBI and Jack Anderson's Papers

What are they
REALLY looking for?

Retired Green
Beret Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin

The Associated Press April 18 2006 news
release "FBI Wants Access to Dead Writer's Papers" by Associated
Press writer MARK SHERMAN, sparked my interest.
It seems that some 38 years ago my interest was jolted by another story
with Jack Anderson's name tied to it, but as co-author with Drew Pearson of a
Washington Post Dec 10, 1968 article Thais Given Taste of Revolution.

In
that article these two well-respected authors write unequivocally "Neither the Army nor the CIA is permitted in
Thailand to operate its own counter-insurgency outfit. There no special forces,
no Green Berets."

Strange, inasmuch as the
largest number of US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) outside of Fort
Bragg, North Carolina
and the country of

South
Vietnam

were what made up
the 46^th Special Forces Company (Airborne) with its headquarters in
newly constructed buildings on the outskirts of the monkey capital of

Thailand

,
the city of Lop Buri.