In the 1960s, while US Army troops spilled out of C-130s into Vietnam, the CIA fought a secret war in Laos. It was the height of the Cold War, and the CIA sent my father and a group of officers to ...
Allan Stanton, the author's father, in a photo dated April 1969 Peter Lang-Stanton set out to make a radio documentary about the truth of his father's role in one of the largest clandestine ...
One sees few Americans, and none in uniforms. In a few bars one may find the freewheeling, CIA-paid Air America pilots, the Lord Jims of Laos. But the main accent is French. The old ochre-colored ...
Between 1964 and 1973, the US dropped about 2 million tons of bombs on Laos in a covert campaign known as"Operation Barrel Roll." The CIA covertly executed the bombings, which is referred to as ...
Secrecy and security are hallmarks of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), but the organization has now started performing one of its key duties out in the open: recruiting foreign spies.
said the ceremony provides the opportunity to recognize our Lao-Hmong veterans who fought alongside the American CIA in Laos during the Vietnam War from 1959 to 1975. The Hmong population makes up ...
A highly decorated fighter pilot who flew 285 missions in Vietnam and directed the CIA’s secret air war in Laos to disrupt Hanoi’s Ho Chi Minh Trail supply route, Secord was a master of covert ...
A nondescript suite of rooms in an office building in central Oslo hosts activity of the kind one would normally associate with a military headquarters or the CIA. In the central situation room, a ...
This latest effort follows a campaign to enlist Russians in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, which the CIA says was a success. "We want to make sure individuals in other authoritarian regimes ...
The young CIA analyst waited anxiously for Fiona Hill to pick up her phone. He had dialed her, he recalled, because he wanted to hear a familiar voice and make sure he wasn’t doing something ...