Behind the Bamboo Curtain | CIA
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The Jedbergs: A Romantic Appeal for Young Men
In the early 1950s, how do you infiltrate someone into Communist territory? One of your options is to fly a plane over and kick them out. The CIA buys an entire airline known as CAT that is going into bankruptcy. It's based out of Taiwan and it's a perfect kind of front operation. You can fly CAT as a regular passenger airline. Meanwhile, the pilots in a certain core of the staff of the airline are secretly working part-time for the CIA or flying missions that they're not told about. These are actions that should not be attributable to the US government.
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