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In 1950 the CIA’s Colonel Lansdale reported that:
“The Binh Xuyen were participating in one of the world’s major arteries of the dope traffic, helping move the prize opium crops out of Laos and South China. The profits were so huge that Bao Dai’s tiny cut was ample to keep him in yachts, villas, and other comforts in France.”… More>>
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In the summer of 1945 the OSS Deer Team began working with Ho Chi Minh and his followers against the Japanese.
Thirty years later, after millions of casualties, the war finally came to an end when NVA troops rolled into Saigon. It had been a long and torturous ride for everyone who had lived through it. Read a chronological narrative of events…More>>
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On February 14, 1979 a largely overlooked news story flashed briefly across the wires–about a shootout in a hotel in Kabul. As it turned out, what happened there had enormous implications for the world. At the time though, the story was nudged off the front pages by events happening elsewhere… more>>
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