{"id":19,"date":"2006-02-23T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T22:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-05-19T21:43:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T13:43:05","slug":"can-this-explain-why-p-3a-were-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Can This Explain Why P-3A Were Removed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCAF 34th SQ received two P-3A from the US on May 19 and July 12, 1966, respectively.\u00a0 But their tenures with ROCAF were very short.\u00a0 All P-3A missions were called off as of January 25, 1967.\u00a0 Both aircraft were flown out of Taiwan shortly.<\/p>\n<p>None of the books I have explain why the US withdrew the P-3A in only half a year.\u00a0 Yesterday I found a declassified &#8220;Top Secret&#8221; CIA\u00a0memo which may provide an explanation.\u00a0 Given the &#8220;Idealist&#8221; classification and the date November 30, 1966, it is very likely that this\u00a0memo is related to the 34th SQ&#8217;s P-3A.\u00a0 But I could be wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P-3A cable\" alt=\"P-3A cable\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/p-3_deleted.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCAF 34th SQ received two P-3A from the US on May 19 and July 12, 1966, respectively.\u00a0 But their tenures with ROCAF were very short.\u00a0 All P-3A missions were called off as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34th-sq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}