Phoumi Nosavan person
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Claims (33)
United States funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“who represented the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, visited southern Laos for direct talks with Fomi Nozavan. A second urban trip occurred before Kennedy took office. The Americans began to cha…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 26:16
Phoumi Nosavan attempted_coup_against
Laos book_quoted
“The reports of the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos, which grew from a trumped-up border incident, which was used to justify all of the military aid. Again, another false flag in order to fake the intel in order to get more money for the d…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 26:40
Phoumi Nosavan recruited
Hmong people documented
“Hmong came about in the fall of 1960 when the tribe began to draw military supplies from Fomi Nocevan. These could only have been moved by the CIA. When Fomi's forces succeeded in capturing the capital, the Hmong openly declared their alleg…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 33:22
Phoumi Nosavan captured
Souvanna Phouma documented
“of any success. And by the extension of the American policy, he understood nothing about Asia or nothing about Laos, talking about the U.S. ambassador. At least, Fomi Nocevan's forces did manage to capture and jail prominent Hayothan Lao le…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 39:04
CIA funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“on what in 2002 had become a familiar regime change agenda, telling the National Security Council, December 23rd, 1958, that drastic changes in the Laotian government will be required if the Pao Shin Lao element was to be restrained. The CI…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 15:16
Phoumi Nosavan member_of
Committee for the Defense of National Interests documented
“promoted to general by the name of Nocevan. His party, if you will, was called Committee for the Defense of National Interest, which had absolutely nothing to do with national interest and everything to do with Western interest. And for the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 15:44
John Irwin funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“the actual government. Yet even as he did so, two men flew to Sivanik and gave Fumi the green light to march on Laos capital. The two men were not some CIA spook in the field, but John Irving II, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 40:57
Herbert Riley funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“the actual government. Yet even as he did so, two men flew to Sivanik and gave Fumi the green light to march on Laos capital. The two men were not some CIA spook in the field, but John Irving II, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 40:57
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“in an ambiguous way because, of course, the presidents always want plausible deniability. On September 15th, the president agreed that the U.S. could support Fumi and also that it might be possible to provide Fumi with some additional C-47s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 46:48
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“November 21st, officially authorized planes and funds to Fumi's rebel cause. Hearing from the Secretary of State Harder that it was time to make the wraps off of, oh, sorry, to take the wraps off of Fumi.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 48:43
Air America supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“This meant a return to the Fumi airlift suspended on December 7th. What is clear is that Air America was legalized just in time for the incoming Kennedy administration. For the purposes of this legalization, the Soviet airlift, which the CI…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 51:55
Phoumi Nosavan carried_out_attack
Laos documented
“After pausing for many weeks in their drive up the Mekong River, bestirred themselves in December and finally entered the capital at the equivalent of 5 a.m. Eastern Time, December 16th. Meanwhile, Eisenhower's authorization of a U.S. airli…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 53:13
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“After pausing for many weeks in their drive up the Mekong River, bestirred themselves in December and finally entered the capital at the equivalent of 5 a.m. Eastern Time, December 16th. Meanwhile, Eisenhower's authorization of a U.S. airli…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 53:13
United States funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“counterinsurgency techniques in Laos. For example, the Air America planes and pilots transporting the Laotian Army, the Kennedy administration agreed in May of 1961 to a ceasefire. One day later, Rusk announced the first of a series of step…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 58:44
CIA recruited
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“had been cultivated by the CIA and was their choice to be in charge. His personal CIA advisor was John Hazey, H-A-Z-E-Y, who had been a veteran of the OSS and the French Foreign Legion and had done plenty of time in the area. He also had a …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 24:54
