Allen Lawrence Pope was a 29 year old ex-US Air Force first lieutenant who was shot down on May 18, 1958 while flying a B-26 during a raid on government forces at the Indonesian port of Amboina. Some other twenty aircraft supporting the Indonesian rebels were reported seen with Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport.

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  • Allen Lawrence Pope was a 29 year old ex-US Air Force first lieutenant who was shot down on May 18, 1958 while flying a B-26 during a raid on government forces at the Indonesian port of Amboina. Some other twenty aircraft supporting the Indonesian rebels were reported seen with Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport. Pope claimed he was paid $10,000 month by the rebels, but the operation is widely believed to have been bankrolled by the CIA as Operation Haik to overthrow the Sukarno government which was feared to have communist sympathies. Pope's capture along with a number of incriminating documents led to great embarrassment to the US government. U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones characterized Pope as an American "paid soldier of fortune", and expressed his regret at the involvement of an American. After suffering a broken thigh during his bailout, Pope worked himself back into shape in prison, and read enough law books to help conduct his own defense (he felt he was fighting international Communism, he said). An Indonesian four-man military court rejected Pope's plea that he be considered a prisoner of war and found him guilty of killing 17 members of Indonesia's armed forces, and sentenced him to death. The death sentence was never carried out and Pope was released at the behest of the Kennedy Administration in 1962.
  • Allen Lawrence Pope était un pilote de l'armée de l'air américaine abattu le 18 mai 1958 alors qu'il pilotait un bombardier B-26 au cours d'une mission contre l'armée indonésienne lors de la rébellion de la Permesta contre le centralisme du gouvernement du président Soekarno. Pope travaillait en secret pour le compte de la CIA et aidait les rebelles. Sa capture, ainsi que des documents compromettants, embarrassèrent le gouvernement américain. Il fut condamné à mort mais libéré à la demande de l'administration Kennedy en 1962.
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  • Allen Lawrence Pope was a 29 year old ex-US Air Force first lieutenant who was shot down on May 18, 1958 while flying a B-26 during a raid on government forces at the Indonesian port of Amboina. Some other twenty aircraft supporting the Indonesian rebels were reported seen with Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport.
  • Allen Lawrence Pope était un pilote de l'armée de l'air américaine abattu le 18 mai 1958 alors qu'il pilotait un bombardier B-26 au cours d'une mission contre l'armée indonésienne lors de la rébellion de la Permesta contre le centralisme du gouvernement du président Soekarno. Pope travaillait en secret pour le compte de la CIA et aidait les rebelles. Sa capture, ainsi que des documents compromettants, embarrassèrent le gouvernement américain.
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