♪ ♪ >> hashim: voila. of the road. ♪ >> anthony: in the early 1960s three idealistic young cia officers arrived in laos, a sleepy, mountainous country of barely over 2 million people, mostly rice farmers. their mission? stop the spread of communism. recruit and train hill tribe warriors to fight a shadow war against the north vietnamese, and the pathet lao. the war in laos was secret. the russians knew about it. the chinese knew. the vietnamese, the laotians certainly knew. the only people who didn't was the american public and congress. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la,, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ >>> mr. lee: they loaded the bombs on the underside of the plane. when they reached the target, they didn't really know if the area was occupied by civilians or by soldiers. but they would just dive down