Word: fecteau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information. On one mission, nine agents were dropped by parachute at Jehol in Manchuria. They were captured almost immediately, and one broke down under interrogation. He agreed to radio Seoul, requesting that the CIA plane return to pick up one of the agents. Downey and a fellow civilian, Richard Fecteau, went along for the ride in the C-47, even though they did not have to; they were restless and itching for some action in the field...
...make a low sweep over the appointed area, then drop a sling for the Nationalist agent to jump into. But as soon as the aircraft made the pass, the Communists opened fire with machine guns, and the plane was forced down. The pilots were shot; Downey and Fecteau were captured. The date...
...Richard Fecteau, of Lynn, who was with Downey when their plane went down on a flight from Japan to Korea, was released recently after serving 19 years in prison...
...Federal government has maintained that Downey and Fecteau were civilian employees of the Army, but the Chinese claimed they were on a mission to drop Nationalist Chinese agents on the mainland...
...Neither Fecteau nor Mary Ann had harsh words for their captors, partly because they were warned not to say anything that might jeopardize the chances of the remaining American prisoners. Along with Downey, there are two airmen, Air Force Major Philip Smith and Navy Lieut. Robert Flynn, who were shot down during the Viet Nam War. When Fecteau was freed, the Chinese reduced Downey's sentence from life to five more years. But they may be reluctant to release the other Americans. They do not want to do anything more to offend their North Vietnamese allies, who are already...