Shulinkou Air Station – Part 1 of 3 (early 1960s) – S5-E37

It was one of Taiwan’s most secretive Cold War outposts:
Shulinkou Air Station (樹林口空軍情報站), a joint-service U.S.
intelligence base perched on a misty plateau west of Taipei.
Built in 1955, it was a hub for the interception,
decryption, and analysis of enemy radio and electronic
communications.


In Part 1 of this three-part series, we focus on the early 1960s
and the everyday world of the young servicemen and
officers stationed there. Join them as they
resist the character-destroying temptations of Taipei’s back
alleys, face vengeful thieves, ride the rails in a stolen
locomotive (probably a tall tale but you be the judge), and
encounter ghostly road vehicles. This is Part 1. Parts 2 and
3 will take us deeper -- into the looming Vietnam War.











For this episode, we relied heavily on the excellent Shulinkou
Air Station Taiwan website, which is run by men who served there
between 1955 and 1977.