PILOT DEFECTOR FROM CUBA HELPS EXILES GET OFF THE GROUND

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Exiles Get Off the Growl
By DON BED WELL
Herald Aviation Writer
? In 1960, Captain Eddie
Ferrer diverted. to Miami a
Cuban airliner under his
command, holding prisoner a
Cockpit: guard who had been
assigned to prevent pilot de-
fections. ?
Today, he flies for a major
U.S. airline, with some ap-
prehension over his fate
should one of his jetliners be
hijacked back to Cuba. ,
; Ferrer, who began flying
at? nine and was only 17
when ? he received his ir
stranaport raaing, is one of
? :many Cuban exile pilots who
, have carved out new aviation
,careers for themselves here.
?
?
? ABOUT 250 Cubans have
revived a 30-year-ols1 Havana
organization called the
Cuban Pilots Association ;?
or, as their membership cards
read, the Asociacion: de Pilo"-
tos Aviadores de Cuba.
?? Ferrer was a guiding force
In the restitution of that or-
ganization and now serves as
Its president.
"A lot of Cuban pilots are
flying today because of his
efforts in looking for posi-
tions for pilots as far away
as Africa," said Bill Alexan-
der, a .Cuban exile who flew
wing to wing with Ferrer at
the Bay of Pigs.
"Eddie persuaded me to
qualify again and to join him
flying for Mackey Airlines."
ALEXANDER and Ferrer
are two of six pilots now in
flying assignments for East-
ern Airlines, which acquired
three when it purchased
Mackey in 1957.
The remaining three, ac-
cording to Ferrer, are former
pilots with Miami-based Air-
lift International ? a cargo
"Modern Air Transport has "I flunked? because I
a couple flying in Germany," couldn't speak the language
well," Ferrer recalled with a
rin. "I was so embarrassed
that I promised myself I'd
get every license the United
States offered."
Alexander said. "Air Spain,
Lanica, Southern Air Trans-
port and Southeast all have a
few." .
THE HIJACKING of a
Southeast flight to Cuba ?
and the seizure of its Cuban
exile pilot by the Castro gov-
ernment.? led to the tempo-
rary grounding of E,astern's
Cubans.
But Ferrer is again flying
,727 trijets while Alexander
divides his time between
flight-test assignments and
various goodwill activities in-
? HE NOW HOLDS a string
of ratings ranging from
ground instructor to?aircraft
dispatcher.,. '
Ferrer new into political
asylum in this country 12
years ago after passerters
helped him overpower a
guard watching over the DC3
lie commanded.'. ?
? He quickly joined the exile
volving Eastern and Miami's invasion force in G.uatemala
Latin American community.
and piloted a transport sup-
About 80 per cent of the
plying, troops at- the ill-fated
\ .?
association's members work Bay of Pigs raid.
out of Miami, with the re-
"When I got back from the
maincler mostly in New York
Ba' of Pies. I went to work
or Sa Juan.
? ? ? scraping boats on the Miami
?
giver for $1 an hour, then
?
started in as a milkman." .
MANY ARE former pilots
for Cubana Airlines, Aerovi-
,
as 0, Expreso, Cuba Aero-
SOON HE MOVED on to
postal, the. Cuban Air Force
flying. United Nations. mis-
or Navy.
sions in. Africa and ultimate-
?
'lt.'s very difficult for a ly joined Mackey.
F
Cuban to flY with an Amen-
errer's vice president at
can airline," said Lou Pala- the Cuban Pilots Association
i
do, a commercial pilot who s Mike Acosta, an Eastern
ground instructor. Secretary
is working in sales. for East-
of the group is Mike Murci-
ern after trying for five years
to get a flying assignment. ano, chief of operations for
Lanica of Nicaragua.
"It's aimply a case Where
the airlines can get people Alexander describes the
:coming out of the service association as "sort of a Ira-
-with jet (line and other quail- ternal organization," which
fications we don't have. ? .
, offers both social activities
FERRER, who was Cuba's
and a ground school which
.
at Palacio says ? 'gives the
-youngest airline captain.
24, was turned down by Cuban driving a taxicab an
Eastern in 1962 because he
opportunity to keep his fly-
was not an American citizen. log ratings current" until he
(He now .holds U.S. citizen- can locate an aviation job:
ship.) 1 ? "My work is to keep the
, More humiliating to him pilots unified,". Ferrer said.
was his first failure, to pass "Unfortunately, most of the
his air transport rating test Cubans here are disunited.
as he sought to requalify as We have been an example of:
an airine pilot in this coun- unity in the Cuban communi-
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CIA and Mercenary Air Forces
CIA and local Asian air forces are playing a growing ro e an e air war as e Administration
seeks to minimize overt American involvement. There is abundant documentation pointing to the
participation of these air forces in opium smuggling as well as in combat. (See Ramparts, 4/71 for
a fuller account.)
