Deep in the sweltering jungles of central Laos, Long Tieng played a central role in the United States’ fight to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. Fifty years after its fall, we explore ...

The U.S. effort came to rely on locals like Yang’s father and other members of the Hmong community, viewed by the CIA as a self-reliant people eager to protect their independence from ...

Thailand maintains that Hmong living illegally in Thailand are ... The effort was for many years the CIA’s largest covert operation, until the agency funded the mujahedin against the Soviets ...

But one morning in November 2023, a Hmong driver came to pick us up and set out on a journey from the capital to the former CIA-run airbase. Long Tieng was so secret when the Xiongs lived there ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hmong leaders in the United States believed the Central Intelligence Agency was backing a plan to extract Hmong villagers from the Laos jungle, according to papers filed ...

LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their ...

The CIA recruited and trained thousands of Hmong people to fight on behalf of Americans during a clandestine operation in Laos during the Vietnam War, known as the "Secret War." Now, those ...

A Hmong military officer who aided U.S. forces in the CIA's “Secret War” in Laos was honored Saturday as part of his three-day funeral in Milwaukee. Hundreds of people from across the ...