Laos, Laotians and the legacy of the Indochina War

Friday, December 04, 2009

Phnom Penh: On Saturday (December 5) there will be a great documentaries at Meta House at 7 p. m, which focus on Laos, Laotians and the legacy of the Indochina War (THE CIA IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: “THE MOST SECRET PLACE ON EARTH”)
After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, film director Marc Eberle uncovers the story of the CIA’s most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare: The Secret War in Laos, which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War from 1964 -1973. While the world’s attention was caught by the conflict in Vietnam, the CIA built the busiest military airport in the world in neighboring and neutral Laos and recruited humanitarian aid personnel, Special Forces agents and civilian pilots to undertake what would become the most effective operation of counterinsurgency warfare