Point of No REturn – A Hell of A Hoax

➡ Jim Pugh, through the Ministry of God as Government, discusses the controversial history of the Vietnam War. He suggests that the war was based on a hoax, with the U.S. government falsely claiming that North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. destroyers. This led to the U.S. entering a war that resulted in over 50,000 American deaths and millions of Vietnamese casualties. Pugh also argues that the war was influenced by powerful figures like the Rockefellers, who profited from the conflict and had a hand in shaping U.S. foreign policy.
➡ The CIA used the heroin trade from Southeast Asia to fund covert operations, with the help of South Vietnam’s president and his brother. This operation involved setting up heroin refineries in Saigon and smuggling the drug into the U.S., leading to a significant increase in heroin addiction. Despite investigations, the operation continued due to the involvement of high-ranking officials. The money generated from this trade was laundered through banks in Italy and the Vatican Bank, before being transferred to private accounts in various countries.

The following teaching is by Jim Pugh, through the Ministry of God as Government. If you have never listened to one of our Bridge of Truth podcasts and wish to see all the topics taught through this Bridge of Truth ministry, please go to www.godisgovernment.com to find the inventory of Bridge of Truth podcasts. Now welcome Jim Pugh as he presents another historical study of truth from history, Bible scripture, or current events. Point of no return, a hell of a hoax. The Rockefeller file written by Gary Allen stated, having a big stake in an international foreign policy, the Rockefeller always make sure that the Secretary of State and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency are their boys.

Marshall, Acheson, Dulles, Herder, Rusk, and Kissinger have all labored to turn the backward Soviet Union into a credible power to force the Great Merger, while at the same time fighting wars to make the world safe for Standard Oil. The CIA has served as the State Department’s and Standard Oil’s enforcement arm, destroying genuine anti-communist movements around the world. On August 4, 1964, all nationally televised programs were interrupted for the urgent message U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. My fellow Americans, as President and Commander-in-Chief, it is my duty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action in reply.

The initial attack on the destroyer Maddox on August 2nd was repeated today by a number of hostile vessels attacking two U.S. destroyers with torpedoes. The destroyers and supporting aircraft acted at once on the orders I have after the initial act of aggression. We believe at least two of the attacking boats were sunk. There were no U.S. losses. The performance of commanders and crews in this engagement is in the highest tradition of the United States Navy. But repeated acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defenses but with positive reply.

That reply is begin given as I speak to you tonight. Air action is now in execution against gunboats and certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam which have been used in these hostile operations. In the larger sense, this new act of aggression aimed directly at our own forces again brings home to all of us in the United States the importance of the struggle for peace and security in Southeast Asia. Aggression by terror against the peaceful villages of South Vietnam has now been joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America.

The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage. The next morning, Johnson appeared before Congress to gain the approval for direct military involvement in the Vietnam Civil War. The resolution was passed by a vote of 416 to 0 in the House and 88 to 2 in the Senate. After the vote, Johnson said to his Undersecretary of State, hell those stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish. The country was now involved in a war that would lead to over 50,000 deaths and millions of Vietnamese casualties.

The official story of the cause remained the same throughout the course of the war. North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an unprovoked attack against a U.S. destroyer on routine patrol in the Tonkin Gulf on August 2nd and two days later, North Vietnamese PT boats launched a torpedo attack on two U.S. destroyers in another act of unwarranted aggression. But there was a problem. It was all a hoax. The sailors really were shooting at flying fish. The second attack never happened. In a 2005 New York Times article, Scott Shane wrote, President Lyndon B. Johnson cited the supposed attack to persuade Congress to authorize broad military action in Vietnam, but most historians have concluded to recent years that there was no second attack.

The NSA historian Robert J. Hanyuk found a pattern of translation mistakes that went uncorrected, altered intercept times, and selective citation of intelligence that persuaded him that mid-level agency officers had deliberately skewed the evidence. What’s more, the first attack was not unprovoked, as the president intimated. The destroyer Maddox was not engaged in routine patrol. It was rather engaged in maneuvers to coordinate attacks on North Vietnam by the South Vietnamese Navy and the Laotian Air Force. By April 1965, Johnson had deployed 75,000 combat troops to Vietnam. That number rose to half a million by the end of 1967.

