That Time the CIA Faked a Vampire Attack to Take Over a Country

Summary by Krater

The video discusses a Cold War CIA psychological warfare campaign in the Philippines involving fake vampire attacks to suppress the Huk rebellion, examining how the operation successfully stopped the insurgency and tracing its broader context in US intervention history.

From the video

Answers: Did the CIA really fake a vampire attack in the Philippines?

• CIA operations in the Philippines
• Huk rebellion
• Edward Lansdale
• Psychological warfare tactics
• Anti-Subversion Act
• Ramon Magsaysay
• William Blum and Killing Hope

What it concludes

• The CIA staged psychological warfare operations using vampire folklore to suppress the Huk rebellion in the Philippines.
• Edward Lansdale used local superstition and staged events to undermine and terrify Huk rebels into abandoning their insurgency.
• Raymundo Magsaysay was supported by the CIA and eventually became president of the Philippines through heavily influenced political campaigns.
• Republic Act No. 1700 was passed to outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines and suppress communist movements.
• William Blum's book Killing Hope documents extensive US military and CIA interventions since World War II.