Assignment Iran (Old SF Video)

[bkleonards]

Here is an interesting video that a few here might remenber. Believe it is circa early/mid 60's timeframe. Enjoy. (approx. 28 mins)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIv1g_RFKFM

(Did a quick search and did not see it posted previously)

[Richard]

The Big Picture ran on ABC 1951-1964.

The beret was authorized 25 Sep 1961.

The USA Special Warfare Center SSI ("Flaming Pisspot") was authorized 22 Oct 1962.

The SFTG Major in the film does not wear the later USASWC SSI but the previously worn CONARC (now FORSCOM) SSI.

Judging by the clothing and equipment and insignia, I think the film was made sometime between 10/61-10/62.

Richard

[JJ_BPK]

I think this is the speaker:

Paul Wineman

Paul Wineman was born in Hollywood, Ca and attended the University of Washington, graduating with a BA in Communications. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army, he was assigned to the Office of Information, Pentagon, Washington D.C. prior to arriving in Teheran, Iran as the Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Station operating there. In 1963, having attended the United States Army Language School in Monterey, California, for a full year of Persian (Farsi) language instruction, he was again assigned to Iran as the U.S. Army Airborne-Special Forces Advisor to the Imperial Iranian Army. In this capacity Wineman, then a Captain, was the only assigned U.S. Army Advisor to that unit.

Leaving the U.S. Army in 1965 in order to obtain a Masters Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the American university of Beirut, Lebanon in 1967, Paul returned to Teheran, Iran, to become the General Manager of Television of Iran. In 1968, he became a Contract Supervisor to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Saudi Arabia, involved in the U.S. Army’s operation and maintenance of the Saudi Arabian Television Network.

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http://web.mac.com/tcp1330/ALA.01/Core_bios.html

The Paul R Wineman Scholarship, PHI KAPPA PSI

Brother Paul Wineman, Washington '55, was born in Hollywood, California and raised in the Middle East. He returned to the U.S. to attend the University of Washington, graduating with a BA in Communications. As a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he was assigned to the Office of Chief of Information at the Pentagon, prior to arriving in Tehran, Iran as Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces Radio and Television station operating there. After a full year of Persian (Farsi) language instruction at the U.S. Army Language School in Monterey, California, he returned to Iran as the U.S. Army Airborne-Special Forces Advisor to the Imperial Iranian Army.

In 1965 Paul left the Army temporarily to obtain a Masters in Middle Eastern studies, which he received in 1967 from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. He then returned to Iran to become the General Manager of Television of Iran. In 1968

he became a Contract Supervisor to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Saudi Arabia, involved in the Army's operation and maintenance of the Saudi Arabian Television Network. Brother Wineman has survived through eight years of civil war in Lebanon, served as a Green Beret officer in Iran, has experienced two airplane crashes and a hijacking and was held hostage for a time in Beirut.

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