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Rosebank Press has published trade paperback and hardcover (October 2009) versions of the non-fiction memoir Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos.
The U.S. military is attempting to capture terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan by covertly infiltrating terrorist held territory to find terrorists and take them out for interrogation. It has been reported that CIA employs “Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams” for the same purpose. With terrorist activity increasing in Yemen it may be necessary to employ similar tactics there, too.
During the so-called “Secret War in Laos” CIA indigenous teams successfully captured seventeen North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers from behind NVA lines and delivered them for interrogation.
You can read a detailed description of the CIA program in Laos that sent native, irregular, surrogate teams behind NVA lines, not only to capture NVA soldiers, but also to uncover deep penetration spies, intercept important enemy radio messages, recruit enemy soldiers to spy on their comrades, guide U.S. bombers to destroy enemy tank parks and ammunition dumps and collect information about enemy intentions before battles occurred. This book is the first time these details have ever been revealed.
No punches are pulled. Some operations were less than expected and some were spectacularly successful. The CIA does some things very well and where it needs to improve the author provides suggestions for change. Tactics being used today in Afghanistan and Pakistan had already been used in Laos over thirty-five years ago, perhaps more successfully.
Here are lessons to be learned and applied to today’s special operations against terrorists.
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