# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-lansdale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:13.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-lansdale"
name: "Edward Lansdale"
slug: "edward-lansdale"
description: "Edward Geary Lansdale was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing his work with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Lansdale was a pioneer in clandestine operations and psychological warfare. In the early 1950s, Lansdale played a significant role in suppressing the Hukbalahap rebellion in the Philippines. In 1954, he moved to Saigon and started the Saigon Military Mission, a covert intelligence operation that was created to sow dissension in North Vietnam. Lansdale believed the United States could win guerrilla wars by studying the enemy's psychology, an approach that notionally won the approval of the presidential administrations of both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson but largely would not be implemented due to bureaucratic opposition."
tagline: "United States general (1908-1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Major-general-lansdale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-02-06"
deathDate: "1987-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2609641174338528
  historical:           14.803832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump