There was one crossing point from North Vietnam
into Laos which truck drivers, carrying weapons to fight
in the South, called Death Gate. This was part of the Ho
Chi Minh Trail, North Vietnam’s logistical supply line. Each driver
to enter the Gate expected to die trying to traverse the
Desert of Fire. This Gate was critical for victory as whoever
won the battle here would know the other’s main weakness.
In this documentary we reveal previously classified information.
We hear for the first time real life stories of covert operations
by American Special Forces. We interview the North Vietnamese
on how their clandestine tactics overcame intense bombing,
which exceeded the equivalent of a dozen Hiroshima’s.
We gain rare access to remote parts of Laos and discover
secret roads, crashed American aircraft and hidden army camps.
Along the way we interview Lao villagers about their war
and hear their stories which have never been recorded.
After 10 years of research we explode the myth that the
Americans were fighting a peasant army - how can we learn
for the future when we have denied the past?
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Along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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In the 1920s Ho Chi Minh the future Communist leader of
North Vietnam established a spy network to fight foreign
invasion. During the Vietnam War the people who became involved
in this would smuggled information out of American bases
and send it back to Hanoi so they deploy their troops and
weapons to battlefields. They were the eyes and ears of Hanoi
- The Peoples' War - in some cases holding high positions
in the Southern Government.
This documentary shows how the under-funded Communists spy network outfoxed
the American's billion dollar Central Intelligence Agency, see books.
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Spy network in the Mekong Delta
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