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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…
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Vietnam War was the most traumatic event for American collective psyche in 20th Century. While Hollywood tried to exploit in its own way – either through pandering towards 1960s Boomer pacifist nostalgia, attempts of soul searching or embracing born-again militarism in Reagan’s years – there were few attempts to treat that period of history through ironic detachment of satirical comedy (like the way forgotten Korean…More
