Kirin place
also: Cairn
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John Downeyperson · 3Air Americaorganization · 2Richard Fectowperson · 2CIAintelligence service · 1Japancountry · 1Saipanplace · 1
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not loyal to Shang, but was carried out by the CIA. This operation, known as Tropic to the civil air transport pilots, used the crews flying out of Japan at night in unmarked C-47. Yale class of 51 was heavily recruited for the program, rec…
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who joined the CIA that year after graduation, assigned to set up resistance in Kirin, K-I-R-I-N. Downey visited Saipan in 1952 to select a four-man team who were going to be dropped in July. In November, Downey and Richard Fechtau, F-E-C-T…
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and was a part of the Civil Air Transport flight crew, was forced down in China when attempting to recover an agent parachuted into Cairn to observe the team at work. The failure of this November 29th flight and capture of Downey and Bechte…