DID YOU KNOW? for September 7 - 20, 2021:  

Did You Know...Yang See, who worked as the main liaison between the CIA and the Lao Royal Army during the secret Hmong Guerrilla war against North Vietnam, was the person most responsible for the US Government finally accepting the Hmong resettlement in the US.

Initially, the US took the position that the Hmong were “too uneducated/primitive” to be successfully assimilated into US culture, even though this belief was without merit.  This made it very difficult for the Hmong to “escape” the refugee camps they had fled to in Thailand.  Yang Lee, who was fluent in many languages, was successful in getting the State Department to change its misguided policy.

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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/10/25/how-a-former-cia-worker-helped-bring-the-hmong-to-america