U.S. Cocaine-Plane Invasion Spooking Latin America

[Joanne98]

Trail of Evidence Points to Major Covert Operation Targeting Venezuela


By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
March 11, 2008

Two Florida-based companies that have exported a total of at least 11 aircraft to Venezuelan buyers since 2003 are linked to four cocaine planes and what appears to be an elaborate covert intelligence operation, an ongoing Narco News investigation shows.

The covert program, law enforcement sources contend, likely involves the CIA and components of Defense Department intelligence agencies, and is focused, in part, on penetrating, or even propping up, narco-trafficking groups in Venezuela. That country’s outspoken leader, Hugo Chávez, is regularly demonized by U.S. policymakers for, among other things, supposedly allowing his country to become a haven for narco-traffickers.

The operation also appears to prioritize intelligence objectives over law enforcement goals, which means tons of cocaine might well be getting a free pass into the United States.

Foreign law enforcement authorities confiscated two of these cocaine planes — one in the Dominican Republic and one in Nicaragua, (tail numbers N1100M and N391SA, respectively) — on suspicion of cocaine trafficking. A third plane (tail number N12DT) is cited along with N1100M in a pending FBI money laundering case involving a Venezuelan-based drug-trafficking organization.

The fourth aircraft, a Gulfstream II jet (tail number N987SA), crashed in Mexico in late September last year with a payload of some four tons of cocaine onboard.

The companies at the center of this parade of cocaine planes are Skyway Aircraft Inc. of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Planes and Parts Enterprises LLC of Doral, Fla.

In addition, a third Florida company, also named Skyway Aircraft Inc., but based in Clearwater, Fla. (just north of St Petersburg in the greater Tampa area), is linked to a fifth cocaine plane, a DC-9 jet (tail number N900SA), which was apprehended by Mexican authorities in April 2006 with some 5.5 tons of white powder onboard. The DC-9 had been sold to an unknown Venezuelan buyer only days before it was busted in Mexico.

Two of these cocaine planes – the Gulfstream II and a Beech 200 (N391SA) found in Nicaragua with the false tail number N168D – have been tied to the CIA’s terrorist rendition program via their Federal Aviation Administration-issued tail numbers, according to European investigators.

In addition, the two Skyway companies are associated with individuals who have done highly sensitive work for the Department of Defense or U.S. intelligence agencies, public records show and Narco News sources confirm. The third company, Planes and Parts, it turns out, appears to be little more than a paper shell company that can be traced back to a Mail Boxes Etc. service located at a UPS store in the Miami area.

None of the principals of these three companies has been charged with any crime in relation to the cocaine planes — as would be expected in a U.S.-sanctioned intelligence operation. Company officials with Skyway Aircraft in St. Petersburg contend they have done nothing wrong and claim they cannot control what happens to an aircraft once it is sold to an overseas buyer.

Representatives of Skyway Aircraft in Clearwater, whose parent company is now in bankruptcy, could not be reached for comment. The company’s phone number is disconnected.

However, a shareholder and major creditor in the company — who operates a separate firm that sold the DC-9 jet apprehended in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine onboard — also told Narco News he has no control over what happens to an aircraft once it is sold to a foreign buyer.

The principal of Planes and Parts, an individual named Andrew Wilson, could not be located and appears, based on a search of public records, to be as vaporous as the company itself.

But behind these disclaimers is a complex series of connections that, for all three companies, appear to point to the U.S. intelligence agencies and their standard operating practice of ensuring plausible deniability.


Planes and Parts

The latest focus of Narco News’ investigation into the cocaine planes centers on Planes and Parts Enterprises of Doral, Fla. — which is located in the Miami metro area. The company is mentioned by name in a federal criminal case now pending in Miami.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue51/article3031.html

[99th_Monkey]

1. Nice to see our "War on Drugs" is working so swimmingly

working just fine thank you...just ask Officer Barbrady

<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="COP "Nothing to see here, move along""></a>

[Deny and Shred]

2. Looks like the CIA kept right on drug trafficking after Iran Contra.

Quelle surprise

[Oldenuff]

5. yep

We've got a business to run....lucrative business as well.

