Operation Popeye: full transcription
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Get the dossier: $5 instant download →Laos operations: continue as at present plus Pop Eye to reduce the trafficability along infiltration routes. Authorization requested to implement operational phase of weather modification process previously successfully tested and evaluated in some area.
US C-130 aircraft operating from Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base flew 2,602 missions and expended 47,409 cloud seeding units. The Pentagon has confirmed the project cost 21.6 million dollars.
The close monitoring of troop and truck traffic along routes where rain had fallen verified beyond any doubt the naturally adverse effects of rainfall and accumulated soil moisture on the enemy's logistic effort.
We have never engaged in that type of activity over Northern Vietnam.
This transcription covers the original authorization memo, the confirmed operational scale, the program's own stated rationale, and Secretary Laird's public denial, later shown to reflect his own lack of access to the full program rather than a deliberate lie. The complete transcript of the March 20, 1974 Senate hearing runs considerably longer and is available through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's archive.
Hearing: US Senate, Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment. March 20, 1974.
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