Bird Air organization

“then sought some of the USAID contracts. Because legal action to preserve Air America monopoly through its ownership, Continental Air got some of the work. Continental accumulated a couple dozen aircraft in Thailand by 1968, including some …”

“and Development Foundation, bilateral with the U.S. Ehrlich was the chairman of the executive committee of BIRD. So let that sink in for just a second. So you've got Ehrlich, who's setting all of this up. He's in charge of, he's the chairma…”

“noted that Pollard delivered documents to agents of Israel at two locations. One was the apartment owned by Harold Katz, K-A-T-Z, then the legal counsel to Byrd, and an advisor to Israel's military, which oversaw Leakum. Government official…”

“And the man chose to lead it was called Ed Malavsky, M-L-A-V-S-K-I. Malavsky, at the time, was the executive director of Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation, called BIRD, B-I-R-D, Israel Industrial Research…”

“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…”

“about the Pollard spy ring and could implicate senior Israeli officials. A journalist speculated close ties between Katz and Pollard's handler meant that Byrd itself had been used to pass funds to Pollard and that Byrd funds, most of which …”