Talk:Air America (airline)/Archives/2019
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Company headquarters
The article previously included a paragraph on various buildings where AAM was headquartered:
- Air America's headquarters moved several times during its existence, including 808 17th St NW (1964), 801 World Center Bldg (late 1964), 815 Connecticut Ave NW (July 1968), and 1725 K Street NW (1972), all in Washington, DC. The principal continental US maintenance base was at Pinal Airpark, Marana, Arizona.
None of this was sourced in the article, and none of it is useful for improving the article's content or quality, so I have deleted it. Rgr09 (talk) 18:28, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Forced draft urbanization?
The article now includes the following paragraph:
- Air America flew civilians, diplomats, spies, refugees, commandos, sabotage teams, doctors, war casualties, drug enforcement officers, and even visiting VIPs like Richard Nixon all over Southeast Asia. Its non-human passengers were even more bizarre on occasion. Part of the CIA's support operations in Laos, for instance, involved logistical support for local tribes fighting the North Vietnamese forces and the Pathet Lao, their local opponents. Forced draft urbanization policies, such as the widespread application of Agent Orange to Vietnamese farmland created a disruption in local food production, so thousands of tons of food had to be flown in, including live chickens, pigs, water buffalo, and cattle.
The claim seems to be that because Agent Orange was used in Vietnam, food production in Laos was disrupted. This seems absurd on the face of it; as far as I know, food production was not even disrupted in Vietnam, much less Laos. Multiple reliable sources are needed for such a claim. In addition, the original paragraph was on transportation services Air America provided for the Hmong population in particular. It made no reference to food shortages. This whole claim needs to be fitted into some more appropriate context. Rgr09 (talk) 11:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)