Laughter in the Shadows (34 page)
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Authors: Stuart Methven
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Office of Strategic Services (OSS),
27
Okinawa,
70–71
Operation Boostershot,
56–57
“Operation Genie,”
82–84
Operation Uhuru: aircraft for,
143–46
; base,
140
; boats for,
148–51
; and Cubans,
155–58
; end of,
161–68
; lesson of,
167–68
; mercenaries in,
151–55
,
160
; planning and supplying,
139–44
; progression of,
159–61
; psychological warfare in,
158–59
Ossofsky, Boris,
119–27
Ouane Rathikone: and flags,
59
; in Luang Prabat,
81
,
82
; and Nam Bac,
85–86
,
88
; on opium,
75
; and organization of political program,
57–60
; to Phong Saly,
76
; at political rally,
62–63
Owata,
36–40
Pak Boun,
55
Pang Vao: and air drop,
72
; on fall of Nong Het,
94–95
; meetings with,
67–69
,
73–75
; and montagnards,
63
; and paramilitary program,
96
parachute training,
17
paramilitary forces.
See
montagnards
paramilitary (PM) officers: in Angafula,
139
; description,
23
; in library,
32–33
Pathet Cham: and air drop of leaflets,
83–84
; in Ban Ban,
65
; in election,
76–77
; infiltration of,
52–53
; and Nam Bac,
87–93
; in Nong Het,
74
; and political action program,
54
,
55
; retaliation
of,
61–63
; and tractors,
56–57
Patrice Lumumba University,
134–35
,
161
Peter Pan Airlines,
144
Phoenix program,
106
Phong Saly,
75–76
La Plaine des Jarres (the Plain of Jars): description,
50
; landing at,
64–65
; visit to,
94–96
Pleiku,
99
political action programs,
53–57
,
109
.
See also
Cham Union Banda Soldaire (CUBS)
political action/psychological warfare (PP) officers: within Operations Directorate,
23
; training,
21–22
Political Action Section,
33
,
34
pool,
22–23
Popular Movement to Free Angafula (PMFA): and Cubans,
155
,
158
,
159
; defense of Lunda,
148
; demonstrations by,
134–35
; and goals of Operation Uhuru,
139
; and mercenaries,
153
; Portuguese support of,
143
; prisoners,
142
; reconnaissance planes,
147
; supplies for,
140
,
149
,
156
,
160
; and tuna processing plant,
148
; and U.S. senator’s visit,
161–62
pseudonyms,
10
psychological profiles,
121
psychological warfare,
23
,
158–59
rabbits,
15–16
Radio Free Angafula (RFA),
158–59
Radio Havana,
159
Ramparts
,
109
Rebello, “Reverend”: background,
138–39
; and coordinator of task force,
142
; and Cubans and Stalin’s Organs,
155–56
; and end of Operation Uhuru,
163–64
; leadership of,
134
; and mercenaries,
151
,
152
; and military advisers,
146–48
; and parachute battalions,
160
; and weapons,
141
,
156
Rex Hotel,
104
Romney, George,
110
Rose, Sister,
101–3
Russia.
See
Soviet Union
RUVOLGA.
See
Ossofsky, Boris
safe houses,
29–30
Saigon: assignment in,
97–101
; and Chau,
106
,
107
; coup d’etat in,
103–4
; evacuation from,
104–5
; and shrimp soldiers,
105
Salazar government,
134
Salle de Fete,
62
Sam Neua,
76
Samudra: assignment in,
111–13
; description,
112
.
