Pacific Corporation

{{short description|CIA airline holding company}}

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| name = Pacific Corporation

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| type = Holding company

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| fate = liquidation{{Cite web|title=[REDACTED] LIQUIDATION PLAN|url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/197616.pdf|website=CIA.gov}}

| predecessor = Airdale Corporation

| successor =

| founded = {{Start date and age|1950}}

| founder = George A. Doole Jr.

| defunct = {{End date and age|1979}}

| hq_location_city = Delaware

| hq_location_country = United States

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| owner = CIA

| num_employees = 0

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The Pacific Corporation (originally Airdale Corporation) was a holding company that the Central Intelligence Agency used to control several aviation front companies.

Former US Army pilot George A. Doole Jr. created Pacific Corporation, incorporated in Delaware in 1950.{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=W. Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Jc9wBsImOIC&pg=PA81 |title=Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency |date=2003 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-3018-7 |language=en}} He concealed the agency's involvement by shuffling aircraft continuously among various shell corporations and altering aircraft registration numbers, a tactic the agency apparently still uses (see N44982{{Cite web|title=N379P-N8068V-N44982 - The Rendition Project|url=https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/flights/aircraft/N379P.html|access-date=2021-10-05|website=www.therenditionproject.org.uk}}) and also using three corporate Officer/ Board Members in the name of the Sigler Corporation, the nominee of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. custodian.{{Cite web|title=[REDACTED] LIQUIDATION PLAN|url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/197616.pdf}} The corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.

Pacific's affiliates included:

• Actus Technology
• Air America, originally named Civil Air Transport, defunct
• Air Asia Co. Ltd., air maintenance activity
• Seaboard World Services
• Southern Air Transport, privatized as Southern Air
• Thai Pacific Services