The Most Secret Place on Earth

After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making this film uncovers the story of the CIAs most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare The Secret War in Laos which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War from 1964 1973 While the worlds attention was caught by the conflict in Vietnam the CIA built the busiest military airport in the world in neighboring and neutral Laos and recruited humanitarian aid personnel Special Forces agents and civilian pilots to undertake what would become the most effective operation of counterinsurgency warfare As the conflict in Vietnam grew the objective in Laos changed from a cost effective lowkey involvement to save the country from becoming communist into an allout air war to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and bomb Laos back into the Stone Age that it had never really left in the first place Conventional bombs equivalent to the destructive power of 20 Hiroshimatype weapons fell on Laos each year 2 million tons