SOVIET AND SRV INVOLVEMENT IN LPDP USE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE WEAPONS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06156950
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-01432
• Publication Date: February 5, 1980

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Intelligence Info mation Cable
itAG3795E 001 OF 003
FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO
CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT.
STATE/INR JCS/mC(DIA) CIA/NmCC
(HARO COPIES TO: NSC/S NFAC oHSI (
SINS NSA TREAS OCO Rm/LICR)
THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT. NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
REPORT CLASS S E RE T/oNINTEL--NOFORN--NOCONTRACT
CITE
01ST OS FEB 80
COUNTRY: LAOS/USSR/SRv
SUBJECT: SOVIET AND SRV
WEAPONS
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INVOLVEMENT IN LPDP USE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE
2. DURING mAY 1978, THE LAO PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY (LPLA) USED
TWO LIGHT OBSERVATION AIRCRAFT TO DISPENSE UNIDENTIFIED CHEMICALS ON
HmONG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREA OF PHOU BIA (UF0690) IN
NORTH LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (LPUR).
COMMENT: IT
WAS DURING MAY 1978 THAT THIS BOMBING wAS AT ITS PEAK, HOWEVER,
BOMBING HAS TAKEN PLACE AT OTHER TIMES.)
3. THE LPLA UNIT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHEMICAL WARFARE ROCKETS IS
A SPECIAL LPDR AIR FORCE UNIT TO WHICH IS ATTACHED A SOVIET EXPERT.
THE LEADER OF THIS UNIT ISKHAMPHAISAIYACHIT WHO HAD SPENT
MANY YEARS STUDYING EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IN THE SOVIET UNION. IN vIEN-
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