The Secret Operations in Laos

Protagonist

CIA / Air America / Site LS-85

Period

1961-1973

Nature

Secret war

Main location

Phou Pha Thi (LS-85), Houaphan, Laos · Laos

MICE motive

Ideology — conviction

A secret US Air Force listening and guidance station perched on a peak in neutral Laos, LS-85 directed the bombing of North Vietnam until it was overrun in 1968. Air America masked the CIA's clandestine intervention there, leaving Laos the most heavily bombed country in history per head of population.