
Plane that crashed in Yucatan with 3.2 tons of cocaine was CIA rendition aircraft
WMR has learned from knowledgeable European sources that a Gulfstream II that crash landed 1.3 miles from Tikokob in Yucatan, Mexico after being chased by Mexican military helicopters for flying illegally into Mexican airspace was one of the planes chartered to the CIA for the renditioning of kidnapped prisoners. The crash landing took place on September 24. The tail number of the Gulfstream is N987SA.
Mexican soldiers found no bodies at the crash site but did discover 132 bags containing 3.3 metric tons of cocaine. The origination of the Gulfstream's flight is unknown but it was destined for Cancun when it crash landed. Police later said they had arrested one passenger who was on board the plane.
The operator of the Gulfstream is Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc. of Coconut Creek, Florida. Its address, according to the Florida Division of Corporations, is 4811 Lyons Technology, Coconut Creek, Florida 33073.
WMR has learned from knowledgeable European sources that a Gulfstream II that crash landed 1.3 miles from Tikokob in Yucatan, Mexico after being chased by Mexican military helicopters for flying illegally into Mexican airspace
The obvious question is... how does a helicopter that flies at far less than 200 miles an hour, chase a jet that can exceed 600 mph?
Agreed, I suspect the helicopter bit could be an embellishment - there's a bit more here. The plane was also overloaded. There are a couple of links in the thread. The first includes a picture of the drugs with the crashed plane in the background, the second gives the number of the plane - N987SA.
Wowie zowie. I guess this story won't make the front page of the New York Times. Heh.
Here's another cocaine story that didn't make it to the "liberal" New York Times either, Brent Kovar's bust.
It made it to the Associated Press finally.
Djd and Jim Dent:
Remember when Ronald Reagan, the born again imperialist, "new day in Amerika", accused the Nicaraguans of drug trafficking, only to be later caught in financing the fascist contra war, with drug dealers, and CIA connections. Still the same old fascist, corrupt class polcies.
Wonder if Ollie North had anything to do with this. He certainly has experience in drug running.
I cannot stand the duplicitous, war on drugs, when the CIA itself is involved in financing fascist death squads through this criminal process.
Eric, that is one of the few things that you've ever written here that I understand. And I agree with it.
Where the CIA and other agencies are concerned, the war is FOR drugs. Seems you youngsters still don't understand all about the Vietnam war and war in Nicaragua. S.Vietnam was, in the beginning a warehouse and way station for the drugs coming out of Laos. I don't need a source or reference. I is it in this case.
Seems you youngsters still don't understand
It always comes back to that, dang kiddies will be the deth of us, eh?? :~)
Whereas now the role of S. Vietnam is filled by Turkey and the role of Laos is filled by Afghanistan?
Donna Blue Aircraft WAS owned by two Brazilians: Joao Luiz Malago and his partner Eduardo Dias Guimaraes.
One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao Luiz Malago, said in a telephone interview from Brazil that his Florida-based company sold the aircraft for $2 million on Sept. 16 to a Lakeland, Fla., man and his partner, who Malago believed was from Miami.
Malago said he feared the man was dead because he hasn't been picking up the phone.
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico had no information on any American citizens being killed or arrested in connection with the aircraft, a 1975 model Gulfstream II...The jet, carrying the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a mystery. Donna Blue purchased the aircraft in July from a company that had owned it for 10 years, and then flipped it quickly to two Florida businessmen who paid for it in full.
The above from http://pimpinturtle.com/2007/09/29/who-owned-drug-plane-that-crashed-in-mexico.aspx -- same website as the seeded story.
RE the story on who owned the plane, which also gives the known itinerary when it was owned by the CIA. Ithought it was odd that a stop was made in Jackson, WY.
The Veep, Cheney, has a vacation home in Jackson.
Funny how the ownership of planes suddenly gets complicated when they crash with drugs on board. There a really good piece on this story here.
djd --
That was wild, djd. Especially the part about the terrorist going to a flight school with the "spooky" connections...
I came across the flight school thing in one of the other pieces I'd been looking at Laura. Interesting coincidence maybe?! That Cannonfire article provides good coverage of this incident and I'm sad it wasn't the one I seeded. Never mind the link is there now :)
Thanks for that, Cannonfire is exactly that and it's great to see how the information age is blowing the lid off the business operations that are run to the public as a war on drugs and covert security needs, geeze!
It's obviously just a coincidence. Someone else just chartered the same plane as the CIA to smuggle drugs, again. Just like its a coincidence that all the cocaine production has been completely centralized and made ever more efficient since the war on drugs started. And now the opium trade has been similarly centralized in Afghanistan as soon as we went in.
