Perilous Missions : Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia /
Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secre...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2014]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Origins of CAT
- CNRRA Air Transport
- CAT and civil war
- Siege of Taiyuan
- The Chennault Plan
- OPC and CAT
- The CIA buys an airline
- The Korean War
- Covert operations
- Managerial turmoil
- French Indochina
- A new regime
- Dienbienphu
- End of an era
- Conclusion
- Epilogue.