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...School professor. Lynn Bollinger, who founded the company along with the head of MIT's Aeronautics Labs. They sold their first model to the CIA for use in the secret war in Laos. It proved very helpful in reaching the otherwise inaccessible mountain hideouts of the Meo tribesmen. Now they produce STOL's for the Air Force for use in psychological warfare (equipped with speakers to broadcast to the country side), armed reconnaisance and precision air drops. The planes come armed with 3-barrel gatling guns, 2.75-inch rockets, and several new types of bombs, including TV. and laser-guided...
...ominous new offensive in each of Indochina's major battlegrounds. > In Laos, Communist troops scored a stunning victory by forcing the evacuation of Long Cheng, the celebrated CIA base near the Plain of Jars. They also scattered the battered remnants of the U.S.-backed army of Meo tribesmen that was, until recently, the only force that could keep the Communists in check in Laos...
...American is primarily involved in flying supplies to the CIA's guerilla army, the Clandestine Army of Meo tribesmen led by General Vang Pao. Recently, due to expanded CIA operations, Continental Air Services, a division of Continental Airways, has also been flying supplies...
...remains clear--the United States government is determined to use whatever means are necessary to safeguard its interests. When the cost in American troop casualties proved too high, commensurate with the benefits received, the American game plan changed, to replace American bodies with Asian corpses. Thai, Korean, Laotian, Cambodian, Meo, and Vietnamese mercenaries are employed to preserve America's pre-eminent position in Southeast Asia...
...Special Forces teams from South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos; secret forays into China from northern Laos by specially trained CIA teams (now reportedly halted); the formation, funding and training by the CIA of an irregular army of up to 15,000 Meo tribesmen; large-scale operations throughout Laos by Air America, the CIA's unofficial flag line in Asia; and the recruitment, training and payment of at least 4,800 Thai volunteers to fight in Laos...