Long Tieng once housed one of the busiest air hubs in the world in the 1960s, but it was closed to the public for decades ...

he found himself a part of a secret carpet bombing campaign. During the Vietnam War, Donald Super was stationed in Thailand and assigned to serve as a translator for a covert CIA bombing campaign in ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao veterans who fought alongside the U.S. during ...

Minnesota has a rich history of welcoming refugees to the state, and were among the top 10 across the country to do so following the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975.

The Hmong diaspora to Minnesota started nearly 50 years ago with one man: Leng Wong. He fled his home of Laos, arriving at ...

They came to America as refugees, after losing everything in a CIA-led “secret war” that ended in catastrophe ... who trace their roots back to Laos. For many, a knock at the door now carries ...

“It’s so exciting, I’m so happy,” said Secret War Veteran Lee Saenvilay. The CIA recruited and trained these soldiers to fight in Laos in what’s known as the Secret War. Even though ...

LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital ... out on a journey from the capital to the former CIA-run airbase. Long Tieng was so secret when the Xiongs lived there that it did not appear ...

along with state lawmakers and Hmong veterans of the “Secret War” in Laos in the 1960s and ’70s.