Last Days in Vietnam

[Albert Doyle]

I once met the son of a Laotian army officer hired by CIA to spot Pathet Lao positions for US bombing. The CIA practically pulled out of Laos overnight leaving his father, himself, and his family at the hands of the conquering Pathet Lao. The father was sent to re-education labor camp where they gave them a wicker basket and ordered him to fill bomb craters with it. Luckily he got out and managed to get to the US. Thavi and his family were left behind in a kind of house arrest. He swam across the Mekong at night and made it to Thailand with his family and onto the US. A very interesting story in the documentary 'Nerakhoon' (Laotian for "Betrayal"). That's Thavi on the cover:



http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Ellen-Kur...s=Nerakoon