Tag: CIA
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Otto Bremer Trust awards grants to La Crosse area organizations
The latest awards in the La Crosse area include: Cia Siab, receiving $30,000 to help in their general operations to build a culturally vibrant Hmong community through culturally specific and … Read Full Article
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UWM Class Aims To Increase Number Of Women Entering STEM Fields
During the Vietnam War the U.S. Air Force was involved in a secret mission to train a group of Hmong soldiers in Laos to fly military planes. It was part of a campaign by the CIA working behind the … Read Full Article
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How Evers’ Proposed Budget Would Impact UW-Milwaukee & The Challenges Of Funding The UW-System
During the Vietnam War the U.S. Air Force was involved in a secret mission to train a group of Hmong soldiers in Laos to fly military planes. It was part of a campaign by the CIA working behind the … Read Full Article
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Juan Jimenez, Pelli Lee would bring experience, diversity to La Crosse school board
He also serves on board for Cia Siab Inc., a nonprofit supporting the area’s Hmong community, and the La Crosse Public Education Foundation. “One of the most important things for me is being able to … Read Full Article
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“Who Are We, Really, Without Our History?”
For Blong Xiong, the university’s Southeast Asian Digital Archive is a way to share his own history and that of other Hmong who fled the secret war waged by the CIA in Laos. “This is the history of wh… Read Full Article
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Doeun Lehn, veteran of a secret war
American CIA and military operatives worked closely with allies in Laos and Cambodia. The large Hmong community in the Twin Cities is the result of the close military alliance. Doeun Lenh began his li… Read Full Article
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How moving to another country can transform your gut microbiome
They published their results in Cell. One community, the Hmong, began arriving in Minnesota in the 1970s as refugees from the CIA-backed secret war and Vietnam war, which ravaged their communities in … Read Full Article
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CIA’s Vietnam Illegal Drug Trafficking, JFK’s Assassination
Thus, from 1960-1975, the CIA deployed a secret force of 30,000 Hmong tribesmen to fight the Laotian Communists. They also created heroin labs in this area; then brought it out via their own private a… Read Full Article
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The Ecosystem in Immigrants’ Guts Is Shaped by the Place They Call Home
They published their results in Cell last week. One community, the Hmong, began arriving in Minnesota in the 1970s as refugees from the CIA-backed Secret War and Vietnam War, which ravaged their commu… Read Full Article
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National Monuments Commemorates Special Guerrilla Unit In Vietnam War
The SGU were a group of Laotian and Hmong soldiers hired by the CIA to fight in America’s secret war during the Vietnam War. Phouthasack served for twenty-six years in the Vietnam conflict where he fo… Read Full Article
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Reception Saturday honors POW’s life and legacy
Though Laos was a neutral country per a 1954 Geneva Convention signing, a secret war was underway between communist Pathet Lao forces backed by Vietnam and Laotian government forces backed by the CIA … Read Full Article
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Top 3 unknown proxy wars between the Soviet Union and U.S.
The U.S., in addition to sending arms, trained a small (30,000-strong) army from the local Lao Hmong people to participate in the fighting. Mobile teams of American Special Forces and CIA instructors … Read Full Article
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The Fight for Vietnam 1963 US Army; Vietnam War; The Big Picture TV-574
The Kennedy administration sought to refocus U.S. efforts on pacification and “winning over the hearts and minds” of the population… Paramilitary officers from the CIA’s Special Activities Division tr… Read Full Article
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In 1968, a Secret U.S. Base Was Overrun By Elite Vietnamese Commandos
(This first appeared in March.) CIA personnel also recruited local Hmong, an ethnic minority present in several southeast Asian states, to fight a guerilla war against the Pathet Lao. It was with this … Read Full Article
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Vietnam News- April 2008
Unable to return to civilized Laos, they remain trapped, living in the jungle for safety. During the Vietnam War, the CIA employed thousands of Hmong men to fight the Communists as jungle warriors. Th… Read Full Article
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Air America Flier Writes About Secret War in New Book
Officially, U.S. military forces were not supposed to be in Laos under treaty provisions. The CIA used Air America to fly food and supplies to Hmong (Meo) tribesmen, who were U.S. allies battling the … Read Full Article