Anthony poshepny biography

Primary Sources

(1) Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men (1995)

Tony Poshepny - "Tony Poe" as he was called-was a paramilitary expert.

CIA activities in Vietnam - Wikipedia

A former Marine who fought in the Pacific in World War II, Tony Poe ran secret armies for the CIA. In 1956 he trained Khamba tribesmen in Tibet for guerrilla warfare against the Chinese communists; he was one of the CIA's paramilitary advisers to the failed colonels' revolt in Indonesia, and he would go on to become a kind of warlord with the Hmong tribesmen in Laos.

Faintly resembling Marlon Brando in middle age, he was sometimes said to be the real-life version of the mad Colonel Kurtz of Apocalypse Now, but even after he went native in Laos and began consuming a bottle of local white lightning every day, he was a very effective fighter. He was fearless; he seemed at home with violence (on R&R, he always carried a boxer's mouthpiece in case he got into a bar fight).

Wounded several times, Poe had a claw f Anthony A. Poshepny (Tony Poe) - Spartacus Educational QYTY