once upon a time in the c.i.a. - louise rosen ltdlouiserosenltd.com/catalog_pages/cia.pdf · 2014....
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2007 1 x 90/60 min Color & B/W: HDV 16:9 English
A Northern Light Production
Director:Roger Warner
Based on the books by Roger Warner,Shooting at the Moon and Out of Laos
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Th is is the extraordinary saga of a small-town Texan namedBill Lair, a CIA operative who “went native” in Southeast Asia,changed the lives of a remote tribal people and was forever changedby them in turn. While the U.S. was waging an escalating war in Vietnam, Bill Lair organized a guerilla army of 30,000 Hmong tribes-people to fi ght North Vietnamese-backed insurgents. His tribal guerilla army in Laos grew to twice the size of Lawrence of Arabia’s and fought eff ectively against North Vietnamese backed insurgents. 200,000 of the tribe (the Hmong) now live in the US as a direct result of his initiative. Bill Lair came back to the States with his Th ai wife and is now a truck driver living in small-town Texas. Th irty years later he is both revered and reviled by the huge Hmong-American community - honored by the elders, confronted by the younger generation who demand to know why Lair hasn’t helped the Hmong who were left behind. Th ousands of Hmong are still fi ghting their old enemies in the jungles of Laos in a war the outside world knows nothing about.
NEWS - Last month Lair and the fi lmmaker journeyed to these same jungles, where Lair faced the grim reverberations of his past.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE C.I.A.