June 28, 2019
About 100 veterans including members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 423 posthumously honored the service of Say Chao Thao last month in a ceremony in Lynnwood, Wash. Thao was a member of the CIA's secret…
June 12, 2014
The cover of Patrick Lee's Kickers: A Novel of the Secret War (CreateSpace, 380 pp., $13.95, paper) depicts an airdrop In Laos. It shows a package, probably rice, dropping after having been booted out of a…
July 4, 2013
“Hog” was the call sign of CIA operative Jerry Daniels, portrayed as a beloved, though rather mysterious, hero by Gayle L. Morrison in her able oral history, Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the…