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The operation also increasingly provided close air support for Royal Lao Armed Forces, CIA-backed tribal mercenaries, and Thai Volunteer Defense Corps in a covert ground war in northern and northeastern Laos. Barrel Roll and the "Secret Army" attempted to stem an increasing tide of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Pathet Lao offensives.
The CIA was largely responsible for conducting military operations in Laos, but the U.S. ambassador was the man in charge. The secret war in Laos, author Charles Stevenson has emphasized, "was William Sullivan's war." Ambassador from December 1964 to March 1969, Sullivan insisted on an efficient, closely controlled country team.
The War in Northern Laos. Command for Air Force History. OCLC 232549943. Castle, Timothy N. (1993). At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government 1955–1975. ISBN 0-231-07977-X. Conboy, Kenneth and James Morrison (1995). Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press. ISBN 0-87364-825-0. Fall, Bernard ...
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos (1964-73). ... It’s one reflection of how the Secret War is receding from memory: The war generation is approaching their ...
Yianyang Bounxieng remembers playing with bombs as a child growing up in Xieng Khouang, a verdant and mountainous province of Laos. Obama to address lethal legacy of secret war in Laos Skip to ...
The war is known as the Secret War among the American CIA Special Activities Center, and Hmong and Mien veterans of the conflict. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Franco–Lao Treaty of Amity and Association (signed 23 October 1953) transferred remaining French powers to the Royal Lao Government (except control of military affairs), establishing Laos as an ...
19 July 1964–March 1973: Unity (military operation), in MR 2 and MR 4; 4 August 1964: 1964 Laotian coups, in MR 5; 14 December 1964—22 February 1973: Operation Barrel Roll, in MR 2; 31 January 1965: 1965 Laotian coups, in MR 5; 3 April 1965–11 November 1968: Operation Steel Tiger in MR 3 and MR 4; Late 1965: Operation Star (Laos), in MR 3
Unity or Project Unity was the code name for Thailand's covert supply of mercenary soldiers to the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War.From 4 July 1964 until March 1973, battalions of Thai volunteers fought Communist Pathet Lao insurgents on the Plain of Jars in Military Region 2.