Local.Asian air forces--supplied, maintained and directed by American "advisors".--are doing
an increasing amount of the bombing. The size of the Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) has increased
dramatically, and the Royal Lao Air Force (RLAF), the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF), and the Cambo-
? dian Air Force at slower rates. Although all the aircraft are piloted by Asians, Americans do
everything else, from directing bomb loading to spotting for strikes.
Air America and Continental Airlines; privately owned, profit-making companies, operate
under CIA direction and wage much of the supportive air war in Laos arid Cambodia. The "charter"
companies' planes perform troop transport and supply functions, spot for bombers, and engage in
. rescue operations for downed pilots. Air Force helicopters, helicopter gunships and giant
C-130 cargo planes are "rented" to Air America for $1 a year in Laos. . ?
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'American.aid to.VNAF, FY 1970-72:.$922 million
American aid to RLAF, FY 1970-72: $128 million
(DoD, CR, 8/3/71) '
"The Nixon Doctrin
on theassumption . . .
military assistance."
(Undetsecy. pf State U.
1972 DoD Authorization'
e . . . was premised
of increased U.S.
Alexis Johnson, FY
Hearings)..
. . "An important factor in carrying out the
Nixon Doctrine will be-our military assistance
program. We are requesting 48 million for de-
, velopment and 70.4 million for procurement of
the International Fighter. In addition, we
are requesting 10 million for initial spare.
This aircraft is needed to provide an air de-
fense capability for [our] Asian allies."
(Secy. of Air Force Robert C. Seamans, FY
1972 Senate DoD Appropriations Hearings)
Sen. Symington: "Are we going to continue to
put these billions into Southeast Asia? Is
that the overall plan in the U.S. today?"
Secy. Seamans: "For the for'seeable future we
are going to continue to spend sizeable dol-
lars in Southeast Asia."
(Ibid.)
VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE
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VNAF INVENTORY
. Fixed Wing Heli- Total, inc
Year Attack Aircr. copters Cargo, recon.
vo approx. 100 approx. 125 approx. 575
1/72 (total FW heli. 750+) 1,000+
1/73* 300-400 500-600 ... 1,200
*projected .
(1969 and 1973. figures, Cornell study.
1972 figures, DoD)
VNAF PERSONNEL
.(slightly under)
1968:
20,000
? 1972 (Jan.):
45,000
1973*:
50 ,000
*projected
(Ibid.)
VNAF ATTACK SORTIES
Year
Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
1968
2,250/mo.
-none
none
1970
3,150/mo.
none
820
1971*
3,490/mo.
40
1,100
"South Vietnamese military officers con-
tinue to deal in large quantities of heroin
and to transport it around South Vietnam in
military. aircraft."
(Rep. Robert 11; Steele, House Subcommittee on.
Europe, 7/7/71)
as of July, 1971
(Cornell Study)
"Mr. Seamans acknowledged that the Viet-
namese 'will never be able to build the cepa-7
bility.to do all that the United States Air
Force. has. been doing in Laos. The Vietnamese
Air Force . . . does not possess either B--52s
or. F-4s, the jet planes that do most of the
trail bombing, and there are no plans,' Mr.
Seamans said, 'to give it any.'"
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. ? ... .
Viktor Marchetti, ein. ehernaliger
Mitarbeiter der, Central Intelli-
gence Agency (CIA), sprach
gegonOber einem UPI-Mitarbeiter
als Eingeweihte.r Ober einige Prok-
7tiken 'des amerikanischen
Gehairn-
dienstes, dessen Leitung er lenge
Jahre angehOrte. Obwohl er sich
-.Ober die Verschwendung entrOstet,
diesas Instrument der USA-
Regierung? betreibt et schlErgt
u. .a. nicht realisierbare Kontroll-
? rnaf3nahmen vor bejaht er im
Prinzip diose Institution. Im fol-
genden Auszug this dem ornerika-
nische'n Magazin clOrften beson-
ders die AuBerungen Marchettis
In einer ihm gem613en Sprach?
