Our mother never got the answers she deserved. Widowed at 38 when our father was killed in a CIA Air America plane crash in Vietnam in 1965, she was left with nothing but his letters to piece together what had really happened. The unanswered questions haunted her for the rest of her life — she struggled with depression, and in her final years, dementia. She died never knowing the truth.
Now in our 70s, we refuse to let that truth stay buried. We have spent decades asking the same questions our mother could never answer, and we are determined to uncover what the CIA has long concealed about our father’s death — before that opportunity is lost forever. Mark S. Zaid P.C., a preeminent national security law firm with a distinguished record of representing whistleblowers and those with grievances against U.S. government intelligence and military agencies, is representing us in a lawsuit against the CIA.
Sixty years of silence is sixty years too long.
James B. Wells 