Title Perilous missions : Civil Air Transport and CIA covert operations in Asia / William M. Leary.

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]

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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Origins of CAT -- CNRRA Air Transport -- CAT and civil war -- Siege of Taiyuan -- The Chennault Plan -- OPC and CAT -- The CIA buys an airline -- The Korean War -- Covert operations -- Managerial turmoil -- French Indochina -- A new regime -- Dienbienphu -- End of an era -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
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Summary	Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret ""air force"" in Korea, then ""the most shot-at airline in the world"" in French Indochina, and eventually becoming reorganized as Air America at the height of the Vietnam War. William M. Leary's detailed operational history of CAT sets the story in the perspective of Asian and Cold War geopoliti.
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Subject	Civil Air Transport -- History.
	United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
	Civil Air Transport. (OCoLC)fst00580692
	United States. Central Intelligence Agency. (OCoLC)fst00536259
	East Asia -- History, Military -- 20th century.
	Southeast Asia -- History, Military -- 20th century.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
	East Asia. (OCoLC)fst01243628
	Southeast Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240499
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
Other Form:	Print version: Leary, William M. (William Matthew), 1934- Perilous missions 9780817353407 (DLC) 2014048318 (OCoLC)900194101
ISBN	9780817388836 (electronic bk.)
	0817388834 (electronic bk.)

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