Tag: CIA Laos War

NOVANEWS By Don North Consortium News   In the first of many mistakes of the Vietnam War, President Dwight Eisenhower said in 1954, “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over quickly.” CIA pilots and crews prepare to re-arm a T-28 bomber for bombing missions on Laos 1964. By January 1961, Eisenhower had warned his successor John F. Kennedy that Laos was the most pressing foreign policy issue in the world and he had initiated Operation Momentum in Laos, for the CIA to train and arm a small force of Hmong tribesmen to fight the communist Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese supporters. But history would prove the “domino theory” in Southeast Asia was a misconception of tragic p...