[judasdisney]

3. Will the Democratic President in 2009 stop this operation?

Will the next Democratic President put an end to the attacks on Venezuela?

My prediction:

President Hillary Clinton will order the assassination of Hugo Chavez.

The U.S. deserves its damnation to hell.

[Arctic Dave]

4. This in no way will have any type

of reprecussions. After all the Iran/Contra thing never came back to bite us in the rear end. Oh, Wait a second, IT DID! Never mind.

[happydreams]

6. Skyway, Atta, Khashoggi,Tom Delay, Kuwaitis, Saudis, et. al.

At least the story will be sourced now...


Mel Martinez endorsed SkywayWho were in Skyway:
Skyway's investors consisted of 24 Kuwaiti and Saudi nationals, and a group of 90 shareholders in Kentucky who thought that Skyway would protect airplanes from terrorism (1). The Kuwaiti want $100 million for Skyway as an additional bonus and they were brought into the scheme by Nazar Talib, an Arkansas securities dealer (2)

Skyway had political support from ex-Cuban Senator Mel Martinez (Florida, Republican) who was the previous Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George W. Bush. (13)
The political support from Tom Delay was mainly words and I agree with Cannonfire that it was more a political speech and I can't find a direct connection. (11)

Skyway have been in "secret" talks with Corban Networks (14) to start again since Feb. 14, 2005 and Ray Powers from Corban Networks joined to company on April 24th (5)

On Nov. 28, 2005 Kovar was talking with original Arab investors, and "the end result is it's going well." (1)



The actual Skyway BoothWhat was in Skyway:

One 1989 Cessna 172 (4)

Two 1966 MD-DC-9s (4)

A fleet (number unknown) of Humvees (3)

Some fake displays (6)

Red Sea Management
The non-existing DuPont investment was registered on the same address as Red Sea Management (5) and even though they didn't exist, they gratiously donated a plane to Skyway (7).

Red Sea Management is a dubious off-shore specialist which is operated by David Ricci. He only operates by referal and doesn't do anything for clients with less than a quarter of a million to spend. (9)

They are engaged in the business of setting up off-shore asset protection structures. At the same address 21 accounts where opened by Stephen Taub and David Ricci was one of the three people who could trade with it. Stephen Taub referred also Rakesh Saxena to Red Sea Management. (7, 8)



Uri Geller and Khashoggi
Stephen Taub was under investigation for a lot of inside market manipulator (8) for big players like David Ricci, Rakesh Saxena, Rafi Khan and Amador Pastrana. (7)

Rafi Khan was making a lot of money with Khashoggi's GenesisIntermedia on 9/11 (12)

Pastrani's collapsible companies
Pastrina is a strange guy since he works with collapsible companies.

Indeed, Pastrana, who is said to head a global network of "collapsible" companies that hype nearly worthless stocks to gullible investors and then just suddenly close shop months later, remains free to enjoy the billions of dollars he is reported to have earned in the few years that he has been in business. (10)

Citing an FBI dossier, the reports said the "perpetrators" of the scam were "Manila- and Los Angeles-based Amador A. Pastrana, the 'mastermind of the operations' and US citizens Regis Possino and Sherman Mazur," as well as prominent Saudi arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi. (10)

Does this proof that Khashoggi is involved?
No, because this is a very indirect link, however duPont investment and Lantex seemed to have worked together and duPont investment was a collapsible company. Just like the kind of companies which Pastrani seems trade in.

