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Claims (250)

National Security Council funded Air America documented document

“The National Security Council considered whether this asset should be retained in 1956 and on Dulles recommendation decided to continue the subsidy to Air America…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.229

Office of Policy Coordination headed Air America documented document

“The air proprietary was managed by elements of the Office of Policy Coordination…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.229

CIA did_business_with Air America documented document

“The air proprietary's business consisted almost entirely of Agency cargo carriage under contracts carrying military designations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.229

Pacific Corporation invested_in Air America documented document

“Pacific Corporation held title to 40 percent of the equity in Air America…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.230

Air America operated_in Hong Kong documented document

“Air America originally had several DC.4's and began modest operations between Hong Kong Taipei and Tokyo…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.230

Operations Coordination Board proposed Air America documented document

“Initially this was done in the mid-1950s on the basis of a policy decision by the Operations Coordination Board that Air America was an instrument of value to national security…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.256

USAID did_business_with Air America documented document

“AID contracted with Air America to carry rice shipments in Laos…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.257

Air America sold_to United States Treasury documented document

“While Air America will be phased out by June 30 1976 ending the CIA-owned airlift capability and returning an estimated $20 million to the United States Treasury the insurance complex will continue…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.257

CIA funded Air America documented document

“Other CIA "businesses which became apparent in the 1960s were the Agency's airlines Air America Air Asia Civil Air Transport Intermountain Aviation and Southern Air Transport…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.269

CIA funded Air America documented document

“Other CIA "businesses which became apparent in the 1960s were the Agency's airlines Air America Air Asia Civil Air Transport Intermountain Aviation and Southern Air Transport…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.269

CIA funded Air America documented document

“Air America the Agency's largest proprietary provided air support for CIA operations in Southeast Asia…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.217

Air America operated_in Asia documented document

“Air America the Agency's largest proprietary provided air support for CIA operations in Southeast Asia…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.217

Air America located_in Washington, D.C. documented document

“Corporate headquarters were in Washington D.C. with field headquarters in Taipei Taiwan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.217

Air America located_in Taipei documented document

“Corporate headquarters were in Washington D.C. with field headquarters in Taipei Taiwan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.217

Air America located_in Formosa documented document

“Corporate headquarters were in Washington D.C. with field headquarters in Taipei Taiwan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.217

CIA acquired Air America documented document

“The Agency acquired Air America in 1949 ostensibly to deny the assets of this company to the Communist Chirese…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.227

Air America operated_in Asia documented document

“Houston maintains that the Agency learned this 'the hard way and almost all of the lessons involved probably came out one way or the other in connection with a major aviation proprietary in the Far East…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.227

Panamanian corporation funded Air America documented document

“To finance this activity the lawyer for the airline organized a company Civil Air Transport which was funded by a Panamanian corporation…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.228

CIA funded Air America documented document

“And so we entered into an arrangement I think in about September of 1949 whereby we would advance them the figure of $750,000 sticks in my mind against which we could draw for actual use of the planes at an agreed on rate…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.228

CIA acquired Air America documented document

“As a result of these negotiations the Agency agreed to advance more funds and received an option to purchase the assets of Civil Air Transport…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.228

Air America operated_in China documented document

“But it worked for what they wanted which was to take supplies up country into inland China and then to bring back whatever cargo they could get commercially…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.228

Air America operated_in Taipei documented document

“Air America originally had several DC.4's and began modest operations between Hong Kong Taipei and Tokyo…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.230

Air America operated_in Tokyo documented document

“Air America originally had several DC.4's and began modest operations between Hong Kong Taipei and Tokyo…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.230

Air America did_business_with U.S. Air Force documented document

“Maintenance work in Taiwan however was normally a money-maker and this was contracted primarily although not exclusively with the U.S Air Force…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.231

Air America operated_in Formosa documented document

“Maintenance work in Taiwan however was normally a money-maker…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.231

Air America did_business_with U.S. Air Force documented document

“And finally we made a voluntary repayment against part of the profit on that contract to the Air Force.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.232

Internal Revenue Service spied_on Air America documented document

“The CIA went to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and indicated that they wished to have the audit conducted by an IRS team on an unwitting basis to see what they could learn…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.232

Clinton White House did_business_with Air America documented document

“But the White House asked if we had the capability to move something from here to there... and so they sent word to management that they wanted a plane available at the earliest opportunity at Clark Field…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.233

Southern Air Transport did_business_with Air America documented document

“Southern Air Transport which also performed MAC and MATS contracts with planes leased from Air America.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.234

CIA sold_to Air America documented document

“So the Agency began to phase out the 727s which contributed to the decision to divest itself of Southern Air Transport and Air America…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.234

Office of the Inspector General spied_on Air America documented document

“As allegations of illegal drug trafficking by Air America personnel grew in the spring and summer of 1972 the CIA launched a full scale inquiry The Inspector General interviewed a score of officers at CIA headquarters who had served in Asia…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.235

Air America operated_in Laos documented document

“Air America was less able to control drug traffic involving its aircraft within Laos…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.237

Air America operated_in Burma documented document

“The Agency joined the effort that began in 1971 to halt the flow of opium and heroin from Burma Laos and Thailand…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.238

Air America operated_in Thailand documented document

“The Agency joined the effort that began in 1971 to halt the flow of opium and heroin from Burma Laos and Thailand…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.238

CIA founded Air America documented document

“The baggage of the pilot and all passengers traveling in CIA-owned aircraft was inspected…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.240

Pacific Corporation subsidiary_of Air America documented document

“The Air America complex included a number of other companies with the Pacific Corporation as the holding company…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.247

Pacific Corporation sold_to Air America documented document

“The general plan for liquidation of Air America is for the Pacific Corporation to sell off Air America Inc. and its affiliates…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.247

Air America operated_in Tachikawa Air Force Base documented document

“On April 1 1960 Air America had begun flying a seven month MATS contract operating out of Tachikawa Air Force Base in Japan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.248

Air America operated_in Japan documented document

“On April 1 1960 Air America had begun flying a seven month MATS contract operating out of Tachikawa Air Force Base in Japan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.248

CIA proposed Air America documented document

“Therefore the CIA proposed that either Air America should obtain the necessary certification or that the Agency should buy another commercial firm that already held these certifications…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.248

Southern Air Transport did_business_with Air America documented document

“would not include any equity in the lease purchase agreement between 'SAT and Air America for a Lockheed L 100.30 Hercules aircraft…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.250

Former Owner of SAT did_business_with Air America documented document

“Sale at this price to the management would require simultaneous payment in full of the $3.2 million note payable to Air America…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.250

Saturn Airways did_business_with Air America documented document

“In early January 1974 CIA officials learned from Air America management that SAT had exercised the purchase option of the lease/purchase agreement between SAT and Air America for the Lockheed L 100.30 Hercules aircraft…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.253

Air America did_business_with Saturn Airways documented document

“On January 25 1974 Air America executed an Escrow and Arbitration Agreement on behalf of the CIA with SAT on the disputed $1.2 million profit…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.253

Retired Staff Agent worked_for Air America documented document

“A retired staff agent who had been the Managing Director of Air America Inc.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.255

Air America supported 1958 Indonesian coup attempt documented

“more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 20:42

Air America supported Kuomintang documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 20:42

Air America carried_out_attack Operation Repat documented

“Lai Me returned to Taiwan in October of 52, but his soldiers stayed in Burma. A four-power conference in Bangkok among Burma, Thailand, Nationalist China, and the U.S. agreed to remove them. This led to Operation Repat, like repatriation. A…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 1:36

Air America carried_out_attack Dien Bien Phu documented

“brought everything they needed down to their own refrigerators and beer. The first civil air transport flight in Indochina was a supply lift to a camp, not in Vietnam, in Laos. You know where all the opium is. That was on May 6th, 1953. Wit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 27:46

CIA funded Air America documented

“Let's just go through the disposal since we've already talked about Air America and then we're going to close. But I'm going to come back because I want to go through. There's several of these pieces to this puzzle embedded in this document…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 59:33

