Tom Vater

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

The following text is an account of a journey to the grave of Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia in 2002. It is part of my non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench - Road Tales from the Wild East, published by Orchid Books in 2005, which made Book of the Week in the South [...]

May 1st, 2010 | Tags: 2002, Anlong Veng, Beyond the Pancake Trench, border, Cambodia, Cambodia war, civil war, genocide, Hun Sen, Ieng Sary, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, non-fiction by Tom Vater, Orchid Books, Pol Pot, Pol Pot grave, realpolitik, Red Khmer, Ta Mok, Tom Vater, travel, Vietnam War, year zero | Category: Cambodia | 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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April 5th, 2010 | Tags: Beyond the Pancake Trench, Daimler Benz Korruption, Der deutsche Papst, Deutsche Soldaten in Afghanistan, Deutschland im Krieg, Friedensbotschaft zu Ostern, Katholische Kinderschänder, Katholische Kirche und Kinder, Kindermisshandlung in der Kirche, Luftwaffenhelfer Ratzinger, non-fiction by Tom Vater, Orchid Books, Ostern, Saigon, Sexpapst Ratzinger, Sexskandal Kirche, Sexueller Missbrauch in der katholischen Kirche, Tom Vater, USA, Vietnam, Vietnam Krieg, Vietnam War | Category: Germany, Vietnam | 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