Department of Defense funded
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“The Joint Chiefs, who first, on October 3rd, officially authorized Air America flights to Fumi. Note that, as mentioned above, Air America had already been supplying Fumi since mid-September. The first Air America flights reached Vang Pao o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 47:15
Averell Harriman removed_from_power
Phoumi Nosavan documented
“Oh, you mean JFK pissed off the CIA yet again? It was Harriman who engineered the cutoff of Fumi. A loyal Democrat and senior statesman, Harriman carried some weight with JFK, and he went to some length to set up a credible Laotian neutrali…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner President’s secret wars Chap 14 @ 40:34
CIA funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“Quote, the aim, explained the CIA, who called Fumi our boy, was to polarize the communist and anti-communist factions in Laos, unquote. If so, the aim was achieved. The country became a battlefield where U.S. bombings with between 400 and 5…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 42:25
CIA funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“and did nothing. For the next 18 months, Laos would have two governments, each recognized and supplied by a major power. For a second time, as a year earlier, the CIA had turned into a coalition of drug traffickers to oust a clean civilian …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 44:54
Air America supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“the 1962 Geneva Agreements to neutralize Laos. Unfortunately, as in 54, the 61, and in 61, the price of the U.S. agreement to this apparent de-escalation was a further buildup of U.S. deployments in Vietnam and also in Thailand. So, it's al…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 59:11
Phoumi Nosavan carried_out_attack
Souvanna Phouma book_quoted
“Over the next few years, excuse me, few weeks, Foma's new government succeeded in winning the approval of the king, American's ambassador, Warthog Brown, and a new but compliant National Assembly. In due course, his neutralist government wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 38:01
CIA overthrew
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“a guy by the name of Fouy Sankoni, was still in office. On December 30th, according to Schlesinger, the CIA moved in to topple Fouy. Fouy's ouster was achieved by an army coup headed by Formi Nocevan, and the CIA backed CD&I. After the coup…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 36:07
United States supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“It was all for Fumi, possibly with an encouragement from defense and CIA men in the field. Fumi, according to the new government, and he formed a new government and denounced the actual government of Laos. This should sound very familiar, b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 38:59
Air America supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“to oust Suvana supporters from the capital. The proof of this was that while Sarat's forces in Thailand blockaded the capital, Air America was stepping up its military airlift, supplying warlike material to Fumi. It was plain, Doman said, t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 39:56
CIA funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“In backing the coup against the opposition of U.S. Ambassador Horace Smith, the CIA has essentially ensured a transfer of power to men like Fumi, who, unlike their opponents, were or would soon be involved in drug trafficking. Within the ye…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 36:39
CIA installed
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“In backing the coup against the opposition of U.S. Ambassador Horace Smith, the CIA has essentially ensured a transfer of power to men like Fumi, who, unlike their opponents, were or would soon be involved in drug trafficking. Within the ye…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 36:39
Thailand supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“The last weeks of 1960 saw ominous indications that anti-communist forces were only too willing to internationalize every aspect of this conflict, especially the first reports in Times and Le Monde, which is the French leading New York Time…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 44:25
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“poppy to produce the opium. Did Eisenhower authorize this course towards drug escalations? Years later, in a 1966 article in the New York Times, it was claimed that the president had specifically approved the CIA backing of Fumi against Amb…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 46:19
CIA funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“April 1960, the CIA helped to rig an election for the CD&I and Fumi. Donman reports that the CIA agents participated in the election rigging with or without the authority of the American ambassador. A Foreign Service officer had seen CIA ag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 37:06
CIA covered_up