Air America located_in Washington, D.C. documented

“East Asia. This support had been undercover of a commercial flying service in fulfillment of U.S. government contracts. You paid for it. Corporate headquarters was in Washington, D.C. with field headquarters. Where? Oh yeah, Taiwan. Yeah, i…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 33:28

Air America headquartered_in Hong Kong book_quoted

“That's when the CIA steps in and they basically buy the airline. The airline used the cash to relocate to Taiwan with a corporate headquarters in Hong Kong. And why is that important? Because Hong Kong is under the jurisdiction of the UK at…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 20:53

Thomas Corcoran signed_agreement_for Air America book_quoted

“to contend that state had approved it. Civil Air Transport was enlisted in the Secret War, flying its first CIA missions on October 10, 1949. Tommy Corcoran, on behalf of the Civil Air Transport, and Emmett D. Eccles, E-C-H-O-L-S, of CIA's …”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 14:51

Air America dissolved Laos documented

“Air America closed up shop in June of 74. The Udon facilities were taken over by Thai Airways Aircraft Maintenance Company. The results of the CIA's post-mortem, and by the way, that Thai airline was Holland Drugs. The result of the CIA pos…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 1:04:08

Alan Lawrence Pope member_of Air America documented

“Within a day, Washington knew Pope had been captured. As Cabell confirmed for Foster Dulles, but CIA had a lot of confidence in the man. Pope had flown in Korea for this civil air transport, including 57 missions to Dinbinfu. He had been re…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 8 @ 56:59

Air America flew_missions_for CIA book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 14:51

Air America relocated_to China book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 20:53

Air America subsidiary_of Pacific Corporation documented

“with the Pacific Corporation as the holding company. So Pacific Corporation was the big company. Air America reported to it along with several other companies. The general plan for liquidation of Air America is for the Pacific Corporation t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 1:00:58

Air America founded_by Whiting Willauer book_quoted

“Louis Johnson forwarded the proposal and the accompanying memorandum from Wisner to Truman. But the collapse of the resistance, i.e. the Nationalists, on the mainland temporarily paused the process. This became a defining moment for civil a…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:53

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America book_quoted

“the bulk of the time devoted to the operational covert aspects. Soon, the newly minted ambassador, his appointment encouraged by Tommy Cochran, was in Honduras. Willauer is going to be the Honduran ambassador. Arranging for a rebel air forc…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 14:08

Air America founded_by Claire Chennault book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 15:53

Air America supplied_arms_to Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted

“had crossed into the Laotian territory and were being supplied by airlifts from C-I-A-C-A-T aircraft. Their old opium routes were being threatened in the South as well, and in July of 1959, the Thai government, in response to years of U.S. …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:08:10

Air America supplied_arms_to Tibet book_quoted

“Recruits traveled to Calcutta by train, where the link was a contact address. Civil Air Transport planes flew to Taiwan for refueling. Sometimes they landed in Bangkok. Sometimes they landed in Hong Kong. They were all black CIA aircraft. I…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 45:13

Air America front_for CIA documented

“W-H-I-T-I-N-G is his first name, and Will Allert, W-I-L-A-U-E-R. So, and you'll never guess where we got him from. He was the senior manager at the Civil Air Transport, the CIA front airline. So, he had reported, he's been mentioned several…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 43:53

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“and is basically a CIA proprietary. It had initially operated inside of China. He went to Washington with a proposal for U.S. support to the nationalist Xi'an in southern China, plus covert aid to form guerrilla forces loyal to Ling Shenzhe…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 9:05

Air America sold_to CIA host_asserted

“inside the CIA that will go on to be an ambassador and manipulate all of these world affairs on behalf of these oligarchs is critically important to this story. Okay, Claire Chenault and Willauer in 1950, in the lead up to all of this, basi…”

▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 18:23

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“left Burma along with a thousand of their dependents. And it says each of these people, the dependents and the military, for each of them, the Civil Air Transport, meaning the CIA front company airline, was paid $128 per head out of U.S. ta…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 24:51

Duncan Lee member_of Air America host_asserted

“Goes on and that's, you know, basically AIG and all of this other stuff. So let's see. After he's the AIG guy, I'm trying to follow my notes. Oh, immediately after his work at OSS, Lee served as the council for the formation of the Civil Ai…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 31:10

William Pawley founded Air America host_asserted

“that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 13:42

Paul Holden member_of Air America host_asserted

“He had 59. The original chief pilot's name was Paul Holden, H-O-L-D-E-N. He was on his fifth mission to Dien Bien Phu when he was wounded by anti-aircraft fire. Pilots recall that the flak over the entrenched camp as being heavy and said it…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 32:20

James McGovern member_of Air America host_asserted

“Cusack himself was flying a mission alongside James McGovern on May 6, 1954, when the latter was shot down in his D-119. Nicknamed Earthquake Magoon, McGovern died just hours before the final collapse of the French at Dinbinfu, one year to …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 32:49

James McGovern member_of Air America documented

“senator, but I didn't get that far with it. What I did find interesting about this guy is after the war, he joined CAT, the Civil Air Transport. Yeah. And continued with all of this stuff that was going on. Now, of course, he was shot down,…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 1:00:56

Claire Chennault sold Air America book_quoted

“Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold civil air transport to the CIA in August…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 3:49

Kuomintang owned Air America book_quoted

“retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has little or nothing to say about the links bet…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 4:20

Kuomintang controlled Air America book_quoted

“Civil Air Transport, Inc., the CIA proprietary, that supplied them with, all of the airlines actually, with pilots and other personnel like ground support, 60% of the capital and control of the Civil Air Transport was KMT, Chinese Nationali…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 23:40

T. V. Soong fronted_for Air America book_quoted

“Ken Chen Bank in Shanghai, who allegedly fronted for TV Song, S-O-O-N-G, and his sister, who happened to be married to Chiang Kai-shek. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is what she was referred to as. So we're going to keep it all in the family. And …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 24:10

Claire Chennault set_up Air America book_quoted

“So that company, the Civil Air Transport Company, had been set up by General Chenault in 1946 after the U.S. State Department cited pressure from T.B. Song and Madam Shang as grounds for forcing the U.N. to reverse itself and subsidize the …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 24:41

James J. Brennan treasurer_of Air America book_quoted

“Chenault's partner in civil air transport was Whiting Willauer, which we talked about a couple of days ago, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, a U.S. economic intelligence officer who, during World War II, supplied the Flying Tigers as an officer of China De…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 25:06

Samuel Sloan Walker member_of Air America host_asserted

“Briefly, as the CIA deputy director from 51 to 53, which is during the course of the Korean War, soon afterwards, two of Wolf's fellow directors in the small Empire City Savings Bank, a Mr. Samuel Sloan Walker and author B. Richardson, were…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 37:03

Airedale Corporation secretly_owned Air America host_asserted

“I disagree with that statement 100 percent because he is unaware of the total control of the CIA over this entire operation. Its proprietary Airedale Corporation in 1957, renamed to be Pacific Corporation, owned 100 percent of the civil air…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 40:37

United States financed_via Air America host_asserted

“Shortly after this prohibition of heroin in place of the bulkier opium, it came to be regarded as the major problem in Thailand. By September 1959, the Civil Air Transport had commenced charter airlift into Laos, paid for by us. Meanwhile, …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:08:37

United States financed_via Air America host_asserted

“signed the U.S.-Laos Emergency Aid Agreement that would pay to charter the civil air transport planes three days after their arrival. This was only a few hours after Eisenhower had left for Europe on the same day, not having had the time to…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:10:05

Seneconi headed Air America host_asserted

“which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Another major figure in 1959 and 64 was the La…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:10:34

William Byrd member_of Air America host_asserted

“quote-unquote, cracking down, which he was not. In Vietnam, he was getting kicked out of Vietnam. He was getting his butt kicked in Vietnam. William Byrd, the Civil Air Transport representative in Bangkok, was said to have coordinated Civil…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:12:28

William Byrd coordinated Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:12:28