?:Ober die Rolle ornerikanischer
..? Geheimdienste bei der Anzettlung
' von Kriegen in G.ebleten, in denen
, 'den USA nicht genehme tntwick-
? Iungei Tm Gonge sincl, interessont
Ein Grund (Or sein Ausschei-
?? den au's dor CIA liegt in der--
sicher durch die Kenntnis von Ge-
? heimdokumenten beeinflufiten
Einsicht, cloB die. blutige USA-
? Aggression. gegen Indochina dem
amorikanischen Ansehen in der
Welt schadet. Dos ornerikanische
-Magazin zitiert aus .dem Ge-
sprach u. a.:
So ver.vendet zirrn Beispiel die
Nationale Sicherheitsbeh6rde. (No-
Cenral Security Agency) ? zu deren
Aufgabongebiet es ouch' gelZrt,
aufgefongene Botschoften oUstandi-
saber Regierungen zu clechiffrieren
etwo die Flolfte ihres Jahres-
budgets:von einbr Milliorde Dollar.
.? haben in Fort Meade (Mary-
land) ganze Waggons volt von Ton-
banclern von mitgaschnittenen so-
wjetischen (Rundfunk-) Mitteilungen,
die zehn?Johre, alt sind GOter-
wagen volt. Weil die Sowjets in
'Codesystemen ebenso erfinderisch
sind vie Wir. Es ist technisch fast
eine UnmCglichkeit, eine vc)rschlils-
selte, ehiffrierte Botschaft zu dechif-
frieren. So beschr6nken sic sich dor-
. auf, stO'nclig dos Material weitr zu
sommeln unci es in Woggons zu
lagern. Sic horche.n miter, In der
ganzen Welt. Sic geben welter emn ?
Verm6gen airs in dem Versuch, dio
sowjetischen (Chiffrier- und Do-
ch if fri er-)Corn Pu ter no chzubau en",
.fuhrte et crus ...- -
Was Marchetti cm moisten on der
CIA baunruhigt, ist ihre Noigung zu
den dunklen KOnsten paramilitori-
scher Geheimoktionen ein
cics fur die Agentur doppelte
Anziehungskraft besitzt, via dos
Militdr auf cliesern Terrain kaum
operieren konn.
. ?Erns von den Dingen, .die die
Geheimchenstleute cler CIA tun kon-
nen, ist Kriege onzuzetteln",
sagte.
cr. ?Sie k6nnen auf .geheimen
Wegen in einem Londe omen inoffi-
ziellen Krieg ausli5sen und darn
sorgen, cla,r3 es so aussieht, als.ob
es .sich nur urn etwos handelt, 1,vos
die lokoler. Bauerntalpel selbst be-
schlossen hoboes und in eigener
Regio durchfOhren wollen."
Au! chose Weise haben ? Mar-
chetti zufolge ---- die Vereinigten
Stooten .zuorst begonnen, aktiv in
Vietnam zLi kiirnnfon. Dos ist die.Art
von Aktivilot, die jetzt in Kam-
bodscha end Laos vor slob geht, we
die CIA, wie. kOrzlich Zeugenaus.
'Sagan vor dem Kongrell enthiillt
haben, eine Operation durchfUhren,
die. 450 Millionen Dollar . jahrlich
verschlingt, sogto or.
Marchetti erkldrte, or sei &von
ilberzeugt, doll die CIA ouch (Or don
Stootsstreich verontwortlich sel,
clurch den Prinz Norodom Sihanouk
? (von KombocfScho) Anfong 1970 ver-
trieben wurcle und der die arneriko-
nisch-sOdvietnamesische Rozzio.nach
kommunistische,n Zufluchtsorten in
jenE.,.rn Londe einige Wochen spater
,erm6glichte.
Die Gehohnoperationen in Sod-
ostasien waren vor- Jahren der An-
trill, doll die CIA zur Terming clort-
eine luftfahrtgeseltschaft, die AIR
America, grOnclete, die houte eben-
so viele Menschc;n, namlich 18000,
beschaftigt, vile cle.r Arbeitsstab der.
? CIA zahlt, fOhrte or ous. ?
. .
