| Company type | Holding company |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Airdale Corporation |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founder | George A. Doole Jr. |
| Defunct | 1979 |
| Fate | liquidation[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
| Owner | CIA |
Number of employees | 0 |
The Pacific Corporation (originally Airdale Corporation) was a holding company that the Central Intelligence Agency used to control several aviation front companies.
Former US Army pilot George A. Doole Jr. created Pacific Corporation, incorporated in Delaware in 1950.[2] He concealed the agency's involvement by shuffling aircraft continuously among various shell corporations and altering aircraft registration numbers, a tactic the agency apparently still uses (see N44982[3]) and also using three corporate Officer/ Board Members in the name of the Sigler Corporation, the nominee of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. custodian.[4] The corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.
Pacific's affiliates included:
- Actus Technology
- Air America, originally named Civil Air Transport, defunct
- Air Asia Co. Ltd., air maintenance activity
- Seaboard World Services
- Southern Air Transport, privatized as Southern Air
- Thai Pacific Services
- ^ "[REDACTED] LIQUIDATION PLAN" (PDF). CIA.gov.
- ^ Smith, W. Thomas (2003). Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-3018-7.
- ^ "N379P-N8068V-N44982 - The Rendition Project". www.therenditionproject.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
- ^ "[REDACTED] LIQUIDATION PLAN" (PDF).