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Ravens with a T-28D Trojan at Long Tieng, Laos, 1970. The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots (special operations capable) unit used as forward air controllers (FACs) in a clandestine and covert operation in conjunction with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Laos during America's Vietnam War.
Christopher Robbins (1987), The Ravens: The Men Who Flew In America's Secret War In Laos, Crown. Larry Clinton Thompson (2010), Refugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975–1982, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing Company. Roger Warner (1995), Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam, Simon & Schuster.
Air America C-123 on ramp at Long Tieng, 1970. Set up in June 1961, Long Tieng was the headquarters for Vang Pao, who led irregular forces of the Meo people, a CIA ally in the conflict with Pathet Lao. (Source: CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974. Photo courtesy of D. Williams.)
The Secret Warning is Volume 17 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in ...
Lima sites of the Laotian Civil War: No. Name Width × length Elevation Coordinates Remarks LS2 San Tiau 100 × 800 ft 5,000 ft Used as base for Kou Kiet [4]: LS03
Phạm Xuân Ẩn (born Phạm Văn Thành; September 12, 1927 – September 20, 2006) was a notable Vietnamese spy, journalist, and correspondent for Time, Reuters and the New York Herald Tribune, stationed in Saigon during the war in Vietnam.
' General Department of Intelligence '), [1] also recognized by its internal designation General Department II (Tổng cục II or less formally Tổng cục 2 - TC2), [2] is a general department (tổng cục)-level agency under the Vietnam Ministry of Defence and the strategic military intelligence service of the Vietnam People’s Army ...
The People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces Arms (Vietnamese: Binh chủng Đặc công, Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam), officially the Special Operation Force Arms or Special Operation Arms, [1] is the elite combat armed service of the People's Army of Vietnam, led by the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army. It is uniquely ...