?Nun, die CIA hat nicht nut in
Vietnam und Laos ihre Hondo im I STATINTL
Spiel", sagte Marchetti, ??sie halt
Ausschau nach weiteren Gobieton,
in denen sich vielleicht-auch ,g0n-
sage Gelegenheiten dieser Art er-
geben k6nnten. Wenn sic beginnt,
private laftfahrtgesellschaften und
cities andere zu errichten; was mit
der UnterstOtzung fOr eine Regie-
rung oder eine gegen die Regierung
gerichtete Bewegung verbunden ist,
so ist dies sehr, sehr gefEihrlich, weil
die CIA dies ouf geheimen Wegen
' tun kunn und es. somit fur dos
Publikum schwierig Wird, zu erken-
.nen, was vorgeht. ?.-
Morchetti zufofge gehOren Sild-
amerika, Indien, Afrika und die
Philippinen zu don Gebieten, wo
die CIA m6glicherweise eine ki.inf-
tige paramilitorische AktivitErt ent-
wickeln. k6nnte.n altos 16nder, in
denen sedate Urnwolzungen Oren.
[in Umsturz sei dos, was den CIA-
Direktor verantasse, mit der Planung.
Kir eine rn5gliche 'Geheimclienst-.
aktivitat ir einern lon.cle zu begin-?
nen, sagte Marchetti ,
Auf3or der. Fluggesellsehart AIR
America babe die CIA die ?Southern
Air Transport in Miami und die
Rocky Mountain Air in. P'n6nix sum
mOglichen [insets fi.lr porornilitari-
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sche Operationen in Sildamerika
sogte or. Ahrdiche getornte
-Fluglinien seen in der ganzen Welt
aufgekauft und ? verkauft warden,
u. a.' eine In Nepal und eine in
Ostofrika. Ferrer teilte Marchetti
mit, die CIA babe ein grabs Depot
irn omerikaniSchen telittelwesten,wq
sic militarische AusrUstungen oiler
Art 'rind ? unmarkierte Waffen olier
Art hot, -
. ?Im Louie der Jahre hot sic Giles
in den ganzen Welt gekauft, was sic
an Unentcleckborem bekornmen
konnte .urn sich cur den Even-
Wolfe!l vcrzubereiten, doll sie viel-
leicht den Wunsch haben k6nnte,
einer Gruppe in, sagen wir einmol,
? Guatemala. Warren ,zu
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? Is the CIA :starting to spy on Americans at home?turning talents and money
against students, blacks, others? That is one of several key questions raised in? c
a wide ranging criticism. A direct response starts on page 81.
? The following was written by Edward K. DeLong of
United Preis-international, based on an interview with
a Central Intelligence Agency official who has re-
signed. The dispatch was distributed by UPI for pub-
lication on October 3.
Victor Marchetti embarked 16 years ago on a career that
was all any aspiring young spy could ask. But two years ago,
after reaching the highest levels of the Central Intelligence
Agency, lie became. disenchanted with what he perceived to
be amorality, overwhelming military influence, waste and
duplicity in the spy business. He quit.
- Fearing today that the CIA may already have begun "go-:
? ing against the enemy within" the United States as they
may conceive it?that is, dissident student groups and civil-
rights organizations?Marchetti. has launched a campaign for
More': presidential and congressional control over the entire
U. S. intelligence community. ?
'"I think we need to do ilds because we're getting into
an awfully dangerous era when we have all this talent
(for clandestine operations) in the CIA?and more being de-
veloped in the military, which is getting into clandestine
? "ops" (operations)and there just aren't that many' places
any more to display that talent," Marchetti says.
"The cold war is fading. So is the war in Southeast' Asia,
. except for Laos. At the sane time, we're getting a lot of
j- domestic problems. And there. are people in the CIA who?
if they .aren't right now actually already running domestic
operations against student -groups, black movements and the
like?are certainly considering it.
"This is going to 'get to be ? very.. tempting," Marchetti
said in a recent. interview at his comfortable home in Oak-
' - ton, [Va.], a Washington suburb where many CIA men live. ?
"There'll be a great temptation for these people: to sug-
gest operations. and for a President to approve them or to
kind of look the other way. You have the danger of intelli- .
pace .turning against the nation itself, going against the The
enemy within.'" . .
Maretetti speaks of the CIA from an insider's point of
- view. At Pennsylvania State University he deliberately pre-
pared himself fcix-c,k,i,p.id ic,a.
- with a degree irtlItgeiittlf c e a I i_ o . .
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Through a professor secretly on the CIA payroll a
-scout, Marchetti netted the prize all would-be spies dream
of-:--an immediate job offer from the CIA. The offer came .1
during a secret meeting in a hotel room, set up by a stranger
who telephoned and identified himself only as friend of
your brother." ?? ?
?
Marchetti spent one year as a CIA agent in the field and
10 more as an analyst of intelligence relating -to the Soviet ST- ATI N
Union, rising through the ranks until he was helping pre-
pare the national 'intelligence estimates for the White House.
