Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. The Nation | September 18, 1995| | COPYRIGHT 1995 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

By Roger Warner. Simon and Schuster 416 pp. $25.

Edgar "Pop" Buell was an Indiana farmer mourning his wife's death in 1960 when he signed up for the International Voluntary Services in Laos to put some meaning back into his life. His job: to teach the local people how to raise better livestock get a reater yield from their crops. Shortly after he arrived upcountry, Buell met Maj. Vang Pao, who was an anomaly in the Royal Lao Army. He was a Hmong, that despised hill-tribe minority, in an officer corps of elite Buddhist Lao from the lowlands. Vang Pao's rugged, polygamous ...

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