During the largest ever CIA paramilitary operation in its history - the Laos Secret War during the Vietnam War - the CIA recruited and hired a small group of around 100 young Thai men, most with no military experience, to deploy to Laos to coordinate and conduct forward air control operations in combat for our strike and other aircraft. U.S. Air Forces Special Operations Combat Controllers trained the Forward Air Guides as CIA contract employees before the Forward Air Guides were deployed to Laos. These English-speaking Thai men played an extraordinarily unique role, an anomaly of warfare that had never happened before and almost certainly will never happen again – foreign civilians coordinating U.S. Air Force strikes. This video is the introductory story.
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