Death of Three American Pilots in Xieng Khouang Province
Central Intelligence Agency · 1968
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Description
Three American pilots died in Xieng Khouang province, an April 1968 CIA report records. Xieng Khouang holds the Plain of Jars, the most bombed ground of the Laos war. Airmen lost there often vanished into a landscape of craters and caves.
A report naming three deaths at once suggests a shared event or a single source for several losses. Officials would split the report into three men's files after checking. Each name then carried the province as his place of death. The entry preserves the joint report as it arrived, before that splitting into separate griefs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Central Intelligence Agency |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1968 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1554 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive — CIA Reading Room mirror |
Source: https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-0000009862