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My father fought the CIA's secret war in Laos
By Peter Lang-Stanton BBC World Service, The Documentary
Peter Lang-Stanton set out to make a radio documentary about the truth of his father's role in one of the largest clandestine missions in US history, but he didn't realise the emotional minefield of investigating a loved one's past, still shrouded in secrecy.
The summer before university, my dad and I went for a drive in the old Volvo - just the two of us, something we never did. We buckled our seatbelts, and kicked up dust on the gravel lane.
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In the 1960s, while US Army troops spilled out of C-130s into Vietnam, the CIA fought a secret war in Laos. It was the height of the Cold War, and the CIA sent my father and a group of officers to arm and train the Hmong, a Laotian highland tribe, to fight the Communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese.
Continued at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42314701
I've met a number of those Hmong per mentioned here, good people. I don't know the full extent of the article. Hope it's not negative.
