Vietnam war Navy Seal - Jim Hawes / MACV SOG NAD / CIA /Author
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2024
- Navy SEAL Vietnam / CIA veteran and author takes an hour to discuss his Seal Team 2 days, working with MACV SOGS naval division NAD and training South Vietnamese LLDN (naval commandos) After his naval swift boat covert ops experience in Vietnam an invitation from the CIA would take Hawes to deepest darkness Africa. To find out why Hawes was in Africa and who his team narrowly missed will surprise you..........ever better buy his book!
Overview
For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.
Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that Che Guevara attempting to export his revolution a few miles away.
Cold War Navy SEAL gives unprecedented insight into a clandestine chapter in US history through the experiences of Hawes, a distinguished Navy frogman and later a CIA contractor. His journey began as an officer in the newly-formed SEAL Team 2, which then led him to Vietnam in 1964 to train hit-and-run boat teams who ran clandestine raids into North Vietnam. Those raids directly instigated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The CIA tapped Hawes to deploy to the Congo, where he would be tasked with creating and leading a paramilitary navy on Lake Tanganyika to disrupt guerilla action in the country. According to the US government, he did not, and could not, exist; he was on his own, 1400 miles from his closest allies, with only periodic letters via air-drop as communication. Hawes recalls recruiting and managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara.
In vivid detail that rivals any action movie, Hawes describes how he and his team discovered Guevara leading the communist rebels on the other side and eventually forced him from the country, accomplishing a seemingly impossible mission. Complete with never-before-seen photographs and interviews with fellow operatives in the Congo, Cold War Navy SEAL is an unblinking look at a portion of Cold War history never before told.
COLD WAR NAVY Seal book reviews - 5.0 out of 5 stars Classified for 50 years - an extraordinary true account.
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018
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Cold War Navy Seal
Hawes takes readers on a journey that most only experience in fictional dramatizations. Yet his story is true!
We witness his passion and frustration as well as the danger and quick thinking needed to succeed and survive a covert operation in a hostile environment. The goal is to be achieved with minimal political support (yet with great political risk) where many rules just do not apply… But, don’t get caught!
Cold War Navy Seal is a sincere tribute to the men and women who served and sacrificed without public reward and recognition under Hawes; as well as acknowledging the critical involvement of the mercenary force “5 Commando” or “Wild Geese” under the leadership of Irish born Lt. Col ‘Mad’ Mike Hoare.
Hawes’ story unfolds when the Johnson Administration was still reeling from the national implications of Fidel Castro (The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs and exiled Cuban guerilla operations ), the assassination of JFK and the escalation of the war in Viet Nam, etc.
Accordingly, opening another front in Africa involving exiled Cubans, Castro Cubans, as well as the Russians and Chinese had both domestic and global political implications.
What transpired was classified for 50 years until 2014. This is the story of the unrecognized hero’s---like many serving today to rid the world of terrorism---whose names and stories would be lost but for leaders like Lt. Jim Hawes. His dedication to his team and the supporting cast motivated Hawes to make the effort and the investment to tell their story.
This is a must read for both those interested in the history as well as those who want to peek behind the scenes to gain insight into the role the CIA plays in securing and protecting Americans and America’s interests around the world.
Reach out and order Jims Book !
GREAT HEROS . we where all young once still young at heart vn 1970
Great interview, Jim. Now get him to interview Bailey!
Great interview guys. Thanks and Happy New Year ✌️
I love hearing these stories of Warriors
I'm gonna buy and read Hawes book. The part about him working with Mad Mike Hoare is particularly interesting. And looking for Che Guevara. Was Hawe a plankowner at SEAL TEAM 2?
Thank you, Jimmy.
Thank you, Jim.
I never knew that Cuba in Vietnam War... thank you for your service Cuba
Great to here from these guys! We all like to hear about covert ops !!
I am eager to find his book
As the light on his face faded in and out I felt I was watching Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now!
Love it! 💪
never know who might be on here in the future..
Outstanding interview! Will order his book as soon as I finish his interview....
Thanks - Jim did a long one with Jocko - its on youtube
Roy Boehm book First Seal covers Cuba spy ops and the Viet SEAL. First C.O. of SEAL 2
Tales of Opp's are coming out of the Woodwork.
Yes they are
Declassification of some of the Top-secret ops is why. Jim waited until the Congo op was declassified to write his book or even talk about it. Jim's Cuban team in the Congo had not breathed a word of this op to ANYONE until the book came out. I know this, as I am Jim's partner in our current business and was there at the book signing at the Brigada 2506 Museum in Miami.
Were you a plankowner of SEAL TEAM 2? I ask that because I met a SEAL TEAM 2 plankowner at the UDT/SEAL museum at Fort Pierce, Florida summer 1994. Master Chief Petty Officer Jim "Patches" Watson was the curator of the museum back then. Watson autographed a SEAL book I bought at the museum, shook my hand and called me "hoss."
I have patches book "Pointman" and dude did three tours in Vietnam and was an absolute stud lol
It's awsome you met that fella before he passed
@@tnreprasentog7769 I had Watson's book "Pointman" as well, back in the nineties. There were several things he wrote in his autobiography I found interesting, that I remember. One, Watson captured a full bird communist Chinese PLA Colonel working as an advisor to the NVA or VC. Watson wrote in his book the State department "kept that capture quiet" and let that PLA Colonel leave South East Asia quietly. Can't remember if Watson captured that PLA Colonel in South Vietnam or in a cross border incursion into Cambodia.
@@tnreprasentog7769 Yeah met him at the UDT museum in Fort Pierce, July 1994. He invited me into his office to sign a Hans Halberstadt book about the SEALs. Watson told me "there was more true stuff in Marcinko's second book "Red Cell" than there was in Marcinko's original book, "Rogue Warrior." That's what Watson told me. I was just a twenty five year old lifeguard who had just graduated from UNC Greensboro, I had been kicked out of the Navy in late 1987 on a medical/administrative separation and had been trying to get into BUD/S. Knee and left ankle (third degree severe sprain almost broke ankle) problems prevented me from going back in.
@@CoolestDude38NC I read about that he caught him in Cambodia im pretty sure he actually almost caught kidnapping charges lmao the Chinese were trying to get him trouble lol he was advising the PRU for the "plumbers" (CIA) lol
Wonder if he worked with Don Shipley or not
i can ask ...
He may have been in the Congo but I never saw him in Da Nang, just Sayin'.............
It is written in multiple books re Jim
say hi to Styker!