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  1. The Hmong played many critical roles under the directions of the U.S. CIA, including disrupting the communist North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, providing intelligence about enemy operations, guarding U.S. strategic installation, and rescuing downed American pilots in northern Laos.

  2. One hundred and fifty thousand Hmong have fled Laos since their country fell to communist forces in 1975. After the War. Displaced from their villages, which were either bombed out or burned by...

  3. Feb 2, 2023 · by Larry Porges 2/2/2023. The design for the new memorial will incorporate a 1956 U.S. Navy T-28 fighter-bomber to honor the service of members of the Hmong Special Guerrilla Group who flew the plane during the Vietnam War on missions within the Royal Lao Air Force. (National Lao-Hmong Memorial Foundation, Designer Ed Dwight) Share This Article.

  4. Apr 13, 2022 · Hmong soldiers served as allies of the U.S. during the Vietnam War, and after facing persecution, many fled as refugees and resettled elsewhere around the world, with the first wave of immigrants to Wisconsin arriving in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wisconsin Watch. April 13, 2022.

  5. Nov 9, 2017 · The Hmong and the Secret War. 11/09/2017 | 56m 52s |. My List. In 1961, four years before the Vietnam War, the CIA funded a Secret War in Laos. The Hmong became CIA’s surrogate army,...

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  6. In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA conducted a secret war in Laos that relied on Hmong soldiers to prevent the threat of communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. Tens of thousands died, both in the fight and in the escape. Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War explores the untold, turbulent history.

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