Seaboard World Services succeeded Air America host_asserted

“Chiang Kai-shek KMT troops who were reportedly operating in Laos in 1961, having been flown from Thailand into the bases in northern Thailand and then into Laos by Air America and Civil Air Transport assets. This announcement came to nothin…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:15:10

Flying Tigers founded Air America host_asserted

“In 1941 and 1942, prior to the U.S. even entering World War II, the Tigers were staffed almost entirely with U.S. military personnel and pilots, like actually on active duty pilots. In the post-war years, the assets of the Flying Tigers wou…”

▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 46:57

Thomas Corcoran founded Air America book_quoted

“who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to mai…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 18:55

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America book_quoted

“Chanel's partner, Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, went from civil air transport to be the U.S. ambassador in Honduras, which, of course, is right next door and where they launched all the operations for Guatemala from, where he helped Un…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 23:24

Harper Woodward member_of Air America book_quoted

“The author cites the fact that Harper Woodward, Harper Woodward, who served in the 1950s as a director of civil air transport, continues in 1970 to serve as a director of ITEK. This was not just because Woodward specialized in offering serv…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 32:41

Charles M. Cook headed Air America book_quoted

“but was not conspiratorial. No private individuals had plotted against the authority of the U.S. government. The legal picture was different in 1950 when Admiral Charles Cook, C-O-O-K-E, as head of a private military advisory group for Chia…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 45:42

Desmond Fitzgerald worked_with Air America book_quoted

“in covert CIA activities such as civil air transport, that throughout the 1950s, his Washington law firm of Corcoran and Youngman was not listed in the Martins Del Hubble law directory. In contrast, Desmond Fitzgerald, the CIA officer in In…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 56:26

Thomas Corcoran funded Air America host_asserted

“for Civil Air Transport, which means he's a lawyer for CIA front companies. And he is also the lawyer for United Fruit, because, you know, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles is a little busy right now. They're pretending to be in the govern…”

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 30:36

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America documented

▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 43:53

Flying Tigers succeeded Air America book_quoted

“helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, w…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:28

William Bell member_of Air America host_asserted

“But the initial CIA airstrike came against Macassar in April 13th. Two B-26 bombers participated and one of them crashed, killing two Polish air crew members. The plane would be replaced, but not the pilots. The poles were not used again du…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 43:49

Alan Pope member_of Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 43:49

CIA owned Air America host_asserted

“They also used the CIA-owned airline, Civil Air Transport. Oh, and look what Doug says. Activated stay-behind networks in North Korea. Sorry, Vietnam. They sabotaged power plants and spread false information of a communist bloodbath. So tha…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 57:35

Albert Cox headed Air America book_quoted

“best known for his role in acquiring and managing the Civil Air Transport Airline. Cox had been an OSS commando. Where? Oh, Italy and France. You know, the stay-behind places. He had run operations against mainland China from his perch in H…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 28:22

Dale Holgren member_of Air America book_quoted

“In Taiwan, for example, Nugent Han's bank manager was Dale Holgren, H-O-L-M-G-R-E-N, who, before going to work at Nugent Han, had been the manager of flight services for Civil Air Transport in Air America. So he was CIA going to work for CI…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 7:49

CIA funded Air America host_asserted

“The later delivered over the mainland principally by aircraft, but also by balloons, bottles, bamboo canisters, basically anything that they could drop out of an aircraft. They dropped 300 million leaflets during one year. The CIA early inv…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 29:50

CIA funded Air America host_asserted

“You can hire all the mercenaries you want, even though civil air transport is a CIA proprietary. Secretary Dulles suggested stronger intervention might be necessary. Without overt support of the rebels, they could fail. But Foster undercut …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 35:10

Air America carried_out_attack Souvanna Phouma book_quoted

“$1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pi…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 24:23

Flying Tigers subsidiary_of Air America documented

“Claire Chenault, drug operations, William Polly, blah, blah, blah. Flying Tiger had been the largest private air charter airline in the world when Air America was formed. In 68, the Flying Tigers had 28 aircraft and was slightly more than 2…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 24:26

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted

“Ferrari was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in the New Orleans area. Lee Harvey Oswald was in one of his Civil Air Patrol flights.…”

▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 50:58

Joe Alsop funded Air America book_quoted

“along with the phony Laos crisis in 1959, would have gone unheeded had it not been for support from the CIA. A key role was played by the influential CIA ally Joseph Alsop, an old China hand and columnist whose inflammatory reports from Lao…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 23:25

Claire Chennault founded Air America book_quoted

“was the CIA, and by May 1950, this was in full bloom. The true author of the plan, as noted previously, was General Claire Chenault, whose airline, Civil Air Transport, became OPC-LEMI Supply Line, and it's spelled L-E-M-I, so it's OPC-LEMI…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 26:55

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted

“Civil Air Transport supplied the troops with arms from another CIA proprietary, Sea Supply, and Sea Supply was set up by Paul Helliwell. At an OPC-built airbase in, I think that was Thailand, after delivering the arms to the KMT in Burma, a…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 28:49

Frank Wisner secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

“In June of 1950, Whitting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, who supposedly was working for the Civil Air Transport Airline, flew to Washington to negotiate the final takeover of the airline by the U.S. government's Office of Policy Coordination, p…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 33:14

Allen Dulles approved Air America book_quoted

“decided to acquire the airline. So by June 28th of 1950, CIA Director Hillen Cotter formally approved the OPC CIA takeover of the airline. This was three days after the outbreak of the war that would generate 15,000 missions to be flown by …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 33:44

Paul Helliwell founded Air America host_asserted

“mainly of Green Gang drug traffickers. And like Tay Lee, he went on to become the architect of the governmental intelligence drug connection, meaning Paul Helliwell did. He basically took over that role for the CIA. As an OPC official, Hell…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 38:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people host_asserted

“short takeoff and landing aircraft, but because of the danger of enemy fire, the American and nationalist Chinese crews usually relied on parachute drops of guns, mortars, ammunition, rice, and even live chickens and pigs. Air America's pla…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 32:46

Air America supplied_arms_to U.S. Army host_asserted

“defended until its capture in 1968, the key air radar installation near the northern Vietnamese border. The station had been used in the bombing of North Vietnam. A lot of people got killed when that happened, military people. Further south…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 33:40

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam host_asserted

“an isolated U.S. Army camp in the southeast, as well as U.S. and South Vietnamese special force operations in that same area. Originally, the chief purpose of these activities was to harass the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but ultimately the fighting…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 34:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Royal Laotian Army host_asserted

“meaning they were CIA. And for years, Air America's pilots flew in a combat support role as early as April 1961. When U.S. advisors are first known to have guided the Laotian army in combat, Air America's pilots flew the troops into battle …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 35:35

Claire Chennault founded Air America host_asserted

“war corporation by government decision. It does not appear, however, that the CIA was always so fictitious about obtaining presidential approval post-World War II. After the war, Chenault saw that a fortune could be made by obtaining contra…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:18

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration funded Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:18

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America host_asserted

“supplied Chenault not only with the contract, but also with planes at a bargain price, as well as with a loan to pay for them. One of Corcoran's connections, Whiting Willauer, promptly became Chenault's number two man. With a generous finan…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:48

Chiang Kai-shek funded Air America host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 41:48

Air America carried_out_attack Thailand book_quoted

“And pilots were involved since Air America officials have admitted to extensive defoliation programs having been flown, you know, in every other country but this one during this one time. They flew them in Thailand. They flew them in Taiwan…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America carried_out_attack China book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

Air America carried_out_attack Laos book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 28:15

James Cunningham headed Air America book_quoted

“unquote. No, you are a terrorist working for the CIA. Wilson was being very modest about his role. Another of the several thousand CIA officers supporting the secret war in Laos was James Cunningham. He was Wilson's old U2 boss. Cunningham …”

▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 38:51

David Harold Byrd founded Air America documented

“After returning to New Orleans with his mother in 1954, the 15-year-old Oswald hooked up with the Civil Air Patrol, a group of young men interested in learning to fly. The military auxiliary group, which was founded in World War II to help …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 7:05

