USAID was in all parts of Thailand in the 1970s. Tanham talks about it a little in his book, "Trial in Thailand." He discusses at length the U.S. effort to aid Thailand in COIN, mostly from the coordination viewpoint. But it's an early 1970s look.

USAID has historical docs for sale that might help. See: http://dec.usaid.gov/index.cfm?p=pro...TOKEN=91434395.

If the docs are not readily apparent, shoot them an e-mail - they will reply.

I'm not sure how active USAID was past 75-76. Internal political pressure and the US using Thai air bases w/out permission for the Mayaguez incident caused them to kick us out in the 75-76 time period.

But they asked us back shortly thereafter when the Vietnamese took the western portion of Cambodia and massed on the Thai border, poised for invasion. The main US effort at that time was a massive conventional buildup at the specific request of Bangkok. So I'm not sure if AID came back with that conventional asst.