Word: montagnard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divert enemy attention from a CIA operation inside Laos. The Pentagon said planning for the operation never mentioned hunting down U.S. turncoats. And while Air Force warplanes dropped a "personnel-incapacitating agent" on enemy troops to help rescue the 16 Americans and more than 100 of their Montagnard allies under hostile fire, it was a potent form of tear gas that was used, not sarin...
...sources that the mission's purpose was to kill American defectors. CNN had quoted one officer on the mission saying he had seen and killed two defectors. Questions have subsequently been raised about his credibility. This officer and a sergeant said they were told by their Montagnard mercenaries there were a dozen to 20 Caucasian bodies found. Former special-operations commander John Singlaub told CNN, "It may be more important to your survival to kill the defector than to kill the Vietnamese or Russian." He justified that policy by pointing out that the defector's knowledge of communications and tactics...