Hmong family

“These are not separate. They're not actual competitors. The attacks in support of the Hmong were also carried out from Thailand by Air Force T-28s in jungle gym type units. A few of the planes were given to the Laotian troops to lend creden…”

“Forces regained critical positions on the Plain of Jars before the rainy season ended in November. The retreating Peot and Lao and the North Vietnamese troops were repeatedly ambushed by the Hmong. Operation Triangle set the pattern for the…”

“The 55,000 Hmong have resettled in the United States. Vang Pao himself has become a farmer in Montana. There were pockets of Hmong in places as diverse as Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Fresno. Direct losses of the war in Laos was still not…”

“B-L-A-U-F-A-R-B, a senior CIA official with a long record in Laos and Vietnam. He defended the Hmong against press criticism when he served at the embassy in 1971 and continues to believe that the tribe had a right to fight for a future and…”

“Vietnamese. Equipment left behind included all kinds of crap that the CIA had supplied them with. They just took off running. They included cannons, recoilless rifles, Russian-made tanks, seven trucks, and an American Air America helicopter…”

“called Operation About Fate. The secret army spilled onto the plain of jars from the mountains and about 15,000 men, according to Lau's sources, the CIA was backing him with a command team of three officers. About 30 more Americans were in …”

“called Operation About Fate. The secret army spilled onto the plain of jars from the mountains and about 15,000 men, according to Lau's sources, the CIA was backing him with a command team of three officers. About 30 more Americans were in …”

“In 1968, as a gift, Vang Pao gave President Johnson a flintlock musket that the Hmong had for, I mean, it was an antique. On two occasions, the Americans rewarded Vang with secret visits to the U.S. On one of those trips, Vang was referred …”

“The CIA quoted as saying the agency was flat out in its effort to keep the tribes viable militarily in the Plain of Jars area, meaning that there was a contingent of 250 Americans either in Laos or commuting there daily to fly missions and …”

“stationing AC-47 gunships in Thailand for the first time. By mid-1966, three had gone down over Laos because they had been shot down. Americans in Laos began to collect hostile fire pay beginning in January 1966, when they're not supposed t…”

“All of these activities had made the Pei Ocean Lao much more powerful because they were seen to the local tribal people as the one trying to protect their homeland from the invaders called the CIA. 14 years of warfare accomplished nothing. …”

“to have air and sea ports accessible by these people. It wasn't because they just was cooperative. They were paid to do it. In 1964, the Hmong units cooperated in an ambitious counteroffensive during the rainy season, attacking...…”