Michael Ingham Collection (2101) Finding Aid
Collection Item Number: 21010000000
- Collection
- Michael Ingham Collection
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- Finding Aid
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- Language(s)
- English
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Creation: 20 September 2010
Scope and Contents
Photographs, negatives, articles, Thai shoulder patches, and a Kingdom of Laos flag document Michael Ingham's service in Southeast Asia as a CIA paramilitary case officer from 1970-1973, primarily as an adviser to Thai volunteer troops.Biographical / Historical
Michael Ingham was born in Waterville, Maine and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1966. He was a Marine Corps infantry officer from June 1966 to September 1969. In June 1970 he joined the CIA as a paramilitary case officer and served as an adviser to Thai volunteer troops at Long Tieng from January 1971 to April 1973. Ingham was a province officer for Pursat Province in Cambodia from October 1974 to March 1975. Later in 1975 he resigned from the CIA.- 23
- Photographs
VA060218-VA060260: 43 Misc. Pictures from Plaines des Jarres in and around Thai Positions
VA060261-VA060266: 6 Photos of B52 "Arclight" Strike on PDJ
VA060267-VA060274: 8 Photos of Captured NVA Artillery at Long Tieng
VA060275-VA060283: 9 Photos of Airstrike on Skyline Ridge, Long Tieng
VA060284-VA060295: 12 Photos of Thai Volunteer Battalion
VA060296-VA060307:12 Photos of NVA T34 Tanks
VA060308-VA060327: 20 Photos from New Years 1971? party thrown by Thais at Long Tieng
VA060328-VA060347: Cambodia, 18 photos of Cambodian Army Base in Pursat
VA060347-VA060351: 5 photos of Early morning in Long Tieng Valley
VA060352-VA060356: 5 Misc photos, no captions
VA060357-VA060410: 62 Photos from 1972 ceasefire field days to keep Thai volunteers from getting drunk and shooting each other
VA060411-VA060418
VA060419-VA060477: 59 Photos of Life in a Thai Positon on SE PDJ
VA060478-VA060511: Cambodia, Photos from Pursat and of the River in front of the compound
VA060512-VA060532: Cambodia, 21 photos of Refugees from fighting
VA060533-VA060546: Cambodia, 14 Photos of Operation by Cambodian Army in Pursat Province
VA060547-VA060574: 27 Photos from around Long Tieng
VA060575-VA060580: Cambodia, 6 Photos of various people from Ingham's life ing Pursat
VA060581-VA060598: 18 5x7 Photos of fortification on Skyline Ridge
VA060599-VA060624: 18 8x10 photos of NVA tanks, with detailed caption
VA060625-VA060869: Approximately 342 photos of Thailand/Cambodia from two photo albums
VA060943 - VA061066:
VAN015664-VAN016314: negatives, mostly of Laos
VA067713: Oversize aerial photo of terrain
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- Museum Objects
2101museum4004: Kingdom of Laos Flag
2101museum4005: Sholder patch worn by Thai troops in Laos
2101museum4006: Shoulder patch for Thai SGU
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- Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D101.7G ]]
- Box 2: [Barcode: 2] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, [Oversize Individual Collections ]]
- 1000: [Barcode: 1000] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D054.1 ]]
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Various Newspaper clippings on topics relating to military action in Laos and postwar Laos
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Various magazine articles
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4 printed photos of Loatian military forces and Vang Pao
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Invitation from General Pao to attend New Year's party
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Mission summary of the fall of the Plain des Jarres
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Incident Statement of flight N8535F at BS20A, Laos, 17 March 1972 by Capt. Earl Wright
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Letter from a Cambodian girl seeking Ingham to sponsor her for immigration to the US
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Correspondence from Kenneth Conboy
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Article published by Conboy in the Indochina Report, "Vietnam and Laos: A Recent History of Military Cooperation" April-June issue, 1989
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Testimony of Kenneth Conboy, Deputy Director, Asian Studies Center before the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, 2 October 1989
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Correspondence with Bill Leary
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Draft of "The CIA and the 'Secret' War in Laos: The Battle for Skyline Ridge, 1971-72" by Leary
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Draft of "Perilous Missions" by Leary
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Fax of Casualties of Thai SGUs in Laos
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Paper/speech by David Lampard
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"Ravens of Long Tieng" from Air & Space Magazine
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"Tony Poe" from San Francisco Weekly
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"Fighers Stay Loyal to 'Tony Poe,' Leader of America's Secret War" from the Wall Street Journal
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Copy of captions from 8x10 photos
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Copy of a journal kept by CIA Officer Tom Matthews (See collection 685 for Matthew's collection information)
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Oversize newspaper and magazine article clippings
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=21010000000
- Citation
- Michael Ingham Collection (2101) Finding Aid, Michael Ingham Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=21010000000, Accessed 11 May 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 21010000000, Michael Ingham Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 19 Sep 2010 [Updated: 04 Aug 2017]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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