CIA activities in the Philippines

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During World War II, a number of Americans who would later be involved in forming United States Army Special Forces and other special operations activities were stay-behind guerillas in the Philippines, including Wendell Fertig, Russell Volckmann, and Donald Blackburn.

[edit] Philippines 1948

CIA funded an counter-insurgency war against the Hukbalahap^{[citation needed]}. United States Air Force Colonel Edward Lansdale, seconded to the CIA, led the effort, befriending then Defense Minister, and later Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay. The insurgency was defeated.

[edit] Philippines 1958

See Indonesia 1958 for Filipino support to an abortive coup in Indonesia.

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