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April 10, 2005

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired)
Born in Detroit, Michigan on 10 October 1933

Dan Marvin was an Army “Mustang,” first enlisting in June 1952 as a recruit and later holding the rank of Sergeant First Class. He was then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and went on to retire as a Lieutenant Colonel. A fully qualified Special Forces Officer (Green Beret), Master Parachutist and Combat Infantryman, he was experienced in covert operations. A veteran of eight combat campaigns in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, he was thrice decorated for heroism. More significantly he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour on 29 January 1984 and since that day he has fearlessly crusaded for truth and justice with the goal of fighting evil that dwells in certain agencies and/or various personnel in our government.

Marvin was schooled in unconventional warfare and learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare, special demolitions and underwater demolitions in addition to assassination and terrorism techniques, civic action and psychological warfare operations. Taught by veteran Green Beret, CIA and US Navy SEAL Team instructors, in 1964 he volunteered to organize and command a covert operations team of eight Green Beret volunteers; the first Green Berets to be prepared to employ the man-portable atomic demolition device (SADM) with an explosive force equivalent to ten tons of TNT. Their contingency mission was to blow the hydroelectric plant at the ASWAN High Dam in Egypt, under construction at the time by the USSR That same year he and Green Beret Master Sergeant Joseph Hill were involved in a bizarre series of interactions with the leadership of the Boston area Mafia, giving them personal insight into the unique alliance that existed between the CIA, the Mob and the U.S. Army’s Special Forces when their unique talents were needed to conduct extremely critical covert operations, including assassinations and sabotage.

In the Vietnam War Marvin commanded Green Beret Team A-424 in An Phu, South Vietnam from 27 December 1965 through 2 August 1966, leading the first combat actions against enemy forces inside their Cambodian safe-havens. These sanctuaries had been provided our enemies by then President Lyndon B. Johnson. Marvin’s A Team also conducted counterinsurgency, direct combat, civic action and psychological warfare operations throughout the district of An Phu. Fighting alongside their courageous South Vietnamese Buddhist Hoa Hao “Irregular fighters” they secured and held fifty kilometers of common border with Cambodia and were continually victorious against a numerically superior and better equipped enemy. Marvin considered the Hoa Hao irregulars the most courageous and most motivated foreign fighting men he’d ever known.

His small team of Green Berets gained the respect of the 64,000 Hoa Haos of An Phu District. With no civilian doctors or organized medical treatment facilities in place, Marvin’s two team medics filled the gap, providing a wide range of medical and dental services to the local populace while helping to defend their homes, farms and fishing industry against thousands of Communist insurgents. Victory after victory attested to the valor of the Hoa Hao fighters, their families and the local population.

In June 1966, the CIA asked Marvin to assassinate Cambodian Crown Prince Norodum Sihanouk. He would employ his Hoa Hao Irregular fighters in an operation designed to make it appear to have been carried out by the Communist Viet Cong. This mission was accepted but later aborted when President Johnson failed to honor Marvin’s quid pro quo wherein he demanded that President Johnson deny the enemy further use of their safe havens inside Cambodia. He was to announce that fact publicly in the United States. Within 10 days of his aborting the mission and ordering the CIA agent out of his camp, Marvin’s men and approximately 400 Hoa Haos were in danger of being attacked and annihilated by a heavily armed ARVN Regiment sent by the CIA in retribution of Marvin’s actions. South Vietnamese Lieutenant General Quang Van Dang interceded, ordered the ARVN Regiment back to their home base, and then flew into Marvin’s An Phu Camp and told them they no longer would fear reprisal. There would be no brother killing brother.
When Marvin’s team departed An Phu on 2 August 1966 it was the most secure area in South Vietnam. His next foreign tour was with the 46th Special Forces in Lop Buri, Thailand where he commanded the Special Forces Logistical Operations Center which provided unconventional logistical support to all covert operations in that area of the world. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in May, 1973.

Among his most treasured awards is the Hoa Hao purple silk scarf that was presented to him by the Hoa Hao Central Committee when they named Marvin an Honorary Hoa Hao, the only American to receive that special tribute. Colonel Marvin now lives in upstate New York where he writes about his experiences as an unconventional warrior.

His nonfiction book, Expendable Elite– One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare is available at his website http://www.ExpendableElite.com or http://www.TrineDay.com. Signed copies are available direct from Marvin. Mail a check or money order for $23.00 to LTC Dan Marvin (USASF Ret’d), P.O. Box 538, Cazenovia, NY 13035-0538.

A just released nonfiction book by Kent Heiner, titled Without Smoking Gun – Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up Conspiracy? is also available through http://www.TrineDay.com. LTC Marvin wrote the introduction to this excellent book that contains new revelations that corroborate Marvin’s assertion that U.S. Army Green Berets are trained in assassination techniques. The unique relationship between the CIA, Mafia and Special Forces is also explored by Kent Heiner, whose previous work can be viewed at http://www.MemResearch.org.