During this period, Mar-
chetti says, "I was a hawk.
I believed what we
were doing."
Then he was promoted
to the executive stab: of
the CIA, moving to an of-
flee- on the top floor of the
? Agency's headquarters
across the Potomac River ./
from Washington.
For three years he
worked as special assistant
to the. CIA .chief of plans,
programs and budgeting,
as special assistant to the
CIA's executive director,
and as executive assistant
to the Agency's deputy
director, V. Adm. Rufus
L. Taylor.
?
"This put me in a very
. .
rare position within the Agency and within the intelligence
community in general, in that I was in a place where it was
being all pulled together," Marchetti said.
"I could see how intelligence analysis was done and how it
fitted into the scheme of clandestine operations. It also gave
me an opportunity to. get a good view of the intelligence
community, too: the National Security Agency, the DM.'
(Defense intelligence Agency), the national -reconnaissance,'
organization?the whole bit. And I started to see the politics
within the community and the politics between the com-
munity and the outside. This change of perspective during
those three years had a profound effect on me, because -I
began to see things I didn't like."
With many of his lifelong views about the world shattered,
Marchetti decided to abandon his chosen career. One of the '
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"I'm Chairman of the.
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"There's no sound basis
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COLUMNIST Jack Ander-
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identifying SAT as a subsid-
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load for us to pick up, .and
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"We don't know who is
:shipping what to whom."
.Because of the capacity of.
its Lockheed Hercules air
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?,1arry outsized cargo any-
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Bile also is certified to haul:
Tegular cargo from any point
:In the United States to desti-.
tiations in the Pacifi;.: or the
;Caribbean, SAT's original
.:Market for flights out of
;-7 PIS CARGOS may be as
7:Ilarm1ess as furniture or as
ltolatile as dynamite.
SAT CC/1,-4101S a divided
peration, With three
ifercu-
Ies and two Das based in
:Miami and two Boeing jets
.eperating on contract to the
:Military Airlift Command out ;
pr Taiwan.
With 01.!1' Pacific opera-
:ports and military flights out
lof Patrick Air Force Base, I'd
'say that 60 per cent of our
wolk is military and 40 per '
cent commercial," ,Moor said.
IIE DENIES "absolutely"
;past leports that one stock-
-holder in SAT is the Pacific.
..'Corp., a Delaware holding 1
;company that. has been Wen-
tificd as the parent firm, of
Air America, whose shadowy
operations in Vietnam have
:earned it the name ",Air
'Spook." .
According to Moor, SAT is
-controlled totally by himself,
Williams, and two other pri-
....2ate investors, Percy Brtind-
age and Perkins McGuire.
; Williams worries that ru-
mors of cloak-and-dagger
dealings could affect the
ompany's international busi-
ness.
Whoever SAT's clients are,
Its business enjoyed an: up-
turn in 1970, records show.
; The airline turned e mod-
;est net profit of $50,S20 on
,S10.79 million in revenues.,
'-i-taainst a S2 470 loss the year
before on $11.04 Millicm in
-re.venues. Its total assets are.
listed at S9.7 million. .
7 "THAT COULD hurt us," -
he said. ' "We're frequently '
applying for landing permits ?
at airports all over the '
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(Text) Washington September 21 TASS--TASS correspondent .Vladislav Chernys
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The Central Intelligence?Aency is playing an incrcasingly active '.part i- organising
and waging undeclared wars of U.S. imperialism, This is confirmed by facts'conUtined TATINTL
in the "confidential .memorandum" sent by the former CIA agent y,,Mr.c)hatW. to the.
Member of the Congress house of Representatives Padilio published in the Washington
POST. harchett6, pointed out, in particular, that the.U.:S administration, taking
advantage of the, vague fr:Irmulation of U.S. laws, sanctions the setting up of secret
military arsenals and paramilitary forces socretly'from the public and Congress.
These arsenals and forces controlled by the CIA, the Washington POST writes, were
used and are evidently being used for waging secret liars in Asia, Afl-ea and
Latin America.
The "confidential memorandum" says that for securing the' possibility for launching
rapidly military operation's in various regions of the world the-CIA has at its
dii.sposal air companies b'verywhere from the Congo to Nepal. Among such companies .
mention is made, for e;-:.r.mple, of the. "Southern Air Transport" in Miami whose tasks'
include the air lifting of troops and Weapons- to som6 Latin. American country for
waging a secret war in ease of cmergency4
Tho biggest agent of' 'the CIA is the "M_r America owpany which is playing an -
importani?; part in the secret war in Laos,
In addit;;.on to its "unlimited" air transportation' facilities, Marchetti points
out, the CIA also-keeps in the middle west arsenals of unregistered weap..:,n:i, a
secret bate, for training com.21:andos in North Carolina, a secret air base in Nevada,
and maintains contacts with international firms trading in arms.
