f the Hmong was kept secret because the United States stated on record that they wanted a "neutralized Laos." In Chapter 7, the author discusses what she terms, "the charade of neutralization." This allowed the United States and the CIA to engage in brutal guerrilla warfare which would be most effective if kept secret.
Hamilton-Merritt faults and blames all the U.S. administrations--Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Kissinger, as well as Carter, Bush and Clinton--for their part in Ame
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