Editing Civil Air Transport (section)

===Korean War===
During the [[Korean War]], CAT airlifted thousands of tons of war materials to supply United States military operations, including support of Kuomintang holdouts based in Burma (Operation PAPER<ref>{{cite web|last=Best|first=Martin|title=The CIA's Airlines: Logistic Air Support of the War in Laos 1954 to 1975|url=http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/airamerica/best/|accessdate=17 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719082255/http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/airamerica/best/|archive-date=2013-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>). On 29 November 1952, a CAT C-47 left Seoul on a mission to collect an anti-Communist Chinese agent in the foothills of [[northeastern China]], using a "pole and line" technique. The mission was apparently compromised and Chinese forces were waiting for them. Approaching low over the ground, it was attacked by small-arms fire, and crash-landed near the town of Antu in China's [[Jilin]] province.  The pilots, [[Robert Snoddy]] and [[Norman Schwartz]] were killed during the crash and subsequent fire, and were buried nearby. The two CIA officers, [[John T. Downey]] and [[Richard G. Fecteau]] survived and were immediately taken prisoner by Chinese forces, who were waiting for the flight. Downey and Fecteau were held by China and regularly interrogated for nearly twenty years. Fecteau was released unexpectedly following Nixon's visit to China in 1972, but Downey was released only after Washington publicly acknowledged their spy mission in 1973.

At the time the families of the pilots were told, in order to keep the CIA's covert actions in China secret, that they had crashed into the Sea of Japan on a routine flight to Tokyo. In 2001, China allowed the US Defense Department's [[Prisoner of War]] and [[Missing in Action]] (POW/MIA) office to conduct a recovery effort for the bodies of the pilots. In 2005 the POW/MIA office announced that it had identified the remains of Robert Snoddy using DNA analysis. Schwartz's remains have not been recovered.

The 1952-1953 edition of ''[[Jane's All The World's Aircraft]]'' lists the head office address as Suite 309, Kass Building, 711 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., with the footnote that the company had reregistered in the U.S. The president is given as Whiting Willauer, and the fleet listed as 23 Curtiss C-46 Commando and 4 Douglas DC-3 aircraft.