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“April 1960, the CIA helped to rig an election for the CD&I and Fumi. Donman reports that the CIA agents participated in the election rigging with or without the authority of the American ambassador. A Foreign Service officer had seen CIA ag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 37:06
Dwight D. Eisenhower covered_up
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“The president agreed to provide Fumi with civil air transport planes. The president at the time was staying at his house in Augusta National Golf Course. Eisenhower's own memoirs in an extraordinary passage ignored all of these developments…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 49:01
CIA supplied_arms_to
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“Proclaiming a rival revolutionary committee in southern Laos, Fumi's first announcement of his opposition took the form of leaflets dropped out of a CIA airplane. In the next three months, according to Schlesinger, a United Embassy, includi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 38:29
CIA funded
Phoumi Nosavan book_quoted
“to oust Suvana supporters from the capital. The proof of this was that while Sarat's forces in Thailand blockaded the capital, Air America was stepping up its military airlift, supplying warlike material to Fumi. It was plain, Doman said, t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 39:56
Mentions (55)
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on what in 2002 had become a familiar regime change agenda, telling the National Security Council, December 23rd, 1958, that drastic changes in the Laotian government will be required if the Pao Shin Lao element was to be restrained. The CI…
▶ 15:44
promoted to general by the name of Nocevan. His party, if you will, was called Committee for the Defense of National Interest, which had absolutely nothing to do with national interest and everything to do with Western interest. And for the…
▶ 16:47
That led to further destabilization in Laos, or I'm sorry, in Laos, the ambassador in Laos, and hastened the growth of the communist sympathetic Pei Ocean Lao. The CIA's plotting on behalf of General Fomi has therefore frequently been derid…
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i.e. Chiang Kai-shek's troops, were operating in Shan states of neighboring Burma, had crossed over into Laotian territory and were being supplied by an airlift of quote-unquote unknown planes, meaning CIA planes. Matters escalated in May w…
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eventually led to the construction of mountain airstrips for Air America and the Hmong in the same region. On March 31, 1959, Civil Air Transport, Inc., a CIA proprietary, had changed its name to Air America. It also led to outbreaks of spo…
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All through August, reports of the three foamy generals created a minor war hysteria in the U.S. press, which was depicted as an invasion of Laos by five or more North Vietnamese battalions. One guy being shot by his own people became an en…
▶ 35:33
before the August 30th crisis and the U.S. government's belated authorization. Hold on just a second. I need to plug in my computer and my phone, and we're going to do that right now. Although CIA's General Fomey was largely responsible for…
▶ 36:07
a guy by the name of Fouy Sankoni, was still in office. On December 30th, according to Schlesinger, the CIA moved in to topple Fouy. Fouy's ouster was achieved by an army coup headed by Formi Nocevan, and the CIA backed CD&I. After the coup…
▶ 36:39
In backing the coup against the opposition of U.S. Ambassador Horace Smith, the CIA has essentially ensured a transfer of power to men like Fumi, who, unlike their opponents, were or would soon be involved in drug trafficking. Within the ye…
▶ 37:06
April 1960, the CIA helped to rig an election for the CD&I and Fumi. Donman reports that the CIA agents participated in the election rigging with or without the authority of the American ambassador. A Foreign Service officer had seen CIA ag…
▶ 38:01
Over the next few years, excuse me, few weeks, Foma's new government succeeded in winning the approval of the king, American's ambassador, Warthog Brown, and a new but compliant National Assembly. In due course, his neutralist government wa…
▶ 38:29
Proclaiming a rival revolutionary committee in southern Laos, Fumi's first announcement of his opposition took the form of leaflets dropped out of a CIA airplane. In the next three months, according to Schlesinger, a United Embassy, includi…
▶ 38:59
It was all for Fumi, possibly with an encouragement from defense and CIA men in the field. Fumi, according to the new government, and he formed a new government and denounced the actual government of Laos. This should sound very familiar, b…
▶ 39:29
actually in the Capitol, continued to receive some aid. Ambassador Brown still worked to bring them together, but the military support convinced Fumi that if he held out long enough, he would be able to overthrow the government that was act…
▶ 39:56
to oust Suvana supporters from the capital. The proof of this was that while Sarat's forces in Thailand blockaded the capital, Air America was stepping up its military airlift, supplying warlike material to Fumi. It was plain, Doman said, t…
▶ 40:26
