The story of the "Ghost tape 10" (OPERATION WANDERING SOUL)

PBR (Patrol Boat River) in Vietnam War
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

We have all heard the story of the "Ghost tape 10", what was the record, what heard the horror movie. In this tape were messages, that if the Viet Cong fighters would not get home, their souls got in hell. This tape seemed to be useless against the Viet Cong, but sometimes it was used for some other use. In those river boat-operations in Mekong delta-area, this particular tape was used to cover other tapes. Those tapes were messages, where the Viet Cong-fighters were called to the beach to take the Soviet delivered equipment, and when those guerillas came, the gunboats and helicopters opened the fire.


Also, the "Ghost tape 10" were sometimes equipped with the subliminal messages, what have simultaneously repeated the messages, where the Viet Cong warriors claimed to be protected by the spirits, and also there were messages, that "The Viet Cong fighters must not care about enemy bullets and the training would make them bulletproof". That kind of loudspeakers claimed to drop near the training centers for making enemy's self-esteem twisted. And that might cause some losses for the enemy.


The third reason, why the "Ghost tape 10" was used, is that the beaches of the Mekong River were targeted high power ultra- and infrasound, what mission was to cause a headache for enemy troops. And also those sound weapon's mission was to deny the enemy from sleep, what made them tired, and then the CT-teams could kill them easily. But I don't know about the influence on those things. But the tired person is always the easier target.


The similar systems are planned to use in the hostage rescue missions. But this methodology has terrible ways to misuse it. It can use for provocating the riots, and that would give reason to call the riot control team to attack against those demonstrators. In this case, some mercenaries can target this kind of system against legal protesters, and then the using force against those people would be acceptable. In the Waco-siege from 1993, when the religious team committed suicide, one reason could be that after the David Koresh speaks some FBI agent said accidentally in the wrong moment words "do it" and then those people committed the suicide. Or in the worst scenarios, somebody has changed the tapes, for causing the massacre where 76 persons have died in the fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97d5dfZ4eY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wandering_Soul_(Vietnam_War)

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http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/files/2017/01/PBR_collor_4_66.jpg

Why Sergeant Meyer stole C-130E Hercules in 1969, and why he disappeared?

HC-130
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https://pimeakronikka.blogspot.fi/p/why-sergeant-meyer-stole-c-130e.html

Kimmo Huosionmaa

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-stolen-military-plane-in-1969.html

In 1969 at Great Britain one man stole an aircraft and then flew it somewhere, and this man Sergeant Meyer didn't ever found. The aircraft, what this Sergeant stole was C-130E and this thing is quite mysterious. The story itself is behind the links on above and below the text, and you might read that story from those articles. But here I must say, that there are many strange things, what makes this case so interesting.


C-130's  were used in some top secret missions in Vietnam, and one of those missions were used that airplane as the  gunship, another was electronic intelligence and the last one was using that aircraft as the launch platform for "Firebee" drones, and they also dropped  BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" bombs to the Vietnamese targets. Also, those airplanes gave airborne refueling for combat helicopters like MH-53 Super Jolly Green Giants, what were used in special air rescue missions.  If that Meyer took part in those operations, that would cause the violence in that man, because PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) causes that kind of symptoms, like violation and headache.

MH-53 takes refueling from HC-130
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The first question, what we would perhaps ask from sergeant Meyer, would be where that man believed to go with that airplane? He stole that C-130 playing captain, but there is one thing, what we must handle. This is, that there might be very strange that captain rank officer would order gasoline for the overseas flight by using C-130. Of course, Meyer introduced himself as the captain of service crew, and in this case, the role, what that man took was the material officer.


In that article is claiming that Meyer was going to home to his stepchildren, but that meeting ever happened. Meyer was lost during this flight, and that was of course very stressful for his family. Meyer had two commands to Vietnam before that flight, and then some people believed, that man was under the emotional stress. He was drinking too much in his last evening, and that caused problems in the military base and outside it, and the problems began, when Meyer drunk too much in some parties, and then became violent. This would have something to do with that man's Vietnam duties, but if that sergeant was only the chief of the ground crew or technical crew, why would he got symptoms, what are common in combat veterans.

DC-130 with "Firebee drones"
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So was Meyer took part of actions of flight group "Commando Vault", and AC-130 gunship missions in Vietnam. When we are thinking about those operations that flight group destroyed million of North Vietnamese trucks in Ho Chi-Minh road. If Meyer was the member of SOCOM (Special Operations Command) that man could be played lower rank, what he actually had. And here comes very good question about that Sergeant. Where did he learn to fly that C-130E? Normally all pilots of the aircraft are actually officers, and if Meyer was some SOCOM or intelligence specialist, that man could actually fly his plane straight to home.


