On May 18, 1958, the Indonesians managed to shoot down one of the planes, and a single figure floated slowly toward a coconut grove. His white parachute got caught in the branches of a tall palm tree, where he was stuck for a moment—then he fell to the ground and broke his hip. He was quickly found and captured by Indonesian soldiers, who probably saved him from being killed on the spot by furious locals. His name was Allen Lawrence Pope; he was from Miami, Florida; and he was a CIA agent.23 Howard Jones didn’t know it, but Frank Wisner’s boys had been actively supporting the rebels since
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