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C05303949 Chapter Twenty I I had followed the loss of0 I Iwith new controls on case officer movement in the field, but he saw a limit to the restraints that could be imposed without crippling his men's ability to create and lead effective combat forces. If their safety was to trump all other equities, they could not go into the field at all. They were indeed under orders to avoid exposure to enemy fire, but had been given the latitude to determine for themselves whether, for example, a helicopter U"itlnl1ijit'd ruse oDlca h(/Mi " .~ rculio ;11 (11m" of("(If/11m'" T- landing zone was u . c. late I07l secure enough for them to accompany a unit being inserted into a staging area. 10 )D [;.Jcknowledged his officers ' "tendency to hang on to contact with their troops." It was "very strong," given their "enthusiasm, drive, and courage." But he also noted the longstanding effort to devolve case officer duties to Lao I :operations assistants, and some of them were handling the day-today contact with irregular units in the field. Indeed'5 I ~ i Icontinued to think that he had struck a reasonable balance between security and performance, but Nelson disagreed . With the war winding down, the Lao would soon have to manage without their American advisers. Meanwhile, he would accept "some degradation of combatcapability" to I S E '~ET/~I R r ~ 80
C05303949 SEfT/lMR RED LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNELD secure safer working conditions fori Iparamilitary officers. Except for those in the Long Tieng Valley, they would no longer accompany troop infiltrations or visit forward areas. As far as Nelson was concerned, it was not only the Lao who had reasonto shun becoming "the last man to die.'~lo5D ~'------r--------------------_----: SEckRTllMR '-481
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C05303949 MAPS Laos ground war, 196
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C05303949 ABBREVIATIONS BG CASI CAT
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C05303949 INTRODUCTION The Cork in
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C05303949 The Agency initially aime
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C05303949 Ii CHI N A T H A I uo. -
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C05303949 NO'Wi Laos: ROAD CAPACITI
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C05303949 Laos; The iUr War 1964-19
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I I C05303949 PROLOGUE Despite a ch
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I I CO~303949 Chapter One An early
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C05303949 Chapter Six The next day,
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C05303949 Chapter Seven In fact, th
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C05303949 CHAPTER EIGHT A Limited O
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C05303949 CHAPTER TEN In the Shadow
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C05303949 SEcft.'/lMR Colby was not
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C05303949 SEi rrrllMR /,,,/ THE SHA
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C05303949 CHAPTER TwELVE Introducti
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C05303949 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Taking th
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