THE CIA'S VAMPIRE STRATEGY: How America Used Filipino Superstitions Against Communists
The CIA once employed a bizarre psychological warfare tactic in the Philippines, exploiting local superstitions about the Aswang monster to fight communist rebels in the 1950s. This disturbing operation involved CIA-trained special forces capturing Huk rebels, draining their blood, and leaving their bodies with puncture wounds in the neck to create the appearance of vampire attacks.
• Edward Lansdale, a former advertising executive turned CIA operative, pioneered psychological operations in the Philippines
• The Huk rebellion began as an anti-Japanese resistance that later opposed the…
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