Talk:Pop Buell

Laotian Civil War
I am working on this article, in a generally chronological manner. I will link in Pop Buell when I get to the latter years when he was there working his miracles for refugee relief.

Georgejdorner (talk) 06:07, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I would question the statement that Buell provided technical assistance for the Hmong to grow opium. Citation please. The Hmong had been growing opium for hundred of years. They knew a lot more about growing it that Buell or anybody in the CIA did. Unless somebody has some evidence of Buell giving technical assistance to the Hmong for opium growing, I will plan to eliminate this phrase in my planned expansion of this article. Smallchief 22:50, 13 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smallchief (talk • contribs)

Jeremy Kuzmarov writes that Buell said he assisted the Hmong (aka Meo) in growing opium. See The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs, University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.49.106.26 (talk) 16:58, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Pop Buell's aid to the Meo with opium cultivation and involvement with the CIA
I have added text and references to Pop Buell aiding the Meo with opium cultivation and his involvement with the CIA. The complete text of the chapter of the book talking about this is online and I linked to it in the references. Ubh (talk) 20:31, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ( link is to the complete text of the chapter referring to Pop Buell.)

Upon updating the external links, I discovered a photo of Mr. Pop with poppy plants. The photo is an adaptation from the cover of a book as described on that page. Ubh (talk) 17:06, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Edgar Buell → Pop Buell – As I understand the article, the people who knew him when he was historically significant called him "Pop"; I'd submit therefore that since the article is about his Laos career, per WP:COMMONNAME it'd make more sense to label this article Pop Buell. MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:47, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
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