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LAOS 4: The Paramilitary CIA and the Seeds of a Secret War
🕑 Added 2024-04-25 03:15:59 +0000 UTCWe finally go to Laos, and explore the origins of the Secret War, the CIA coups, counter coups, and the beginnings of the paramilitary CIA.
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/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/bensonhsj16.pdf (p.12)
[1] Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Laos https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/inch004.asp#:~:text=(a)%20Taking%20into%20account%20the,local%20time%20on%206%20August
[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/historyoflaos0000stua/page/100/mode/2up (p. 99-100)
[2] Letter certifying Operation brotherhood from Allen Dulles to Eisenhower https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/declassified/fy-2014/091-004.pdf
[2] Operation Brotherhood Memo https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/OPERATION%20BROTHERHOOD%2C%20LA%5B15719097%5D.pdf
[2] Frederic C. Benson Genesis of the Hmong-American Alliance, 1949-1962 https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/bensonhsj16.pdf (p.15-16)
[2] J. Vinton Lawrence interview https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=lawrence-interviews (p.24)
[3] Martin Stuart Fox - A History of Laos https://archive.org/details/historyoflaos0000stua/page/100/mode/2up (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/ADA243492.pdf (46-53)
[3] June 4, 1958 telegram from Embassy in Laos to the Department of State
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v16/d182
[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/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/bensonhsj16.pdf (p.19-20)
[3] Arthur Dommen - Conflict in Laos; the Politics of Neutralization https://archive.org/details/conflictinlaospo0000domm_d0s0/page/132/mode/2up (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/3436/article)
[4] Bill Lair interview 1 https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=/OH/OH0200/OH0200-part1.pdf (p.85-86)
[4] Bill Lair interview 2
https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=/OH/OH0200/OH0200-part2.pdf (p.149)
[4] Timothy Neil Castle - At War in the Shadow of Vietnam https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA243492.pdf (80-96)
[4] J. Vinton Lawrence interview https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=lawrence-interviews
(p.24-25)
[4] Frederic C. Benson Genesis of the Hmong-American Alliance, 1949-1962 https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/bensonhsj16.pdf (p.24-25)
[4] Annie Jacobsen - Surprise, Kill, Vanish (p. 112-113)
[4] Ted Sorensen - Kennedy (p. 644)
Comments
David Sparks
Great work.. putting a few more dots together.. “news is narrative” always has been… today with the further centralization of the government media complex that don’t even attempt to hide it.
Kevin Mcveigh
Goat
