Weather Warfare Begins over Vietnam: Operation Popeye, Motorpool, Intermediary, & Compatriot
Operation Popeye's weather warfare project was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and was allegedly sponsored by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CIA without the authorization of then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird who said "we have never engaged in that type of activity [weather modification] over Northern Vietnam" in Congressional testimony. [1] The top secret weather modification operations were conducted by military WC-130 planes [2][3] and RF-4 jets [4] spraying ...