Sources:
1. http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/11/21/...
2. http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/10/03/...
3. http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/10/03/...
4. http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/08/29/...
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20050323055323/http://www.ou... (no longer online)
6. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ChMgWfgmXJ0J:www.o... (no longer online)
7. http://www.alabamaagainstfraud.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?...
8. http://www.ida.ca/Files/Enforcement/HearingAndParticula... (official document)
9. http://www.alabamaagainstfraud.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?...
10. http://www.pcij.org/stories/2002/pastrana2.html
11. http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/tom-delay-appoin...
12. http://www.sbindymedia.org/newswire/display/3334/index....
13. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mel_Martinez
14. http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id...

















www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=93668&mesg_

[happydreams]

7. Note: Huffman aviation owned by friend of Jeb Bush. .....

Republicans,Drugs and Money: Guantanamo Rendition Plane, Cocaine, Homeland 'Security',Money Laundering,Stock Fraud

In April,2006 it was revealed that a plane owned by Skyway Communications of Lakeland,Florida and Royal Sons holding company using Huffman Aviation(where Mohamed Atta trained before 9/11),as its address and paradoxically rented by the Howard Dean's Democrat presidential campaign of 2004 had been busted by the Mexican army at the Ciudad Del Carmen,Campeche airport on the Yucatan Peninsula with over 5.5 tons of cocaine on board.
Now yet another plane,(a Gulfstream II),that crashed in the Yucatan on Sept 24th this year with 4 tons of cocaine on board has connections to the Skyway Communications DC-9,(confiscated by the Mexican army and now used by the Mexican Attorney General's office),as well as to Guantanamo 'rendition' flights that may have taken place from or through Europe.Skyway Communications,a penny stock 'pump and dump' is,according to Daniel Hopsicker of madcowprod and SEC filings,connected to Titan Corporation(torturors at Abu Ghraibe,etc.),a subsidiary of Level-3 Corporation of San Diego,California that has done very well for itself financially in the 'war on terror'. Titan in San Diego strangely enough has been employer to a mysterious Lebanese-American,Makram Chams, who owned a Kwik Check cashing business in Venice,Florida that cashed a $70,000 check for Mr. Atta that was sent from Dubai,(now the official home of Halliburton),shortly before 9/11.
American-Israeli attorney Michael Farkas, founder of Skyway Communications,has both U.S. intelligence connections as well as far right Israeli connections including to Israel's largest defense or military corporation.He supports Israeli West Bank settlements or occupation of Palestinian land as well.
Company executives include the Kovars,Glenn and Brent,father and son.

The Kovars in turn appear to have NSA as well as White House connections.It was they who brought now defrauded investors from Tennessee to the White House as part of the con !
It was the Mexican Attorney General who recently acknowledged that the DC 9 captured in Mexico last year had ties to the Gulfstream II aircraft that crashed in the Yucatan in September of this year.And that plane has been proven and accepted to have made flights to Guantanamo no doubt for the U.S. government and military. Go figure.

Below are links to related stories by Daniel Hopsicker into the Skyway Communications penny stock fraud drug trafficking and probable money laundering operations that the Mexian Attorney General's bust of the money exchange proves was and is going on.Can arms trafficking be far behind ? Because Homeland Security Czar,(and Israeli spy ?),Michael Chertoff,(who replaced the butcher of Central America ,John Negroponte, in that position),and neither of them investigated or even criticised Skyway Communications 'management' for painting its two DC 9s to look like Homeland Security aircraft.Both Chertoff and Negroponte should be brought before the Congress to explain.

Among other facts proving that fact is stranger than fiction is the fact that Skyway Communications founded by far right Israeli-American Michael Farkas had among its original investors,Al Ali Al Sabah,head of the Kuwait National Guard who is himself a member of the Al Sabah royalty of Kuwait ! There is a U.S. government and Republican Party connection as well. Tom DeLay himself and a Republican business council endorsed Skyway Communications as a legit and credible company while they and Titan Corp were promoting the worthless company and selling worthless shares to investors ! Even ex Florida Governor Jeb Bush's Florida Dept. of Transportation was used to endorse and lend credibility to this fraudulent front for illegal penny stock pump and dump activities and as it turns out - drug trafficking and money laundering activities.
Daniel Hopsicker pointed out after the April 2006 bust of Skyway's DC 9 in Ciudad Del Carmen,Campeche that it seemed to be covered up by both the ruling U.S. Republican party as well as the ruling Mexican political party PAN.

