14-10-2015, 06:04 AM
Albert Doyle Wrote: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
You must have thought a lot of the dvd because in this instance you did not have Ralph Yates do your four star review of it. The fish you described catching locally in the book review, sounded yummy, boru !
Peter Janney's uncle was Frank Pace, chairman of General Dynamics who enlisted law partners Roswell Gilpatric and Luce's brother-in-law, Maurice "Tex" Moore, in a trade of 16 percent of Gen. Dyn. stock in exchange for Henry Crown and his Material Service Corp. of Chicago, headed by Byfield's Sherman Hotel group's Pat Hoy. The Crown family and partner Conrad Hilton next benefitted from TFX, at the time, the most costly military contract award in the history of the world. Obama was sponsored by the Crowns and Pritzkers. So was Albert Jenner Peter Janney has preferred to write of an imaginary CIA assassination of his surrogate mother, Mary Meyer, but not a word about his Uncle Frank.
