- CIA activities in the Philippines
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Main article: CIA activities in Asia and the Pacific
During World War II, a number of Americans who would later be involved in forming United States Army Special Forces and other special operations activities were stay-behind guerillas in the Philippines, including Wendell Fertig, Russell Volckmann, and Donald Blackburn.
Philippines 1948
CIA funded a counter-insurgency war against the Hukbalahap[citation needed]. United States Air Force Colonel Edward Lansdale, seconded to the CIA, led the effort, befriending then Defense Minister, and later Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay. The insurgency was defeated.
Philippines 1958
See Indonesia 1958 for Filipino support to an abortive coup in Indonesia.
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