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Covert Ops: The CIA's Secret War In Laos
Uncommon war. Uncommon bonds.
In 1972, U.S. soldiers battle the North Vietnamese. Behind the headlines, a secret war rages in Laos. Sky, a close knit cadre of daredevil CIA agents, spearheads a daring operation. These gutsy secret agents direct a fearless force of Thai mercenaries and native Hmong tribespeople-- fighting the enemy toe-to-toe.
Now Sky veteran James Parke...more
Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Published
November 15th 1997
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
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I read this book to get information on how it was we were bombing Laos so heavily in the 60s and 70s that unexploded ordnance we dropped on those bombing raids is still killing people now, 40 years later. In this fascinating book, where I found myself unexpectedly charmed by the narrator and his cohorts, I learned that and more. James Parker (aka "Mule") tells a gripping story of behind-the-scenes activity against the North Vietnamese Army in a "side war" I never knew took ...more
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When the author was 15 years old he ran away from home, ending up in Havana, Cuba. His parents were not amused and not long after he returned he was enrolled in the Oak Ridge Military Academy for an attitude adjustment. There he learned discipline but he was still driven by a ramblin', rambunctious curiosity; summers he worked as a Myrtle Beach life guard. He went on to UNC/Chapel Hill, played lac...more
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