The United States dropped three times as many bombs on the tiny country of Vietnam than it did in all of World War II. The bombs included chemical weapons of mass destruction, including napalm and wild phosphorus, which burned all skin from the bone. The overall policy of the Vietnam War, as developed by George Keenan, Dean Acheson, and other CFR officials, was containment, the attempt to confine the communist countries to their existing borders. It was the same policy that failed in Korea. Containment implied limited warfare. Victory was not an objection, but rather a liability.

James E. King, in a piece published by Foreign Affairs in 1957, explained this new concept of limited warfare as follows. We must be prepared to fight actions ourselves. Otherwise, we shall have made no advance beyond massive retaliation, which tied our hands in conflicts involving less than our survival. And we must be prepared to lose limited actions. No limitation could survive our disposition to elevate every conflict in which our interests are affected to the level of total conflict with survival at stake. Armed conflict can be limited only if armed at limited objectives and fought with limited means.

If we or our enemy relax the limits on either objectives as means, survival will be at stake, whether the issue is worth it or not. It was a concept that was easily sold to President Johnson, who had appointed a CFR member to virtually every strategic position in his administration. Despite the use of chemical weapons, the Vietnam War was not only to be limited, but also fought with extraordinary restrictions known as rules of engagement. These rules prohibited American soldiers from firing at the Vietcong unless they were being fired upon, and even when attacked, they were forbidden to pursue the enemy forces into Laos or Cambodia.

In accordance with the same restrictions, American pilots could only bomb targets that were deemed strategic by the Joint Chief of Staff, and they were not allowed to destroy Vietcong missile sites that were still under construction. In 1968, Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker observed, our political leaders elected to fight a land war, where every advantage lay with the enemy and to employ our vast sea and air superiority in very limited supporting rules only. Surprise, perhaps the greatest of the principles of war was deliberately sacrificed when our leaders revealed your strategy and tactics to the enemy.

The enemy was told that we would not bomb populated areas, heavy industry, canals, dams, and other critical targets, and thus sanctuaries were established by us along the Chinese border and around Haifeng and Hanoi. This permitted the enemy to concentrate anti-aircraft defenses around the North Vietnamese targets that our Air Force was permitted to attack greatly increasing our casualties. Missiles, oil, and ammunition were permitted to enter Haifeng Harbor unmolested and without protest. Of course, the U.S. Defense Department, the Pentagon, and the Johnson administration were well aware that over 85 percent of the war material for Vietcong came from factories within the Soviet Union.

But as soon as Congress approved the resolution for direct American involvement in the Vietnam Civil War, David Rockefeller met with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow to draft a trade agreement that would extend most favored nation status within the Soviet communist bloc. The treaty was approved by President Johnson and went into effect on October 13, 1966. Regarding this development, The New York Times published the following report. The United States put into effect today one of President Johnson’s proposals for stimulating east-west trade by removing restrictions on the export of more than 400 commodities to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Among the categories from which items have been selected for export relaxation are vegetables, cereals, fodder, hides, crude and manufactured rubber, pulp and waste paper, textile and textile fibers, crude compounds and products, dyes, medicines, fireworks, detergents, plastic materials, metal products and machinery, and scientific and professional instruments. Few developments were more symptomatic of the United States’ demise than this agreement. Virtually all of the non-strategic items on the list could be used as instruments of war. A machine gun, for example, was deemed strategic and not part of the agreement, but the tools and parts to manufacture machine guns and chemicals necessary to propel the machine guns’ bullets were considered non-strategic.

The Rockefellers became the principal benefactors of this bloody agreement. They set up with the House of Rothschild the International Basic Economy Corporation to build rubber goods plants and aluminum-producing factories for the Vietnam People’s Air Force that was bombing American forces. But more was at stake in Southeast Asia than the ideology of containment and the immediate opportunity to reap financial benefits from the conflict. The region produced the poppy crops that were becoming one of the world’s most valuable commodities. Without the flow of heroin from the golden triangle of Burma, Laos and Thailand, the funding for the CIA’s covert operations, which opened new markets for money cartel, would come to an abrupt halt.

