Barry Pencek, Award Winning Author of Operation Tailwind: Memoirs of a Secret Battle in a Secret War

Renowned Author, Vietnam Veteran, and Marine Veteran Barry Pencek was born in Scranton, PA and a Cumberland College graduate. He joined the USMC and flew attack helicopters in Vietnam. Following his Marine Corps tour he went to graduate school at the University of Georgia and then worked for Bell Helicopter in Iran as a flight instructor with the Iranian Army. Upon returning to the States, he joined the Marine Corps Reserve and began a career in commercial aviation, eventually flying with Emery Airfreight, Eastern, Pan Am, and United Airlines.

Operation Tailwind was a top-secret mission in Laos in 1970 in support of a larger CIA operation that originated in the White House. It remained classified until twenty-eight years later when CNN produced a documentary about it. Barry’s book exposes the truth on an incredible story.