Billy Waugh, a well-known and outspoken figure in the intelligence community, passed away at the age of 91. Waugh was a Special Forces veteran who first arrived in Laos in 1961 as part of the United States military advisory mission called White Star. Over the course of a decade in Southeast Asia, he helped train counterinsurgency forces in South Vietnam and Laos, and participated in parachute drops to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Waugh also served with the Studies and Observations Group of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, a clandestine unit that ran reconnaissance and rescue missions in South and North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
In her 2019 book, “Surprise, Kill, Vanish,” Annie Jacobsen quotes Waugh as saying, “There was no rest at SOG, only war recon, rescue, sleep.”
2023-04-14 11:45:21
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