Colonel Bounleuth Saycocie (1 September 1931 - 23 October 2014) was a Lao military and political figure of the Second Indochina War.
[citation needed] From 1960 to 1962 he was a lieutenant colonel and served as Military Attaché to the Royal Lao Embassy in Washington D.C.
He was promoted to colonel in 1962 and served as Chief of Special Cabinet (Military Affairs) of the Ministry of Defense until 1964.
[2] Undaunted by his failure, Bounleut conspired with General Thao Ma to prepare for the 1966 Laotian coup.
While Thao Ma commandeered aircraft, Bounleut drove an armored car into Vientiane to take over the radio station.