13-09-2009, 06:38 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:In 1972, Charles S. Whitehouse, father of current U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - Rhode Island), became Ambassador to Laos. His posting coincided with a precipitous decline in American aid to Hmong allies who had been fighting and dying in the proxy wars against the NVA and Pathet Lao.
Three years later, Whitehouse became Ambassador to Thailand. Eight months into that tour, Laos fell to the Communists.
Prior to the above-related service, Whitehouse had served as the State Department's Congo Desk officer.
In 1972 Whitehouse was sent to Vietnam in the capacity of Deputy Chief of Mission.
Ted Shackley was CIA station chief in Laos from 1966 -68, where he ran Hmong operations; he went on to serve as CIA station chief in Viet Nam.
From the "Historical Oddities" file: Ambassador Whitehouse officiated at the wedding of Tony Posephny and his Hmong bride.
Another demonstration that here on this Forum one is 'Hmong' cognoscenti!
mokin:
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass