Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and psychological warfare effort exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. It was an attempt to increase desertions and defections from Việt Cộng forces and weaken their morale.
America's Psychological Warfare Still Haunts Vietnam
The recording, known as Ghost Tape Number 10, played a central role in Operation Wandering Soul, a psychological operation, or psyop, that sought to crush the morale of North Vietnamese soldiers ...
Operation Wandering Soul (Ghost Tape Number 10)
Also known as "Ghost Tape Number 10" was an audio mix the US military used for psychological operations in the Vietnam War against the North Vietnamese. It p...
Operation Wandering Soul: Ghosts in the Vietnam War?
Operation Wandering Soul. It was just after dusk on the night of 10th February 1970, when the jungle around the U.S Army Fire Support Base, Chamberlain in Hau Nghia Province of South Vietnam was filled with spine chilling and frightful sounds. The darkening night was filled with unearthly wails and moans, seeming to come from everywhere.
Operation Wandering Soul: The US Military's Use of Psychological
During World War II, the Allied forces made use of such tactics against the Germans, and by the time the Vietnam War was in full swing in the 1960s, American troops had expanded their deployment of psychological warfare. One way they did this was through the launch of Operation Wandering Soul, which played upon Vietnamese superstitions and beliefs.
Ghost Tape No. 10: The Haunted Mixtape of the Vietnam War
Known as "Operation Wandering Soul ," the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (6th PSYOP) of the U.S. Army, with help from the U.S. Navy, broadcast spooky sounds fit for a modern horror movie and called it "Ghost Tape Number 10" (listen to the audio here ). The ruse had its genesis in "Ghost Army" recordings made during World War II to trick ...
Operation Wandering Soul
Operation Wandering Soul - Ghost Tape Number 10 and the Haunted Jungles of Vietnam Published Date: 30 October, 2013 The U.S. Army had a ghoulishly creative trick up their sleeve for Viet Cong insurgents in 1970.
Operation Wandering Soul: The Terrifying Ghost Tapes Of The Vietnam War
Armed with this cultural knowledge, the military believed that using ghosts could be an effective tactic against the Viet Cong, reports The War Zone. So it came up with "Operation Wandering Soul," a campaign meant to trick enemy soldiers into thinking that the souls of the dead were attempting to communicate with them.
The Haunting Melodies of War: A Deep Dive into Operation Wandering Soul
Operation Wandering Soul was a pivotal campaign of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War, leveraging haunting auditory illusions to demoralize enemy t...
Strange, But Successful, War Tactics—The Wandering Soul of Vietnam
The Wandering Soul. It was around this time that the US unveiled its odd new strategy for breaking the spirit of the North Vietnamese soldiers and communist guerrillas. The clip below was called Ghost Tape Number 10. It was a part of Operation Wandering Soul. Before listening to the clip, lets set the scene: It is late at night in the ...
Operation Wandering Soul
Explore the eerie tactics of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War with Operation Wandering Soul. Ghost Tape Number Ten, a chilling audio recording, a...
The Ghosts of Vietnam: Operation Wandering Soul
In the deep, dark, moist, shadows of the Vietnam War, a haunting operation known as "Wandering Soul" unfolded, buried in the annals of history. This was a psychological warfare campaign, as illegal as it was morbid, an eerie symphony of sounds that had mixed results in intimidating the enemy, and was one of the many crimes from that war kept ...
The Wandering Soul
THE "WANDERING SOUL" TAPE OF VIETNAM. SGM Herbert A. Friedman (Ret.) Note: The book "SOUND TARGETS," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2009, used portions of this article and quoted the author and Ed Rouse the webmaster. This article has been translated into French and reprinted with the author's permission by the Association of Collectors of the American-Vietnamese Conflict.
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Created by the U.S. Army during the American War in Vietnam, "Ghost Tape #10" was one of many audio tapes engineered to psychologically terrify the North Vietnamese Army through its depiction of wandering souls in the Buddhist afterlife. By re-examining this weaponization of religious belief, reflections on this artifact of American propaganda ...
The Wandering Soul
In 1964, it found one: an old Vietnamese folktale about a ghost, eternal damnation, and fear—a myth that the U.S. could weaponize. And so, armed with tape recorders and microphones, American ...
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Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and large-scale psychological warfare attempt exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. U.S. Forces hoped that the operation would weaken the morale of the Viet Cong and prey on the fears of many Vietnamese.
Wandering Soul: Haunting Tactics of the Vietnam War
In this video, we delve into the chilling and little-known psychological warfare operation known as Wandering Soul, employed during the Vietnam War. Discover...
Operation Wandering Souls: veterans asked to return Vietnam mementos
Operation Wandering Souls began in 2012 by tracking the location of every battle fought by the 1st Australian Task Force which resulted in the death of a People's Army or Viet Cong soldier.
Operation Wandering Soul (Vietnam War)
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. Forces during the Vietnam War. The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in the "wandering soul": "It is the Vietnamese belief that the dead must be buried in their homeland, or their soul will wander aimlessly in pain and suffering. Vietnamese feel that if a person is improperly buried, then their soul wanders ...
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. Forces during the Vietnam War.The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in ...
