Plain of Jars place
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Vang Pao relinquished
Plain of Jars documented
“This, again, is plausible deniability. An attack with three B-52 bombers, a typical quote-unquote cell strike, was carried out on the night of February 17th through the 18th. More followed, yet a few days later, the Ving Pao relinquished hi…”
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Kang Li carried_out_attack
Plain of Jars book_quoted
“The Laotian army drove the neutralist troops of General Kang Li, Suvana's military chief, to the north and into a temporary alliance with the Pei Ocean Lao. After Kang Li captured the Plain of Jars from Fumi's troops, the Pei Ocean Lao move…”
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Like the bird? Project Raven or Operation Raven happened in Vietnam. That was the only one that I'm aware of. That was the CIA flying in. Basically, they had a bunch of military pilots that they brought into Thailand, told them to put all t…
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He might not have been uninformed. Did he really not know or not remember that Thai helicopters were already being used in combat roles and that Air America had already flown combat missions for over a year in Laos? Air America was central …
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The Laotian army drove the neutralist troops of General Kang Li, Suvana's military chief, to the north and into a temporary alliance with the Pei Ocean Lao. After Kang Li captured the Plain of Jars from Fumi's troops, the Pei Ocean Lao move…
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101 was hit over the plane of jars, but it made it back to Bangkok. The reconnaissance flight continued until May 1964, when they were belatedly authorized by a new administration that had came to power in the United States, meaning LBJ. Th…
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support of their enemies. They objected even more violently to Air America's overt airlift in October 1962 to Kong Lee. The first military incident in the breakdown of the 1962 agreement was the shoot down of an Air America C-123 plane over…
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that the resumed fighting on the Plain of Jars in April of 1963 was chiefly, if not entirely, between two neutralist factions rather than the Pei Ocean Lao. Again, they had a breakaway faction that didn't like the fact that the CIA was ther…
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which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Another major figure in 1959 and 64 was the La…
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There's like 50 things you have to do on here. All right. So, we are going to, let me get this going live here. Go live. All right. So, we left off yesterday with the Laos campaign. Plain and Jars, CIA, basically running the show.…
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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 …
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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...…
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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…
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from the Sam Nua Valley area and from points around the Plain of Jars. Between January 10th and 15th, Air America and Pony Express helicopters joined hands to lift over 5,000 people off near Sam Nua. Another evacuation reduced losses in the…
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Still held any sway at all because we've ignored it the entire time. But the propaganda was designed to justify a further intensification of the war. Planning for the counteroffensive was ordered by Ambassador Godley, because we ain't givin…
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now agreed to provide some support because they had been given more misinformation, the CIA lying. Several of the largest towns on the plain was targeting and were now being destroyed by bombing. The offensive onto the high plateau was to b…
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During the other trip, Vang was taken to see Colonial Williamsburg in Disneyland with six wives installed. The Hmong chief had a lot of shopping to do. Disneyland, the CIA, reciprocated Vang's gifts and gave them a replica of a Zorro costum…
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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 …
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Hmong bases along the way. At a critical juncture of the campaign, the Vang Pao dressed up in his Zorro suit to visit the Plain of Jars. But the success was deceptive. Operation About Face proved to be the high-water mark of the Hmong in th…
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Both on the plain of jars and the mountain strongholds were threatened. The secret army was not what it had used to be. Increasingly employing Thai mercenaries contracted by the CIA, they did not have the same commitment because they had al…
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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…
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This, again, is plausible deniability. An attack with three B-52 bombers, a typical quote-unquote cell strike, was carried out on the night of February 17th through the 18th. More followed, yet a few days later, the Ving Pao relinquished hi…
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out allowing Nixon's officials to testify in executive session. This record would be in the open. These political events, plus the military developments in Laos, marked the final shift in the tide on the secret war. Nowhere was deterioratio…
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Having said all of that, let's get back to the high plateau. That's the name of the chapter. And this one, like I said, starts in the, the reason why they call it the high plateau, because I don't know if you guys have, I would suggest that…
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Foamy's forces, in contrast, abandoned a strategic base in the Plain of Jars, so named for its use of the burial ground of the ancient Lao people. At the first hint of the challenge, the White Star Advisors had to be extracted by three Air …
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formed an important auxiliary force for the French to use when they needed to, and they were actually involved in the French failure at Den Ben Phu. One veteran of the Den Ben Phu debacle was a young officer by the name of Vang Pao, who had…
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Eight White Star Green Beret teams reportedly accompanied the Vang Pao forces. At this point, Kang Li's neutralist forces retreated from the capital and made straight for the Hmong Plain of Jars area to engage. Vang Pao lost his own village…
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to the Hmong. The Peotin Lao joined in the Plain of Jars offensive to threaten the entire Hmong tribal village and the high plateau. In the spring and summer of 1961, they witnessed a mass exodus from the Plain of Jars by the Hmong. Whole v…
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which the CIA had been training since the days of the Lee-Mi operation in Burma, which we went over when we talked about Vietnam. Oh, and oh, by the way, that had to do with Chiang Kai-shek as well. With his retreat from the Plain of Jars, …
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which is what they referred to him as, set out on a 58-day march across the circumference of the Plain of Jars to bring the Hmong villagers together. In December 1961, the Hmong opened two new bases farther west, which became main centers o…
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carried with it new political problems. In the Central Highlands and around the Plain of Jars, the CIA was in effect creating nations within nations. Activities like those were possible only to the degree that the central government was wil…
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Before Kennedy took office, there were approximately 2,500 Hmong in the secret army being trained by the CIA. Within months, the number had quadrupled. Vang drew his cadre from half a dozen ethnic Hmong battalions. Kung Lee's forces soon at…
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In at least one case, according to Shackley, CIA even planted radio beacons on a Leothan Lao unit and monitored its movements. A cycle of operations developed. During the dry season, the North Vietnamese attacked the Hmong in the mountains …
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With Hanoi and the Paocean Laos pressing against the Plain of Jars in the Hmong area, Ambassador Godley asked for massive strikes from B-52s. By now, Washington was at loggerheads over the secrecy of the Laotian War. Symington pressed for r…
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Richard Helms and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman were all present. Richard Nixon approved the strikes if the Peocean Lows advanced. Within 24 hours, the condition had been met. An attack of three B-52 bombers took place on the night of …
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where he became an advisor to Vang Pao and his clandestine army, where he had acquired a reputation playing a key role in the offensive at the Plain of Jars. By 1970, Atkins had had enough. He transferred to the Western Hemisphere and learn…
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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…
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spend any time on that. As the war intensified, the CIA's presence in Laos grew. Air America and the main contingent of the CIA upcountry teams quickly outgrew their small Lima site locations. And we know that they went to the Plain of Jars…