Ebook: Sky Is Falling : An Oral History of the CIA’s Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos
Author: Gayle L. Morrison
- Tags: United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency., Vietnam War 1961-1975 -- Laos., Vietnam War 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives., Hmong (Asian people) -- Laos., Political refugees -- Laos., Political refugees -- United States., Vietnam War 1961-1975 -- Laos -- Evacuation of civilians., Laos -- Politics and government -- 1975-, Evacuation of civilians., Hmong (Asian people), Political refugees., Politics and government, Laos., United States.
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Mcfarland & Company
- City: Laos, United States., Laos
- Edition: illustrated edition
- Language: English
- epub
Starting in 1960, Hmong guerrilla soldiers, under the command of General Vang Pao, functioned as the hands and feet of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's secret war against communist forces in Laos. Operating out of Long Cheng, the Hmong soldiers allowed the CIA to accomplish two objectives: to maintain the perception of United States neutrality in Laos and to tie up North Vietnamese troops in Laos who would otherwise have been sent to fight in South Vietnam. The U.S. government had quietly pledged to General Vang Pao and the Hmong that the Americans would take care of them in the event that Laos fell. In May 1975, this promise was redeemed when the CIA generated an air evacuation that moved more than 2,500 Hmong officers, soldiers and family members out of their mountain-ringed airbase. Fifty or so Hmong and Americans involved in the evacuation provide herein a firsthand account of the 14-day evacuation and the events leading up to it. Their accounts document both the political and human aspects of this unusual historical event
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