With the apparent NSA,CIA and White House connections of the penny stock fraudsters who ran Skyway Communications to bankruptcy and left naive investors with 100% losses it is hard to imagine those responsible on this side of the border will be brought to justice any time soon.The money to buy the DC-9 Homeland Security plane or 'Cocaine One' that was used by Howard Dean's political campaign in the 2004 presidential running season came from money defrauded from investors while the U.S. SEC or Securities Exchange Commission looked the other way.And as Daniel Hopsicker also pointed out,the stock fraud that bought those cocaine trafficking planes appears to be as lucrative as the cocaine trafficking itself.(Perhaps Howard Dean's internet gurus,Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of the DailyKos were the one who rented that cocaine and penny stock fraud bought DC-9 from Skyway Communications for the Dean campaign.After all Armstrong has admitted to touting or promoting worthless penny stock scams for pay on the world wide internet and scam penny stock sites such as ragingbull.com and Mr.Kos,(Markos Moulitsas Zúniga ),has admitted to working or training with the CIA.)

It took me several years to even realise that 9/11/01 could not have happened without foreign agents,both Israelis and Kuwaitis,controlling the worthless U.S. penny stock companies ICTS International and Securacom.
The Israelis were our only line of defense in guarding Logan Airport, Massachusetts and Newark Airport in New Jersey while Securacom a penny stock scam operated by Marvin Bush and his daddy's(ex President George Herbert Walker Bush),Kuwait royal family allies(or at least one member,Mishal Yousef Saud al Sabah,who was also on the board of Securacom).And any fool would know that Israeli intelligence and even more so,(if that's possible),Kuwait royalty and their Bush partners all hated Saddam Hussein enough perhaps to do pure evil to cause him harm.
I owe thanks to both Chrisptopher Bollyn for the heads up on ICTS International and to Margie Burns
for her writing and research into Securacom and the Bush-Al Sabah connection.Both Securacom and ICTS International were not just incompetent at best in guarding strategic American real estate they were responsible for but both were also fraudulent penny stock scams that defrauded investors and probably used their worthless shares to launder money as well as to buy and bribe their way into the U.S. national security - airport and real estate - 'protection' industry. Margie Burns did mention that Mr.Al Sabah and Wirt Walker III of the Bush-Al Sabah and Securacom scam
were also involved in another penny stock scam that was prosecuted for stock fraud.

Daniel Hopsicker however is the only investigative reporter to research 9/11 from Venice,Florida,where Mohamed Atta trained or partied awaiting 9/11 to happen.

Below are quotes from Daniel Hopsicker,(the only investigator and reporter to cover 9/11 from Venice, Florida where Mohamed Atta was trained or protected at Wally Hilliard's,(ex Florida Governor Jeb Bush friend), terror flight school,Huffman Aviation), about the September crash in the Yucatan of a Gulfstream II aircraft carrying up to 4 tons of cocaine that just happened to also have access to Gitmo or the U.S. Guantanamo prison.:

from: Porter Goss' Resignation 'Mystery Solved:DC 9 With 5.5 Tons Of Cocaine Was CIA Plane by Daniel Hopsicker,May 25 2006--Venice,FL

