There was a dig on Evergreen Airlines on half chan, ages ago. IIRC, there are several cos. by that name, so easy to confuse.
We found one that's CIA connected:
Evergreen’s Del Smith Dead at 84
December 7, 2014
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2014-12-07/evergreens-del-smith-dead-84
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He was one of the most colorful characters in commercial aviation. Delford M. Smith’s life literally began as a train wreck. It ended 84 years later on November 7 at his Dundee, Ore. home with the remains of his once billion-dollar Evergreen Aviation empire sold off, shut down, in bankruptcy and under investigation by tax authorities. Smith had been an active participant in his companies through the end of last year but had been in ill health for some time.
What Smith began in Corvallis, Wash., with a single Hiller UH-12 helicopter in 1960 he rapidly built into a global colossus by spotting and exploiting emerging trends in logging, energy exploration, aerial application, supplemental military airlift, civil air ambulance and expedited air freight, markets he chased and in some cases made with urgency and optimism. By 1988, Evergreen had more than 2,300 employees, a huge and diverse helicopter and fixed-wing fleet that included Boeing 747s, and $468 million in annual revenues. Notably, Smith’s companies were also highly leveraged, periodically flirting with financial ruin, and never made substantial income. At times his business philosophy seemed to be simply to borrow more money and hope for the best. For the most part, it worked.
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Wherever there was a hot spot in the world, Evergreen’s helicopters and later airplanes were never far behind. Evergreen’s hardware was so inextricably linked with political intrigue that rumors swirled that the company was owned by, or a front for, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Indeed, several of the company’s senior executives either worked for the agency or had close ties to it.
Smith never let on, disingenuously telling the Portland Oregonian in 1988, “We don’t know when we’ve ever worked for them [the CIA], but if we did we’re proud of it. We believe in patriotism, and, you know, they’re not the [Russian spy service] KGB.”
“He was the most patriotic American I ever knew,” said former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, who roomed with Smith when both were in the U.S. Air Force during the 1950s.