William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Air America documented

“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people documented

“The Joint Chiefs, who first, on October 3rd, officially authorized Air America flights to Fumi. Note that, as mentioned above, Air America had already been supplying Fumi since mid-September. The first Air America flights reached Vang Pao o…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 47:15

Air America supplied_arms_to Phoumi Nosavan documented

“This meant a return to the Fumi airlift suspended on December 7th. What is clear is that Air America was legalized just in time for the incoming Kennedy administration. For the purposes of this legalization, the Soviet airlift, which the CI…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 51:55

Felix Stump headed Air America documented

“All of these actions were, in fact, leading our country into a war in Southeast Asia. And it's hard to believe that Air America's directors were unconscious of this. Retired Admiral Felix Stump, you definitely want to look at him, until 195…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 56:48

Communist Party of China carried_out_attack Air America documented

“incident in the resumption of fighting was the shooting down of an Air America plane in November 1962, three days after the Pei Ocean Lao had warned that they were going to do it. What made the Pentagon, CIA, and Air America hang on in Laos…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 1:00:05

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:15:10

Robert Goulet member_of Air America host_asserted

“California to the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Sonny Fasolas, accused of passing bribes to the vice president of Commerce International, was another indictment 10 years later when he surfaced as part of a syndicate that was involved in se…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:19:53

Air America trafficked Laos host_asserted

“there's this huge interrogation center that they set up in Udorn at the base where the military operations was going on and the home base of Air America that was flying all the missions into Laos and then bringing the drugs back. So we took…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7 @ 36:13

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“used for this mission than most people realize. In South Vietnam alone, by late 1965, Air America had moved 1,600 tons of cargo a month. They had over 50 planes, and dozens of them were C-45s, 46s, and 47s.…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 6:12

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“And they would fly at the height of the missions in the mid-1960s approximately 2,500 tons of cargo a month. So the importance for Laos was Thailand, where, of course, all of the Air America maintenance facilities were set up. And they were…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 6:41

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“Udorn, which we talked about yesterday, Bangkok, and Thale. The maintenance was available within the Laos capital as well. And there was a major base for the proprietary airlines inside of Laos. It was there that the transfer of 16 Air Forc…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 7:13

Air America supplied_arms_to Laos book_quoted

“In mid-1966, the proprietary aircraft based in Thailand included 21 helicopters, 12 Hilo U-10 light planes, and 20 medium transports. The helicopters were vital for air rescue missions. During the first two years the U.S. was bombing from L…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 7:44

United States supplied_arms_to Air America book_quoted

“Because Air America owned no C-130s, the Air Force lent it some for their special air warfare from their E-flight at Okinawa. Of four Air America crews trained on C-130s in the mid-1960s, one was left by 1970. So the hub of the Hmong War wa…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 9:09

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong book_quoted

“These are not separate. They're not actual competitors. The attacks in support of the Hmong were also carried out from Thailand by Air Force T-28s in jungle gym type units. A few of the planes were given to the Laotian troops to lend creden…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 13:54

Claire Chennault headed Air America host_asserted

“And even after General Chenault had passed away, she carried on his work. She is as much an operator, if not more so than he was. And in the whole Flying Tiger connection to Air America, and she ended up running the Air America after he pas…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:09:23

Eugene Hassenfuss member_of Air America documented

“H-A-S-E-N-F-U-S. He was the lone survivor of the plane crash. Hasenfus, who'd worked for the CIA's Air America airline during the agency's secret war in Laos, told the press that he was again working for the CIA at a time when the agency wa…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 8:24

Paul L. Williams founded Air America host_asserted

“William Paul Lee, a CIA operative and multimillionaire, facilitated the 1954 Guatemalan coup for United Fruit, supplied aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek, and co-founded Civil Air Transport, later Air America, linking drug trafficking Cuban exile…”

▶ Gladio 101 @ 10:47

CIA secretly_owned Air America host_asserted

“By February 1975, the CIA proprietary airline Air America held meetings over 10 days in Hong Kong with officials and senior representatives of South American republics. I know you don't watch movies, but Shelley the Kiwi posted this and I f…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 58:17

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted

“That's where we found that David Ferrari. They go in and they hide out in the Civil Air Patrol squadrons around the United States at small airports under the guise of teaching youth how to fly.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 1:19:23

Paul Helliwell founded Air America book_quoted

“Chinese nationalist guerrillas and opium buyers. Some of them were even former Nazis. Other parts of the band of expatriates that emerges in countries following any war. Halliwell and his compatriots had created a model for trafficking in d…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 9:25

Air America trafficked CIA book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 9:25

Pacific Corporation secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

“was a holding company, Pacific Corporation, also known as Pacific Power and Light. Did you know that? Also, Pacific Corp. and Pacific Harbor Capital. Pacific Corp. owned CIA companies such as Air America, SAT, and Intermountain Air.…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 52:56

Air America supplied_arms_to Secret War in Laos host_asserted

“He consolidated things throughout the mid-60s. A modern hospital and the first high school was built there. The Geneva Agreement had little effect on the CIA's support. Air America continued their flights. Even before fighting resumed in th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 47:11

Air America operated_from Udorn Air Force Base host_asserted

“But they were so excited. They wanted to take us on a tour of the area. I looked at them and I'm like, I'm not getting on that helicopter. So we didn't take him up on his offer. But it was really weird at Udorn because there were the barrac…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 30 (31) @ 1:20:02

CIA trafficked Air America host_asserted

“Air America had a policy against smuggling on its aircraft, which is hilarious. They didn't have a policy against it, but security against drug running was dependent on the pilot. No, it wasn't. The only sanction provided for passengers fou…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 51:18

CIA trafficked Air America book_quoted

“but to launch an investigation, which for our practical purposes means they basically were going to cover it up. The team of officers began in Hong Kong and spent over two weeks at 11 agencies interviewing over 100 CIA, State, USAID, Pentag…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 53:44

CIA front_for Air America host_asserted

“LTV in 72. Rayburn stayed on the board. So in other words, we're dealing with more CIA fronts. In 1975, eSystems bought Asia Air. That came up many times because that's also a CIA company that did repair and maintenance in Taiwan for Air Am…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:11:52

Air America trafficked CIA host_asserted

“They provided the most efficient transportation for all of it. And by the mid-1960s, the CIA officers were reporting intelligence on the movement of drugs to supplement their regular activities and their paychecks. The information was passe…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 48:57

CIA front_for Air America host_asserted

“Well, yes and no. I mean, these companies are real companies. They do generate, like Air America was a real company. Evergreen. Evergreen was basically a CIA cutout. I worked for Evergreen. I was a maintainer on the ramp at UPS. They had a …”

▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 1:09:14

CIA front_for Air America host_asserted

“Air America was ostensibly a private charter firm under a slogan, anything, anywhere, anytime. Assassins for hire, anywhere, anytime, and anything to do. A civil air transport remained on Taiwan as a Chinese domestic airline, while extensiv…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 47:01

CIA funded Air America book_quoted

“The CIA station appears to have taken no action against people like Tony Poe, who was in the middle of it and who suffered more than a dozen wounds in firefights because he was actively engaging in combat. In large part, Air America made it…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 5:43

CIA paid Air America book_quoted

“Air America pilots were supposed to be flying during their time off from service on regular flights. They were paid bonuses given tax advantages and could clear up to $40,000 extra a year by flying with the CIA. And if you talk to those guy…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 8:14

CIA funded Air America book_quoted

“Vang Pao imported a Cadillac and a road was built up the ridge to connect the airbase with another village. Vang Pao had his headquarters at a place called Lone Tin, together with a propaganda outlet that was basically like Radio Asia. With…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 11:03

Air America front_for CIA book_quoted

“to Meyer Lansky's bank, who arranged for Civil Air Transport, later Air America, to become a CIA proprietary airline, and the secession of later banks with the CIA, drug, and mob connections. Castle Bank of the Bahamas, which we've read abo…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 5:59

