James Lyons
 James Lyons    (mariner) | |
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| Born | September 28, 1927 New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | December 12, 2018 (Age 91) |
| Alma mater | United States Naval Academy, Naval War College, National Defense University |
| Perpetrator of | The secret war against Sweden |
| Interests | • Seth Rich • The Reagan Method |
Not to be confused with scientist James Lyons-Weiler.
James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr. was a U.S. admiral who played a central role in the Reagan escalation of the Cold War.
Ocean Venture
Ocean Venture was a key part of a series of NATO exercises that began in July 1981. By sending a large strike fleet to just outside the main Soviet fleet bases in a surprise move, it almost triggered a World War 3.
With the election of President Ronald Reagan and the selection of John Lehman as Secretary of the Navy, the U.S. Navy was given orders to be more realistic and aggressive during its periodic fleet exercises. Lehman authorized exercises that masked the location of large multicarrier task forces until they were within shooting range of the main Soviet bases on the Kola Peninsula. On virtually every occasion, Lyons’s stealthy techniques caught the Soviets by total surprise.[1][2]
Lyons led his Navy and NATO colleagues in planning and developing Ocean Venture ’81 into a massive exercise involving fifteen nations, over a thousand aircraft, 250 ships, two aircraft carriers, and the British jump jet carrier Invincible. The exercise practiced offensive and sea-control operations well north of the normal operating area of the Greenland–Iceland–United Kingdom gap..[1]
Lyons used a number of deception decoys and tactics, integrated Air Force assets into the fleet movement, masking his entire striking fleet through electronic means, exploitation of the foul weather, and the use of decoys, until it was within striking distance of Murmansk.[1] Lehman reflected that it was not until Lyon’s Second Fleet units had reached the Norwegian Sea that "the Soviets realized they had been snookered."[2]
The large-scale exercises in the Atlantic, which included allied forces, were paralleled by similar exercises in the Pacific, which employed the same techniques to threaten the Soviet Pacific bases. [1]
Red Cell
As Rear-Admiral Lyons, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations, in 1984 set up a ‘terrorist unit’ — known as the Red Cell — recruited from his own naval special forces (SEAL Team Six), to attack naval bases worldwide. This unit set off bombs, wounded US personnel and took hundreds of hostages as part of its operations. According to Lyons, it was necessary for US forces to get ‘physical’ experience of the terrorist threat in order to ‘change the mindset’ and ‘raise the awareness’ of the troops to prevent a possibly even more devastating attack.[3]
Seth Rich
An event carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
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| The secret war against Sweden | Sweden Stockholm Baltic Sea Karlskrona Hårsfjärden | A large number of "Soviet" submarine intrusions in Swedish waters in the 1980s, in reality committed by NATO under false flag. The intrusions were about deception and PSYOPs, to change the mindset of the Swedes, to make them adapt to US interests. |
