| 词条 | Ouane Rattikone |
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Major-General Ouane Rattikone (Ouan Rathikoun), a Laotian senior military officer, was the commander-in-chief of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (French: Forces Armées du Royaume – FAR), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos, during the 1960s. He was born in 1912 in Luang Prabang An ally of the United States during the Vietnam War, Ouane developed a close relationship with William H. Sullivan, the US ambassador to Laos, and Ted Shackley, the CIA station chief in Vientiane. Despite the intense conflicts amongst the FAR regional commanders, Ouane was pivotal in providing local military support against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Pathet Lao in the northern regions of Laos. Ouane was also heavily involved in the trafficking of opium throughout Southeast Asia. Despite widespread conspiracy theories of CIA complicity in drug trafficking, an investigation by the US Senate found no evidence of CIA involvement. In his memoirs, Shackley unapologetically stated that the CIA essentially turned a blind eye to the drug trafficking because their resources were already being sapped by the war in neighboring Vietnam.[1] He is believed to have died in October, 1978 See also
Notes1. ^Shackley, Ted. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Potomac Books. Dulles, Virginia 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rattikone, Ouane}} 6 : Year of birth missing|1978 deaths|Laotian military leaders|Military personnel of the Vietnam War|Laotian anti-communists|People of the Laotian Civil War |
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