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“Cambodia, and Laos, the bombing and secret army operations in Laos, and all of the rest, the North Vietnamese were poised for a major conventional offensive by 1972. Nixon responded with huge increases in air power, and they also mined High…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 47:47
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There were only Tan and Phelan in the Viet Minh base. However, on May 16th, Major Allison Thomas received orders to commence work as Special Operations Team Number 13, codenamed DEER, D-E-E-R. His primary mission was interdict Japanese line…
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A ceasefire was accepted by both sides without an official surrender. In the meantime, some Vietnamese, Viet Minh forces were on the way to Hanoi. Diop was instructed to leave some forces in Thai Nguyen and walk to Hanoi. Viet Minh forces w…
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We had thought that if they had bombed Saigon, Hanoi and Haiphong Harbor simultaneously, that Vietnam would have fell. And I think that the collateral damage was the reason. I just wanted your opinion on that, please. Well, I mean, at some …
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He's the one that did all of the traveling around and laid the groundwork for the National Liberation Front. He periodically returned to Hanoi. He was given important positions in the Politburo. He was very vocal about the Geneva Accords, a…
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They do still have, like in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon area, as well as Hanoi, they do have a lot of corruption still. Most of the industry, by the time we got there, had been converted over to civilian use. For example, we toured what used t…
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Once the Hanoi information was available, a new camp was listed near the city of Dong Hoi. This information came from DIA, whose director in Washington told Admiral Moore and General Blackburn this information. The special operations were c…
▶ 47:47
Cambodia, and Laos, the bombing and secret army operations in Laos, and all of the rest, the North Vietnamese were poised for a major conventional offensive by 1972. Nixon responded with huge increases in air power, and they also mined High…
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It was also referred to as Lima Site 85. Pony Express, an Air Force helicopter lift activity, moved 150 tons of equipment to the site for radar installation and a dozen Americans necessary to operate the equipment. Vang Pao's Hmong were to …
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by an Air America pilot firing a rifle from his helicopter. This battle punctuated Ted Shackley's final months as the station chief in Laos. The blonde ghost from Cuba and Berlin rode close herd over Project Momentum, installing his own man…
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Larry Devlin squired him around the country. He realized the war had grown. Hmong units now had to be larger to move safely. The North Vietnamese had begun using tanks and artillery. Vang Pao was literally running out of men. The wrecked C-…
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But no matter how much damage control the government attempted, annoying reports of live Americans being held continued to appear. In 1975, the CIA reported that a number of Americans were being held in Hanoi pending agreement on American r…
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Chapter 19, the name is They Could Give a Damn About Soldiers. It starts off with a scene that is on top of a mountain in northern Laos. This mountain is being used as a communication site. It was approximately 160 miles from downtown Hanoi…
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in the northern area. For the military and the CIA, it was a critical part of the war in the north. For as long as the Americans' navigational and communication site on top of the, they're about at 6,000 feet altitude, was permitted to exis…