Lai Phong person
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Hmong peopleorganization · 3Vang Paoperson · 21954 Geneva Agreementevent · 1Royal Laotian Armyorganization · 1
Claims (3)
Lai Phong relationship_with
Vang Pao documented
“was of some importance to the Hmong in the new Laotian War. Feeling too old for another war, the Lai Phong restricted himself to acting as sort of an elder statesman, leaving the main leadership to Vang Pao. When some of the Hmong sided wit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 45:07
Lai Phong relationship_with
Vang Pao documented
“He joined the fighting forces in 1947 and became an officer in the Royal Laotian Army when that was formed in 1950. Vang stayed in the army after the Geneva Agreement, rising to the command of the 10th Battalion, which was mostly Hmong. Whe…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 44:36
Lai Phong headed
Hmong people documented
“It is also up in the mountain area where they were growing all the opium, just so that you know. It was probably inevitable that the Hmong had to be dragged into the American war because their poppy fields had been hidden effects of the war…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 43:13
Mentions (3)
▶ 43:27
when both sides had been using them to generate money. Though the Hmong mostly sided with the French under the leadership, and this is back in the day, in the early 50s, Lai Phong, a pro-French notable and the first of his tribe to graduate…
▶ 44:25
when they were on the plane of jars trying to get the Japanese out of there. He joined the fighting forces in 1947 and became an officer in the Royal Laotian Army when that was formed in 1950. Vang stayed in the army after the Geneva Agreem…
▶ 44:53
was mainly a politician. Vang was actually a military commander. Choosing sides was of some importance to the Hmong in the new Laotian War. Feeling too old for another war, the Lai Phong restricted himself to acting as sort of an elder stat…