"the CIA hired a filmmaker to produce an hourlong documentary. The CIA does not plan to release the film publicly. But the agency premiered it for employees last week at its Langley, Va., headquarters, and an AP reporter attended"
Code name Mockingbird?
Sig Heil!
Back to the soccer matches, AmeriKa!!!
"Lessons of failed spy mission; New Englanders’ story used as CIA teaching tool" by Robert Burns, Associated Press | June 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — Detail by painful detail, the CIA is coming to grips with one of the most devastating episodes in its history: a botched cloak-and-dagger flight into China that stole two decades of freedom from a pair of fresh-faced American operatives and cost the lives of their two pilots.
Were they hikers?
Aid workers?
Etc, etc?
In opening up about the 1952 debacle, the CIA is finding ways to use it as a teaching tool.
I can't read this disgusting s*** anymore, readers.
Mistakes of the past can serve as cautionary tales for today’s spies and paramilitary officers taking on Al Qaeda and other terrorist targets.
Oh, "Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
So which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
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No kidding?
At the center of the story are two eager CIA paramilitary officers on their first overseas assignment, John T. Downey of New Britain, Conn., and Richard G. Fecteau, of Lynn, Mass., whose plane was shot from the night sky in a Chinese ambush.
The same thing unraveled Iran-contra, and his name was Hasenfus.
The mission was quickly smothered in US government denials, sealed in official secrecy, and consigned to the darkest corner of the spy agency’s vault of unpleasant affairs....
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Wow, Glob sure has been getting access to government cover-ups, 'er, secrets lately.
Bits and pieces of the story surfaced over the years. But the lid was largely intact until a series of disclosures — some required of the CIA, some not — revealed a tale of tragedy, miscalculation, misery, and personal triumph, as well as the agency’s misplaced confidence it could manipulate events in China.
UNTIL the CIA PRESS was HANDED, sorry, OBTAINED the CLEARANCE from THEIR BOSSES to RUN this PoS!!!
Three years ago, the CIA declassified an internal history of the affair. Now it’s hired a filmmaker to produce an hourlong documentary.
The CIA does not plan to release the film publicly. But the agency premiered it for employees last week at its Langley, Va., headquarters, and an AP reporter attended.
Why would I want to VIEW CRAP when there is already so much on television?
Besides, IT WILL SHOW UP on the HISTORY CHANNEL sooner or later!!!
Downey and Fecteau declined through CIA officials to be interviewed for this story. They attended the film screening and were flooded with applause and agency autograph seekers.
I need to get to the bathroom!
Their tale forms part of the backdrop to today’s uneasy US-China relationship, especially Beijing’s anger over American military support for China’s anticommunist rivals on Taiwan.
Related:
"Taiwan's rapidly improving ties with longtime foe China are diminishing US influence"
Hey, what is ONE MORE CIA-DRIVEN LIE and DISTORTION in a SEA of THEM!
In the early years of the Cold War, the CIA had a rudimentary paramilitary force — those with specialized skills to conduct high-risk, behind-the-lines operations.
Yeah, NOT ANYMORE as you saw above.
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Military has always supplied CIA with whatever they needed, even NOC cover.
What is this, a lie a paragraph story?
Downey and Fecteau were assigned to a covert program intended to create a resistance network.
Maybe like "Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
Small teams of noncommunist Chinese exiles were airdropped into the Manchuria area of China to link up with disaffected communist generals. The goal was to destabilize Mao Zedong’s new government and distract it from the Korean War, which Chinese forces had entered two years earlier.
Yeah, GOOD THING the CIA NEVER DOES THAT ANYMORE!!!
The plan failed — badly.
Yeah, GOOD THING the CIA NEVER HAS THAT ANYMORE!!!
“The CIA had been ‘had,’ ’’ the late James Lilley, who helped train agent teams for insertion into China, wrote in his 2004 memoir, “China Hands.’’ There were no dissident communist Chinese generals to be found, and the Chinese on Taiwan and Hong Kong who sold the idea turned out to be swindlers, Lilley wrote.
And NOW we have ISRAEL FEEDING US HORSE SHIT on IRAQ and IRAN!!!
“The whole program smacked of amateurism,’’ CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic says.
Yeah, right.
Donald Gregg, who came into the CIA with Downey in 1951 and had dinner with him the night before his ill-fated flight, faults those in the CIA who oversold the program.
Translation: Gregg was the case officer.
“That was a wild and woolly, swashbuckling time in the agency’s history,’’ Gregg said in an interview. “There was pressure from presidents for regime change here and there, and it was a very damaging time.’’
Yeah, GOOD THING that was a LONG TIME AGO, huh, America?
Yeah, GOOD THING the CIA and AmeriKa NO LONGER ENGAGE in REGIME CHANGE, huh?
And I think it is OUTSTANDING that the MSM omitted the fact that Gregg was also ambassador to South Korea.
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Yeah, EMBASSIES are now CIA STATIONS, America!
WAKE the F*** up!!!
Fecteau was released by China in December 1971 and Downey in March 1973, shortly after President Nixon publicly acknowledged Downey’s CIA connection.
Remarkably, once home Downey and Fecteau resumed normal lives.Translation: The CIA AGENTS were SAFELY EMBEDDED in society!
Downey earned a law degree from Harvard and became a judge. Fecteau returned to his alma mater, Boston University, as assistant athletic director.
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Different channels.
Yup, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?
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Isn't that special?
