Operation Pincushion was a covert training program for hill tribe recruits to become guerrilla soldiers during the Laotian Civil War. Run by United States...
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Battle of Luang Namtha begins. 19 April - Project Hotfoot (Laos) ends. 13 March - Operation Millpond begins. 13 December - Operation Pincushion begins....
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for such copycat programs as Operation Pincushion, and for organizing the Degars of South Vietnam. The success of Operation Momentum brought about more...
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13 March – August 1961: Operation Millpond, nationwide, (cancelled) 13 December 1961 – 10 September 1962: Operation Pincushion, in Military Region 4 (MR...
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version. U.S. Special Forces (USSF) copied the ADC for Operation White Star and Operation Pincushion, and to organize the Degar in South Vietnam. In 1967...
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In Laos, the agency began Operation Pincushion in 1962 to accomplish that goal.: 85–91 The operation evolved into Operation Hardnose, in which CIA-backed...
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communist troops was so successful it was copied elsewhere, including Operation Pincushion in Laos, and among the Degar of South Vietnam. The ADC program consisted...
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1) 13 March–August 1961: Operation Millpond, nationwide, (cancelled) 13 December 1961–10 September 1962: Operation Pincushion, in Military Region 4 (MR...
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Wapi Project (redirect from Wapi Operation)
unitary command and security from the 400 remaining militia from Operation Pincushion. At the same time, overall security in MR 4 was diminished when an...
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shifted his base of operations from Nakhon Phanom, Thailand to Pakse, Laos. He acquired promising local agents from the Operation Pincushion program. After...
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