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
Type	Covert military intelligence mission
Location	Phongsaly Province, Laos and Yunnan Province, China Ban Khwan, Laos
Planned	Late 1967
Planned by	Ouane Rattikone Republic of China CIA
Commanded by	A Royal Lao Army (RLA) officer Ouane Rattikone
Objective	Spy on activities by Chinese Communists
Date	Late 1967 and 1968
Executed by	Royal Lao Army (RLA) Royal Lao Air Force CIA Kuomintang agents
Outcome	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.