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26 For images and details on the Stinger see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 14-15.
27 For photos, history, and firing details of the MBA Gyrojet pistol see: www.smallarmsreview.com/pdf/Gyrojettest.PDF. An MBA Gyrojet Rocket Carbine was shown in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.
28 Plaster, SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars, 161.
29 Plaster, SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam, 77. See also www.sfalx.com/moh/sisler_george_SF.html.
30 Concise Dictionary of World History (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. 1983), 593.
31 During the Vietnam War, the CIA proprietary airline Air America flew a variety of missions in the Far East. These missions ranged from covert CIA operations to overt air transportation contracted by the Republic of Vietnam and various U.S. government agencies. At one time it was the largest airline in the world based on the number of aircraft it operated.
32 See: www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050224/news_lz1n24france.html).
33 For an image and details of the Rubber Airplane see: Melton, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, 102.
34 William M. Leary, “Robert Fulton’s Skyhook and Operation Coldfeet,” Studies in Intelligence, 38:5 Central Intelligence Agency, 1994, 99-110. Also see: www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclass/Leary.html.
35 Ibid.
36 Interview, Jim Morris, Spring 2005.
37 James B. and Sybil B. Stockdale. In Love and War (New York: Bantam, 1985). 135.
38 Ibid., 136.
39 Ibid., 128. In 1966 POWs in North Vietnam were allowed to send and receive a single letter each month.
40 Ibid., 140.
41 Ibid., 144.
42 Ibid., 192.
43 Ibid., 194. The clear “decal-like thing” was a thin piece of photographic emulsion with reduced writing; it resembled the Kalvar process used a decade later.
44 Ibid., 193-194.
45 Ibid., 196-197.
46 Ibid., 199-200.
47 Ibid., 207-209.
48 Ibid.
49 Ibid., 209-211.
50 Concise Dictionary of World History 553.
51 Bob Woodward, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 192.
52 Ibid., 189.
53 Duane R. Clarridge, A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA (New York: Scribner, 1997), 269-270.
54 Ibid., 263.
55 Ibid. The chain gun, whose fire could penetrate the armor of Soviet T-55 tanks, was developed by the Army for the Bradley fighting vehicle.
56 The original Cigarette was designed by Don Aronow and named after a classic boat he once owned that was reputed to have been used by a “bootlegger” during Prohibition. Bootleggers used high-speed boats to smuggle shipments of whiskey from Canada into the northeastern United States. Even if the boats were spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard, the “rum runners” depended on the speed of their craft to outrun their pursuers. See: “How a Kid From Brooklyn Put Go-Fast Boats on the Map,” Power & Motor Yacht, July 2000.
57 Clarridge, A Spy for All Seasons, 271-272.
58 Ibid., 274.
59 A copy of the text of the Goldwater letter can be found at homepage.ntl-world.com/jksonc/docs/US-mining-nicaragua-harbors.html
60 Clarridge, A Spy for All Seasons, 277.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1 The country’s name changed from the Central African Republic to the Central African Empire in 1976 and back again in 1979.
2 Cambridge World Gazetteer: A Geographical Dictionary (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 122.
3 The New York Times, November 5, 1996.
4 The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), 151.
5 The New York Times, June 13, 1987.
6 Interview with Dr. David A. Crown, 2005.
7 The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 151.
8 Crown interview.
9 Dr. David Crown holds a doctorate degree in criminology from University of California—Berkeley and had compiled a distinguished career before joining the CIA. During the 1950s, he served as a U.S. Counterintelligence Corps