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CIA’s Clandestine Services Histories of Civil Air Transport

The Civil Air Transport (CAT) was founded just after World War II to support Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces in their civil war with Mao Zedong’s communist fighters. However, the clandestine airline also ran operations during the Korean War and in support of the French during the First Indochina War. Later, CAT morphed into the better-known operation, Air America, which operated throughout the Vietnam War. This website links to a 16-page PDF that documents previously unreleased historical artifacts from CAT’s 20-year history. The PDF includes dozens of photographs and a brief history composed by Alfred T. Cox, the former president of CAT. The site also links to Additional Publications about Air America. For anyone interested in the CIA’s post-World War II clandestine operations, this is an important find.
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May 28th, 2013
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January 16th, 2015
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January 13th, 2015 at 6:59pm
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January 14th, 2015 at 8:59am
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