Laughter in the Shadows (33 page)

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Authors: Stuart Methven

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Black Thai,
66

Black Virgin Mountain,
108–9

blankets,
70–72
,
74

Blind Bronze,
81

boa constrictors,
98

Bongo Wa Za Zenga: background,
136
; and damaged plane,
145
; and fishing boats,
149
; meetings with,
137–38
; on mercenaries,
151
; misadventures of,
159–61
; on Portuguese,
144
; role in Operation Uhuru,
139–41
; U.S. relationship with,
135–38
; and weapons,
156–57

Brown, Ralph,
144–45

Buddhists,
51
,
52
,
104

Bulanda, Patrice,
136

Bumba, General,
156
,
157

Burchett, Wilfred,
104

Bureau of Narcotics,
75

Bushido: history,
28
; labor movement in,
34–45
; operations in,
27
; paramilitary in,
23
; trade fair,
45

Buwana: and Angafula,
135
,
138–39
,
160–61
; boats in,
149–51
; “coup” in,
136–37
; purpose of CIA station in,
131–33
,
167
; security in,
140
,
144
; U.S. senator’s visit to,
161–62
.
See also
Operation Uhuru

Bwang Karno,
112

Cabrola,
160–61

Cao Dai cathedral,
108–9

Carbo (coal miners union),
34–45

case officers: and agents,
38
,
41–43
,
113–14
; in Cham,
54
,
78
; description,
33
; in Operation Uhuru,
140
,
167
; in Vietnam,
109
; vulnerability of,
66

caseworkers,
33

Castillo, Joao,
146–48
,
159

Castro, Fidel,
139
,
155

CAT (China Air Transport),
71

Caxico,
147

Central Intelligence Agency: on college campuses,
109
; establishment of,
27
; interview and hiring,
8–9
; last day in,
169–70
; and mercenaries,
154–55
; recruitment,
3–4
; reputation, xi–xii; and separation of church and state,
102
; and Vietnamese coup,
104

Cercle Sportif,
80–82
,
81

Cham: assignment in,
45–46
; Cold War in,
96
; and communism,
49–50
; description,
50–51
; election,
76–77
; evacuations from,
79
; fall of,
94
; fertility festival,
62–63
; flags,
59–61
,
76
; low morale in,
85–86
; political action program in,
53–59
; station chief in,
51–55
.
See also
Luang Prabat
;
Viensiang

Cham Union Banda Soldaire (CUBS): in election,
76–77
; end of,
78
; and flags,
59–61
; organization of,
57–59
; in Phong Saly,
75–76
; pins,
60
,
76
,
78
; tools and techniques of,
60–63
,
76

Cham Women’s Association,
59
,
60

Charleston, SC,
139

China: and Bushido trade fair,
45
; and communist threat,
49
; flap in,
28–29
; and Rebello,
138

Chinese agent,
29–32

Cholon,
103

Christina
,
148–51
,
159
,
167

Ciano, Galeazzo,
53

Ciao Sopsana,
58

civic action programs.
See
political action programs

clandestine techniques: in Bushido,
40
,
43
; tools of,
47
; training in,
11
,
12
,
27

Cold War: in Cham,
96
; and recruitment of agents,
120
,
125
; in Samudra,
112
; and Southeast Asia,
49
; and weapons,
14

Comp (comprehensive field exercise),
17–20

Con Son Island,
105–6

Conein, Lou,
103–4

Congo River,
131

Congressional Record
,
53

Coolidge, Calvin,
160

Corrigan, Frank,
82
,
83

Country Team,
56–57

Le Coup Manque,
136–37

cover stories,
10–11

covert operations: in Angafula,
135
; and Black Virgin Mountain,
108–9
; in Cham,
54
; history and nature of,
47–48
; personnel for,
33
; and Pi,
82
; training for,
27
.
See also
case officers
;
Operation Uhuru

