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The CIA itself claims that the CIA air operations in Laos from 1955 to 1974 were the "largest paramilitary operations ever undertaken by the CIA." [ 3 ] For 13 years, the CIA paramilitary officers from what is now called the Special Activities Center directed native forces against North Vietnamese forces to a standstill.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "CIA activities in Laos" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
In 2003, the CIA began to covertly arm and finance Somali warlords opposed to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). [7] From the CIA station in Nairobi, Kenya CIA agents would make frequent trips to Mogadishu by plane where they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the warlords. The CIAs policy was evaluated as a failure, due to the ICU ...
Low and Slow, Fly and Fight Laos. WEP11345Books. ISBN 978-0-692-75128-2. A Raven's inside account of the Laotian Civil War's most bitter fighting. Polifka, Karl L. (2013). Meeting Steve Canyon...and Flying with the CIA In Lao. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-49097-985-4. Contains interesting contrasts between the wars in ...
Despite subsequent claims of victory from communist forces, the 10,000 defenders of Long Tieng, a mixture of Hmong, Thai, and Lao, had not been overrun, and in mid-month reinforcements appeared in the form of CIA-led Thais and 1200 elite irregulars from southern Laos. After enduring a third to 50% casualties, these forces succeeded in taking ...
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Due to North Vietnamese violations of the agreement, President John F. Kennedy authorized a return to covert activities in 1963. The previous year the CIA and the Thai military had established "Headquarters 333" at Udon Thani, which acted as a joint U.S./Thai command center for covert military and intelligence collection activities in Laos.