Of late the attention of the 1), 8, and world publie..has been riveted to the war in
Laos which has been waged for a number of years by the forces of mercenaries, trained
and paid by the CIA, As the U.S'. ambassador to Laos Godley admitted recently; the
army of the CIA has a strength of 30,000 men now. These "irregular troops" as ?
Washington prefers to call them are, as he put it, "the backbone of military
efforts in Laos".
The "confidential memorandum" tells of how the Mil prepared those military
Operations. A network of airfields and supply bases where weapons and ammunition
were brought from CIA arsenal., was sot up in Laotian territory. Simultaneously
the CIA recruited mercenaries with whose hands the war is being waged now,
The CIA is .by, no means the only intcaligene,.) and subversive body of the USA through
which the U.S, admLnistratio'n is wzg:T.ng rid Died wars z,-.gainso.; the 1,ation=_,.3
liberation movemaits. Accold.;ng to the U.S. press, Washinrton spE.nds approximatOy
5,000 million dollars a year on subversive activit4s in all the regions of the world,
These assignments of U.S.. imperialism are caYried out by about 200,000 staff ,members
of varioua. intelligence boa c' ?
As tho newspaper Washington POST reports, the U.S. administration Is now working
out 'aplan of ).00rganizing-and stepping, up the activity of the cu..1..ntry7s entire
. .
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'- A former insider has
.-charged that the Central Intel-
ligence Agency has .provided
the President with the mili-
tary wherewithal to wage his
on private wars around the
:world and is geared to fight
'still new clandestine wars.
In a confidential memo to
/Rep. Iferrnan Badillo (D-N.Y.)
V 'former CIA official Victor
Marchetti makes these allega-
tions:-
? 0 The White House has
:used "vague phraseology" in
the law to build up a vast mili-
tary arsenal and paramilitary
force. Past presidents have or-
dered the CIA to wage secret
wars in Asia, Africa and Latin
America without the tradi-
tional constitutional safe-
guards and congressional over-
sight.
0 The CIA "has bought and
sold air transport coMpanies
all over the world" from the
Congo to Nepal, so the Presi-
dent could mount paramilitary
operations almost anywhere.
Marchetti claims one. such
,company, Air America, "has
grown so large, owning more
'aircraft than. most major U.S.
? airlines, that it was a source
of embarraSsment within the
agency. A. senior officer had to
be assigned the full-time- job
of keeping an eye on George
Dole (the -feunder) in the hope
of cooling his fantastic busi-
ness success in the Far East."
0 Southern Air Transport,
Miami-based firm, is also fin-
gered by Marchetti as a CIA
subsidiary. "The sole ? purpose
Los- the existence of SAT," he
asserts, "is that the CIA be
ready for the contingency That
some day it will have to ferry
men and material to some
Latin, American country to
wage a clandestine war."
Fire Fighters
Marchetti also identifies
Rocky Mountain Air of Phoe-
nix as "one of the more color-
fill companies owned by the
CIA." This outfit specializes,"
he says, "in training and air-
lifting pal-achutists, ostensibly
for fire fighting purposes."
But he then points out that
the CIA has no need of fire
fighting capability "unless it is
to put 6-ut military brushfires
south of the border.'
-0 The CIA!s "air capabili-
ties, its warehouses full of un-
marked military supplies in
the Midwest, a secret demoli-
tion training base in North
e,h
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Carolina, even a secret airbase, tors who _could
in Nevada, and its connections
with. international arms deal-
firms," Marchetti charges,
give the President' a formida-
ble, secret war-making capa-
A CIA spokesman acknowl-
edged that Marchetti for-
merly held- a position of trust
at CIA headquarters. He re-
signed several months ago to
write a novel, "The Rope Dan-
cer," based on his CIA experi-
ences. But he abandoned fic-
tion recently to write a de-
tailed background meruo for
Congressman Badillo, who has
introduced legislation to re-
-Het the CIA to intelligence
athering.and to prohibit clan-
lestine wars.
Declarse Marchetti:. 'Air-
ports and huge supply bases
were secretly established up-.
country, close to the action.
