Friends and family of Yang See credit him with saving hundreds of Hmong fleeing violence near the end of the Secret War in Laos. They also say Yang, who worked for the CIA, helped get U.S. officials to accept Hmong refugees. He died in August. MPRnews
Pastor Nou Kao Yang speaks at the funeral of Yang See. The expected attendance for the first day of funeral proceedings was around 400 people, with additional attendees expected on Sunday and Monday.Photographs of Yang See as a young man in 1976 and Yang See at CIA headquarters in Long Tieng, Laos in the early 1970s are displayed at the funeral of Yang See.Pia Lee places a rose on the casket of her late husband Yang See after performing a song for him at his funeral on Oct. 5, 2019 in St. Paul.
Frustrated, Yang See decided to take matters into his own hands and his own wallet. He paid for hundreds of refugees to escape the country, including Yang Dao and his 37 family members, and cross the Mekong River so they could reach the refugee camps in Thailand. Yang Dao said when he and his relatives reached the river, they quickly climbed into four motorboats paid for by Yang See.
About 15 minutes after they had left shore, Yang Dao saw communist soldiers coming to inspect their cars.Yang See recalled these harrowing rescues in “Sky is Falling: An Oral History of the CIA’s Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos,” published in 1999. He told author Gayle Morrison that he asked the Lao border police for help getting refugees to Thailand. The commander’s price was too high, so Yang See paid for 50 fishing boats instead.
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