Laos

References

CRS Report UB 250 USA, "Reported Foreign And Domestic Covert Activities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency: 1950-1974." Richard F. Grimmett, Analyst in National Defense, Foreign Affairs Division. February 18, 1975

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Laos

Beginning in 1962, the CIA become involved in a "secret war" in Laos against the Communist forces there. The CIA recruited, and trained a private army of at least 30, 000 Meo and other Laotian tribesmen. This group was known as L'Armee Clandestine. Pilots hired by the CIA flew supply and bombing missions in CIA owned airplanes in support of this secret army. Expenditures by the U. S. to assist this army amounted to at least $300 million a year. Forty or fifty CIA officers ran this operation, aided by several hundred contract personnel.

Intelligence

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Laos