Air America supplied_arms_to France host_asserted

“flew 684 sorties to Dien Bien Phu. All for nothing, because the Vietnamese kicked the French's ass anyway. The pilot who flew the most was a man by the name of A.L. Junkin, J-U-D-K-I-N-S. He had 64 flights. Next was a guy by the name of Ste…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 31:53

Air America secretly_owned Airedale Corporation host_asserted

“bought them out and set up a cutout company that was a private Delaware corporation called Airedale Corporation. That's actually what the corporation for civil air transport was. That was kind of like the mother company of it. Let's see. Th…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 33:08

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted

“They provided air support to the KMT Army while it was temporarily located in Burma before they moved to Taiwan. And all of these airplanes were used to fly weapons one way and drugs the other. The pilots who flew these aircraft were basica…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 14:13

Air America supplied_arms_to France host_asserted

“This civil air transport action resulted in the military aid program, which had loaned France C-119 flying boxcar transports instead of the C-47s the French had requested. The first civil air transport flight into Indonesia was to supply a …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 30:21

Air America supplied_arms_to Li Mi host_asserted

“The most questionable of Civil Air Transport's activities was its sustained supply of arms and other material to the KMT's General Lee Me and his successors in Burma and North Thailand from 1949 to 1961. Lee Me is probably the most major op…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 47:16

Air America supplied_arms_to Hmong people book_quoted

“The agreements called for the withdrawal of foreign military advisors, experts, instructors, and foreign civilians connected with this operation. Yet Air America continued its airlift every single day. Roger Hilsman observed, quote, arming …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 56:53

Colonel D. Wayne carried_out_attack Air America book_quoted

“support of their enemies. They objected even more violently to Air America's overt airlift in October 1962 to Kong Lee. The first military incident in the breakdown of the 1962 agreement was the shoot down of an Air America C-123 plane over…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 57:24

Air America carried_out_attack Vietnam book_quoted

“assumed a combat role in Laos in May of 1964, at a time when the North Vietnamese Army was still engaged in a support role comparable to that of the Air America. North Vietnam was not formally accused by the U.S. of violating the Geneva Agr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 1:04:53

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“foreign involvement reemphasized the central coordinating role of U.S. intelligence, especially paramilitary factions of the CIA, and that they used these front companies like Civil Air Transport and Air America, that the Civil Air Transpor…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 43:19

Air America supplied_arms_to Vietnam documented

“also came first with the initiation of operations against North Vietnam in February 64 with bombing raids with Thai and Air America pilots in Laos. In both cases, these provocations, although inadequate by themselves to prove the U.S. milit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 46:13

Air America carried_out_attack China host_asserted

“during the reorganization where they came out as Air America. Among the 200 missions over the Chinese mainland carried out in 1961, it is credited with flights to Tibet, but this very probable is in the four-engine C-54, not the C-130.…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 52:31

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted

“including C-47s and C-46s. The Civil Air Transport Fleet transported weapons to a contingency force of KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's paramilitary forces, in Burma. The planes were then loaded with drugs for the return trip to China. The pilots who…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 10:39

William J. Donovan founded Air America documented

“Prescott Bush is buddies with William Polly. All right. I don't have very many. And I, again, I've already read this and I just like completely forgot about this part. One of those operations resulted in the creation of the Flying Tiger Air…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 55:04

Whiting Willauer founded Air America documented

“The U.S. government's interest came at an opportune moment for Civil Air Patrol, or Civil Air Patrol, Civil Air Transport, founded in 1946 by Chenault and a guy by the name of Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R. Civil Air Transport was essen…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 11:56

Air America operated_in Taiwan host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 33:28

Thomas Corcoran recruited Air America documented

“head of the State Department's policy planning staff, which took no position on the project, but was nonetheless used by Frank Wisner as if the state had already approved it. Civil Air Transport was enlisted in a secret war, flying its firs…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 10:27

Emmett Echols recruited Air America documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 10:27

Thomas Corcoran lawyer_for Air America book_quoted

“B-R-E-N-N-A-N. He was a member of Chenault, Corcoran, Allsup's Washington Squadron, i.e. law firms that did all the lawfare that set all this up, who after the war served as TV Song's personal secretary in China. The lawyer for Civil Air Tr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 25:35

Guy Banister member_of Air America book_quoted

“and had his flyers that he was handing out plastered all over the wall, thanks to Guy Bannister's secretary's testimony. But we also know that Guy Bannister was best friends with Ferrari, and Ferrari was in the Civil Air Patrol squadron wit…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:31:11

David Ferrie member_of Air America book_quoted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 1:31:11

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“They function as being in charge of things like Air America or the World Commerce Corporation or the Flying Tigers or any of those entities that we know are CIA fronts. So those are assets, some of which has it's been revealed later. And re…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:03:51

William J. Donovan founded Air America host_asserted

“initial aircraft for the Flying Tigers, which became the Civil Air Transport, which became the main drug thoroughfare. He's behind all of that. So to find out that he sits on, I just about fell out of my chair when I first got this book. An…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 11:40

William J. Donovan founded Air America host_asserted

“and take him down to Cuba for an assault on the island. He also owned the airline, the one that they bombed and killed everybody on board, the Cuban exiles. That airline, that Cuban airline, he owned before Castro took over. He owned all of…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 10:16

Robert Hitchman member_of Air America book_quoted

“that worked with him by the name of Eugene Tafoya, T-A-F-O-Y-A. And it says that he actually attempted a murder on a Libyan's behalf and was caught and sent to prison. Robert Hitchman, a former Air America pilot, acted as Wilson's deputy in…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 34:40

CIA financed_via Air America documented

“with leftovers of the units that had been at Clark Air Base and had moved to Okinawa. It then became the 322nd Troop Carrier Squadron Medium Special, meaning Special Ops. This unit was used with a mix of aircraft, including B-29s. It's Supe…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 12:56

ARC Wings front_for Air America documented

“special warfare units called Air Resupply and Communication, or ARC wings. Five of those units were formed and stationed at bases in Great Britain, Libya, Okinawa, and the Philippines. The ARC wings operated a wide variety of transport airc…”

▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 57:17

Chiang Kai-shek secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

“was thrown into this entire mix, along with the airline Civil Air Transport, of which 60% was owned by the Chiang Kai-shek regime and 40% owned by the CIA. On behalf of United Fruit, Corcoran triggered a CIA plot in which E. Howard Hunt was…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 10:10

CIA secretly_owned Air America book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 10:10

Air America trafficked Laos book_quoted

“In Laos during the 60s and 70s, a huge cartel developed around opium trafficking. From the remote tribes of Mao and Meng, who grew opium, CIA front organizations like Air America flew raw opium to collection points within Laos. Then on to t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 17 OKL bombing @ 11:40

Air America trafficked Laos host_asserted

“supposedly, officially, was to make friends, be nice. About twice a week, Air America planes would arrive with supplies and be loaded up with opium and taken out. So we got arms coming in, opium going out. Arms and food, a little bit of foo…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 41:55

Willis Bird did_business_with Air America book_quoted

“that were hanging out in Burma. William Byrd, representing Civil Air Transport in Bangkok, coordinated Civil Air Transport's airdrops to KMT troops and ran an engineering firm that constructed all of the necessary airstrips to collect the o…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 11:15

Air America subsidiary_of CIA host_asserted

“the civil air transport, to use as its air transportation. The new commander for Wisner was a guy by the name of Hans, H-A-N-S, Tofte, T-O-F-T-E. He was the son of a sea captain. He spoke fluent Chinese and had worked for 10 years in a ship…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 46:13

Air America trafficked CIA host_asserted

“from the u.s military and there were heroin labs being set up in the southeast asia area to convert the opium into heroin and the civil air transport cat which later becomes air america and a proprietary for the cia was doing a lot of the t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 34:15

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“i use that term because they're not what they appear to be they will have cargo flights they will have passenger charter flights they will do all kinds of air operations to make them appear to be a legitimate air airline but what they're re…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:05:18

