Thread by @MuellerSheWrote

@page88 I have an incredible story about my father possibly working for the CIA in the late 60s that I recently learned about.

@page88 When the Atlantic story dropped about trump calling war dead and veterans suckers and losers, I penned a tweet about my dad, who had died at 46 due to exposure to agent Orange in Vietnam. It went viral and was featured in WaPo, and many reached out wanting to know more.

@page88 I didn’t have any additional info about his agent Orange exposure, so I called my mom. She told me an INCREDIBLE story. She told me about his job as a cryptologist in the Air Force working miles below ground. In 1967, he was moved from Hickam to Wheeler on Oahu for KRSOC.

@page88 KRSOC = Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center 👀. She also told me he had received a letter of commendation for his work on “Operation High Heels”, and that while he was at KRSOC, he traveled to Vietnam more than a dozen times (in one year: 1967).

@page88 She read me the commendation. It was from the commander of the pacific fleet (Navy). She also told me she worked in the ship parts library and that SHE had a SIOP ESI clearance. Pretty high clearance for a parts librarian. 👀 I worked in the nuclear vault library and was only TS.

@page88 That’s all she had for me, so I googled Operation High Heels. I found some unclassified documents Specifically this 1023-page document

@page88 In it, I learned that the central communications relay for the pacific was being moved from Hickam to Wheeler because of its proximity to Vietnam. AND they were building a new relay across enemy lines in North Vietnam.

@page88 Before they moved him from Hickam to Wheeler, the Air Force sent my dad to Syracuse for an intensive Russian language program, then sent him to live with a Russian family at an undisclosed location. 👀

@page88 So I get to the “operation high heels” part of the unclassified document, and hit a dead end. It’s STILL REDACTED

@page88 Best I can piece together is they taught my dad Russian, then had him do tabletop war games for responding to a preemptive Russian nuclear strike, then sent him to north Vietnam to set up the comms relay and intercept/translate Russian SIGINT. All as an E-5 for the Air Force?

@page88 You don’t send an E-5 to live with Russians, then KRSOK, then north Vietnam after war games with Russians to install a comms relay, and give the wife a SIOP ESI clearance if you’re an E-5 on the Air Force. Here’s the link to the full document: nautilus.org/wp-content/upl…

@page88 It was during his excursions into enemy territory that he was exposed to massive amounts of agent orange. He fought the Russians during Vietnam. So do I think Snowden should get a pardon? Fuck no. The end.