Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Part 2 is going to be WILD just letting you know
Video starts at 1:12 if you have zero patience
Part of my Obscure Moments in History series.
00:00 Intro to the Intro
1:12 Intro
3:18 Bamboo Curtain
4:53 Cracking a Cold War with the Boys
7:27 (ROCMAGV) 1960 - 1975 in South Vietnam
15:57 Operation Plan 34A
18:23 North Vietnam
19:35 Father Hoa and the Sea Swallows
24:06 National Security Bureau
25:46 Taiwan's Benghazi
Topics:
Wang Sheng
VNQDD (Viet Quoc)
General Lu Han
Kuomintang 93rd Army Division
Operation Plan 34A
Father Hoa and the Sea Swallows (Binh Hung)
Biet Khu Hai Yen
Project National Glory
Burma Opium Trade
Laos
Taiwanese Embassy Bombing (1967)
National Security Bureau (NSB)
Dai Li
ARVN Black Dragons
CIA
Bamboo Wall and Domino Theory
ROCMAGV
MACV SOG
General Westmoreland
Chiang Kai Shek
Warsaw Talks
Taiwan-USSR Alliance
Chiang Ching Kuo
Ngo Dinh Diem
Sources:
Michael Share, “From Ideological Foe to Uncertain Friend: Soviet Relations with Taiwan, 1943-82,” Cold War History 3, no. 2 (2003): 1-34;
Chen, Jie (2002), Foreign policy of the New Taiwan: pragmatic diplomacy in Southeast Asia, Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-1-84064-635-1
"Taiwan-Vietnam ties are looking better than ever", China Post, 2006-11-20, retrieved 2011-10-06
Huang Zongding, Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History Issue 79, March 2013, pp. 137-172. (traditional Chinese)
Thomas L. Ahern Jr., The Way We Do Things: Black Entry Operations Into North Vietnam 1961-1964, pp 44
Ahern, Thomas L. Jr. (2006), Undercover Armies: CIA and Surrogate Warfare in Laos. Center for the Study of Intelligence. Classified control no. C05303949.
Anthony, Victor B. and Richard R. Sexton (1993). The War in Northern Laos. Center for Air Force History, OCLC 232549943.
Conboy, Kenneth and James Morrison (1995). Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press. ISBN 0-87364-825-0.
McCoy, Alfred W. (1972). The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. Harper & Row. ISBN 0060129018, ISBN 978-0060129019.
Gibson, Richard Michael (2011). The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0470830212, ISBN 9780470830215.
Friesendorf, Cornelius (2007). US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry. Routledge. ISBN 1134123949, ISBN 9781134123940.
Goscha, Christopher E. (2004), Vietnam and the world outside: The case of Vietnamese communist advisers in Laos (1948–1962) South East Asia research, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 141–185
Rust, William J (2014). So Much to Lose: John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos. University Press of Kentucky. ISBNs 0813144787, 9780813144788.
Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008) Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow Press. ISBNs 0810864118, 9780810864115.
Shackley, Ted. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Potomac Books. Dulles, Virginia 2005
George McT. Kahin (1986). Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam
Warner, Roger (1995). Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. Simon & Schuster. ISBNs 0684802929, 9780684802923.
Castle, Timothy N. (1993). At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government 1955–1975. ISBN 0-231-07977-X
Hopkins, Susannah (1995) Chapter 3. The Economy. Andrea Matles Savada, ed. Laos A Country Study. ISBN 978-1-57980-141-0
Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008) Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-81086-411-5
Vietnam Country Map. Periplus Travel Maps. 2002–2003. ISBN 0-7946-0070-0.
Pentagon Papers Project. The Pentagon paper . Los Angeles, Calif.: Pentagon Papers Peace Project, 1972. Periodical. (About Fall of Lao Kay November 1946)
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-33/lin
https://archive.ph/20130924090753/http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp#selection-433.0-461.29
https://archive.ph/pWLvp/image
web.archive.org/web/20070319231200/http://news.xinhuanet.com/theory/2007-03/16/content_5857383_1.htm
militaryhistorynow.com/2013/10/02/the-international-vietnam-war-the-other-world-powers-that-fought-in-south-east-asia
https://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/31/9a/66.html
ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/heroin-trafficking-golden-triangle#additional-details-0
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1156114
wilsoncenter.org/publication/taiwans-cold-war-southeast-asia
psywarrior.com/AlliesRepublicVietnam.html
oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8j96716/entire_text
youtube.com/watch?v=kurO8g834hc&ab_channel=PeriscopeFilmII
nytimes.com/1964/04/28/archives/saigon-replaces-fighting-priest-father-hoas-private-army-put-under.html
uneeknet.com/fam/dad/072399C.htm
https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=20,29,35,45&post=26151
https://www.rmaward.asia/awardee/hoa-augustine-nguyen-lac
saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/heroes-vietnam-village-fought-back
Part 2 is going to be WILD just letting you know
Video starts at 1:12 if you have zero patience
Part of my Obscure Moments in History series.
