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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] Under this code name, General Vang Pao, who served the royal Lao family, recruited and trained his Hmong ...
Xaykaothao was born in Vientiane, Laos. She is of Hmong descent. Under French colonization, her father was selected to go study in France. Once the Vietnam War began, Xaykaothao's mother moved her family to France and, eventually, the United States. [1] Xaykaothao attended Duncanville High School.
Insurgency in Laos. The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other. These groups have faced reprisals from the Lao People's Army and Vietnam People's Army for their ...
Dense fog settled about Ban Pa Dong on 3 June, and clung on for three days. Under this cover, enemy infantry infiltrated past Hmong outposts. On 6 June, accurate artillery fire kept the guerrillas crouched in fighting positions. There are two slightly differing accounts of the end of the battle, but both agree a radio intercept sparked it.
James William Lair (often referred to as Bill Lair) (4 July 1924 – October 28, 2014) was an influential Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer from the Special Activities Division. He was a native Texan, raised in a broken family, but a good student. He joined the CIA after serving in a combat unit in Europe during World War II ...
Areas of Laos controlled by the Pathet Lao and bombed by the United States Air Force in support of the Kingdom of Laos. c. 42,000 dead. [5] The Laotian Civil War (1959–1975) also called the American Secret War in Laos [8] was a "civil war" in Laos waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 ...
Part of the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War. The U.S. facility atop of Phou Pha Thi, known as Lima Site 85, was the site of a major battle on 10 March 1968. Date. 10–11 March 1968. Location. Houaphanh Province, Laos. 20°26′46″N 103°42′51″E. / 20.44611°N 103.71417°E / 20.44611; 103.71417. Result.
As of the 2010 census, 260,073 Hmong people reside in the United States, [103] the majority of whom live in California (91,224), then Minnesota (66,181), and Wisconsin (49,240), an increase from 186,310 in 2000. [104] 247,595 or 95.2% are Hmong alone, and the remaining 12,478 are mixed Hmong with some other ethnicity.