Thailand

Thailand   (Country)
Capital city	Bangkok
Location	Asia, South East Asia
Type	nation state
Interest of	Ralph McGehee
Member of	APEC, ASEAN, UN
South east Asian kingdom. The first country to report a case of COVID outside China, on 13 January 2020

Thailand is a nation state in South East Asia.

Reporting

Tony Cartalucci's Land Destroyer Report reports on Thailand.

Attack upon seasteaders

In 2019, Chad Elwartowski and Nadia Summergirl set up a small seastead 13 miles off the coast of Thailand. The Thai navy raided it. Now in hiding they were told they might face the death penalty for violating Thai sovereignty.

Prostitution

In 1957, at the start of the Vietnam War, it is estimated that there were between 18,000 and 20,000 prostitutes in Thailand. After opening seven military bases, the US army invested $16,000,000 in the Thai economy annually. In 1964, the number of prostitutes had grown to 400,000. The Pentagon was responsible for creating what Senator J. William Fulbright called, like South Vietnam, "an American brothel" in Asia.

COVID

Thailand is expected to rely mainly on the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine through a manufacturing deal secured by palace-owned Siam Bioscience company, with first batches produced in June 2021.

 

Events

Event	Description
Thomas Merton/Assassination
Vietnam War	The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like.

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Mahidol University	1888	Thai medical university
SEATO	1954	1950s attempt to replicate NATO in Asia.
Task Force Alpha		"The deniable link between authorized military operations and the unauthorized activities of the Central Intelligence Agency."

 

Job here

Event	Job	Appointed	End
Peer de Silva	Bangkok Chief of Station	1966	1968

 

Citizens of Thailand on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Sucharit Bhakdi	1 November 1946		One of the first and most important dissidents against Covid.
Boonruen Choonhavan	25 April 1920	14 August 2021	The widow of the former Prime Minister of Thailand died of a "COVID 19 related illness". Also a relative of the Queen Mother Srinagarindra.
Supachai Panitchpakdi	30 May 1946		Thai politician who has a career working at IGOs.
Phao Siyanon	1 March 1910	21 November 1960	Thai police general who ran huge opium trade in collaboration with the CIA and the Kuomintang.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Meet a Propagandist	webpage	4 August 2011	'Tony Cartalucci'

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