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...operations in the North are headquartered here in Chiangmai, Thailand's second largest city. Reportedly housed in a two-story, antennae-studded building in the American consulate compound, agents work with the Thai Army, the paramilitary Border Patrol Police, and other Thai and American contacts to keep tab on the North's sometimes rebellious hill tribes, Burmese rebels operating out of Thailand, and "unfriendly" forces in Laos...

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

...Chiangmai Airport is a terminal and warehouse for the CIA's transport contractor, Air America. A short take off and landing plane is usually in sight there...

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

Members of the US Army, Air Force and Coast Guard are stationed in Chiangmai and Lampang, the neighboring province to the south. They help man a radio-telephone relay station, an aerial navigation radio beacon transmitter, and a secrecy-shrouded satellite tracking station...

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

...station, manned by approximately 30 Coast Guardsmen is used primarily to direct B-52s flying from Thailand, according to sources in Chiangmai...

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

...Chiangmai Airport the US Army maintains a telephone relay station which consists of two olive drab receiving-transmitting dishes and a number of trailers and support vehicles. There are approximately tea of these stations throughout Thailand and they make possible a military-police telephone system...

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

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