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56 David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Espionage Establishment (New York: Random House, 1970), 130.
57 U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, Senate Report Number 94-465, November 20, 1975, 85.
58 Ibid., 85-86.
59 Ibid., 88-89.
60 “Silenced” pistols and rifles are never completely “silent.” The purpose of the “suppressor” is to reduce the sound when the weapon is fired and make it harder to pinpoint the direction of the shot. Pistols are relatively much easier to suppress than rifles.
61 U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, 90.
62 John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (New York. Touch-stone. 1987), 210-211, 336-345.
63 Lumumba was eventually ousted from his post in the Congolese government and taken into protective custody by United Nations guards; he escaped and was then captured and executed by his Congolese enemies. See: Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors, 124.
64 Ranelagh, The Agency, 358.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
1 Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (New York: Penguin, 1997), 214.
2 Ibid., 211
3 Civil Air Transport (CAT) was the successor to Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers, and the predecessor to “Air America.” In June 2001 the CIA issued a Unit Citation Award in recognition of all who served with Civil Air Transport and its secret successor, Air America, which ended operations in 1976. See: www.air-america.org/newspaper_articles/france_honors_cat.shtml
4 Ranelagh, The Agency, 419.
5 Karnow, Vietnam, 212.
6 Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder, 310.
7 Ibid., 230.
8 Ranelagh, The Agency, 419. Ranelagh notes that covert CIA involvement in Vietnam began in 1954 when DCI Allen Dulles sent Colonel Edward Lansdale to Saigon with these objectives.
9 “Covert action” is an operation designed to influence governments, events, organizations, or persons in support of foreign policy in a manner that is not necessarily attributable to the sponsoring power; it may include political, economic, propaganda, or paramilitary activities.
10 John L. Plaster, SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars (Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press, 2000), 17-18.
11 John L. Singlaub, Hazardous Duty (New York: Summit, 1991), 293.
12 The junk’s unexpected speed amazed the crew. Years later, the same OTS engineer raised eyebrows around Mobile, Alabama, when testing a new a high-speed, high-lift vessel in the harbor. People stopped their cars to watch the test craft outpace traffic on the adjacent highway.
13 For details and images of the Metascope see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 36-37.
14 For pictures and a description of an “Anti-disturbance device” see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 88.
15 Plaster, A Photo History of the Secret Wars, 217.
16 John L. Plaster, SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), 22-23.
17 For images and details of the RS-6 see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment , 47.
18 For images and details on Dust Powder (B-3) see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 99.
19 For images and details on Puppy Chow see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 115.
20 For images and details on the Document Copying Attaché Case see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 43.
21 These were an early version of lightweight, condensed, dehydrated, vacuum-packed foods used by backpackers and mountain climbers.
22 Plaster, SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars, 17-18, and Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 36.
23 Francis Gary Powers was piloting a CIA U-2 aircraft when downed over the USSR on May 1, 1960. His survival weapon was an OSS .22 caliber silenced Hi-Standard pistol.
24 See: Melton, OSS Special Weapons & Equipment, 34-35.
25 For images and a reproduction