♦ 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 later 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 of these outnumbered fighters attested to the
valor and fighting ability of the Hoa Hao fighters and the strength and loyalty of 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 and his senior advisor, Colonel William Desobry, 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 should fear any 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.
The Victory Edition of Marvin's nonfiction book Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into
Covert Warfare was published in July 2006 with an added preface by renowned author and expert on CIA
assassination programs Douglas Valentine. It has more than 100 added pages covering the lawsuit
developed by the Special Forces Association in their attempt to financially destroy Marvin and Millegan
and the actual trial which vindicated Marvin and Trine Day's publisher Millegan, finding them not guilty of
writing and publishing lies that defamed or libeled the plaintiffs in January 2006. Finally, it discusses the
Special Forces Association's continuing effort to derail their effort to publish the truth and to bankrupt
them. It can be ordered by calling 1-800-556-2012. If you desire a signed copy - send a $25 check to LTC
Dan Marvin @ P.O. Box 538, Cazenovia, NY 13035-0538 for a signed copy.