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CIA military base during ‘Secret War’ in Laos draws Hmong American visitors
We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand ...
La Crosse Tribune5d
A CIA military base was their home during the ‘Secret War’ in Laos. Now Hmong Americans can finally see it again.
LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their ...
Star Tribune4y
Maya Rao
She previously covered the federal government for the Star Tribune. Long Tieng once housed one of the busiest air hubs in the world in the 1960s, but it was closed to the public for decades after ...