#VietnamWar
5 entries tagged VietnamWar.
People (3)
- George Pettie George Pettie is the son of Marion Pettie, founder of The Finders, and a confirmed former employee of Air America, the CIA proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, as acknowledged by his father in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report.
- John DeCamp John W. DeCamp (1941-2017) was a Nebraska state senator and attorney who published 'The Franklin Cover-Up' (1992) arguing the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations were genuine and suppressed, drawing on his close personal relationship with former CIA Director William Colby who had been his superior in Vietnam.
- William Colby William Egan Colby served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1973 to 1976, dismissing James Angleton, cooperating with the Church Committee, and revealing the Family Jewels, having earlier directed the Vietnam-era Phoenix Program under the CORDS framework.
Organizations (1)
- Air America CIA proprietary airline that provided covert transportation services during the Vietnam War, linked to heroin trafficking out of the Golden Triangle region.
Places (1)
- Vietnam Vietnam was the site of a protracted U.S. military involvement (1955-1975) that produced veterans and intelligence networks appearing throughout this vault's coverage of Nugan Hand Bank, drug trafficking, and Iran-Contra-era covert operations.