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Civil Air Move (Kitty), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier focusing on air freight. Its role quickly evolved as Kitty became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese language Air Force, then the CIA's key "air force" in Korea, then "the most shot-at airline on earth" in French Indochina, and eventually becoming reorganized as Air America at the level of the Vietnam War. William M. Leary's comprehensive operational history of CAT models the storyplot in the point of view of Asian and Chilly War geopolitics and shows how Kitty allowed the CIA to operate with an even of versatility and secrecy that it could not have gained through normal military services or commercial air travelling.
