About this episode
Sterling Seagrave discusses his book 'Red Sky in the Morning' and the complex history of Manila post-WWII.
Author Sterling Seagrave reads sections from his book "Red Sky in the Morning" Gives a glimpse into the raw wild, machiavellian world of Manilla after WWII Documents from Ed Lansdale's G2 Manilla file led to the book (3 foot tall stack of papers) Philip Mehan, adventures in the Philippines, Pete Peterson, escaped imprisonment "Cheez", arrested, liberated, and vanished, an anti-Communist White Russian, Chirskoff It was Lansdale who really started the Cold War, murder as many Huks as they could find Demonizing Vietnamese dirt farmers, Laos and Cambodia, then Central America, death squads "The Manila File" - three feet high, declassified portion, Bohannon, secret agendas, private armies Billions in funds, rich tycoons, crooked banks, dirty tricks, total control of the media Philip Mehan, missed combat, part of Operation Magic Carpet, USS Admiral C.F. Hughes Filipinos have mixed feelings regarding the U.S., big U.S. corporations, President Manuel Quezon Elpidio Quirino, Americans welcomed as liberators, scams, bribery and kickbacks Phil was assigned to a freighter and there met Pete Peterson, Java China Trading Company jobs Reconditioning and selling U.S. surplus ships, Lansdale…
People in this episode
Host: Len Osanic
Guest: Sterling Seagrave
Topics covered
- Cold War
- Philippines history
- anti-Communism
- military operations
- U.S. foreign policy
- declassified documents
Keywords
- Sterling Seagrave
- Cold War
- Manila
- Ed Lansdale
- anti-Communism
- declassified documents
- Operation Magic Carpet
- Philippines
- U.S. foreign policy
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Red Sky in the Morning
Places: Manila, Philippines, U.S., Laos, Cambodia, Central America
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