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CIA activities in Laos started in the 1950s. In 1959, U.S. Special Operations Forces (Military and CIA) began to train some Laotian soldiers in unconventional warfare techniques as early as the fall of 1959 under the code name "Erawan". [ 1 ]
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. ...
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 ...
Category: Overseas CIA activities by region. 3 languages. ... CIA activities in Africa (11 P) CIA activities in the Americas (2 C, 19 P) CIA activities in Asia (3 C ...
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 ...
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.
CIA paramilitaries soon concluded that, in Russia and its proxies, the agency was facing an adversary whose capabilities far outmatched the Islamist groups that CIA had been battling in the post-9 ...
CIA activities in Laos (4 P) CIA activities in Lebanon (3 P) P. CIA activities in Pakistan (2 C, 7 P) S. CIA activities in Syria (2 P) T. CIA activities in Turkey (2 ...