Re: Harold Dean's civillian brother to be given military honors

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:21:12 -0600, Peter H. Proctor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On 27 Nov 2003 16:59:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arnold
>Wolfcastle) wrote:
>
>>"Randy Sweeney" .
>
>>Dean said he thought his brother was CIA but never knew for sure.  
>>
>>I once knew a relative of a friend who was murdered under mysterious
>>circumstances in a Third World country.  Another friend said he
>>thought this person was CIA.  The circumstances were somewhat similiar
>>to Dean's brother. My guess is his brother was CIA.  Is Dean a Yalie
>>like Clinton & Bush 1 & 2?
>.
>1) IIRC, Dean is a Yalie.
>
>2) The cover story is almost risible.    It is exceedingly unlikely
>that an American  was in .Laos, a war zone,  in the 1970's without
>being a gummit employee of some sort.     For one thing,  how do you
>get there ?     IIRC,  this was after the US had officially left SE
>Asia.    People that just wanted to ":find themselves" went to
>Tailand.

I suggest you read Conboy's "Shadow War" on Laos. There were many
civilians in Laos and were running all kinds of private aid
organizations.   We did not leave SEA until 1975. 

Laos was not officially a war zone and any one was free to come and go
if they got visa as was Cambodia.


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