Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Kwamandan Sojojin Sama da Jami'ai a shekarar 1966, Secord ya koma Vietnam a matsayin jami'in aikin iska, kafin a tura shi zuwa Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base na Thailand a watan Agustan 1966. Da aka jinkirta shi zuwa Manjo, ya shiga Operation Waterpump don horar da Royal Lao Air Force. A wannan lokacin Secord ya kebanta da Hukumar Leken Asiri ta Tsakiya don yin aiki a cikin Yakin Sirri
a ƙasar Laos. Ya yi aiki, kuma ya san, Ted Shackley da Thomas Clines; ya yi aiki kai tsaye tare da jami'an CIA da ke ba da Asirin Yakin a Laos, James William Lair da Lloyd C. "Pat" Landry. - Ta yaya kuka san wannan?