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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07804 to 363-07807
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Title
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Article about CIA activities in North Vietnam and Laos
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Description
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Original title: "CIA", Keever's title: "CIA Secretly Airdrops Fighters into North Vietnam and Laos", Article drafts about CIA operations against North Vietnam and Laos's communist rebels, for the New York Herald Tribune
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Transcript
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Beverly Deepe
101 Cong Ly
Saigom
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CIA--1
SAIGON The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
cancelled in mid-July its part of a multi-million dollar contract with a
private American aviation company which had the undercover mission
of airlifting guerrillas and supplies behind enemy lines in North Viet Nam and
Communist-held sections of Laos.
MORE THAN TWELVE
the
Reliable military sources said that pilots of
been highly mobile aircraft hmm included Chinese and
Turkish nationalities,
but no-rini hot American. American civilians
were used for ground support, administrative and maintenance functions.
The American government, through the CIA,
had signinnintyminhhanin about two years ago signed jointly with the
Vietnamese government a contract with a private American firm called Americam
Aviation Investors Inc. The CIA broke their contract several weeks ago.
The cancellation of the American co-signature was interpreted here as a rebuke
to South Vietnamese Premier-General Nguyen Kha nh, who has in recent weeks
Communist
launched a "Go North" campaign to attack North Viet Nam.
Khanh's campaign
contradicted American policy at the time. Presumably the American government
broke the contract in order to limit Khanh's capacity to send Vietnamese
Special Forces 77
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Since the cancellation of the contract, Gen.
Khanh has toned down and re-defined his "Go North" policy to mean simply a
means of finishing the wa r "instead of letting it drag on." And since then,
three PT boats attacked an American destroyer inde international waters off
the coast of North Viet Nam.
The CIA contract with American Aviation Investors Inc.
ca lled for a highly mobile undercover air operation involving several helicopters,
some of them equipped-radar,
six to eight C-45 and C-47 transport aircraft and sxemam some L-28 helio-courier
planes. All the aircraft, silvery in color, None of the silvery-colored
aircraft carried identification marksin markings or insignia, except black
NUMBERS
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-numbering.
The C-45 and C-47 transport aircraft are often used to drop
paratroopers behind enemy lines;
helicopters have the capabilities of landing
in small jungle clearings and 1-28 the four-seater L28 L-28 helio-equriers
have the capabilities of landing fxx on short clearings and pastures.
While pilots of the aircraft were known to include
Chinese and Turkish nationalities, American participation in the company was
limited to civilian accountants, maintenance crews and other administrative and
technical personnel. Fathimann These American civilian personnel quietly, but
hastily transferred from Saigon about the time that Gen. Khanh launched his
"Go North" campaign. It is unknown at this time wh the disposition of the aircraft.
Other private American private aviation companies
with missions
comparable to American Aviation Investors are presumably still in operatiom
The American government at times contracts private firms to implement programs
for which the government officil officially can not be
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beth remot
Information concerning the
The sabomagm dropping of South Vietnamese guerrillas,
agents and mammmauna sabte sabateurs behind enemy lines is fragmentary and
Since
Premier General Nguyen Khanh
undetailed which is it is not the official policy of the United States or
the South Vietnamese government. However, such activities are known to
been launched in the past and are continuing now.
When asked about suck activities, Premier-Gnere General Nguyen Khanh simply
smiles and says "we can not discuss that." American military sources confirm
that South Vietnamese Special Forces, trained by the American counterparts,
are dropped behind enemy lines, but details "are classified."
South Vietnamese special Forces troopers sent to North Vietnam also sometimes
inadvertently drop information The wives say that call the mission into
Casualties animam on such missions
North Vietnam an "express train to death."
VIETNAMESE
The wives of
are considered high, although one Special Forces officer has been dropped
into Sout Communist-held se gron sections of Laos Southern Laos six times and has
Within the past six weeks, x reliable Vietnamese
fought his way back to safety.
landed by Dea
sources confirmed that a Special For South Vietnamese Special Forces unit
landed by sea on the South China Sea coast near the North Vietnamese city of
Dong Hoi, xizmike mom about thirty miles north of the 17th parallel
separating North and South Vietnam. They succeeded im sabatoging the city
water system.hun (Informatively only--Source for Dong Hoi information is Vietnamese
general; sareed a friend of mine talked with wife of a Special Forces trooper
I've seen
catprued and tried in North Vietnam and she blabbed it all over town;
the South Vietnamese Special Forces officer who's been to Laos six times)
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The most detailed information regarding
South Vietnamese sabateurs and guerrillas operating in North Viet Nam comes
And
x from North Vietnamese radio broadcasts, newspapers, but the accuracy of the
information is difficult to assess. The North Vietnamese government last year.
published a thin white book listing all such activities.
On April 22, 1964, the North Vietnamese
government reported om a "spy trial" in which a Communist military court
several days two days earlier tried a group of seven "spy-commandos of the U. S.
Aamanigamynhamthe North Vietnamese
and its henchmen in South Vietnam who had been airdropped on a mountain region
of Cam Xuyen district, Hà Tinh province."
report listed names and ages of the seven spies "spies" and their sentences
which ranged from three years to life imprisonment. Duties of the seven were
listed as chief of the group, ratio ✓ operations deputy chief, radio operation
and psychological warfare expert. The report said that from November, 1962, the
seven were directly trained by American officers in spying activities. They
PAS
were airdropped into the North Vietnamese province during early morning hours of
Report SAS
om October 8, 1963. The report continued:
"According to their declarations, these commandos were
entrusted by the U. S. and its stooges in Saigon with carrying out intelligence work
and sabotaging activities and psychological warfare in North Viet Nam.
"This is the 14th spy-commando group of the U. S. and
its stooges in South Vietnam arrested and duly punished in North Vietnam within
the past 11 eleven months."
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Date
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1964, Aug.
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Laos; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Airdrop
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B3, F7
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
