American_Spy_-_H._K._Roy

80 AMERICAN SPY cargo, medevac, and skydiving plane. Although it had little to do with our training, taking high-speed, deafenin ...

CIA PARAMILITARY TRAINING 81 myself on the honey bucket in front of my fellow prisoners. (My law degree didn’t count for squat a ...

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CHAPTER 6 SECURE YOUR CHUTES A s we made our final preparations in the hangar and cross-checked each other’s gear just prior to ...

84 AMERICAN SPY In the 1980s, military chow halls weren’t as nice as today’s dining facili- ties (DFACs), like those found on ba ...

SECURE YOUR CHUTES 85 rappel down the back side of that same tower. (It’s also hard to convince your body to go along with leani ...

86 AMERICAN SPY We reviewed this scenario in detail over several beers one night in the Student Recreation Building (SRB aka CIA ...

SECURE YOUR CHUTES 87 Despite the rigorous and repetitive training, many of us were still nervous about making our first parach ...

88 AMERICAN SPY down. The static line chute deployed, jerking me upright, but forcing my too-large helmet down over my eyes. My ...

SECURE YOUR CHUTES 89 perform a proper PLF, but I landed hard, planting one thick-soled French paratrooper’s boot about four inc ...

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PART III LATIN AMERICA ...

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CHAPTER 7 GOING OPERATIONAL F rom inside the restroom stall, I could overhear a giddy, animated con- versation between what soun ...

94 AMERICAN SPY Although I was headed to Latin America, the CIA initially earmarked me for a job in a pro-Soviet country in Fre ...

GOING OPERATIONAL 95 I knew I was on shaky ground. I’d agreed to go wherever the CIA sent me, and the small Africa station was a ...

96 AMERICAN SPY got our typhoid shots and our first of many official passports and made travel arrangements for our one-way flig ...

GOING OPERATIONAL 97 Working my first official reception, I met a friendly but almost uncomfort- ably intense young Palmera gove ...

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CHAPTER 8 CUBAN OPS I had always hoped to visit Old Havana before Fidel Castro died. A leisurely sojourn to this Spanish Colonia ...