www.madcowprod.com/05252006.html

5.5 tons cocaine... AND a missing $300 million?
At least three companies to which “Cocaine One’s” twin was registered have been looted, to the overall tune of almost $300 million dollars. The plane's owners have left a trail of tears for investors, engaging in massive financial fraud, of a particular kind...
Sociologists call it “state-sponsored crime.”
Innocent investors and shareholders get swindled, the bad guys get away, and newspapers go silent. There is clearly something about these particular DC9’s which give their owners a license to treat shareholders and investors like marks, and steal millions from ordinary citizens.
Working backwards from the present, the plane’s registered owner at the time it was busted was SkyWay Aircraft, the only tangible asset of SkyWay Communications Holding, a firm whose existence, as we’ve previously seen, served as nothing more than a meager excuse to run a penny stock fraud scam which bilked investors of a reported $40 million dollars... in less than three years.
SkyWay shareholders will no doubt be gratified to learn that the bankruptcy of the firm seems not to have adversely affected the firm’s top officers financially.
SkyWay’s 74 yr. old Chairman Glenn Kovar is currently building a six bedroom vacation chalet on a lake several miles north of Ducktown, Tennessee, tucked away in a picturesque rural setting boasting splendid whitewater rafting.
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Mexico Attorney General:Busted American Drug Planes Flew For Same Operation by Daniel Hopsicker

www.madcowprod.com/11122007.html

Drug Planes Flown by Same Operation

Was U.S. in Business with Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel?
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
Nov 12, 2007

by Daniel Hopsicker

www.madcowprod.com



Two weeks after the MadCowMorningNews exclusively reported suspicious connections between the owners of the two American-registered planes busted with multi-ton loads of cocaine during the past 18 months on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the Mexican Attorney General confirmed that both planes were used by the same smuggling operation.
In coordinated raids Thursday on Casa de Cambio Puebla SA, a country-wide network of currency exchanges, many located at airports, squads of heavily-armed Mexican Federal Police took more than 70 people into custody, targeting a ring they said used laundered money to buy airplanes to smuggle drugs, Mexico's Attorney General's Office said in a news release.
Nabbed in the raid was Pedro Alfonso Alatorre Damy, identified by authorities as the major money launderer for Mexico’s Pacific Cartel, sometimes called the Sinaloa Cartel, as well as the New Federation, run by fugitive Mexican kingpin Juan “Shorty” Guzman.
Both the DC9 airliner (N900SA) busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine 18 months ago and the Gulfstream II (N987SA) business jet which crash-landed with 4 tons of cocaine had been purchased by Alatorre with laundered drug money from his “Cambio de Pueblo” currency exchanges, said a statement Friday from Mexico’s Attorney General Office.
Alatorre, alias El Piri, was arrested moments after attempting to wire $2.7 million into an account at Harris Bank in Chicago, apparently to buy more planes. In addition to that account, 23 accounts at the Wachovia Bank of Miami containing $11 million were frozen by U. S. authorities.
A major partner in the Casa de Cambio of Puebla exchanges, according to several Mexican newspapers, is Jose Ramon Gutierrez de Velasco, former mayor of Vera Cruz and close political associate of former Mexican President Vicente Fox.........
Meet the "Usual Suspects"
Left unanswered by the raids in Mexico is whether anyone will suffer any consequences on the American side of the border. The DEA's operative assumption may be that the Sinaloa Cartel was buying its jets on Ebay. Perhaps the cartel is distributing it to retail as well, using vendors who sell usually oranges at freeway onramps.
Otherwise, with no arrests of Americans forthcoming, the question of where the hell are the American drug lords may arise yet again, though not, of course, in major American newspapers...........
Representing Casa de Cambio in Miami, for example, is famed “white powder” attorney Frank Rubino, a former Secret Service agent who once protected Richard M. Nixon in Key Biscayne, Fl., then later the lawyer for Medellin kingpin Carlos Lehder. Most recently he has been the chief lawyer for Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega..........