Operation Wandering Soul: Ghost Tape Stories from the Vietnam Era
Vietnam's Operation Wandering Soul took things further by tapping directly into spiritual anxieties. Engineering Eerie "Ghost Tapes" To develop an effective propaganda weapon based around "wandering souls," the U.S. military first had to create the fear-inducing tapes themselves. The 6th Battalion spearheaded production of the so-called "Ghost ...
Operation Wandering Soul
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Operation Wandering Soul [Remastered]
I couldn't bear the audio quality of the original recording, so I cleaned it up a bit.Original video with info:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d9H_1ygEv8Aud...
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Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and psychological warfare effort exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. It was an attempt to increase desertions and defections from Việt Cộng forces and weaken their morale.
The recording, known as Ghost Tape Number 10, played a central role in Operation Wandering Soul, a psychological operation, or psyop, that sought to crush the morale of North Vietnamese soldiers ...
Also known as "Ghost Tape Number 10" was an audio mix the US military used for psychological operations in the Vietnam War against the North Vietnamese. It p...
Operation Wandering Soul. It was just after dusk on the night of 10th February 1970, when the jungle around the U.S Army Fire Support Base, Chamberlain in Hau Nghia Province of South Vietnam was filled with spine chilling and frightful sounds. The darkening night was filled with unearthly wails and moans, seeming to come from everywhere.
During World War II, the Allied forces made use of such tactics against the Germans, and by the time the Vietnam War was in full swing in the 1960s, American troops had expanded their deployment of psychological warfare. One way they did this was through the launch of Operation Wandering Soul, which played upon Vietnamese superstitions and beliefs.
Known as "Operation Wandering Soul ," the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (6th PSYOP) of the U.S. Army, with help from the U.S. Navy, broadcast spooky sounds fit for a modern horror movie and called it "Ghost Tape Number 10" (listen to the audio here ). The ruse had its genesis in "Ghost Army" recordings made during World War II to trick ...
Operation Wandering Soul - Ghost Tape Number 10 and the Haunted Jungles of Vietnam Published Date: 30 October, 2013 The U.S. Army had a ghoulishly creative trick up their sleeve for Viet Cong insurgents in 1970.
Armed with this cultural knowledge, the military believed that using ghosts could be an effective tactic against the Viet Cong, reports The War Zone. So it came up with "Operation Wandering Soul," a campaign meant to trick enemy soldiers into thinking that the souls of the dead were attempting to communicate with them.
Operation Wandering Soul was a pivotal campaign of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War, leveraging haunting auditory illusions to demoralize enemy t...
The Wandering Soul. It was around this time that the US unveiled its odd new strategy for breaking the spirit of the North Vietnamese soldiers and communist guerrillas. The clip below was called Ghost Tape Number 10. It was a part of Operation Wandering Soul. Before listening to the clip, lets set the scene: It is late at night in the ...
Explore the eerie tactics of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War with Operation Wandering Soul. Ghost Tape Number Ten, a chilling audio recording, a...
In the deep, dark, moist, shadows of the Vietnam War, a haunting operation known as "Wandering Soul" unfolded, buried in the annals of history. This was a psychological warfare campaign, as illegal as it was morbid, an eerie symphony of sounds that had mixed results in intimidating the enemy, and was one of the many crimes from that war kept ...
THE "WANDERING SOUL" TAPE OF VIETNAM. SGM Herbert A. Friedman (Ret.) Note: The book "SOUND TARGETS," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2009, used portions of this article and quoted the author and Ed Rouse the webmaster. This article has been translated into French and reprinted with the author's permission by the Association of Collectors of the American-Vietnamese Conflict.
Created by the U.S. Army during the American War in Vietnam, "Ghost Tape #10" was one of many audio tapes engineered to psychologically terrify the North Vietnamese Army through its depiction of wandering souls in the Buddhist afterlife. By re-examining this weaponization of religious belief, reflections on this artifact of American propaganda ...
In 1964, it found one: an old Vietnamese folktale about a ghost, eternal damnation, and fear—a myth that the U.S. could weaponize. And so, armed with tape recorders and microphones, American ...
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and large-scale psychological warfare attempt exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. U.S. Forces hoped that the operation would weaken the morale of the Viet Cong and prey on the fears of many Vietnamese.
In this video, we delve into the chilling and little-known psychological warfare operation known as Wandering Soul, employed during the Vietnam War. Discover...
Operation Wandering Souls began in 2012 by tracking the location of every battle fought by the 1st Australian Task Force which resulted in the death of a People's Army or Viet Cong soldier.
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. Forces during the Vietnam War. The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in the "wandering soul": "It is the Vietnamese belief that the dead must be buried in their homeland, or their soul will wander aimlessly in pain and suffering. Vietnamese feel that if a person is improperly buried, then their soul wanders ...
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. Forces during the Vietnam War.The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in ...
Vietnam's Operation Wandering Soul took things further by tapping directly into spiritual anxieties. Engineering Eerie "Ghost Tapes" To develop an effective propaganda weapon based around "wandering souls," the U.S. military first had to create the fear-inducing tapes themselves. The 6th Battalion spearheaded production of the so-called "Ghost ...
The first 1000 people to click the link will get a FREE Skillshare Premium membership: https://skl.sh/darkdocs0720. Skillshare is an online learning communit...
I couldn't bear the audio quality of the original recording, so I cleaned it up a bit.Original video with info:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d9H_1ygEv8Aud...