Air America trafficked Burma host_asserted

“Lieutenant General Claire Chenault, a military advisor to the Chinese Chiang Kai, and also the founder of the Flying Tigers, whose aircraft was used to create civil air transport, another CIA front, which flew surplus aircraft and used it t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:59:07

Air America operated_in Vietnam host_asserted

“flicker and as soon as he um saw that happen he's like son of a this is the old airplane that was air america um and so anyway just thought i'd add that on x mike hobert air america was pivotal to vietnam and laos absolutely mike um air ame…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 1:09:36

Air America operated_in Laos host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner JFK FIle 157-10014-10144 Part 1 @ 1:09:36

Air America operated_in Laos documented

“The U.S. military aid to Thailand would include an equal number of more modern aircraft as compensation. January 4th, 1961, Air America was laying plans to put mechanics into the capital to service the Laotian T-6 fleet. The indirect provis…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 37:03

Air America trafficked South Africa host_asserted

“Air America was used in South America to do the exact same thing. This model will be used repeatedly throughout the CIA history. The CIA fleet of planes transported opiates and cocaine during and after the Vietnam conflict, thanks to the ef…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:00:05

Air America trafficked Golden Triangle documented

“an airline that later became notorious for ferrying drugs out of the Golden Triangle. By the 1950s, Polly used Prescott Bush's help to promote operations on behalf of a powerful Shanghai shack, China lobby. Another Prescott Bush and Polly a…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 55:30

Air America operated_in Thailand documented

“Takli in Udorn with maintenance performed at Udorn, the site of a major proprietary base. They also had them in Udon and the Laotian capital as well. The Air America helicopter fleet began at Udon with a transfer of 16 Air Force H.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 21:26

Air America did_business_with Claire Chennault documented

“reported, he's been mentioned several times in correspondence about the civil air transport and talking with Claire Chennault, who we know Flying Tigers, civil air transport, all part of that in Southeast Asia. So later participants would a…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 43:51

Air America operated_in Bangkok documented

“Vang Pao made their alliance with the CIA, not directly supporting Fumi, but basically waging a parallel war. From the fall of 1960, Vang Pao forces began to receive a portion of the military aid flowing into Laos. There were then 15 Air Am…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 45:37

Claire Chennault founded Air America host_asserted

“Contract went to Chennault and he got very wealthy off of it. And the new airline was called Civil Air Transport that Chennault co-founded with Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R. Willauer would go on to be the U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:25:57

Thomas Corcoran represented Air America book_quoted

“reveals a latent continuity underlying all of them. Take, for example, the private law firm of Thomas G. Corcoran, who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, th…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 18:42

CIA liquidated Air America documented

“got involved in basically violating contract provisions. And in the course of lawsuits, the CIA officially admitted over actual ownership of Southern Air Transport and was awarded a judgment of $1.3 million for a total of $6.9 million on th…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 1:09:24

Whiting Willauer worked_for Air America documented

“W-H-I-T-I-N-G is his first name, and Will Auer, W-I-L-A-U-E-R. So, and you'll never guess where we got him from. He was the senior manager at the Civil Air Transport, the CIA front airline. So, he had...…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 43:24

CIA funded Air America host_asserted

“So all of these different fake companies are set up in a completely different environment and managed out of one office in the CIA. That one office is the only office that knows where all of those fake things are. And some of them, when I s…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:04:48

Thomas Corcoran did_business_with Air America host_asserted

“He was the lawyer for Civil Air Transport, which means he's a lawyer for CIA front companies. And he is also the lawyer for United Fruit because, you know, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles is a little busy right now. They're pretending to…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 30:06

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted

“and Sergio Smith, who were active in anti-Castro groups and linked to figures like David Ferrari and Guy Bannister, Grock could not find the correlation that put Rafael Cruz with those people, but obviously he is affiliated with some CIA fr…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 18:45

Flying Tigers renamed_to Air America host_asserted

“which turned into civil air transport, which turned into Air America. Paul Helliwell was one of his best friends. And he also had a very large investment in Cuba. He owned the entire bus system in Cuba. He also owned several sugar plantatio…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:24:37

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America book_quoted

“After the successful CIA coup in Iran of Mossadegh, Chanel's partner, Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, went from civil air transport to be the U.S. ambassador in Honduras, which, of course, is right next door and where they launched all t…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 23:14

Flying Tigers merged_with Air America book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 10:12

Claire Chennault founded Air America guest_asserted

“is instrumental in creating what eventually becomes Air America, the civil air transport company that flew a lot of the drugs around. It's just like this entire industry pops up in Southeast Asia. And so, and the people that are involved in…”

▶ William Ramsey Investigates with Colonel Towner Watkins @ 18:00

James Cunningham member_of Air America host_asserted

“which was set up as the air wing of ETSCO, meaning that it's a CIA front. Not only did Kamal Adom assist in creating global international airlines, but James Cunningham, who had worked with Shackley and Laos as a manager of Air America, ano…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 21 @ 46:31

Claire Chennault founded Air America documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 11:56

Desmond Fitzgerald worked_with Air America book_quoted

“in covert CIA activities such as civil air transport that throughout the 1950s, his Washington law firm of Corcoran and Youngman was not listed in the Martins Del Hubble law directory. In contrast, Desmond Fitzgerald, the CIA officer in Ind…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 56:19

Bird and Son funded Air America host_asserted

“which was controlled at that time by the Hmong tribesmen. They were a major supplier of opium destined for refinement into heroin. Airstrips for the CAT flights were built by a private engineering firm by the name of Bird, B-I-R-D, and Sons…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:36:01

Thai Airways Aircraft Maintenance Company acquired Air America documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 1:04:08

Charles M. Cook headed Air America book_quoted

“That's actually the name of like a company. It was a subsidiary of William Donovan's World Commerce Corporation. Okay. A firm that was backed by leading capitalists like Nelson Rockefeller with its own agenda for promoting capitalism in pos…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 3:49

Robert Hitchman member_of Air America book_quoted

“Green Beret, that worked with him by the name of Eugene Tafoya, T-A-F-O-Y-A. And it says that he actually attempted a murder on a Libyan's behalf and was caught and sent to prison. Robert Hitchman, a former Air America pilot,…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 17 @ 34:59

Pan American World Airways supplied_personnel_for Air America book_quoted

“was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 27:19

Evergreen International Airlines acquired Air America host_asserted

“and basically stays intact when the property fields started moving around. And at the end of the Vietnam War, a lot of the Air America assets started getting sold off. And guess where they went? They went to a company called Evergreen Inter…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:28:02

Frederick Lichess headed Air America host_asserted

“company also named Air America that was stationed out the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Airport in Pennsylvania. There was a guy by the name of Frederick Lichess. He was the head of the outfit and he made up to 1.5 million dollars per flight of fly…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 28:45

Paul Green headed Air America host_asserted

“He's also involved in the corrupt bank. Walter McDonald, retired CIA deputy director. Paul Green, former chairman of the CIA Civil Air Transport, which ends up being Air America. It's their airline. Theodore Shackley, who was their clandest…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 1:08:46

Tom Corcoran involved_in Air America book_quoted

“And that was revealed by Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book, The Politics of Heroin, CIA's Complicity in the Global War Trade. And I have that book. That book is referenced in quite a few of these Operation Gladio books that talks about the d…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 55:51

Air America subsidiary_of Airedale Corporation host_asserted

“He had brought Chenault and the aviation company to the attention of Frank Wisner, who we know very well. He was in the Office of Policy Coordination, which was originally in the State Department, and then he moved over with it to the CIA. …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:27:01

Air America operated_in Scranton Airport host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 28:45

Air America supplied_arms_to Vang Pao documented

“as Tony Poe, who reportedly suffered more than a dozen wounds in assorted firefights and once made a 30-mile trek to safety carrying a wounded Native comrade. Disciplining Poe meant giving him another assignment to a different tribal strike…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 19:58

Air America operated_in Udorn Air Force Base documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 21:26

Air America supplied_arms_to Li Mi documented

“The assistance of Limi and the existence of Sea Supply were open secrets in Bangkok. Sherman Joost, experienced as a team leader with the OSS in the same Burma area, loved the attention. Operation Paper began with three civil air transport …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 1:13:54