And another mission, where that man could serve were electronic intelligence missions, where the platform, what was used was C-130 "Hercules", what was equipped with electronic intelligence equipment, and the mission of those systems was to record the signals what North-Vietnamese radars send.  Also, C-130E was used in that time top secret drone-missions, where radio-controlled "Firebee" drones send to photograph North-Vietnamese military bases. Those early drones were highly classified, and the operations of those planes were also out of public eye. So if Meyer took part in those operations, that would explain strange disappearing of that man.


For the reason of lost that man and the plane was claimed to be that USAF shot down the C-130 and the man, who stole it. But if they did that, was the reason, because of some of those missions were illegal, and Meyer wanted to keep silent? Or did he just an ordinary sergeant, who just lost control of the C-130? But also the reason for shooting that plane down could be that somebody was afraid that Meyer would try to dive his plane in some house like The Parliament of Great Britain or White House. And that action could be made because saving the innocent lives. And this is only speculation. There is no evidence about that kind of orders, and also that Meyer involved some "Air Commando" operations in Vietnam is also speculation.

Sources:

http://peteralanlloyd.com/the-use-of-drones-during-the-vietnam-war/

https://theaviationist.com/2014/07/28/ac-130-vietnam-war/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Firebee

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-stolen-military-plane-in-1969.html

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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1200px-us_airforce_hc-130-741x521.jpg

Picture II
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/hc-130-dvic192.jpg

Picture III

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/DC-130H_Hercules_drone_control_with_a_pair_of_AQM-34_Firebee.JPEG

https://pimeakronikka.blogspot.fi/p/why-sergeant-meyer-stole-c-130e.html

Execution in Vietnam

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Above the text is a famous picture, what is taken in the Vietnam war. In the picture, the police commander of Southern Vietnam shoots the bounded prisoner to head, and this picture shows how brutal the war really was.  The international law doesn't protect the non-uniformed combatants or guerilla fighters, but shooting the person in this way is also a war crime. The data of the shooter is behind the first link below the text, and his name was Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (1930-1998)and military rank of the paramilitary police of South-Vietnam was brigadier general.


Somebody believes that this photograph was taken to hide the more large-scale executions in the jungle. The purpose of this photograph was to confess, that the executions were made in this kind of situations, where somebody gets angry and shoot another person in the unstable condition. There were never mentioned the "Phoenix-program". The assassination project, where special forces and CIA:s CT (Counter Terror)- teams were eliminated what meant execution over 81 000 persons, who were Viet-Cong combatants, enemy money collectors, and sympathizers.



The last group, what was targeted for that type of executions were political activists and propagandists, who might sometimes be innocent about the things, what they were suspected. Executions were normally made with sniper-rifles because the headquarters of Saigon wanted to be sure, that the specific target has been eliminated. And there were rumors that sometimes the executions of the "Phoenix-operation" were targeted to American citizens. How many times and who made those killings are not found in any sources. Sometimes the "Phoenix teams" were kidnapped the suspects and took them to the interrogation centers or special bases for torture.

And actually, we cannot even say is the shooted man ever carried the gun, or did he just be a wrong place at the wrong place. Another interesting question about this picture is, did the shooter actually ordered the newspaperman take the picture of shooting. This shooter was moved to the USA, where he lived under the faked identity, but he was uncovered, and then his pizzeria lost the customers. He died in 1990's.


When we are talking about this particular photo, we must ask one question: why this particular prisoner was shot? Did he knew something, what might put this shooter in danger? When we are looking at the history of the Vietnam War, we must understand that in that time US-military supported the rebel fighters at the mountains of Laos and Cambodia in the operation "Air America". In that operation, the US-military along with the CIA gave supplies to those rebels, who sold drugs to worldwide drug marketing. The drug what is actually heroine is still grown in the area, what is known as the "golden triangle".


And at that time were rumors, that some members of the South-Vietnamese army were involved this business. And there are claims that CIA financed that weapon supply with the drug trade. The heroine-trade is very good business, and there are many rumors that this heroine was sold to the streets of Thailand and another far east country. But sometimes there was said that that heroine packages were carried by the United States military airplanes to the USA. In this story, some drug-cartel contact persons have put the heroine in the fuel tanks of attack airplanes. And then the aircraft was flown to the states. Nobody knows is that true, or were the US-officers involved in that business.


There were also plans to use heroin as the "booster" in the bombs and shells what was used in the jungle. Both the normal explosive ammunition and smoke ammunition were filled by the heroine. The tests were made by "Edgewood Arsenal", but did those devices given to the troops is the different story.  This chemical would be so-called "non-lethal agent" what will have great "stun effect" to its targets. Also, the gunpowder was planned to put opiates but did military used them in Vietnam is the different thing. And that would give change to take enemy fighters as the prisoners or kill them easily. The opiate-bomb is non-lethal in the normal situation, but if the person uses the blood veins injected drugs, could result be lethal, like in Nord-Ost movie theatre case happened, and this attack was caused over 150 hostage casualties when Alfa-team attacked in that house.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program


Picture 1

https://cherrieswriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/vietnam073-xl.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tMDrnbOSb4&t=8s