Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA

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Modern Southeast Asia Series Stephen F. Maxner, General Editor Also in the series After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide, by Craig Etcheson An Loc: The Unfinished War, by General Tran Van Nhut with Christian L. Arevian The Battle of Ngok Tavak: Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam, by Bruce Davies David and Lee Roy: A Vietnam Story, by David L. Nelson and Randolph B. Schiffer Fragging: Why U.S. Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam, by George Lepre The Mayaguez Incident: Testing America’s Resolve in the Post-Vietnam Era, by Robert J. Mahoney Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War, by Robert J. Wilensky Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954–1955, by Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education, by Robert Hopkins Miller Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968–1972, transcribed and edited by Lewis Sorley Vietnam Labyrinth: Allies, Enemies, and Why the U.S. Lost the War, by Tran Ngoc Chau with Ken Fermoyle The Vietnam War: An Assessment by South Vietnam’s Generals, edited by Lewis Sorley Window on a War: An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict, by Gerald C. Hickey Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA Texas Tech University Press Hog’s Exit Gayle L. Morrison Copyright © 2013 by Gayle L. Morrison All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including electronic storage and retrieval systems, except by explicit prior written permission of the publisher. Brief passages excerpted for review and critical purposes are excepted. This book is typeset in Minion Pro. The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997). Designed by Barbara Werden Maps by Gayle L. Morrison Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936485 ISBN (cloth): 978-0-89672-791-5 ISBN (paper): 978-0-89672-792-2 ISBN (e-book): 978-0-89672-793-9 Printed in the United States of America 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 / 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Texas Tech University Press | Box 41037 | Lubbock, Texas 79409-1037 USA 800.832.4042 | ttup@ttu.edu | www.ttupress.org In loving memory Timothy G. Eldridge (1956–2009) Smokejumper [MSO ’82] “You are the dream of love I dreamt about forever.”|| Puccini’s La Bohème || ...