Continental Air Services organization
also: Air America Continental Air
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Victory was on the horizon, and for all its efforts, the CIA chief accomplishment in Laos seemed to have been destroying the ancient civilizations and increasing the world's heroin output, which is exactly what they meant to do all along. I…
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than the entire Flying Tiger fleet. The demand for air tonnage for the Laos operation led to an anomaly in secret warfare, competition from a private company. An Air America manager was hired away from Continental Air Services, which then s…
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The Air America Continental Air got some of the Laotian work. The company built up a fleet of 21 aircraft in Thailand in 1966, rising to 25 three years later. In addition, some contract work was carried out in Bangkok by another airline cal…
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medium transports. That unit alone was larger than the Flying Tiger's entire operation. The demand for air tonnage in Laos led to an anomaly in the secret war. Continental Air Service hired away an Air America manager, then sought some of t…
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put the total CIA contingent at about 250. Officially, the U.S. Embassy had 70 assistant military attaches. There were also 73 Americans with Continental Air Service and 207 with Air America. In 1970, the Nixon administration admitted to al…
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Secord also served as the chief of CIA air operations from 66 to 68 at Udorn Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand, which is the base I visited. According to Doug Valentine, quote, the pilots Secord managed in Laos, which shares a border with Tha…
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Dated 1975 shows Rump to be employee number A002. That same year, Rump was issued an ID card as a pilot for Continental Air Services, a branch of Continental Airlines that was used for contract work by the CIA. Although Rump's Global in Dal…