Chuck Bryant

No, this was definitely a different level than those other ones that you mentioned, because there was a CIA trained that Lansdale helped oversee group of government Filipino government military operatives.

That's a really clumsy way to put it.

But they were basically set out.

They were unleashed on this village where a bunch of hook rebels, I think 100 to 300 of them were in camp nearby.

And they were intimidating the villagers into being quiet, giving them supplies, that kind of stuff.

So the CIA found out about this and they really wanted to get this hook detachment out of this area.

And this is when they unleashed this Aswang rumor.

They basically had these Filipino commandos go into the village and start a rumor that the Aswang was haunting this area where the hook rebels were camped out.

Well, I saw also one of the things that they did was put puncture holes in their neck and drain them of blood.

And that is not really Aswang at all.

That's Dracula stuff.

And that's just shoddy research of a poor quality if you're really trying to scare off people based on their superstitions.

What's Jordan Clark?

He talked to I think he talked to Dave Ruse, who wrote this for How Stuff Works.

Yeah.

But it worked.

It didn't win the war.

Jordan Clark points out, like, this worked this one time.

I think it was only used one time.

And it did dislodge those hook insurgents.