By 1958, the opium trade in Southeast Asia became so brisk that a second drug supply line was established by the CIA. This route ran from dirt airstrips within the Anamite Mountains of Laos to Saigon’s International Airport for Transshipment to Europe and the United States. In addition to CAT, the CIA contracted the services of small Corsican airplanes for this transport. The Saigon stop would have been impossible without the cooperation of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam, and Diem’s brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, who served as his chef-advisor. Diem, a devout Roman Catholic, had been instructed by the Pope to cooperate with the strategies of the U.S.

government to thwart the gains of Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese. The cooperation was deemed so important by the Vatican that Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York formed a pro-Diem lobby in Washington. Through speeches and pamphlets, the people of Vietnam were presented by Spellman as a terrified throng before the cruel and bloodthirsty Viet Minh, who looked upon the god-fearing Diem for salvation. The CIA now coughed up millions in cover funding for Diem and his brother to expand their scope of intelligence work and their extent of political repression. The support continued even after Diem was driven from office by a CIA-supported military junta in 1963.

Saigon had become a city of strategic importance. In 1967, Theodore Shackley and Thomas G. Clines became the CIA operatives who had been assigned to establish heroin refineries with the aid of Corsican Mafia, who permeated Saigon’s underworld. In 1968, Shackley, known as the Blood Ghost, arranged for Santo Traficante Jr., who controlled organized crime operations in Florida to visit Saigon and to meet with drug lord Ving Pao in the Continental Palace Hotel. The meeting concerned Pao’s ability to provide the supply for the ever-increasing demand. During his stay, Traficante also met with prominent Corsican gangsters to assure them of increased shipments to their laboratories in Marseille.

When the old Bureau of Narcotics and Drugs, BNDD, launched Operation Eagle in 1968, it found itself arresting scores of CIA employees, many of whom were working directly for Traficante. But although it arrested several of his deputies, the BNDD could not get the Johnson or Nixon administrations to go after Traficante directly. By 1971, Congress was getting so many complaints about Gus returning home addicted that the BNDD began to investigate. This investigation, too, went nowhere. The CIA insisted on loaning some of its select special agents to the BNDD as investigators. The agents turned out to be the same men who had assisted in setting up the Laotians and Thais in the heroin business in the first place.

Business was booming. By 1971, there were more than 500,000 heroin addicts in the United States, producing a cash flow of $12 billion. 3,054,000 Americans admitted on a government survey to using heroin at least once. Down at the morgue, where people don’t lie, the numbers told a different story. 41% of the drug-related deaths were now linked to heroin. Southeast Asia remained the main source of opium. From Laos alone, over a ton a month arrived in Saigon on C-17 military transport planes that had been provided by the CIA to T. General Vang Pao of the Royal Lao Army.

So much opium was flowing into Saigon that 30% of the U.S. servicemen in Vietnam became heroin addicts. Some of this same heroin was smuggled into the United States in body bags containing dead soldiers. When DEA agent Michael Levine attempted to bust this operation, he was warned off by his superiors, since such action could result in the exposure of the supply line from Long Ting. Cash from the network continued to be deposited by the mob in parochial banks throughout Italy. From these financial firms, the money flowed into the Vatican Bank, which continued to collect its 15% processing fee, before transferring the funds to privately held mob accounts in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the Bahamas.

But this system was not equipped to handle the billions generated from the heroin trade throughout the world. And so, new money laundries for heroin trade were required, and three teahouse of Rockefeller was more than willing to offer its service. You have been listening to Bridge of Truth, brought to you by biblical teacher and author Jim Pugh with God is Government. For free access to all of Jim Pugh’s Bridge of Truth podcast, please go to www.godisgovernment.com. Distribution of the Bridge of Truth and all other teachings are available for worldwide distribution. Thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Bridge of Truth.

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