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Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious “Jade Kunlun” Awards of the 2010 World Mountain Documentary Festival of Qinghai, China. The film has been nominated for the “Best Director” category.
The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert [...]

July 31st, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Mountain Documentary Festival, Air America, Alfred McCoy, award, China, CIA, documentary, DOX Magazine, drugs and the CIA, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, investigative journalism, James Lilley, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, Mark Taylor, nomination, opium, Qinghai, screenplay, Secret Bombing, Secret War, The CIA and heroin, The Most Secret Place on Earth, The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vientiane, Vietnam War, Vint Lawrence | Category: Laos, USA | Leave a comment

Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been reviewed by Mark Taylor in DOX Magazine in its current Summer Edition.
Here an excerpt:
Eberle’s documentary takes us from this first encounter to the construction at Long Chen of a centre of industrialized death-from-above. He does [...]

June 16th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, documentary, DOX Magazine, drugs and the CIA, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, James Lilley, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, Mark Taylor, screenplay, Secret Bombing, Secret War, The CIA's Covert War in Laos, The Most Secret Place on Earth, The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam War, Vint Lawrence | Category: Asia, Laos, USA | Leave a comment

Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious 2010 Banff World Television Awards.

April 13th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, James Lilley, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Secret War, South East Asia, The CIA`s Secret War in Laos, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vint Lawrence | Category: Laos, USA | Leave a comment

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February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos, USA | Leave a comment

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February 18th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, American War, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, CIA drug deals, clandestine, die tageszeitung, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Laos, Lima Site, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, secret, Secret War, state terrorism, taz, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, US Secret Army, USA, USAID, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war crime | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

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February 17th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

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February 4th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, arte, CIA, documentary, drugs, Fernsehpremiere, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, opium, Premiere, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos, USA | Comments Off

Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious History Makers Awards. 
The film has been selected as a nominee in this year’s competition in the Best Use of Archive in a Current Affairs Production category.

January 13th, 2010 | Tags: Air America, Alfred McCoy, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Apocalypse Now, CIA, drugs, Fred Branfman, heroin, Heroin and the CIA, Hmong, Laos, Long Cheng, Marc Eberle, minorities, opium, Secret War, The Most Secret Place on Earth, Tom Vater, Tony Poe, US mercenaries, US war, USA, Vang Pao, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

I was saddened to hear that Sousath Phetrasy, the owner of the Mali Guest House in Phonsavan in Northern Laos, died, in his late 50s, on 25. September 2009. A brilliant and troubled man, Phetrasy was an unlikely veteran of the CIA’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s and 70s, the agency’s largest campaign, [...]

December 5th, 2009 | Tags: Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, communist, Heroin and the CIA, Hill Tribe, Hmong, Laos, Lima Site, Long Cheng, Mali Guest House, MIA, opium, Pathet Lao, PDJ, Phonsavan, Plain of Jars, President John F Kennedy, President LB Johnson, President Richard Nixon, Secret Army, Secret War, Sousath Phetrasy, South East Globe, The CIA's Covert War in Laos, The Most Secret Place on Earth, US mercenaries, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Laos | Leave a comment