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Military docs reveal CIA role in Laos crisis - Nuke option was on table in '59

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Previously secret U.S. Air Force official histories of the Vietnam war published today by the National Security Archive disclose for the first time that Central Intelligence Agency contract employees had a direct role in combat air attacks when they flew Laotian government aircraft on strike missions and that the Air Force actively considered nuclear weapons options during the 1959 Laos crisis...

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Good and Bad Achieved in the Kingdom of Laos by Billy Ray Wilson on Saturday, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:09:33 PM
Recommended read. by Amanda Lang on Saturday, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:30:14 PM