Team Sone Pet

Team Sone Pet
Part of Laotian Civil War, Vietnam War
Map of Phongsaly Province, Laos, the target into which the mission was launched
TypeCovert military intelligence mission
Location
PlannedLate 1967
Planned byKingdom of Laos Ouane Rattikone
Taiwan Republic of China
United States CIA
Commanded byA Royal Lao Army (RLA) officer
Ouane Rattikone
ObjectiveSpy on activities by Chinese Communists
DateLate 1967 and 1968
Executed byKingdom of Laos Royal Lao Army (RLA)
Kingdom of Laos Royal Lao Air Force
United States CIA
Taiwan Kuomintang agents
The first mission by RLA agents is successful at intelligence gathering for two months. Agents then discovered by a patrol and airlifted out. Subsequent missions by Kuomintang agents fail after radio contact was lost.

Team Sone Pet (Diamond Arrow) was the code name for a spying foray directed against the People's Republic of China in 1967 and 1968. This classified military operation in the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War was an infiltration of spies into Yunnan Province of the People's Republic of China. The operation was run jointly by Lao General Ouane Rattikone and the Republic of China, using an espionage team recruited by the American Central Intelligence Agency. The first mission in 1967 was successful; however, the second mission in 1968 disappeared.