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Air America
1990 · Film · 112 min
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
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I am not sure they care. After all, the US dropped more ordnance on Laos than during the whole of WWII. Laos is the most bombed country in the world:
"U.S. aircraft dropped more ordnance on Laos than on all countries during World War II, leaving Laos with about 78 million pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) by the end of the war."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War
https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war
Air America is a movie on CIA activity in Laos:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099005/
Exactly. With the access to information that the NSA has they could easily feed themselves, and may already do so to some extent.
PS WRT CIA funding things in Southeast Asia, there was a movie Air America about that. I have no idea how close to the truth any of it was, but I liked the movie.