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bourbon
06-09-2011, 04:51 PM
Tucson area's Evergreen aircraft center sold (http://azstarnet.com/business/local/article_d83bae78-907a-11e0-b97f-001cc4c03286.html), Arizona Daily Star, June 6, 2011.

Legendary CIA Airline Now in Danger of Crashing (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/legendary-cia-airline-in-danger-of-crashing/), by Noah Shachtman. Danger Room, June 2, 2011.


Evergreen International Aviation appears to be going out of business, but leaves behind a storied history (most of which is probably classified).

The company was formed around the assets it purchased from Intermountain Aviation in 1975. Intermountain was a CIA proprietary airline that operated throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, but was sold-off as a result of the Church Committee.

Though not as famous as its sister Air America, Intermountain was the birthplace of the Fulton Skyhook surface-to-air recovery system. The first operational use of the Skyhook was with an Intermountain B-17 in 1962, during a successful operation to exploit an abandoned Soviet drift station in the Arctic Ocean known as Operation Coldfeet (https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol38no5/html/v38i5a11p.htm).

Intermountain is also played a role in supporting agency efforts to train and equip Tibetan guerillas in the 1950’s.