The Paramilitary CIA and the Seeds of a Secret War - LAOS 4

EYES WIDE OPEN

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We finally go to Laos, and explore the origins of the Secret War, the CIA coups, counter coups, and the beginnings of the paramilitary CIA.

Allen Dulles, Vang Pao, Souvanna Phouma, Operation White Star, Operation Millpond, JFK, and much more

We explore Laos from roughly 1955 to 1961

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Bibliography

[1] Joshua Kurlantzick - A Great Place to Have a War (p.59-61)

[1] Frederic C. Benson Genesis of the Hmong-American Alliance, 1949-1962 https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/u... (p.12)

[1] Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Laos https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_cent...

[2] Peter Dale Scott - The War Conspiracy (p. 89)

[2] Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent (p. 254)

[2] Martin Stuart Fox - A History of Laos https://archive.org/details/historyof... (p. 99-100)

[2] Letter certifying Operation brotherhood from Allen Dulles to Eisenhower https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sit...

[2] Operation Brotherhood Memo https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/...

[2] Frederic C. Benson Genesis of the Hmong-American Alliance, 1949-1962 https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/u... (p.15-16)

[2] J. Vinton Lawrence interview https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cgi/vi... (p.24)

[3] Martin Stuart Fox - A History of Laos https://archive.org/details/historyof... (p. 95,101-102)

[3] Peter Dale Scott - The War Conspiracy (p. 69-76)

[3] Alfred Mccoy - The Politics of Heroin (p. 299-300, 310-311)

[3] Timothy Neil Castle - At War in the Shadow of Vietnam https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA243... (46-53)

[3] June 4, 1958 telegram from Embassy in Laos to the Department of State

https://history.state.gov/historicald...

[3] Ken Conboy - Spies on the Mekong (ebook Kindle location 491-498)

[3] Athurth Schlesinger Jr. - A Thousand Days (p.325-26)

[3] Frederic C. Benson Genesis of the Hmong-American Alliance, 1949-1962 https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/u... (p.19-20)

[3] Arthur Dommen - Conflict in Laos; the Politics of Neutralization https://archive.org/details/conflicti... ; (p.133)

[4] Joshua Kurlantzick - A Great Place to Have a War (p.29-30)

[4] Peter Dale Scott - Operation Paper (https://apjjf.org/peter-dale-scott/34...)

[4] Bill Lair interview 1 https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.ph... (p.85-86)

[4] Bill Lair interview 2

https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.ph... (p.149)

[4] Timothy Neil Castle - At War in the Shadow of Vietnam https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA243... (80-96)

[4] J. Vinton Lawrence interview https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cgi/vi...

(p.24-25)

[4] Frederic C. Benson Genesis of the Hmong-American Alliance, 1949-1962 https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/u... (p.24-25)

[4] Annie Jacobsen - Surprise, Kill, Vanish (p. 112-113)

[4] Ted Sorensen - Kennedy (the book) (p. 644)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BD7axcbr1M8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7axcbr1M8