Cremona,
162
,
164–66

Cubans,
142
,
145
,
155–60
,
162
,
164–68

Cullen, Lance Corporal,
151–55

D-day run-up simulation,
19

De Gama
,
150–51
,
167

de Silva, Ernesto,
150
,
151

de Silva, Peer,
104

Diem, President,
103

Dien Bien Phu,
51
,
71
,
81

Directorate of Intelligence (DI),
27

Directorate of Operations (DO),
23
,
27

displaced persons camp,
21–22

Do Van Dien,
101–3

Domino Theory,
49

double agents,
11
,
38
,
113

Dulles, Allen,
27
,
49
,
50
,
53

Dulles, John Foster,
49

Duong Van Minh,
103

eclipse,
85

Edo,
23
,
45

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
3
,
53

Erawan Hotel,
79

The Farm,
12–20

Filipino Operation Brotherhood (OB),
64
,
66

First Military Region (Cham),
85–86

flaps,
21
,
28–29

Force Publique,
136

Ford, Gerald,
163

foreign intelligence (FI) officers,
23

Foreman, George,
132

Fort Benning,
85
,
88
,
90

French,
51
,
65
,
67–68
,
75
,
96

Front for the Liberation of Angafula (FLA): and Cubans,
155
,
158
,
162
; demonstrations by,
134
; and end of Operation Uhuru,
163–64
; and mercenaries,
152–54
; military advisers,
146–48
; program for,
138–39
; supplies for,
140–41
,
156

FULRO (Force for Liberation Highlands),
100–101

Geelong School,
112–13

Geneva settlement (1954),
49–50
,
97

Germany,
53

Gia Dinh Province,
98

GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence),
113
,
119

Guevara, Che,
149

Halberstam, David,
98

Harriman, Averell,
94

Harvard University,
110

Heinzleman, Dr.,
134
,
135
,
140
,
162
,
168

helio: air drop from,
69–72
; design,
67
; to Phong Saly,
76
; recoilless rifle in,
91–93

Ho Chi Minh,
51
,
97
,
161

Hoai, Colonel,
99

Hoare, Mike “Major Mike,”
151
,
160

“horns,” drinking of,
74

Ilongo, Captain,
157–58

Impeng Soolay,
58

Indochina War,
67
,
97

International Nickel Company,
113

International Trade Fair,
115

Israel,
102
,
116

J building,
21

Jakanda,
114

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
96
,
104

Kalashnikovs,
14
,
47
,
140
,
141

Kaltenborn, Bavaria,
21–22

Katapi harbor,
138
,
140
,
149
,
151

Kennedy, John F.,
94

KGB: and CIA reputation, xi; and cover stories,
10
; and psychological warfare,
159
; and recruitment of agents,
113–17
; in Viensiang,
51
; and weapons,
14

Kham Kong,
94

Khamouane,
77

Kisangani,
132

Kissinger, Henry,
109
,
110

Kong Le coup,
81

Kontum,
99

Korean War,
70

Ladolite,
141

Leopold II, king of Belgium,
131
,
136

leper colony,
101–3

Lisette, Anne Marie,
136

Luang Prabat: assignment in,
80–85
; as capital,
50
; weapons to,
94
,
96

Lunda: boats from,
150–51
; and Cabrola,
160
; demonstrations in,
134–35
; and Korean cannons,
157–58
; mercenaries in,
154
; Portuguese volunteers from,
143–44
; Rebello’s plan to invade,
147–48
,
155
,
156
; Soviet supplies in,
149

Magoon, “Earthquake,”
71

Maree, Tom,
149–50

McNamara, Robert,
110

medical kits,
60
,
68

Meo: Pang Vao on situation of,
67–68
; visits to,
72–75
,
94–96

Mercedes Benz,
54

mercenaries,
151–55
,
160

MiGs,
145–46

“mini-Country Team,”
82

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
109–11

Moh Lam team,
61

montagnards: in Nam Bac,
93
; and opium,
75
; recruitment,
83
,
96
; in Vietnam,
98–101
; visit to,
63–69

Mossad agents,
116

Mountain Scout program,
98–101

Muong La,
84

Mussolini, Benito,
53

Nam Bac,
85–93

nation building: in Cham,
49–50
,
54
,
58
,
63
,
68
; and covert action,
47–48
; in Vietnam,
97

National Pacification Program,
109

Naugatuck, CT,
4–9

Nelson, Oliver,
82–85

New
York Times
,
107

Ngo Dinh Diem,
97

Ngo Van Chieu,
108

Nguyen Van Buu,
105–6

Nguyen Van Thieu,
104
,
105
,
107

Nhu,
103

Nixon, Richard,
29
,
112

Nong Het: fall of,
94–95
; supplies for,
68–74
; visit to,
72–75

North Korea,
156–57

North Vietnam: Chau as spy for,
107
; communism in,
49
,
94
; and Nong Het air drop,
71
,
72
; and Pathet Cham,
52
,
53
,
74
; raids on Meo,
68
; troops of,
101
.
See also
Vietnam

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