00:00 Intro to the Intro
1:12 Intro
3:18 Bamboo Curtain
4:53 Cracking a Cold War with the Boys
7:27 (ROCMAGV) 1960 - 1975 in South Vietnam
15:57 Operation Plan 34A
18:23 North Vietnam
19:35 Father Hoa and the Sea Swallows
24:06 National Security Bureau
25:46 Taiwan's Benghazi
Topics:
Wang Sheng
VNQDD (Viet Quoc)
General Lu Han
Kuomintang 93rd Army Division
Operation Plan 34A
Father Hoa and the Sea Swallows (Binh Hung)
Biet Khu Hai Yen
Project National Glory
Burma Opium Trade
Laos
Taiwanese Embassy Bombing (1967)
National Security Bureau (NSB)
Dai Li
ARVN Black Dragons
CIA
Bamboo Wall and Domino Theory
ROCMAGV
MACV SOG
General Westmoreland
Chiang Kai Shek
Warsaw Talks
Taiwan-USSR Alliance
Chiang Ching Kuo
Ngo Dinh Diem
Sources:
Michael Share, “From Ideological Foe to Uncertain Friend: Soviet Relations with Taiwan, 1943-82,” Cold War History 3, no. 2 (2003): 1-34;
Chen, Jie (2002), Foreign policy of the New Taiwan: pragmatic diplomacy in Southeast Asia, Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-1-84064-635-1
"Taiwan-Vietnam ties are looking better than ever", China Post, 2006-11-20, retrieved 2011-10-06
Huang Zongding, Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History Issue 79, March 2013, pp. 137-172. (traditional Chinese)
Thomas L. Ahern Jr., The Way We Do Things: Black Entry Operations Into North Vietnam 1961-1964, pp 44
Ahern, Thomas L. Jr. (2006), Undercover Armies: CIA and Surrogate Warfare in Laos. Center for the Study of Intelligence. Classified control no. C05303949.
Anthony, Victor B. and Richard R. Sexton (1993). The War in Northern Laos. Center for Air Force History, OCLC 232549943.
Conboy, Kenneth and James Morrison (1995). Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press. ISBN 0-87364-825-0.
McCoy, Alfred W. (1972). The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. Harper & Row. ISBN 0060129018, ISBN 978-0060129019.
Gibson, Richard Michael (2011). The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0470830212, ISBN 9780470830215.
Friesendorf, Cornelius (2007). US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry. Routledge. ISBN 1134123949, ISBN 9781134123940.
Goscha, Christopher E. (2004), Vietnam and the world outside: The case of Vietnamese communist advisers in Laos (1948–1962) South East Asia research, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 141–185
Rust, William J (2014). So Much to Lose: John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos. University Press of Kentucky. ISBNs 0813144787, 9780813144788.
Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008) Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow Press. ISBNs 0810864118, 9780810864115.
Shackley, Ted. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Potomac Books. Dulles, Virginia 2005
George McT. Kahin (1986). Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam
Warner, Roger (1995). Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. Simon & Schuster. ISBNs 0684802929, 9780684802923.
Castle, Timothy N. (1993). At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government 1955–1975. ISBN 0-231-07977-X
Hopkins, Susannah (1995) Chapter 3. The Economy. Andrea Matles Savada, ed. Laos A Country Study. ISBN 978-1-57980-141-0
Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008) Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-81086-411-5
Vietnam Country Map. Periplus Travel Maps. 2002–2003. ISBN 0-7946-0070-0.
Pentagon Papers Project. The Pentagon paper . Los Angeles, Calif.: Pentagon Papers Peace Project, 1972. Periodical. (About Fall of Lao Kay November 1946)
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-33/lin
https://archive.ph/20130924090753/http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp#selection-433.0-461.29
https://archive.ph/pWLvp/image
web.archive.org/web/20070319231200/http://news.xinhuanet.com/theory/2007-03/16/content_5857383_1.htm
militaryhistorynow.com/2013/10/02/the-international-vietnam-war-the-other-world-powers-that-fought-in-south-east-asia
https://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/31/9a/66.html
ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/heroin-trafficking-golden-triangle#additional-details-0
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1156114
wilsoncenter.org/publication/taiwans-cold-war-southeast-asia
psywarrior.com/AlliesRepublicVietnam.html
oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8j96716/entire_text
youtube.com/watch?v=kurO8g834hc&ab_channel=PeriscopeFilmII
nytimes.com/1964/04/28/archives/saigon-replaces-fighting-priest-father-hoas-private-army-put-under.html
uneeknet.com/fam/dad/072399C.htm
https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=20,29,35,45&post=26151
https://www.rmaward.asia/awardee/hoa-augustine-nguyen-lac
saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/heroes-vietnam-village-fought-back