Air America supplied_arms_to Li Mi documented

“by the cia's civil air transport which could parachute instructors and weapons into the chinese occupied the shanghai sheikh occupied area of burma airplanes flew um missions that had been set up in bangkok thailand with personnel shuttled …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 1:10:57

Air America participated_in 1960 Laotian Coup book_quoted

“and civil air transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pigs, Chenault's airline, Civil Air Transport, soon to be known as Air America, took part in the CIA's overthrow of Suvarnabhumi in Laos, and it later…”

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 24:35

Air America participated_in Bay of Pigs Invasion book_quoted

▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 24:35

Air America operated_in Laos host_asserted

“When Air America crews themselves ran drugs, there was nothing to stop them. Not until 1972 did the proprietary airline set up a security inspection service, and even then, it did no good. That was just basically a paper tiger. Some of thos…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 47:42

CIA front_for Air America guest_asserted

“Assets basically make up a shadow CIA. They function as being in charge of things like Air America or the World Commerce Corporation or the Flying Tigers or any of those entities that we know are CIA fronts. So those are assets, some of whi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:01:57

CIA funded Air America documented

“in the assistant flows to Thailand and to the surrounding area. Air America provided much of the airlift under contract to USAID. Funds were hidden in the military assistance mission as well and in some of the nefarious lines of the CIA bud…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 59:21

CIA founded Air America documented

“Then there was the civil air transport that reorganized in 1959 after the aviation laws changed by the Taiwan government. The CIA incorporated a holding company in Delaware called Pacific Corporation to act as a corporate headquarters in Wa…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 @ 57:25

Air America front_for CIA host_asserted

“So we know that the CIA uses front companies. So you have here some of the front companies, the Civil Air Transport, which, interestingly enough, has several Air Force people from the original Air Force in the 1947 timeframe working for it …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 16:19

Air America front_for CIA documented

“but basically was a CIE front company. Massive maintenance facilities were built on Taiwan and they were spun off into subsidiary firm called Air Asia. Both subsidiaries performed contract work for the United States government. The civil ai…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 @ 57:55

Air America trafficked CIA book_quoted

“Chinese nationalist guerrillas and opium buyers. Some of them were even former Nazis. Others, parts of the band of expatriates that emerges in countries following any war. Halliwell and his compatriots had created a model for trafficking in…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9 @ 11:09

Air America operated_in Laos documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 21:26

Air America operated_in Laos documented

“a month between 67 and 68. In Laos, the relative war effort of the United States and the royal Laotian government can be measured in monthly airlift tonnage. The Laotian Air Force averaged 400 tons a month in 1966. Air America moved 6,000 t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 20:54

Air America operated_in Laos host_asserted

“was directly intersecting with Lansky and the mob and the KMT and the Green Gang, which then means the CIA, which makes sense because we already know about Operation Gladio. Civil Air Patrol, excuse me, Civil Air Transport, the successor to…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:35:29

Pacific Corporation front_for Air America documented

“with field offices in Taiwan. The CIA Airlift Force was renamed Air America, an ostensibly private charter firm, but basically was a CIA front company. Massive maintenance facilities were built on Taiwan, and they were spun off into a subsi…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 57:45

Lee Harvey Oswald member_of Air America documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 7:05

CIA trafficked Air America host_asserted

“5,600 up to 8,000 if support people were counted. And it owned or leased 167 aircraft. In 1970, it averaged 30,000 flights per month. 1970, 30,000 flights a month. That's 1,000 flights a day all over the world, primarily in Asia, hauling dr…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 48:10

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:55

Air America trafficked Kuomintang book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:55

David Howard Byrd member_of Air America book_quoted

“passionate Kennedy adversaries, including General Curtis LeMay, who relentlessly advocated for a nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union, so much so that JFK said he was crazy, like insane crazy. LeMay bestowed a glowing Air Force accommodat…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 18:49

eSystems bought Air America book_quoted

“bought AirAsia, the massive Taiwanese maintenance facility. Air America planes and other assets were sold off one by one. By 1975, the parent Pacific Corporation had been reduced to 1,100 employees. Final disposition of Air America was comp…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 5:42

Mentions (120)

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 50:58 And so they sort of used that tool of ZR rifle against Kennedy and then put Dulles in place to to clean everything up for the Warren Commission. So, yeah. All right. So let me go from there. And I just want to add a couple of things. Ferrar…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 51:26 And just so everybody knows, there is a common belief, and you can find many researchers' verifications of this, that that was a group of people that were homosexuals.…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 51:54 And that they preyed on young kids in the Civil Air Patrol in the New Orleans area. So I'm just throwing that out there. That's common knowledge. I also want to comment on the fact that in New Orleans, the last remaining interface between t…

Gladio 101

▶ 10:47 William Paul Lee, a CIA operative and multimillionaire, facilitated the 1954 Guatemalan coup for United Fruit, supplied aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek, and co-founded Civil Air Transport, later Air America, linking drug trafficking Cuban exile…

Gladio 101

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 22:44 at the Special Forces camp of Dong Yang. As a result, he received a silver star, a purple heart, and America's second highest decoration, the Distinguished Cross. But there was much more to Hand's story. In 1966, Hand had already been worki…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 26:29 And that was the code designation for the CIA agent that hired us. Keep an eye on the plane from Ban Howe side. We're sending some goods and someone's going to take care of it. Nobody's allowed to touch anything. Nothing can be unloaded, wa…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 38:51 unquote. No, you are a terrorist working for the CIA. Wilson was being very modest about his role. Another of the several thousand CIA officers supporting the secret war in Laos was James Cunningham. He was Wilson's old U2 boss. Cunningham …

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 39:22 airline in history, Air America. James Cunningham used Wilson through his front companies to make sure that Air America got what it needed for its friends. Wilson had nothing but admiration for Shackley and Cunningham. Wilson worked with th…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 16:15 Man, talking about coming full circle. Okay. And that's who Polly did business with too. Polly, along with Claire Chenault, who Polly puts up the money to create the Flying Tigers. And General Chenault is the one that was running the Flying…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 31:10 Goes on and that's, you know, basically AIG and all of this other stuff. So let's see. After he's the AIG guy, I'm trying to follow my notes. Oh, immediately after his work at OSS, Lee served as the council for the formation of the Civil Ai…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 32:11 His ties to the China lobby and anti-communist efforts basically indicate that just through his supporting legally the CIA fronts in the theater, he was directly tied to all of them. Okay. The CIA front company that Duncan Lee represented i…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 32:43 of national Chinese aircraft with civil air transport. And then I just, I've made a few notes. I think our audience knows enough about the civil air transport that we don't need to go through a bunch of those. But basically we know that it …

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 33:08 bought them out and set up a cutout company that was a private Delaware corporation called Airedale Corporation. That's actually what the corporation for civil air transport was. That was kind of like the mother company of it. Let's see. Th…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 33:35 following the nationalist retreat to Taiwan in 1949, which basically involved Duncan Lee, who had worked at OSS and had ties to CV Star and the civil air transport plate, transport aircraft industry. They got sued and.…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 61 - 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE- DO ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA!_!' - PART 1 - EP.437

▶ 58:30 which involved CIA assassination and torture of South Vietnamese that were accused of being sympathizers with Ho Chi Minh. USAID money was also directed to the CIA proprietary airline Air America in Thailand. USAID funds for the Accelerated…

Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2

▶ 59:52 And most of these links, Bridget and Liza are putting in the pill if you guys want to look them up yourself. But it tells you a whole bunch of different websites that you can look at. But what you see here is almost inexplicably, there's a …

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 13:42 that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…

Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb

▶ 1:50:13 the harbors of all of the countries under the guise of a civilian company. And so it is basically the same thing that we call fake companies, the fake banks and the fake companies like Air America that the CIA has done. It reduces the signa…

Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion

▶ 1:14:40 They procured the communications, the explosives, all of the stuff. And so they do it through cutouts, both company-wise and what you and I would consider NGOs. And so they set up for-profit companies like Air America and banks like Castle …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19

