Air America was a covert airline secretly run by the CIA during the Cold War, most active from the 1950s through the end of the Vietnam War, and while it outwardly appeared to be a normal commercial carrier, it was actually used for highly sensitive missions across Southeast Asia. Originally created out of Civil Air Transport, the airline became a vital lifeline for covert operations in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where it ferried weapons, food, and supplies into remote areas, inserted and extr

Air America est un film américain réalisé par Roger Spottiswoode, sorti en 1990. Avec Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr, Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant... Synopsis En 1969, Billy Covington, pilote civil aux États-Unis, est privé de sa licence de vol américaine par la Federal Aviation Administration à la suite d'une faute professionnelle. Il est alors recruté par Air America, compagnie aérienne privée, émanation officieuse de la CIA et qui opère en Asie du Sud-Est pendant la guerre du

#DearGrandparents Story Told by Pa Kong Lee (Hmong American) "At the age of 15, my father was carrying a weapon, an M-1 Garand, for his work under the American CIA in 1962. Like many from the Hmong family, in order to protect his family, they hid in the jungles of Laos as they were hunted by Lao communists. They were typically peaceful people who kept to themselves, until they were pushed out of their lands, and then recruited by the CIA to fight against communism in the Secret War. My father an

OBAMA & THE CIA CONNECTION. Obama's early days and his entire family's history working for the Central Intelligence Agency. Involving government coups around the world, the outing and slaughtering of millions of people through CIA operations, and Barack's early days at BIC. President Obama, as well as his mother, father, step-father and grandmother were connected to the Central Intelligence Agency, possibly explaining why the President praises the "Agency" and declines to prosecute its officials