From mid-September, Sivanikek was the scene of an increased number of landings and takeoffs by unmarked C-46s and C-47s that were all flown by Americans. These planes belonged to Air America. In October, Hilsman reported Ambassador Brown te…
▶ 40:57
the actual government. Yet even as he did so, two men flew to Sivanik and gave Fumi the green light to march on Laos capital. The two men were not some CIA spook in the field, but John Irving II, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense f…
▶ 41:26
A declassified State Department cable confirms that Ervin and Riley met Fumi in Ubon, Thailand. The thrust of their discussion was that the U.S. was prepared to support, at least secretly, a march on the capital and recapture the government…
▶ 42:25
Quote, the aim, explained the CIA, who called Fumi our boy, was to polarize the communist and anti-communist factions in Laos, unquote. If so, the aim was achieved. The country became a battlefield where U.S. bombings with between 400 and 5…
▶ 44:25
The last weeks of 1960 saw ominous indications that anti-communist forces were only too willing to internationalize every aspect of this conflict, especially the first reports in Times and Le Monde, which is the French leading New York Time…
▶ 44:54
and did nothing. For the next 18 months, Laos would have two governments, each recognized and supplied by a major power. For a second time, as a year earlier, the CIA had turned into a coalition of drug traffickers to oust a clean civilian …
▶ 45:24
of Vang Pao. Though the U.S. had many harsh words for the leaders they ousted, chiefly Fuma, these men were never accused of drug trafficking. This is exactly what we did in Afghanistan with the Taliban when they eliminated the drugs. You'r…
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poppy to produce the opium. Did Eisenhower authorize this course towards drug escalations? Years later, in a 1966 article in the New York Times, it was claimed that the president had specifically approved the CIA backing of Fumi against Amb…
▶ 46:48
in an ambiguous way because, of course, the presidents always want plausible deniability. On September 15th, the president agreed that the U.S. could support Fumi and also that it might be possible to provide Fumi with some additional C-47s…
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The Joint Chiefs, who first, on October 3rd, officially authorized Air America flights to Fumi. Note that, as mentioned above, Air America had already been supplying Fumi since mid-September. The first Air America flights reached Vang Pao o…
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only to find out that the CIA not only was doing it, that the authorization that the Defense Department gives to do it is using the CIA apparatus called Air America. And yes, the Department of Defense knew that Air America was a CIA proprie…
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November 21st, officially authorized planes and funds to Fumi's rebel cause. Hearing from the Secretary of State Harder that it was time to make the wraps off of, oh, sorry, to take the wraps off of Fumi.…
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The president agreed to provide Fumi with civil air transport planes. The president at the time was staying at his house in Augusta National Golf Course. Eisenhower's own memoirs in an extraordinary passage ignored all of these developments…
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The official record of these phone calls confirm Eisenhower's concern about the Soviet aircraft supplying FUMA in the actual capital, because he's actually in charge of the country, and the need to act vigorously now that we have cover of l…
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November in the Plain of Jars was not carried in any American newspaper, though it was printed abroad in Bangkok Post of November 28, 1960. The plane's American pilot was wounded seriously. The KMT Chinese co-pilot, son of nationalist Chine…
▶ 51:25
Meanwhile, six days before Eisenhower fully authorized the flights, the U.S. officials announced that they had interrupted military air shipment to Fumi. Did Eisenhower think he was asked to authorize what was in fact a resumption of airlif…
▶ 24:25
agreed with him. In the fall of 1960, the die was cast for a secret war. Washington still wanted no part in neutralism. Their solution was Colonel Fumi Nocevan. He was an RLAF who had also used the CDNI as the springboard to power, eventual…
▶ 24:54
had been cultivated by the CIA and was their choice to be in charge. His personal CIA advisor was John Hazey, H-A-Z-E-Y, who had been a veteran of the OSS and the French Foreign Legion and had done plenty of time in the area. He also had a …
▶ 25:23
instead of the actual government in the capital. Washington decided to take the capital position on the surface, but to secretly support Foamy on the side. The hazy length was strengthened as a result of that. He became a very important per…
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who represented the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, visited southern Laos for direct talks with Fomi Nozavan. A second urban trip occurred before Kennedy took office. The Americans began to cha…
