Hmong Airlift from Long Tieng
As Laos fell to the Pathet Lao, the US airlifted Gen. Vang Pao and about 2,500 Hmong who had fought in the CIA's 'Secret War' from Long Tieng to Thailand; most Hmong allies were left behind, beginning a long refugee exodus. (Shares May 14 with the 1981 injunction protecting Vietnamese fishermen.)