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In 1971 there were reports of the CIA send in 5,000~6,000 Thai troops into Laos into the southern region of Pakse and paid these troops extra money for there service in the region. The CIA did cover this large amount of troops as being ethnic Laotians, as well as being simply being reinforcements for regions inside Vietnam. this secret army was ...
Covert sites of the Laotian Civil War were clandestine U.S. military installations for conducting covert paramilitary and combat operations in the Kingdom of Laos. Airstrips within the Kingdom of Laos were originally designated by Air America as "Site XX" (with XX being a number). In September 1961, the designation changed to "VS XX", meaning ...
Tim Weiner has claimed that during the Lebanese civil war that Christian leader Bashir Gemayel was on the CIA payroll and was a trusted source. [20] The 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut killed several 8 CIA agents and in 2023 the CIA called it the "deadliest day in CIA history". [21] The role of the CIA in the 1985 Beirut car bombings has been ...
Pages in category "CIA activities in Laos" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
December 1958: North Vietnamese invasion of Laos, in Military Region 3 (MR 3) 25 December 1959: 1960 Laotian coups, in Military Region 5 (M5) 10 August 1960: 1960 Laotian coups, in MR 5; 13–16 December 1960: Battle of Vientiane, in MR 5; 17 January 1961–30 September 1974: Operation Momentum, in Military Region 2 (MR 2)
CIA activities in Laos (4 P) CIA activities in Lebanon (3 P) P. ... Pages in category "CIA activities by country" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of ...
In 1962 the CIA first set up a headquarters for Major General Vang Pao in the Long Tieng valley, which at that time had almost no inhabitants. [4] By 1964 a 1260 m runway had been completed and by 1966 Long Cheng was one of the largest US installations on foreign soil. [1] A RLAF T-28D at Long Tieng. On November 10, 1972 it ran into a C-123K on ...
Pages in category "CIA activities in Africa" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.