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A fact from Kham Ouane Boupha appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 March 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Kham Ouane Boupha supplied seven paratroopers for spying inside China?

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Paratrooper spies

I wish there were more information about the incident mentioned in the Did You Know column 20 March 2015. As best I can tell, from 1963 Kham Ouane Boupha was on the Communist side of the Laotian conflict, yet in 1967 he supplied paratroopers for a mission in which the Lao Royalist government and the Nationalist government of Taiwan cooperated in spying on the Communist Chinese. Why would a Communist help Royalists and Nationalists spy on his fellow Communists? I'm not disputing that it happened (if a source says it did), but it seems worth explaining why. Unless I'm misunderstanding the situation, he appears to have been acting against his own side's interests. Gms3591 (talk) 10:49, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is a bepuzzlement. Best answer I could give you is, spies spy on everyone, including their "friends".Georgejdorner (talk) 22:06, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]