Chip Beck, CIA Officer, Naval Commander on Final Days of Heroes - Cambodians Defying the Khmer Rouge

Interview of Thursday, 19 Oct 2023 between Chip Beck, CIA Officer, Sailor, Artist; and AFIO President James Hughes, a former senior CIA Operations Officer. They discuss Chip's book "Final Days of Heroes: How a CIA Agent and his Cambodian Allies Fought, Defied, and Resisted the Khmer Rouge."
The interview runs 25 minutes and includes several Q&As.
His book FINAL DAYS OF HEROES is available for purchase here:
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More about Chip Beck here: www.gooseislan...
Key Moments:
00:31 - Intro of author Dr. Chip Beck
01:14 - What was the Upcountry Program in Cambodia?
02:29 - What was the significance of the town Kampong Thom where you were assigned?
03:32 - Who were the principal Heroes in your book?
04:50 - Describe the Kampong Thom breakout raid and the later Rice raid.
08:38 - What was the impact of these raids on the battlefield?
09:55 - What did the Chi Hawk and Giap Ben do to prepare a Kampong Cham for the siege? And what was the final outcome?
12:42 - Describe the situation in Phnom Penh the summer of 1974. What was Operation 802?
13:41 - How effective was the Fang Defense of Phnom Penh in the summer-fall of 1974?
15:01 - What preparations did you make to evacuate allied fighters and their families?
17:21 - Describe the final days of the Phnom Penh government, the U.S. Embassy evacuation, and Project X-ray.
19:52 - How much advance notice did senior members Phnom Penh government have? And did they accept the offer for evacuation?
21:44 - What was the final fate of General Kee Hut and his family and Lt Chung Tep and his family?
BIOS:
WILLIAM (Chip) BECK EdD, is a retired Navy Commander and a CIA Senior Clandestine Service Officer who served in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1969 to 1975.
Beyond that, he is a combat veteran and observer of more than 20 foreign wars, revolutions, and conflict zones on four continents.
From 1963 through 2013 he engaged in various military, intelligence, diplomatic, defense, peacekeeping, and law enforcement capacities before retiring from the State Department to pursue writing, art, photography, leisure travel, and life on his Virginia farm.
Beck has traveled to 150 foreign countries and speaks several foreign languages. He holds degrees in International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, Organizational Leadership, and Conflict Resolution, and a doctorate of education.
JAMES R. HUGHES currently serves as the 17th President of AFIO. His service began January 2015. He had a career of US Government service spanning 37 years in numerous foreign countries with a particular focus in the Middle East. He started in U.S. Military Intelligence in the late 1960s and then joined the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He served overseas as a Chief of Station several times, and at CIA Headquarters in a number of senior management positions, including as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, in the Directorate of Operations [today’s National Clandestine Service]. He was also named the Associate Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) at the National Security Agency, 1998-99. Following his retirement from the government in 2005, he joined EDS in Herndon, VA, as the Client Industry Executive for the U.S. Intelligence Community. After the HP acquisition of EDS, he continued to serve in a similar capacity until his retirement in 2012. His parents were missionaries in Turkey in the 1950s, where Jim spent his formative years. He is fluent in Arabic.
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[@CosmosNut]

Thank you so much for your videos!

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Chip Beck can be contacted here: www.gooseislandpublishing.com/contact

[@theLoneWolfSpeaks]

If I recall, Beck was a very close friend of kidnapped & murdered CIA station chief William F Buckley. A very sad story

[@derecqil8508]

Can you provide Mr. beck's email address?

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You can reach Chip Beck here: www.gooseislandpublishing.com/contact

[@derecqil8508]

Thanks!