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Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including providing support for drug smuggling in Laos.
Aug 18, 2021 · By August 1950, the airline was secretly bought by the CIA. This gave the intelligence agency the means to covertly operate in the air in a region of significant interest to the USA. In 1959, the CIA changed CAT's name to Air America.
Air America: Upholding the Airmen's Bond. A fascinating assembly of documents revealing the role that Air America, the Agency's proprietary airline, played in the search and rescue of pilots and personnel during the Vietnam War.
Jan 5, 2024 · Air America: The History of the CIA’s Covert Airline. Alec Smith. January 5, 2024. “Air America” was an air transport and logistics enterprise owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. The agency denied its involvement in the airline for years, eventually selling its interest in 1978.
Jun 2, 2019 · America's final act in the Vietnam War produced an iconic image - a helicopter perched on a rooftop as a long line of Vietnamese desperately tried to climb aboard. For some U.S. pilots involved...
Air America was the largest of the CIA's proprietaries and functioned primarily to provide air support for U.S. operations in Southeast Asia under cover of a commercial flying service fulfilling, inter alia, United States Government contracts.
Apr 23, 2019 · I was hired as a pilot with Air America, the CIA’s secret airline, working on its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. Air America’s pilots were shadow people. The airline’s schedules and operations were irregular and unknown.
