Robbins,C. Air America. 1985
Robbins, Christopher. Air America. New York: Avon Books, 1985. 328 pages.
There are at least two books and a controversial movie about Air America,
which is known for ferrying opium to market in exchange for Meo support of
the CIA's military strategy in Laos. Robbins has one chapter on the opium
question, but concentrates more on material he collected from "personal
interviews with pilots, copilots, kickers, ground personnel, administrative
workers, CIA men, journalists, and people on the fringe of the strange
world of the Agency's air proprietaries."
Air America, which at its height had the largest commercial airfleet
in the world, was secretly run by the CIA. A study of the executives and
lawyers who played shell games with various CIA proprietaries ought to be
done someday. When E-Systems bought Air Asia from the CIA in 1975, they
pointed out that their intelligence contracting was with the Air Force,
not the CIA, and that former CIA director William Raborn, a director of
E-Systems, was not involved in the purchase. E-Systems president John W.
Dixon insists that "we have never done any business with the CIA," even
though other former top CIA officials are among the senior executives at
E-Systems, and Dixon himself was a member of the Association of Former
Intelligence Officers in 1983. Okay, we'll assume that they work together
out of love of country to prevent excessive corporate profiteering....
ISBN 0-380-89909-4
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