▶ 20:43 Two well-known quote-unquote businessmen with long ties to U.S. intelligence urged him to go see Don Lowers at Wilson's townhouse. One of those businessmen was the late James Cunningham. He had managed Air America for the CIA for years and …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 7:40 He had been required to gather up all of his ledgers each month and take them to a contract auditor. He dared not try to cheat the agency on his business profits because he could be given a surprise polygraph at any time. He was only permit…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 17:05 He was a Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer from one of the best-connected Christian families in Lebanon. Back when Wilson worked with Air America, he had sold Slohani Island, his first Boeing 707 cargo plane, to haul arms for the CIA back t…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 35:05 who was on a career path leading straight to the director's office, would spend so much time with Wilson. Unless you understand what's really going on and these guys are pretending like they don't know, which is, again, laughable. They were…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 58:46 And that you're going to be set up in a business, whether that business is the maritime business that he set up or the sea supply thing that Paul Helliwell set up or Air America. So they offload these people into this quote unquote business…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6

▶ 1:09:14 Well, yes and no. I mean, these companies are real companies. They do generate, like Air America was a real company. Evergreen. Evergreen was basically a CIA cutout. I worked for Evergreen. I was a maintainer on the ramp at UPS. They had a …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12

▶ 18:11 Wilson ran businesses ranging from weapon sales, security training and paramilitary training to like as in Gladio. He also had real estate and horses. He used largely ex-military and CIA and government officials as his front people for all …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12

▶ 26:39 So you've got this company called Applied Systems, Inc., and they sell night vision goggles. The CIA agent goes to them and says they want Wilson to be an overseas representative. Now, let me just give you another analogy that we've ran acr…

Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8

▶ 7:49 In Taiwan, for example, Nugent Han's bank manager was Dale Holgren, H-O-L-M-G-R-E-N, who, before going to work at Nugent Han, had been the manager of flight services for Civil Air Transport in Air America. So he was CIA going to work for CI…

Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8

Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9

▶ 1:10:07 And it's gone on since 1945. So just to put that in perspective, when in especially not that they didn't do this before, because we have examples of this throughout Korea, Vietnam. I mean, back in the 50s, where they set up fake companies, …

Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9

▶ 1:10:31 So the Sea Supply, which was the shipping company Paul Helliwell basically gave to Taiwan to run all their drugs, and Air America, which, you know, was the whole Flying Tigers, all of that shit was just set up, handed over to Taiwan to be u…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 43:32 orchestrated using money, as we know now, from the drug trade. The CIA ran Front Airlines, the Civil Air, the CAT, Air America. It was the CAT, and then it's renamed to Air America, was used to take that stolen weapons.…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 1:13:35 I thought it was funny when you mentioned those. It's like, like you told stellar the one day you, you worked for America air, you worked for the CIA. And I'm like, well, I guess I did too. Kind of, sort of a G4S. We're going to start a clu…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior

▶ 1:09:23 And even after General Chenault had passed away, she carried on his work. She is as much an operator, if not more so than he was. And in the whole Flying Tiger connection to Air America, and she ended up running the Air America after he pas…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 26:06 and with no oversight. It was isolated and accessible only by Air America. Vu Tu was the perfect place for a, they call it a covert action, I'm going to call it Camp Gladio. Vu Tu became the seedbed of the CIA's political cadres, where they…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7

▶ 36:13 there's this huge interrogation center that they set up in Udorn at the base where the military operations was going on and the home base of Air America that was flying all the missions into Laos and then bringing the drugs back. So we took…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Part 7

▶ 1:03:39 And trying to make it anti-Viet Cong and not about actually policing the South Vietnamese, everything got turned on its head. There was no accountability. The CIA was furnishing weapons that were not compatible with the ones that the South …

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program

▶ 28:59 He also managed the political operations for deep cover case officers like the pilots for Air America. And one of the executives during this time for Air America was a guy by the name of Clyde Bauer. He brought into South Vietnam a...…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2

▶ 57:35 They also used the CIA-owned airline, Civil Air Transport. Oh, and look what Doug says. Activated stay-behind networks in North Korea. Sorry, Vietnam. They sabotaged power plants and spread false information of a communist bloodbath. So tha…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:01:08 were contracted to use in the attack against Castro. They love that. He euphemistically called these gangsters the Caribbean Survey Group. There's that word again. They love them some surveys. Later, to ensure plausible deniability, the CIA…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:15:59 OK, so do you want to have another mind blowing thing right now? Yeah. Air America, my best friend and roommate, and I used to fly with her. She worked for Air America in the 80s. She went all over the world, Dubai, Egypt, all over the worl…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:28:04 I think he can't speak either. We can't hear you, Trumpfrog. I'm going to drop you down and bring you back up. You can't hear me? All right. Let's see if we can get him back up. There we go. Can you hear me now? Yep. Okay. I'm sorry about t…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:29:34 Now you're going to have a bunch of people in Mexico, Colonel Towner was trafficking people and yada yada. You know how silly people are. It's ridiculous. This has been a great space. And then when Stellar was talking about Air America, I'm…

Secret Societies Skull and Bones

▶ 24:48 purveyors of support for the opium trafficking at large. And because of the difficulty in bridging both a civilian and a covert aspect of a particular airline, they opted after using Pan Am for a very long time, they opted to create their o…

Secret Societies Skull and Bones

▶ 25:16 Transport, CAT, Air America, and all of the things that came after that, Evergreen, just to name a few of them. But they were all modeled exclusively off of the covert side of Pan Am. Excellent. And this is the Whitney family that founded t…

The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz

▶ 19:16 program with Lee Harvey Oswald. He is also cited as the pilot that ferried one of the OAS assassins out of Dallas on the night of the JFK assassination. And if you guys remember, we've also documented that the other confirmed OAS agent and …

The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13

▶ 50:17 Farmgate aircraft stationed with their flu supplies to the villages and camps and provided air support. The military advisory command wanted to give special forces their own air units. The Air Force opposed this. The command countered that …

The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101

▶ 12:39 Enforcement officer John Enright, quote, and that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing, Evans said. Quote, I saw a report on the KMT saying they were the biggest drug dealers in the world and that the CIA was underwriting them. Air Am…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 10:09 The CIA's airline, Civil Air Transport, later known as Air America, flew weapons and supplies from its base in Hong Kong to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the mountain camps of Burma. 10,000 Chinese troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek in Taiw…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 10:35 The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secre…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 48:06 For instance, one operation flew drugs from Columbia to a CIA airstrip in Texas where it would be unloaded for normal distribution. Would that be Air America or is that? It's a CIA. They don't talk about the actual company, but obviously it…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 57:51 of this money paid for the drug shipments arriving in South and Central America, which would be distributed by Bolivians and Colombians. The cocaine flights came from a network of private airstrips in Bolivia via Colombia. After January 197…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

▶ 58:17 By February 1975, the CIA proprietary airline Air America held meetings over 10 days in Hong Kong with officials and senior representatives of South American republics. I know you don't watch movies, but Shelley the Kiwi posted this and I f…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final

▶ 7:40 Cocaine trade involves the billions of dollars in U.S. military hardware, which we pay for, used on the war on drugs and terror. This phenomenon is described as a military industrial narcotic complex. The Cold War saw the growth of this com…

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final

▶ 52:56 was a holding company, Pacific Corporation, also known as Pacific Power and Light. Did you know that? Also, Pacific Corp. and Pacific Harbor Capital. Pacific Corp. owned CIA companies such as Air America, SAT, and Intermountain Air.…

The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11

▶ 39:00 So he may have been at a happy hour somewhere. The coup official's desperate devolution into accusations that Venezuelan government funded my work suggested that he had finally realized the grave error he made in engaging her. While she ope…

The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18

▶ 8:24 H-A-S-E-N-F-U-S. He was the lone survivor of the plane crash. Hasenfus, who'd worked for the CIA's Air America airline during the agency's secret war in Laos, told the press that he was again working for the CIA at a time when the agency wa…