Josh Clark

said, nuts to this government, to borrow a Josh Clark term, because the Philippine Trade Act of 1946 basically said the American government gets equal rights to the natural resources, and the hawks weren't down with that.

Yeah.

Not only U.S.-backed, but sort of U.S.-elected because those supposedly free elections in the Philippines that brought this party into power were totally rigged by the CIA and U.S.

operatives.

So it was all dirty dealing going on in the CIA back then.

Not like these days.

that's a great idea where'd you get that idea i don't know let's hear from you do people want that let's find out all right so uh some of these cywar tactics they got busy doing their stuff like kind of doing research on the the filipinos and like what would kind of what would sway them what would work they did some studies of the people like especially the peasants living in the hook areas

One of the sort of, I guess, sort of low-hanging fruit light you were talking about that they used was they would fly over these areas with, you know, kind of low-flying light aircraft to broadcast curses and tagalog.

If anyone was like, if you're a villager and you're going to help the Huk soldiers, this curse will befall you.

That sort of worked a little bit.

He would also paint what's called the Eye of God.

It was just kind of a scary looking thing on houses of Hulk sympathizers, like on their front door.

And that would kind of scare people out.

But kind of nothing like what he did with Aswang, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you think, all right, well, that doesn't sound much different than the other thing.

Like they're spreading a rumor that might scare them into not helping these local soldiers there in the nearby hills.

But they took it one step further and they had these agents go in and Oswang them basically.

They would kidnap hook fighters and disembowel them and clean them out Oswang vampire style and leave their bloodless corpses behind.