Long Tieng place
also: Long Tian, Long Tien, Long Lien Tien, Long Tin, Long Tiang, Sky
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One unit was saved by three U.S. Air Force and 11 Air America helicopters flying out of sky at Long Tin. The next morning, several large fires burning out of control were all that was left of the defenses. There were two reactions to the lo…
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anywhere from four to 12 each, and mostly had all came from Green Beret backgrounds. Basically, they were mercenaries under contract to the CIA. Aside from Long Tien, there were three other CIA training bases in Laos. At least one was a maj…
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cities Long Tiang became the nerve center of the CIA's secret war. The Lima site airstrip and landing techniques were perfected to the point that the C-130s could get rid of the entire palletized cargo in a quick flyby. Smaller Air America …
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like T-O-N-Y-P-O, because his name's Anthony Poe something. Okay, he went everywhere with a mouth guard like he was still on a boxing team. He flew in from the CIA Thailand base in 1963 and was assigned as a senior advisor to Vang Pao, or a…
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and command the Hmong secret armies. Two agency officers, Anthony Paschepi and Vinton Lawrence, established a CIA base in the Hmong center of Long Tien. In the spring of 1963, the assassination of neutralist Laotian officials led to a fresh…
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rice drops, and supplies of seeds and tools. That's how they bribed the people to become secret warriors. After they had driven them out of their house by creating a civil war, then they bribed them with food because they're starving to be …
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which became the main centers of the secret army. Long Tien served as Vang Pao's headquarters, a major mountain commercial center with Hmong population of about 40,000 people, which is huge as far as villages go. The CIA created a base ther…
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So he is a stay-behind trainer of the same accord that Otto Skorzeny was at the beginning. Poe had an extensive paramilitary resume. At Long Tien, he presided over the intensification of the struggle. Bent Loris manned the base while Poe ra…
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Even after reporters revealed the existence of Long Tien and Sam Tong, they kept denying it. During Devlin's time, enemy troops actually threatened Long Tien with pitched battles for the ridge that dominated it. As Richard Helms puts it, qu…
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That was pointed out to us while we were there. As we were flying with clouds, sudden mist, rain, and enemy guns justified the pay. Of four Air America C-130 crews trained in the mid-60s, only one remained in the 1970s. Destinations, the Li…
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and all-weather landing systems. That was the exception. Sky had a sophisticated communication center, as well as the Hmong propaganda outlet Radio of the Union of Lao Races. That's basically Radio Free Europe for Laos. The CIA base at Sky …
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sent others to the Thai teams that accompanied the Hmong special guerrilla units and insured supply deliveries. Vent Lawrence left Laos and the CIA for a career as a cartoonist. When Tony Powell went upcountry, new blood took over at Long T…
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They made regular forays against Skyline Ridge and that overlooked Long Tian. The CIA had Laos wired for sound. It filled its air with photo reconnaissance planes. And that, by the way, is the U-2. We flew lots of flights over during this p…
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They made regular forays against Skyline Ridge and that overlooked Long Tian. The CIA had Laos wired for sound. It filled its air with photo reconnaissance planes. And that, by the way, is the U-2. We flew lots of flights over during this p…
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They made regular forays against Skyline Ridge and that overlooked Long Tian. The CIA had Laos wired for sound. It filled its air with photo reconnaissance planes. And that, by the way, is the U-2. We flew lots of flights over during this p…
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By this time, the CIA had an actual barracks and team house at Long Tien. Vince Shields became the chief of base. Pat Landry succeeded Bill Lehrer. And the sources reported that the CIA now backdropped Vang Pao and his guerrilla teams every…
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SGU's now being brigaded together as mobile groups to increase firepower. Agency teams with the special guerrilla units varied from 4 to 12 Americans. The CIA advisors mostly contract officers from the U.S. military under the agency called …
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Larry Devlin squired him around the country. He realized the war had grown. Hmong units now had to be larger to move safely. The North Vietnamese had begun using tanks and artillery. Vang Pao was literally running out of men. The wrecked C-…
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Larry Devlin squired him around the country. He realized the war had grown. Hmong units now had to be larger to move safely. The North Vietnamese had begun using tanks and artillery. Vang Pao was literally running out of men. The wrecked C-…
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Within hours, the Laos war was secret no more. The story broke at Long Tien and press tickers all over the world, making the scoop prove as easy as walking down a mountain. Journalists had chartered an Air America plane to Sam Thung's USAID…
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But three reporters were much more interested in Long Tien's clandestine army locations. They walked out of Sam Tung and down the trail to Long Tien, leaving behind the official tour. One reporter actually entered the base and watched for t…
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Ambassador Godley was furious, but it was too late. For the first time, Long Tian had been observed by outsiders. Landings and takeoffs from the Lima site were clocked at one a minute. Air traffic was so intense that planes and helicopters …
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In late 1971, Senator Symington sponsored an amendment to the appropriation bill that set a ceiling of $350 million for all U.S. funds spent in Laos. $350 million. Wow, you really heard him. This level prevailed in 1972, though it increased…
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The ceasefire would go into effect on noon, February 22nd, 1973, when Vinh faced a renewed North Vietnamese offensive. Several outposts were under attack as the ceasefire neared. The Hmong general made a last appeal to the CIA. In a reply, …
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Long Lien Tien's outpost fell two and a half hours later. The last CIA advisors left aboard an Air America flight. Hugh Tovar soon left Laos also. Vang Pao, on his own, walked a road that could lead only to exile. Beginning in 73, the new L…
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Another brutal truth is the CIA ran a massive drug trafficking conspiracy in Southeast Asia. Indeed, the CIA in 1967 rewarded Vang Pao, leader of the CIA-backed Hmong army, with his own airline so that he could ferry opium from the CIA base…