Laos Quotes
Ford was then a member of Congress. This was known as the “Domino Theory” and was the strategic reason that sending troops to Vietnam was in America’s vital Interest. However, the Domino Theory was incorrect. Vietnam did fall to the Communists, and yet NONE of the countries became communist. Actually, they became even more democratic.
The chairman resigned in protest over the refusal of the government to declassify historical documents years after the events.
He was then a CIA secret operative, in effect the “Commanding General of the War in Laos. The Viet Cong to avoid attack by American and South Vietnamese troops would cross the border into Laos where they could resupply, rest and reenter Vietnam at a strategic time and place. The American’s, to cope with this tactic, bombed the Viet Cong camps in Laos and CIA personnel organized attacks on the Viet Cong. To some, it was a dirty, illegal war by the standards of International and American law and its existence was denied by the U. S. Government for years.
When U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Harriman asserted that there were 40,000 North Vietnamese troops in Laos, Xuan Thoy, the leader of the Communist delegation at the Paris peace talks, denied the charge vigorously. Harriman replied:
