On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:41:16 -0800, Mike wrote:

> I read once that American Air Force bases in Thailand were sometimes
> attacked and that some snipers near the bases turned out to be North
> Vietamese troops.
>
> Was this true ?
>
> And didn't Thailand experience a communist insurgency of it's own during
> the Vietnam war ? Was Vietnam a big supporter of the Thai Communist
> movement ?
>
> Did the Vietamese ever envision a Communist takeover of Thailand ?

During the period August 1974 to September 1975, when I was the S-2 CI
Agent for the 7th Rock and Roll Freak Show (7th RRFS) or US Army Security
Agncy Field Station Thailand, I had an additional duty involving reporting
and collecting on a local Thai Communist Terrorist (CT) group which was
located on the outskirts of Bong-Nong-Sung, about 12 miles from U-Dorn.
Bong-Nong_Sung was where the 7th RRFS was located. The CT Group was
located between the CIA/Special Forces supply area known as PEPPERGRINDER
and Nong Sung. We had had some ocasional rifle shots and road side
incidents, but by the middle of 1975 it was pretty quiet. We were, of
course, reading all of their voice and morse traffic to and from their HQ
unit located in North Vietnam. As near as I and the traffic analysis
people could figure out they were subordinated to either the 32 or 38 Army
Group. Most of their logistics came from across the border in Laos, where
there were pockets of NVA and Lao Communist forces.

HTH

Dave