With their normally busy wires now silent, native agents became necessary.īoth the GBT and the US Office of Strategic Services (the OSS) reached out to a Vietnamese man who had drawn positive attention from the 14th Air Force the previous year when he escorted a downed American pilot out of Vietnam and into China. Up to this point the GBT refused to employ Vietnamese as agents because the French claimed they were untrustworthy and were only interested in acquiring weapons to fight the French, not the Japanese. One such group, known as the “GBT,” had been providing information on weather conditions, the movement of Japanese troop trains and naval vessels, and on escape routes for downed Allied airmen to the 14th US Air Force stationed in China. With the loss of French control over the colony during Meigo, Allied intelligence networks operating in Vietnam collapsed. Photo by the National Archives and Records Administration. Members of the Deer Team providing instruction to the Vietnamese on use of the M-1 carbine, August 16, 1945.
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