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identifying enemy presence on the ground below the approaches to upcountry
sites. And finally, it worked to help the US military locate US aircrews
downed in Laos. 52 D .
By late 1966, Ted Shackley had essentially finished refining and enlarging
the intelligence structure. It still remained, at that point, to create the combat
capability needed to meet Washington's demands for a ground-based interdiction
campaign. At Savannakhet, the initial locus of this effort,I
continued dealing with the routine if thorny problems of recruitment, base
construction, training, and leadership development. In MR 2, substantially
greater difficulties with recruitment were compounded in September by a
medical crisis that took Yang Pao away from his postD
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