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Old Wealth, the Kuomintang, and the CIA's Air America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Peter Dale Scott
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An essay of mine, with the title “Private War Enterprise in Asia: Air America, the Brook Club and the Kuomintang,” was sent by me in 1970 to Ramparts magazine. But it was impounded by the CIA, and retained in their archives until released in 2009, under three CIA cover slips (one almost fully redacted). It is now published here, under a 2022 Introduction I have written for it.

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CIAAir AmericaKuomintang
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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 16 , September 2022 , e8
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