Hmong & the CIA with Mai Na M. Lee

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The Hmong and the CIA: An Ambiguously 'Secret' Alliance in Laos with Implications for Minnesota During the Vietnam War, the CIA carried out a decade-long secret war in neighboring Laos, a supposedly neutral country. Join Professor Mai Na M. Lee from the University of MN as she talks about this conflict and explains its consequences for the Hmong who suffered massive casualties for their population and were eventually exiled to the west after Communist victory in 1975. Held at the Roseville Library.