'Arms and material were deliv-
ered by the boatload from the
CIA's warehouses in the Far
East and the United States.
"Guerrilla chieftains were
recruited to lead the Mcos,
who would actually fight the
war for the CIA. The govern-
ment of Laos was placated
anti finessed into turning
things over to the CIA opera-
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conflict.
conduct the
? ?
Stcushbuclding Zgenfg
"The chief of station?the
C A's top post in the field?
tring the crucial mid-60s,.
as . His previous assign-
ment had been Berlin, where.
he announced to the CIA con-
tingent there upon his arrival
that he intended 'to tear down -
that blankety-blank wall.' He
was transferred to Laos before:
he had the opportunity to
carry out his threat, in part .
because of his ferociousness.,
'He has been succeeded by
fornier chief of station in!
the Belgia%. Congo. When'
things grew quiet there, he
once dropped everything for a
clandestine foray into the
French Congo in. hope of
tracking down Che Guevara.
"He Jailed. But his fellow.
operators a couple of years
later eventually caught. up
with the revoluitonary ii Bo-
livia. .
"These are the kind of men
who have led the CIA in Laos,
and the CIA has led the U.S.
into another humiliating, inex-
tricable international
lemma."
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o Air America's Civilian Facade
Gives It Latitude in East Asia
By RICHARD
Spire1aI to Tile .
WASHINGTON, April 4?As:
the American-supported clan-:
destine army went on the at-
tack in Laos again this week,
pilots of a flamboyant airline
called Air America took to the
skies once again to : move
troops, provide supplies and
evacuate wounded.
Air America Is a flight charter
company that, like the clan-
estine army, is widely consid-
red to be the servant of the
United :States Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
With its assorted fleet of 167
altiraft, Air America performs
diverse missions across? East
Asia from Korea to Indonesia.
It is believed to be a major, link
for the CIA's extensive activi-
ties throughout Asia.
Air America parachutes Meo
tribesmen and other secret
, ? .. .
agents behind North Vietnamese
lines in Laos, trains mechanics
for the aviation division of the
national police in Thailand,
hauls American aid cargo for
the Agency for International
'Development In South Vietnam,
ferries United States Air Force
men from Okinawa to Japan
And South Korea, and dispatches .
'Intelligence flights from Taiwan 1
'along the coast of Communist I
'China. '
! The company also trail. sports
'helicopters from France and
Italy for assembly in Southeast
Asia, flies prospectors looking
for copper and geologists
searching for oil in Indonesia,
and provides pilots for commer-
cial airlines such as Air Viet-
nam and Thai Airways and
for China Airlines, which is on
Taiwan. ?
Air America's civilian facade
permits the United States to do
things that would otherwise be
impossible or, at least, political-
ly embarrassing. The 1962 Ge-
neva accords, for instance,4pro-
hibit foreign military aircraft in
Laos but they say nothing about
civilian planes. The facade also
'averts public attention in coun-
tries such as Japan that are
sensitive to the American mili-
tary presence.
Then too, intelligence services
the wo id over have alwa
getiVr
used b
HALLORAN
other Government agencies con-
trolled and secure transpoit. On
the economic side, commercial
work enables the company to
keep its large fleet busy when
part might 'be idle.
The outfit exudes an air of
Oriental adventure out of Mil-
ton Caniff's comic strip "Terry
and the Pirates." It has the
flamboyance of the late Lieut.
Gen. Claire L. Chennault's war-
time Flying Tigers, from which
it is descended. Working for Air
America demands the resource-
ful skill of the bush pilots who I
have explored the unknown
beaches of northern Canada, the I
South American highlands and
Africa.
Those who have seen Air
America's pilots on the job in
Asia say they have a sense of
dedication and duty. They take
more than routine risks and
some have gone down in Asian
jungles, not to be seen again.
Asian Art on the Walls
atfiltates, tile other through
charter arrangements under the
guise .of contracts with A.I. .
Gleanings from those contracts,
which have been made available
to The New York Times, show
the extent of the operations.
The C.I.A. declines to com-
ment on this subject, and A.I.D.
officials refuse to discuss in-
telligence operations.
Mr. Doole, in an interview,
brushed the matter aside. "If
'someone out there' is behind
all this," he said, "we don't
know about it."
Incorporated in Delaware
The parent company of Air
America is the Pacific Corpor
tion, which was incorporate
in Delaware in 1950 with
$10,000. Mr. Doole said the
shares were privately held,
mostly by the five members of
the board of directors. The cor-
poration and its subsidiaries
employ about 9,300 people.
