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Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including allegedly providing support for drug smuggling in Laos. [2][3][4]
Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots flying missions in Laos during the Vietnam War. [2]
Air America: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins. A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.
Air America. Air America (formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media) was an American radio network specializing in progressive talk radio. It was on the air from March 2004 to January 2010. [1] The network was founded as a left–wing alternative to counter talk radio with a right–wing perspective. [1]
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“Air America” was an air transport and logistics enterprise owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. The agency denied its involvement in the airline for years, eventually selling its interest in 1978.
Adventure, intrigue, danger, sacrifice, and patriotism--words that fit Air America well. The United States Government owned Air America during the Cold War against the global menace of communism.
By August 1950, the airline was secretly bought by the CIA. This gave the intelligence agency the means to covertly operate in the air in a region of significant interest to the USA. In 1959, the CIA changed CAT's name to Air America.
Join Mel, Robert and the crazy crew of wartime flyer in the funniest action-comedy since Lethal Weapon 2 and Good Morning Vietnam. Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. are two renegade pilots ensnared...
In September 1964, Neil Hansen began his adventure as a pilot with Air America—the CIA’s secret airline—working clandestine operations in Southeast Asia.