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The reports of the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos, which grew from a trumped-up border incident, which was used to justify all of the military aid. Again, another false flag in order to fake the intel in order to get more money for the d…
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The Kongli forces inflicted several defeats on the Fumi's men before they retreated from the capital by mid-December. By that time, the neutralist had virtually been driven into the arms of the patent Lao because everybody else were CIA sto…
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The Americans have been able to act very quickly in Laos once the decision to support FOMI because the apparatus had been carefully put in place already by the CIA that was already there. By the summer of 60, when Washington briefly conside…
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Hmong came about in the fall of 1960 when the tribe began to draw military supplies from Fomi Nocevan. These could only have been moved by the CIA. When Fomi's forces succeeded in capturing the capital, the Hmong openly declared their alleg…
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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 …
▶ 34:38
The contract flight crews reported sighting seven Russian aircraft, presumably those of the Soviet airlift, to the Pashin-Lau. It was not surprising that the White Star advisors were exposed by the open combat. Although the deputy chief of …
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One of the RLAF colonels to whom the Foamy gave command of Mobile Group 15 had been in charge for several days before he accidentally encountered his Green Beret advisors, not at his command post, but with the foremost detachments. When the…
▶ 38:35
There wasn't any fucking communist in Laos before you started your shit. In Laos, the effect of the U.S. actions was to undermine the delicate political balance. Kong Lee and Ling with the hat in Lao represented one of the worst conceivable…
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of any success. And by the extension of the American policy, he understood nothing about Asia or nothing about Laos, talking about the U.S. ambassador. At least, Fomi Nocevan's forces did manage to capture and jail prominent Hayothan Lao le…
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with them being neutral, like where they started. With the help of Avril Harriman, Roger Hilsman, and Dean Rusk, Kennedy achieved his aim in a 1962 Geneva Agreement. When Fumi Nocevan stood in the way, his American assistants evaporated and…
▶ 40:34
Oh, you mean JFK pissed off the CIA yet again? It was Harriman who engineered the cutoff of Fumi. A loyal Democrat and senior statesman, Harriman carried some weight with JFK, and he went to some length to set up a credible Laotian neutrali…
▶ 26:34
He first connected with the agency while in Laos in this unit called White Star. White Star worked for the RLAF strongman, General Fumi Nosovan. He had denounced neutralism and launched a coup to topple Suvana. So he's in bed with the CIA. …
▶ 27:05
with Fumi, the general, by the name of John Hasey, H-A-S-E-Y. He lived next door and shared his aspirations. Another word, General Fumi Nocevan is a CIA asset with a handler. Okay, at the same time that we've got General Nocevan,…
▶ 28:39
They were also recruiting Hmong secret armies. Desmond Fitzgerald dropped in to survey the scene. Toward the end of 1960, John Irwin, representing the Pentagon and the 5412 group, visited South Laos and talked to Fumi. A second Irwin trip o…
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the Americans began channeling aid to Fumi, bypassing the capital altogether. The CIA induced Fumi to pass supplies to the Hmongs, whose allegiance were to the general. Reports of the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos following a trumped-up…
▶ 29:36
and then claimed that it was at the fault of the North so that we could expand an already expanding presence in Laos. Fleeing the capital after Fumi's coup, Sovana and Kong Li made an alliance with the Pei Ocean Laos. A little over two week…
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and briefly converting the program evaluation office into an advisory group. But he wanted to stay within the international guidelines of how to deal with that. With the help of Avril Harriman, Roger Hilsman, and Dean Russ, Kennedy achieved…
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His CIA handler, Jack Hasey, disappeared. He got sent to the Congo. Oh gosh, that's interesting because we already fucked them up. Sorry. But his reassignment was much to the chagrin of Desmond Fitzgerald and William Colby. They didn't want…
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A loyal Democrat and senior statesman, Harriman carried weight with JFK, and he tried for a credible Laotian neutralization agreement. Harriman also knew that he wanted, when CIA officers in the capital of Laos briefed him on Laotian politi…
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Feeling too old for another war, Toby left the main leadership role to Feng Pao. While some Hmong sided with the Pei Ocean Lao clan leader, Fei Dang, becoming a member of the Pei Ocean Lao Central Committee, Toby and Feng Pao made their all…