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Intelligence Flights

Within a month of Cline's recent
appointment, the resumption of pilot less
Intelligence flights over mainland China was
approved.

The entire cast of the China Lobby has
relied on one magic corporation, the same
corporation established just after World War II
by General Claire Chennault as Civil Air
Transport and renamed in the 1950s Air
America.

Carrier of not only men and personnel for
all of Southeast Asia, but also of the polices
that have turned Indochina into the third
bloodiest battlefield in American history, Air