Nixon's March 6, 1970 statement on Laos event
also: Nixon's statement of March 6, 1970, president's statement on Laos
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Laoscountry · 5Richard Nixonperson · 4CIAintelligence service · 3Vietnamcountry · 3United Statescountry · 2Peter Del Scottperson · 1Air Americaorganization · 1Spiro Agnewperson · 1The New York Review of Booksbook · 1
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Peter Del Scott starts off saying this chapter was originally published in the New York Review of Books as a critical response to Nixon's statement of March 6, 1970, in support of his escalation in Laos. As I researched it, I was struck by …
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The key to Nixon's program of overt troop withdrawal in Vietnam was covert escalation in Laos. His Key Biscayne Statement on Laos on March 6, 1970, itself drew attention to the connection between the two conflicts, which was soon underlined…
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In reality, the so-called Vietnamization in 1969 of the ground war in South Vietnam was balanced by a sharp escalation of the U.S. war in Laos, where it could not be observed by Western newsmen because they weren't allowed in. Sounds eerily…
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that they themselves largely helped to create. It is important to see that it was not North Vietnam, but the United States, and more particularly its apparatus of civil and military intelligence agencies that were consistently guilty of the…
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the CIA and the U.S. Air Force's activities that it left completely out of the statements. Although the war in Laos dated back to 1959, the Nixon statement was totally silent about the 1959 through 61 period. This is understandable since vi…