A Senate subcommittee chaired by Senator Carl Levin, who headed a year-long money laundering probe, accused Harris Bank of being a 'significant gateway' for laundered money through correspondent accounts, or relationships with banks operating in tax havens outside the United States.
The bank had been linked to a paper company involved in financial fraud called “Hanover Bank of Antigua,” run by PR man with no banking experience whose sole banking credential appeared to be his service as a public relations advisor to former Irish prime minister Charles Haughey. .....
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The DC9 airliner, dubbed Cocaine One because it was painted to be indistinguishable from official U.S. Government planes from the Dept. of Homeland Security, belonged to a company which received an unexplained investment from San Diego defense contractor Titan Corp., to cite one example among many.
The DC9 airliner was also used, without reimbursement, during the first-time Senatorial campaign of Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez, who until recently was President George W Bush’s handpicked chairman of the national Republican Party.
The Gulfstream II business jet, which some immediately dubbed Cocaine Two, was named in a European EU Commission investigation as one of the CIA planes involved in extraordinary renditions. Even if it didn't, evidence indicating it was a U.S. Government plane is its at-least several flights through highly-restricted airspace to the highly-secure U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
It was in Mexico on at least two previous occasions, though no record of dates of departure or destination could be found. This fits Mexican journalists' reports of being denied routine access to airport logs in Cancun to show the plane's previous flights.
The EU investigation reportedly logged 794 flights by the Gulfstream between November 17, 2001 and December 25, 2005. It flew in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Iceland and Ireland, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Jamaica, Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe Islands and St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Aruba, Santo Tomás, the Bahamas, Santa Lucia, Hawaii, Bermuda and Cancún.
"Cocaine 2" clearly got around.
Roughly during this time period, the plane was owned, at least on paper, by a New York company owned by a Russian immigrant with reported ties to top-level Russian Mobsters, according to the New York Post, as well as a George W. Bush Ranger who personally bought over $1 million of billboard ads for Bush during his 2000 Presidential election bid, which was a MadCowMorningNews exclusive.
The fact that the plane has had an impressive list politically well-connected recent owners is, no doubt, merely coincidental with the recent discovery of 4 tons of cocaine in the passenger cabin.
Otherwise someone would have been charged with a crime by now. And all that is heard officially, in regards to this matter, is a deathly silence.

Waterboarding the Water pilots?
The sequence of events began when a DC9 was busted by Mexican soldiers after landing under suspicious circumstances at a rural airport in Campeche after a flight from Venezuela on April 10, 2006. According to Mexican officials, the flight originated in Colombia.
Two pilots of Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) Fernando Poot Perez and Marco Aurelio Perez de Gracia, were arrested during the seizure of more than five tons of cocaine after loitering around the tiny rural airport trying to look inconspicuous in their Falcon business jet while awaiting the arrival of the DC9.
The investigation which followed revealed a network of money-laundering for the cartel headed by Joaquín El Chapo Guzman, the Mexican Attorney General's statement said.
Then, six weeks ago, on Sept 24th, a Gulfstream II was caught after a late-night flight from the Medellin International Airport in Rio Negro. After the plane was denied permission to land at the Cancun Airport, it circled over the Yucatan peninsula until just after dawn, then crash-landed, breaking into thre pieces, in a field outside the Yucatan capital of Merida.
No one was apparently injured in the crash, and the crew and passengers were gone by the time Mexican military helicopters arrived on the scene.
- Daniel Hopsicker

SLOPPY TRADECRAFT EXPOSES CIA DRUG PLANE
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
Oct 08, 2007
by Daniel Hopsicker
www.madcowprod.com



Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug trafficking incident in Mexico's Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a dummy front company of the kind usually associated with the CIA.
A weekend visit to “Donna Blue Aircraft Inc” of Coconut Beach FL., the company which FAA records show owned the Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA) which crash-landed with 3.7 tons of cocaine aboard in Mexico’s Yucatan two weeks ago, has revealed that the company’s listed address is an empty office suite with a blank sign out front.
There was no sign of Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc., at the address listed at the Florida Dept. of Corporations, 4811 Lyons Technology Parkway #8 in Coconut Beach FL.
However, there were, oddly enough, a half-dozen unmarked police cars parked directly in front of the empty suite.
Phone calls to Butters Development, the industrial park's leasing agent, went unreturned.
Moreover the brief description of Donna Blue on its Internet page, apparently designed to “flesh out the ghost a little,” is such a clumsy half-hearted effort that it defeats the purpose of helping aid the construction of a plausible “legend,” or cover, and ends up doing more harm than good...........

