CIA Proprietary Airlines Sticker Pack
Together for the first time, logos for five of the Central Intelligence Agency's best-known proprietary airlines. Each was a private company owned and operated by the CIA for covert transportation of people and equipment all over the world. Pilots and crew flew into some of the most dangerous places in the world including Laos, Angola, Colombia, Vietnam, Tibet, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and many others. Civil Air Transport was a commercial airline purchased by the CIA in 1949 through one of their front companies which operated as a clandestine transport wing of the CIA for decades throughout Asia. CAT pilots smuggled weapons and people across international borders, and even participated in bombing runs in America's small proxy wars with the USSR throughout the Cold War period. CAT employees referred to the company as "the world's most shot-at airline". This was one of many commercial logos that Civil Air Transport used throughout its existence. Air America was a CIA-owned airline which