Dickie wrote nice books, but he never told the "whole" truth. There's no way he didn't know what the C_A was doing in SE Asia while he was sniping their competition.
The C_A and their airline, the USAF, both predate the SEALS by 10 years. It think the SEALS were probably created to support their corrupt objectives. Puppets are kept blind to their master's agenda until they have done enough dirty corrupt shit to be blackmailed into tacitly supporting the agenda.