sentences:  He joined the Central Intelligence Agency soon after Yale and became one of two CIA Paramilitary Officers in the Special Activities Division (the other was Richard Fecteau, a Boston University graduate) who survived the shoot-down of their mission over the People's Republic of China in November 1952.Both were captured and spent approximately the next two decades in Chinese prisons before release.During the Korean War, China was an ally of North Korea against the U.S.-backed South Koreans.