JAMES R. LILLEY

(James Roderick Lilley)


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He was then a CIA secret operative, in effect the “Commanding General of the War in Laos. The Viet Cong to avoid attack by American and South Vietnamese troops would cross the border into Laos where they could resupply, rest and reenter Vietnam at a strategic time and place. The American’s, to cope with this tactic, bombed the Viet Cong camps in Laos and CIA personnel organized attacks on the Viet Cong. To some, it was a dirty, illegal war by the standards of International and American law and its existence was denied by the U. S. Government for years.


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James R. Lilley
James R. Lilley
  • Born: January 15, 1928
  • Died: November 12, 2009
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  • Profession: United States

James Roderick Lilley was an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to China at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.