Author: Kenneth Conboy with James Morrison
Publisher: PALADIN PRESS, Oct 2003
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 1-58160-535-8
Synopsis
The first comprehensive history of the CIA's largest paramilitary operation during the cold war. Photos, illus.; 8.5x11 inches, 464 pgs.
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This is the first comprehensive history of the CIA's largest paramilitary operation during the cold war. It took 10 years to write and involved interviews with 650 CIA case officers, U.S. military officials, and senior Lao, Thai and North Vietnamese officers. Includes outstanding photos and maps and never-before-reported details on the secret war in Laos. It involved delvings into thousands of pages of declassified government documents. It includes never-before-published details and photos on White Star, the war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, secret raids against Dien Bien Phu, the Commando Raiders, the largest successful prison raid of the Vietnam War and the most daring CIA operation in Indochina: wiretapping Vinh.
