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Air America (book)
''Air America'' is a 1978 non-fiction book by Christopher Robbins, a journalist investigating CIA drug trafficking and front companies for ''The Observer''.
The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Robbins from his accidental discovery of the very existence of a company named Air America to the end of the former CIA-owned company, ultimately privatized.
It is the story of one of the world's biggest covert operations: Air America was owned by the CIA, started from the scratch of bunch of other agency-owned air assets. Air America—at its peak—became the biggest civil air fleet in the world.
==Background==
From the 1950s to the early-1970s, Indochina had been the landscape of vast major drug and military operations played by many actors including European an communist countries. When the US military involvement started, costs rose and new resources, especially for covert operations, were needed. Since the time of the Anglo-Chinese war, opium was the main source or wealth in the region. CIA and Air America used to fly those skies from the times of the Korean War. A new fabric was built inside CIA headquarters in northern Laos where bulk opium was refined into heroin and shipped abroad. Within a decade of military intervention, in the early seventies, Indochina had become the world's leading opium producer, reaching a 70% worldwide marketshare.
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