See also
Bintang
Sanchez, Juan: background,
138–39
; and coordinator of task force,
142
; counter-offensive of,
162
; and end of Operation Uhuru,
163–66
; leadership of,
134
; and MiGs,
145–46
; provisional government of,
159
; on weapons,
141
Sang, Captain,
85–92
Sap Neua,
49
Sappho, Augustus: leadership of,
134–35
; Portuguese support of,
143
; Sanchez on,
139
; and Stalin’s Organs,
155
; U.S. senator’s visit to,
161–62
Schecter, Jerry,
98
school supplies,
60
Second Military Region (Cham),
94
Second Military Region (Vietnam),
100
Sheehan, Neil,
98
Shiba Owata coal mine,
36
shrimp soldiers,
105–6
Shuku,
36
silent killing,
14–15
Silvo Porta,
162
Smith, Walter Bedell,
3
Souphanna, Prince,
78
Southeast Asia: communist threat in,
49–50
; information on intelligence in,
127
; interview for assignment in,
22–23
; opium crops,
75
Soviet Union: agent of influence in Cham,
78
; and Angafula,
135
,
138–41
,
145–46
,
149
,
156
,
161–63
,
167
,
168
; and Bushido,
28
; and communist threat,
49
; defectors from,
113
,
118–19
; and Pathet Cham,
53
; in Plain des Jarres,
96
; and Samudra,
112–27
; spying in,
38
Stanley, Henry,
131
Stark (task force commander),
142
station chiefs (COSs): and agents of influence,
41–42
; and Bongo,
136
; in Buwana,
131–33
; in Viensiang,
51–55
stiletto,
14
suturing,
15
Suwango, President,
136
sweaters,
70–74
Swedish K submachine guns,
14
,
19
Swift boats,
149–50
Tan San Nhut airport,
104
Tat, General,
108–9
Tay Ninh,
108–9
Taylor, Maxwell,
100–101
time pencils,
19
tradecraft,
11
training,
10–23
; in air drops,
16
; comprehensive exercise,
17–20
; curriculum,
11–12
; at Farm,
12–20
; instructors,
12–20
; in Kaltenborn,
21–22
; parachute,
17
; survival,
15
,
18
; weapons,
14–15
Tran Ngoc Chau,
106–7
Trong Hien,
107
Union for the Total Independence of Angafula (UTIA): and coordinator of task force,
142
; and Cubans,
158
,
162
; demonstrations by,
134
; documentary on,
145–46
; and end of Operation Uhuru,
164–65
; program for,
138–39
; and provisional government,
159
; supplies for,
140–41
United Rubber Workers of America,
6
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),
54
,
56–57
,
82
,
106
U.S. Congress,
107
,
161–65
,
167–68
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
144–45
U.S. Information Service (USIS),
82
U.S. Rubber Company,
4–9
U.S. Special Forces,
82
,
95
,
99–101
,
104
Vang Sathana,
81
Veha Akhat,
64
Vienna,
55–56
Viensiang: as capital,
50
; comparison to Luang Prabat,
81
; coup d’etat in,
78
; Mercedes in,
54
; political action program in,
55–56
; station chief in,
51–55
; and supplies for airdrop,
71
Viet Cong: on Black Virgin Mountain,
108
; and Chau’s teams,
106
; image of,
110
; in leper colony,
101–3
; and Mountain Scout program,
99
; as public enemy #1,
97
; terrorist acts of,
104
Vietnam: history,
97
; leper colony,
101–3
; Mountain Scout program in,
98–101
; sabbatical after,
109–11
; sacred mountain in,
108–9
; and training,
14
; Vietnamese spies in,
106–7
.
See also
North Vietnam
;
Saigon
Vinh Loc,
100
voting,
55
Vung Tau,
105
Wat Phrasay,
52
weapons: in Angafula,
138–41
,
148
,
156–58
; and Cham political program,
60
,
66
,
68
; in Luang Prabat,
94
; of Meo,
68
,
94–96
; in Nam Bac,
88–93
; Pang Vao’s request for,
74
,
75
; training,
14–15
; at Vietnamese leper colony,
102
Wienerschnitzel,
21–22
Wilson, “Shower-Shoes,”
71–72
Wishful, John.
See
Bongo Wa Za Zenga
Xieng Khuong,
64
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