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BG (Ret) Blackburn
I heard BG Blackburn speak at the JFK Center in 1972. He was a contemporary of Charlie Norton who had also served as an Alamo Scout in the RPI during WW2. Blackburn was also the 1st Chief-SOG (with Bull Simons as his OPS-35 director) and also Special Assistant for Counter-Insurgency and Special Activities on the Joint Staff in 1970-71 and initial approving authority for the joint planning group's ("IVORY COAST") concept for "Operation Kingpin" (the Son Tay raid). He was a quiet but powerful speaker and--like COL Bank--rich with first hand antidotes about CI and UW ops.
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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