Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Secord gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Air Command na Staff College na 1966, ọ laghachiri Vietnam dị ka onye ọrụ ụgbọelu, tupu ebufe ya na Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base nke Thailand na August 1966. N'ịbụ onye e mechara bulie n'ọkwa onye isi, ọ sonyeere Operation Waterpump iji zụọ Royal Lao Air Force. N'oge a, e zigara Secord na Central Intelligence Agency ka ọ rụọ ọrụ na
Agha Nzuzo na Laos. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ maka, ma mara, Ted Shackley na Thomas Clines; ọ rụrụ ọrụ ozugbo na ndị ọrụ CIA na-enye Agha Nzuzo na Laos, James William Lair na Lloyd C. "Pat" Landry.