Covert Ops: The CIA's Secret War In Laos

James E. Parker Jr.

ISBN 10: 0312963408 / ISBN 13: 9780312963408

Verlag: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997

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A veteran of Sky, a cadre of CIA agents, reveals the untold story of the covert war in Laos, taking readers inside the often mind-boggling world of extraordinary men living and dying on the edge and capturing the brutal essence of war. Reprint.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
James E. Parker, Jr., was born in North Carolina in 1942. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served as a U.S. Army infantry platoon leader in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1966.

In the summer of 1970 he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service and sent to fight the covert war in Laos. After Laos he was assigned to the CIA unit in the delta of South Vietnam. Prior to the April 1975 closing of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Parker helped evacuate Vietnamese CIA agents and was one of the last Americans out of Vietnam. He continued as an intelligence officer, working abroad in Africa and Asia. Now retired, he lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

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Titel: Covert Ops: The CIA's Secret War In Laos
Verlag: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Unknown
Zustand: Good
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