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:
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:
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.
Albert Doyle Wrote:That's off-topic Tom. Please stop stalking my posts.
You missed my point, there is no mention of Laos in Jim DiEugenio's review. You step on every thread in this section of the forum, thus it is impossible to avoid posting after you do, since your post almost always immediately
follows the opening post of every thread and the top of the page post of every ensuing page of every thread. We know you blame the CIA for anything and everything, we all get it.
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:........... Saying that a car was "planted" and then saying, "Gad, it was a CIA operation!" What does that mean?
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You insist on having the first word, the middle word, and the last word in each and every thread. It is no accident activity has dried up in this section of the forum.
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.
I saw a presentation on TV this summer about the US withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1975. It was a traumatic program for people who lived through the era. A massive rush to get to the evacuation ships before the North Vietnamese Army stormed the city.
Albert Doyle Wrote:I saw a presentation on TV this summer about the US withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1975. It was a traumatic program for people who lived through the era. A massive rush to get to the evacuation ships before the North Vietnamese Army stormed the city.
Laos and Cambodia fell at almost the same time. Corrupt officials and generals in those countries rushed to get out with their loot. There was never a better example of how dumb it is to prop up crooked, unpopular regimes.
