Air America (airline)

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Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established, originally under Civil Air Transport (CAT), in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976, adopting the Air America name in 1959. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Some people have claimed Air America pilots provided support for drug smuggling in Laos, but the issue remains unclear. Its slogan was "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, Professionally". It was not a "normal airline," but did many of the flights that a normal airline would do. Despite the fact that it was owned and operated by the CIA, it quickly became the largest air carrier in the region, and therefore performed many of the normal operations of an airline. They transported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cargo each year, and operated otherwise regularly scheduled passenger flights. They resupplied humanitarian workers in the field, supplying rural...

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