Here's a little seen bit on the Afghanistan market conditions and reasons for improving export volumes. It's called the Heroin Highway and you'll never guess who's picking up the tab for construction or the final price.
The Bridge cost the American Taxpayers 37 million Dollars and is big enough to Span the Mississippi River
The US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez joined the Afghan and Tajik presidents inaugurating the bridge that the Americans have built for them.
The money is nothing compared to the political investment. For the US this is a showcase project, a proof that things can go right for Afghanistan and its neighbours.
For two years Brian Walls of the US Army Corp of Engineers, has been in charge of the construction here.
He says the bridge is the missing link of the ancient Silk Road, and that linking Afghanistan with its neighbour will help the economies on both sides, and beyond.
"Of course first of all it will be beneficial for Afghanistan and Tajikistan, but I think other countries too will get involved, and commerce will be able to flourish," Walls said.
A warning to journos pursuing this story; Remembering Gary Webb (Thanks to Greenpagen for making this connection. GP, thought this would be of interest here)
Gary Webb "committed suicide" in Sacramento in 2004. How? Two gunshots to the head.
Interesting way of committing suicide - I wonder if that happens often.
Are we in Argentina or Russia or something? Can we get 'disappeared'?
Interesting way of committing suicide - I wonder if that happens often.
About as often as the guys who "strangle themselves with their bare hands"....
DJD, this is a great seed...and well worth doing some follow-up checking on. Really good job in bringing this to our attention; lord knows the MSM doesn't do so...
Thanks Synthesis
That suicide thing is a bit like the Dr Kelly alleged suicide here in the UK - statistically unlikely. Kelly was, I believe, the only person that year to successfully kill himself by cutting his wrist. Nine doctors - four of them surgeons - concurred that from a single transected ulnar artery Dr Kelly would have lost no more than a pint of blood: the tiny artery would have immediately constricted and retracted, and blood-clotting would have ensued.
I shall be keeping an eye out for more on this one.
Just a note on journalists' suicides, Hunter Thompson, father of "gonzo journalism, mysteriously did himself in while completing an expose on 9/11 and there's a lot of similarity with the two.
Wow, Pamela...I'm a big HST fan, but this is the first time I've heard speculation about a 9/11 expose link. But you're certainly right that his suicide was a mystery...I still haven't heard a definitive story.
Laura @11.3:
Can we get 'disappeared'?
It might sound far-fetched, but once you erase the line between right and wrong and start thinking it's okay to disappear immigrants, visitors and those who might, possibly, have done something wrong...where do you stop? Where do you draw the new line?
Wow, Pamela...I'm a big HST fan, but this is the first time I've heard speculation about a 9/11
Partly the muckraker in me and partly the New Yorker and between keeping tabs on bodies and evidence there's a sweet spot in my heart for the Bonesman whose fortunes multiplied as a result of the event and other "unexplained or accidental" tragedies. The Blackwater rescue of the Polish Ambassador is fortuitous in a similar vein. I caught that story from Jon Stewart, good someone has news!
Hunter was too good at what he did and the "suicide" outside the Courtney Love crowd always make me wonder, like a small plane going down. What % of small plane fatalities are mixed blessings for some in the covert side?
I'll go you one better than HST and toss in Gary Condit and Chandra Levy. She was investigating the Oklahoma City bombings and interviewing McVeigh. What was lost in OK, service records for Bush I and a host of others from WWII. Anyway, here's my trail for that, the first link to Condit isn't mine, look for the fedup tags for me.
Hopefully links but once the basic facts are there, google works. Interesting pattern when the corporate- -government-think tank-spook banksters all have cyberspace connectivity reweaving the webs of deception.
Now this is pure spec, and it could just be a coincidence, wink, but could we be about to get our own Afghanistan bridge with the NAU highway up from Mexico??? One that is sure to be a great 'vehicle' for smuggling more drugs over the border???
If people want to find out how the major source drug traffickers really operate, they should read "The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace," by James Mills. Then once you get a good overview, start doing internet research into the Peruvian cartel that rarely gets any press coverage since they are nonviolent. The Paredes family has a huge walled compound/fortress and no one gets in or out of that place except by military escort. They are said to have controll over 2 trillion in american currency in various world banks. No one dares push them around since just by moving their money around they can cause severe swings in the stock and currency markets of the world. There's no "war on drugs." Doesn't that involve tanks and bombers and troops and body counts? Reagan disbanded "CENTAC." the supersecret agency within the DEA just 19 months after declaring the war on drugs. Dennis Dayle, the director of CENTAC, resigned in disgust from the DEA because every time they wanted to execute a major bust the CIA or State Dept. would step in and stop them. Reason? Because so many top political figures in European and Middle-Eastern governments were implicated. Such people are as addicted to the bribes as the street junkie is to the dope. They'll all burn in Hell.
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