Capt. Rudy was also involved in The Mayaguez incident which took place between Kampuchea and the United States from May 12–15, 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S. backed Khmer Republic. It was the last official battle of the Vietnam War. The names of the Americans killed, as well as those of three U.S. Marines who were left behind on the island of Koh Tang after the battle and were subsequently executed by the Khmer Rouge, are the last names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Mayaguez was carrying 107 containers of routine cargo, 77 containers of government and military cargo, and 90 empty containers, all insured for $5 million. The Khmer Rouge never inspected the containers, and exact contents have not been disclosed, but Mayaguez had loaded containers from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon nine days before the fall of Saigon. The captain had a U.S. government envelope only to be opened in special circumstances, which he destroyed.
Secretary of State Kissinger sent a message to the Chinese Liaison Office in Washington demanding the immediate release of Mayaguez and her crew, but the chief of the Liaison Office refused to accept the note. Kissinger then instructed George H. W. Bush, then head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing, to deliver the note to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and to pass on an oral message that “The Government of the United States demands the immediate release of the vessel and of the full crew. If that release does not immediately take place, the authorities in Phnom Penh will be responsible for the consequences.”
The NSC meeting continued to consider the appropriate course to resolve the crisis. It was informed that the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing had refused to pass on the American note intended for the Khmer Rouge, but George Bush reported that they had read the note and that it might have been relayed to the Khmer Rouge.
...A long, interesting rescue tale ensues, only partially successful...
When many of the coordination and communications problems arose again during Operation Eagle Claw, the hostage rescue mission in Iran in 1980, significant changes in joint and special operations were brought about.
In 1996 the Mayaguez-Marine Corps Memorial was dedicated in the grounds of the U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh by then Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn and Senator John McCain.
McCain, GHWBush, coordination and communications improvements, and DJT looking at his marker all cause me to wonder...
“Capt. Rudy was also involved in The Mayaguez incident which took place between Kampuchea and the United States from May 12–15, 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S. backed Khmer Republic”
Thanks, I was looking for that but haf to tend my hearth for a bit.
Yes, much intrugue. Last battle of Vietnam, Bush the elder-wouldn’t he have been in the CIA then? And wasn’t the CIA involved in some heroin production deal there?
And this military contractor involved with Abu Ghraib that is also concerned with global intelligence information...
Could tie into fvey, fisa, and everything....
“For the past 20 years until his death, Captain Rhudy served as Director for CACI International, Inc. where he recruited, trained and personally established and led a team of 50 telecommunications experts who provided video conferencing on board Naval ships and video services worldwide for the Defense Information Systems Agency serving CONUS, Europe, the Pacific, and Southwest Asia. Captain Rhudy was instrumental in the deployment of the Afghanistan Theater Video Bridge, the first known implementation of a Department of Defense cross domain solution for video conferencing.”
Afghanistan Theater Video Bridge?
Wasn’t there a drop about a bridge?
” The captain had a U.S. government envelope only to be opened in special circumstances, which he destroyed.”
I wonder what the note was about and what the cargo was