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363-04858.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04858
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Title
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CIA Ground N. Viet-Nam Airlift
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the CIA stopping its supply airlifts to guerillas in North Vietnam, page A15
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Transcript
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CIA Grounds N. Viet-Nam Airlift
By Beverly Deepe American firm called Ameri oteurs behind enemy lines is landed on the South China U.S. and its henchmen in
Herald Tribune News Bervice can Aviation Investors, Inc. fragmentary, since it is not Sea coast near the North Viet
-South Viet-Nam who had been
SAIGON, Aug 8-The US. The CIA broke the contract the official policy of the U.S. namese city of Dong Hoi, air-dropped on a mountain
re
or the South Vietnamese gov-about 30 miles north of the gion of Cam Xuyen district
Central Intelligence Agency several weeks ago.
ernment. However, such activ-
canceled in mid-July its part Viewed as Rebuke
17th parallel separating North Ha Tinh Province." The North
ities are known to have been
and South Viet-Nam. They
report
listed
of a multi-million-dollar con- The cancellation
launched in the past and are succeeded in sabotaging the names and ages of the seven
"spies" and their sentences
tract with a private American American co-signature was in-
continuing.
which ranged from three
aviation company that had the terpreted here as a rebuke
to
South Vietnamese Premier
years to life imprisonment.
of the
Wives of South Vietnamese city water system.
The most detailed
informa
tion regarding South Viet-
namese saboteurs and guefril-
las operating in North Viet-
undercover mission of airlift- Gen. Nguyen Khanh, who has special forces troops sent to
sections of Laos.
Reliable military
sources
North
sometimes
Viet-Nam
inadvertently drop informa-
sion into North Viet-Nam an
ing guerrillas and supplies be-in recent weeks launched a
hind enemy lines in North "go north" campaign to attack tion. The wives call the mis- Nam comes from North Viet-
Viet-Nam and Communist-held Communist North Viet Nam.
namese radio broadcasts and
Gen. Khanh's campaign
con
newspapers, but the accuracy
tradicted U.S. policy at the "express train to death." Cas-
time.
Presumably the Ameri, ualties are considered high,
of the information is difficult
said that pilots of more than can Government broke the although
one Vietnamese spe- to assess. The North Viet-
12 aircraft included Chinese contract in order to limit hic
cial forces officer has been namese government last year
and Turkish nationals, but no capacity to send Vietnamese dropped
into Communist-held published a thin white book
Americans. American civilians special forces guerrillas and
sections of southern Laos six listing all such activities.
were used for ground support, saboteurs in North
Viet-Nani times and has fought his way
administrative
nance functions.
and
mainte-
and Laos.
On April 22, 1964, the North
Vietnamese government re-
back to safety.
Within the past six weeks, ported a "spy trial" in which
The American Government, Since cancellation of the reliable Vietnamese sources a Comunist military court two
through the CIA, about two contract, Gen.
Khanh has confirmed that a South Viet days earlier tried a group of
years ago had signed jointly toned down and redefined his namese special forces unit seven "spy-commandos of the
with the Vietnamese govern- go north" policy to mean
sim-
ment a contract with a private ply a means of finishing the
war "instead of letzing it drag
on." And since then, North
Vietnamese PT boats have
twice attacked U.S. destroyers
in international waters off the
coast of North Viet-Nam.
The CIA contract with
American Aviation Investors
Inc., called for a highly mobile
undercover air operation in
volving several helicopters, sis
to eight C-45 and C-47 trans
port aircraft, and L-28 courier
planes. None of the silver-col
ored aircraft carried identi
fication markings or insignia
except black numbers.
Other American private av
ation companies with missions
comparable to American Avia-
tion Investors are presumably
still in operation. The Ameri
can Government at times con
tracts with private firms to
implement programs for which
the U.S. Government officially
cannot be held responsible.
Data Fragmentary
Information concerning the
droppings of South Vietnam
ese guerrillas, agents and sab-
Vietnamese
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Date
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1964, Aug. 9
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Subject
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Central Intelligence Agency; Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Guerrilla warfare; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Airlift, Military
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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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Container
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B186
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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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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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
