Ep 252 | 2.7.17

CIA’s Secret War in Laos: An Interview with Josh Kurlantzick

Show Notes

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Josh Kurlantzick of the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss his new book A Great Place to Have a War: The Secret War in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA.

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