Secrets & Standoffs: Vietnam War Spy Networks - Part 2

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Larry Serra is a former Naval Intelligence Liaison Officer whose covert missions along the Vietnam-Cambodia border placed him at the heart of one of the Vietnam War’s most dangerous fronts. From 1967 to 1970, Larry served as an officer in the United States Navy, spending nearly two years operating in Vietnam and Cambodia’s combat zones. In 1969, he volunteered for the critical intelligence post at Ha Tien, where he ran spy networks, crossed into Cambodia for clandestine missions, and exposed communist supply routes into South Vietnam. His work uncovered Soviet communications intercepts and revealed vulnerabilities at the port of Sihanoukville, a key hub of communist weapons smuggling. In early 1970, Larry brokered a top-secret weapons agreement between the U.S. and the Cambodian Navy - approved by the White House - as Cambodia teetered on the brink of civil war. For his actions, Larry received the Bronze Star, Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V," Air Medal, and other decorations. After Vietnam, he built a distinguished legal career and played a pivotal role in helping rebuild Cambodia’s legal system following the fall of the Khmer Rouge. FOLLOW JACK Instagram: @JackCarrUSA X: @JackCarrUSA Facebook: @JackCarr YouTube: @JackCarrUSA SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing - BCM Stock MOD3: https://bravocompanyusa.com/bcm-stock-mod-3-black/ and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA THE SIGs of Jack Carr: Visit https://www.sigsauer.com/ and on Instagram @sigsauerinc Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:25.6	We went out for night patrol, nose into the north bank of the Vintay Canal.
0:29.6	We had acoustic sensors, you could put these sensors out,
0:32.6	and you had a little portable radio earphone,
0:35.6	and it had a background tone, but if anything came close to it or felt
0:41.2	vibration the tone would switch and would go up and so i got to do that you know one night and
0:47.4	you're kind of half asleep and you know half alert at the same time and actually we got a tone
0:53.2	and so i said i said i said tone we got a tone. And so I said, I said,
0:55.2	we got a tone. You know, so two of the guys jump off the boat.
1:10.1	What is the difference between the CIA and the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency?
1:15.7	I think when you were there, there was some sort of disparity in their reporting and their assessments?
1:22.3	Yes. We got Zilch from CIA. It was always one way.
1:28.4	I understand it's still that way between the military intelligence.
1:32.2	I don't know.
1:33.4	But they would give us nothing.
1:37.6	We had one of the things that happened after the invasion of Cambodia was that the Lonnell government with his Praetorian Guard
1:47.8	tried to stampede the ethnic Vietnamese who had lived in Cambodia.
1:55.0	You know, the border had changed over many years.
1:59.1	There were ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia.
2:01.9	There were ethnic Cambodians living in Vietnam.
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