2022 : Air America: The History of the CIA’s Covert Airline
(greydynamics.com)
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“Air America” was an air transport and logistics enterprise owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. The agency denied it’s involvement in the airline for years, eventually selling its interest in 1978. Its pilots were considered deniable assets and its aircraft fleet was either sold, destroyed or repatriated. The purpose of Air America was to provide clandestine air support to America’s allies in Southeast Asia. This included search and rescue operations, tactical insertions of special forces, the smuggling of weapons and trafficking of narcotics.
They only changed names later on. Asked You Know the Agency about their air assets today ?
Was this the international arm of JANET?
For JANET that was the airline that flew people to Area 51 and back home out of Vegas. I remember them going under SAT as I witnessed them a few times while on the Green Ramp at a AF Base. They were sectioned off and a restricted area with only those with the proper security clearances could be around the plane. The pilots flight suits were gray.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Air_Transport
I was aware JANET was the A51 shuttle, but they're both 'secret' government agency aircraft and it would surprise me none, if they were related somehow.
Capt. that would not surprise me either. They all tie in with uncle Sam. I just saw JANET in Vegas because I had to go to Indian Springs for training. I had not seen them anywhere else. I saw SAT on the green ramp at a AF base.