Josh Clark
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That's right.
That feels like a pretty good time for a break.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
We're going to come right back and talk about what happened in 1950 right after this.
All right.
So I promised talk of 1950.
That is when Lansdale came to the Philippines.
He was undercover as a CIA guy.
He was officially there as an Air Force officer and advisor to the president of the Philippines, who was Ramon Magsaysay.
Magsaysay?
I'm going with Magsaysay.
Magsaysay.
I don't know why I said saysaw.
So he was assigned there in the Philippines because the U.S.
was backing that regime and they were fighting a war against communist rebels there known as the Hooks.
It was H-U-K-S.
And they were, you know, they fought, the Hooks fought, you know, pretty heroically in the Philippine army against the Japanese in World War II.
But after the war, they, along with their leader, whose name was, I guess, Louis Tarouk,