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The CIA held classified documents which detail the threat of the Viet Cong or the Vietnamese Communists against the French. The CIA feared the loss of control of Vietnam. They wished for the French to remain in power. The six-page document from 1950, explains the position of the Central Intelligence Agency on Indochina.
The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. In 1970, CIA ...
Roger Warner (1995), Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam, Simon & Schuster. Roger Warner (1998), Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos, Steerforth. Gayle L. Morrison (2013) Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA (Modern Southeast Asia), Texas Tech Univ.
Ravens with a T-28D Trojan at Long Tieng, Laos, 1970. The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots (special operations capable) unit used as forward air controllers (FACs) in a clandestine and covert operation in conjunction with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Laos during America's Vietnam War.
The CIA became suspicious of the existence of spies at the highest levels of the South Vietnamese government and began the investigation. [4] After a year, the CIA discovered the identity of Nhạ and his colleagues and sent the information to Saigon's Police Department for execution. As a result, almost all of A.22 members were arrested in ...
Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including allegedly providing support for drug smuggling in Laos. [2] [3] [4]
They also provided a model, along with the other CIA-sponsored ground-based, paramilitary Korean operations, for the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) activities conducted by the U.S. military and the CIA/SOD (now Special Activities Center) in Vietnam.
In 2003, the CIA began to covertly arm and finance Somali warlords opposed to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). [7] From the CIA station in Nairobi, Kenya CIA agents would make frequent trips to Mogadishu by plane where they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the warlords. The CIAs policy was evaluated as a failure, due to the ICU ...