The Pacific Corporation owns
, 100 per cent of Air America,
which is also a Delaware cor-
poration founded in 1950. The
line owns 125 aircraft and
leases 42 more. It employs
about 4,700 people, some 400
of them pilots, and has bases
in Okinawa, Taiwan, South
Vietnam, Thailand and Laos.
Air America, in turn owns 99
per cent of Air Asia, which was
set up on Taiwan in 1955. Air-
Asia claims the finest aircraft
maintenance and repair facility
In Asia, at Tainan.
In addition, the Pacific Cor-
poration 'owns 40 per cent of
Civil Air Transport, incorporat
ed under Chinese Nationalist
law on Taiwan. It was founded
in 1946 by General Chenaault,
the United States air comman-
der in China during World War
II who 'died in 1958, and is
anned by many of the pilots
ho flew with the Flying
Tigers against Japan during the
war.
Civil Air Transport, known
as C.A.T., which originally func-
tioned as a regular airline as
well as carrying out clandestine
missions, is also generally be-
lieved to have been operated
and partly financed Ty United
States intelligence agencies. Air
America took over C.A.T. in
1950.
When the Chinese National-
ists wanted to establish a Chi-
nese-run airline, C.A.T, had to
get out of the passenger busi-
ness. Most of its other opera-
tions have since been absorbed
by Air America but it still flies
some special missions.
There is also a separate op-
3rating. division of Air America
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I earuta.
Most of the company's air-
craft, like those of regular air-
lines, carry its name, though
some are unmarked. The fleet
includes long-haul jets, the C-46
and C-47 propeller craft that
were the workhorses of World
War II, a variety of helicopters
and the latest in single-engine
and twin-engine utility planes.
Air America also borrows Air
Force planes.
The line's headquarters in
Washington looks much like
the offices of other medium-
size businesses?conservatively
dressed executives, miniskirted
secretaries, bits of Asian art on,
the walls, a reddish-orange car-
pet to lend a touch of cheer. .
The chief executive of Air
America is George A. Doole Jr
a low-key 60-year-old business-
man who holds a master's de-
gree from the School of Busi-
ness Administration at Harvard.
Before joining Air America in
1953 he was the chief pilot for
Pan American and pioneered
trans-Atlantic air routes before
World War II. ?
In Asia the general manager
Is Hugh L. Grundy, 55, who is
described by acquaintances as
a quiet, shy man. He too is an
alumnus of Pan American, hav-
ing been an engineer with the
line before the war and then
having served in China. His
headquarters is in Taipei,
Taiwan. ,
The C.I.A. evidently has at
least two channels into Air
rAlAip?one through the hold-
struetureM d?
"We're all one family," Mr:
Doole said. "You can't tell one
from the other. We tie them
together with contracts and
don't even keep separate books
except for tax purposes."
? Air America and its affiliates
appear to be self-sustaining
operations in that they are pai
by A.1.D. and commercial cli-
ents for their work. Because
more than 50 per cent of it is,
done under Government con,'
tract, it is impossible to say
whether the line makes a prof-
it in the commercial sense.
oreover, its financial transac-
tions and earnings are unavail-
able because the Pacific Corpo-
ration, being closely held, does
not have to report them pub-
licly.
The boards of directors of
the companies are closely tied
together. Most of the directors
serve on several boards, which
are made up of reputable busi-
nessmen chosen to give the en-1
tire complex respectability and
a cover that looks genuine.
, Samuel A. Walker, chairman
of the Pacific Corporation, is a
managing partner of Joseph
Walker & Sons, a New York
banking house. He is also a di-
rector of Air America.
Pilots Are Greatest Asset
The chairman of Air America
and Air Asia is Adm. Felix B.
Stump, who was commander in
chief of United States forces
i the Pacific from 1953 to
59. Mr. Doole holds the titles
of president of the Pacific Cor-
poration and chief executive of
Air America and Air Asia.
' Robert G. Goelet, William A.
Read and Arthur B. Richardson
are directors Of all three com-
panies. Mr. Goelet has exten-
sive holdings in New York real
estate, Mr. Read is a retired
member of the investment
house of Dillon, Read & Co.,
and Mr. Richardson was for-
merly president of Chese-
brough-Pond's.
Air America's greatest assets
are its pilots; mostly Americans
but including some Chinese and
Thais.
"We hire the same pilots that
Pan American and United hire,"
Mr.. Doole said, "except that,
Ours are a bit more . experi-
enced."
He shied from the te "bush
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