Increasing suspicion even more was the suggestion, in a report of a committee of the European Parliament, that in addition to having been used in drug trafficking the Gulfstream II had flown CIA rendition flights to Guantanamo.
Unnamed authorities quoted in Associated Press accounts dismissed this report, saying there was no evidence the plane flew renditions, but failed to address the fact that Guantanamo is highly restricted airspace, and any plane landing there can be presumed to be working for the U.S. Government.
What has raised the crash-landing of the Gulfstream II drug plane with U.S. Government connections to the level of real outrage is its extraordinary similarity to the DC9 airliner caught a year and a half ago, after which the planes’ registered owner suffered no ill consequences from having his airplane caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine onboard.
There are “wonderful similarities,” Mexican newspaper Por Esto reported drolly, “between the Gulfstream which crash-landed in the tiny hamlet of Tixkokob and the DC9 busted in Ciudad del Carmen which help explain why, despite the fact that almost 18 months has passed, the American owner of the DC9 has not been charged with any crime.”

Ghost Fleets of Ghost Planes owned by Ghost Companies
The reference is to information contained in a series of articles in the MadCowMorningNews detailing connections between the DC9 and the national Republican Party, like its unpaid use flying current Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez around the state during his last week blitz before his election to the Senate in 2004.
The DC9’s owner was identified in FAA documents as Royal Sons’ Inc., owned by Frederic Geffon of St. Petersburg.
Yet despite the fact that Geffon back-dated sales documents and then had them faxed to the FAA several days after his DC9 was already in the news for the big bust, no action has been taken against Geffon, or any other owners of the plane.
Geffon claimed he had sold the DC9, several weeks before it was caught, and identified the buyer as an “airplane broker” in California who investigation revealed has no history of selling airplanes.
The circumstances of the subsequent “investigations” share many similarities. The governments involved—Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, and Colombia—all appear unable to agree on who owned the planes when they were busted.
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skyway communications cocaine rendition penny stocks
from: Porter Goss' Resignation 'Mystery Solved:DC 9 With 5.5 Tons Of Cocaine Was CIA Plane by Daniel Hopsicker,May 25 2006--Venice,FL

www.madcowprod.com/05252006.html

5.5 tons cocaine... AND a missing $300 million?
At least three companies to which “Cocaine One’s” twin was registered have been looted, to the overall tune of almost $300 million dollars. The plane's owners have left a trail of tears for investors, engaging in massive financial fraud, of a particular kind...
Sociologists call it “state-sponsored crime.”
Innocent investors and shareholders get swindled, the bad guys get away, and newspapers go silent. There is clearly something about these particular DC9’s which give their owners a license to treat shareholders and investors like marks, and steal millions from ordinary citizens.
Working backwards from the present, the plane’s registered owner at the time it was busted was SkyWay Aircraft, the only tangible asset of SkyWay Communications Holding, a firm whose existence, as we’ve previously seen, served as nothing more than a meager excuse to run a penny stock fraud scam which bilked investors of a reported $40 million dollars... in less than three years.
SkyWay shareholders will no doubt be gratified to learn that the bankruptcy of the firm seems not to have adversely affected the firm’s top officers financially.
SkyWay’s 74 yr. old Chairman Glenn Kovar is currently building a six bedroom vacation chalet on a lake several miles north of Ducktown, Tennessee, tucked away in a picturesque rural setting boasting splendid whitewater rafting.
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[happydreams]

8. Something very nasty lies at the bottom of this little episode.

IMHO.