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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 08:50 AM
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Cocaine planes make a "Bogotá Connection"
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Fri Apr 11th, 2008 at 09:18:22 PM EST
Federal Aviation Administration records obtained recently by Narco News offer some razor sharp evidence that a fat line of connections in the ongoing cocaine plane mystery leads right back to the nose of the U.S. government.
At the time a Gulfstream II jet, packed with nearly four tons of cocaine, crashed in Mexico’s Yucatan on Sept. 24 of last year, the owners of that jet were Clyde O’Connor and Greg Smith — both pilots who hail from Florida.

Both men have since vanished like vapor in the wake of that ill-fated Gulfstream II’s misadventure, but the paper trail has now caught up to them.


The Gulfsteam II jet (with the tail number N987SA) has been linked to past use in the CIA’s terrorist rendition program, according to media reports and an investigation by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
And now, via FAA and other documents obtained by Narco News, both Smith and O’Connor have been connected to yet another jet that has been used by U.S. government agencies (including the DEA, FBI and CIA) to advance covert operations targeting Latin America.

That jet is a Hawker business-class cruiser with the tail number N230TS. FAA records show that between Feb. 9, 2001, and June 16, 2005, Clyde O’Connor bought and sold this Hawker jet a total of five times through a series of three companies in which he is listed as an officer or “member.” In other words, O’Connor was essentially moving the Hawker jet back and forth between companies he controlled, according to the FAA records.

Those companies are the following:

Shewcon LLC of Miami, Fla.; Edax Investment Corp. of Nassau, Bahamas; and Core Investments of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (See link to the FAA records here.)

This is the same Clyde O’Connor who, according to a bill of sale, was listed along with Greg Smith as the owner of the Gulfstream II cocaine jet when it crashed in Mexico in late September 2007.

The Bogotá Connection...
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2008/4/11/211822/931

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Laurier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 02:38 AM
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1. And the significance of this is.... ???
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Sweet Pea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 08:53 AM
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2. You sure...
post up some weird things.
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 06:52 PM
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4. Facts are weird to you?
Who woulda thunk it?

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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 10:47 AM
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3. Thank you Joanne...
:hi: keep up the good work.
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Laurier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-26-08 10:12 PM
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5. I'll ask again: The significance of this is.... ???
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-26-08 10:49 PM
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6. Nothing, if you're referring to your own post. That's why no one answered you the first time..
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Laurier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 12:39 AM
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8. I think it was rather obvious to anyone with two or more arcing brain cells
that I was referring to the OP since that is the post to which I replied.

I still haven't seen anything of substance whatsoever in response. Care to be the first?
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 04:58 PM
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9. I think it was rather obvious to anyone with two or more arcing brain cells
that I was being sarcastic.

I also think it is rather obvious to anyone with two or more arcing brain cells that the OP is showing another link in the chain that is a Government run, CIA sponsored drug running operation. It's spelled out pretty neatly, if you have two or more arcing brain cells that enable you to read and then actually comprehend what you're reading....

If this is expecting too much of you, please let me know and I'll see if I can further simplify it (that means 'make it easier') for you, ok?





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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-28-08 02:29 PM
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7. Thank you Joanne...
CIA and Drugs again .....
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