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Richard G. Fecteau (born 1927) [1] is an American Central Intelligence Agency operative who was captured by the People's Republic of China during a CIA-sponsored flight in the Korean War. [2] News of the capture of Fecteau and John T. Downey reached the United States in November 1954, sparking a nearly two decade battle of wills between the U.S ...
Thus it was the unlucky, but not coincidental, the fate of John Downey and Richard Fecteau to be imprisoned for two decades after flying covertly over China at the height of the Cold War, with a stubborn, anti-communist, anti-Chinese figure serving as Secretary of State." [3] However, in 1958, Downey's mother and brother both went to China. [9]
CIA paramilitary officers John T. Downey and Richard G. Fecteau, themselves hurriedly trained in the procedure during the week of 24 November, were to recover a courier who was in contact with anti-communist sympathizers in the area. The mission failed when Chinese forces downed the aircraft with small arms fire, capturing survivors Downey and ...
CIA CAT activity elsewhere in the Asian theater is discussed in the context of Agency officers John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau, shot down and imprisoned in China in 1952–1973. Air America Association web site; Online Materials about Air America in the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech [permanent dead link ] Air America: Helio H-500 Twin ...
A Maryland court on Tuesday ordered a blogger known as Ziz who leads a cultlike group connected to six killings held without bail. The blogger, Jack LaSota, 34, of Berkeley, California, was ...
Downey was living in a group home for sex offenders earlier this year, the Herald reports. But, during a probation check in mid-September, a house manager told police Downey left weeks prior on ...
More than four decades after a young mother and her son were found dead in their Nebraska home, a forensic breakthrough has led to the arrest of a man long suspected in the cold case, according to ...
Richard Fecteau: 1952 1971 19 years China: CIA agent captured along John T. Downey in Manchuria after their plane was shot down by Chinese forces during the Korean War; the mission was part of a failed attempt to establish an anti-Communist guerrilla in mainland China. Released after the thaw of Chinese-American relations.