But one morning in November 2023, a Hmong driver came to pick us up and set out on a journey from the capital to the former CIA-run airbase ... clandestine military base fell to Communist soldiers ...

America's final act in the Vietnam ... housed CIA officers. And many assumed the aircraft and the pilots were part of the U.S. military. STADULIS: No, no, that was strictly an Air America aircraft.

The release of the documents by the CIA coincides with a Saturday symposium on the role played by Air America in the Vietnam War. DALLAS (AP) -- Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to ...

They were civilian employees of Air America, an ostensibly private airline essentially owned and operated by the CIA. Boecker ... on the ground during the Vietnam War, Castle said.

During the Vietnam War, Air America played a vital but murky role in supporting CIA activities in Laos, a staging ground for operations against the North Vietnamese and, along with Cambodia ...

In the last dark nights of the Vietnam ... The CIA bought and then handed over two of the top-secret helicopters to a firm—by all appearances, civilian—called Air America.

The CIA Air America helicopter bounced as ... shutting the door on America’s involvement in Vietnam. Air America choppers started the evacuation flights early that morning, with about 17 ...

The remains of an Air Force sergeant who died defending a top-secret radar site on a mountaintop in Laos during the Vietnam War have ... a top-secret Air Force and CIA mission code-named "Project ...

They were civilian employees of Air America, an ostensibly private airline essentially owned and operated by the CIA. Boecker ... on the ground during the Vietnam War, Castle said.