[narconews] Conroy: Another Gov’t-Linked Cocaine Jet; Davies: Laughing at the News in Oaxaca
 
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:09:32 -0600 (CST)


January 30, 2008
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Dear Colleague,

Bill Conroy reports that a cocaine-filled jet seized in Nicaragua in
2004 bore a tail number that connects it to the secret flights of the
CIA's secret prisoner rendition program. This puts it in the company
of the Gulfstream II that crashed in Yucatan last September carrying
cocaine and heroin and has been the subject of several Narco News
reports since then, as well as a DC-9 seized in Mexico in 2006 with a
suspicious paper trail of its own.

Conroy reports:

"The press reports about the Beech 200 incident just didn't smell
right, given that members of a nonprofit Venezuelan search and rescue
group also obtained their own own photo of the abandoned aircraft.
That photo (link  here) does show the Beech 200's tail number: N168D,
which Federal Aviation Administration records indicate is registered
to a North Carolina company called Devon Holding and Leasing Inc.
According to press reports and an investigation conducted by the
European Parliament into the CIA's terrorist rendition program, Devon
Holding is a CIA shell company and N168D is a tail number to a CIA
aircraft.

"[A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agent says the press
was fed a big fat lie, and they bit on it hook, line and sinker,
because it made for good ink. The ICE agent adds that, to him, the
Beech 200 incident has all the markings of a government-run operation.
He says the reason the plane was not burned up is that the plan all
along was to reuse the aircraft for use in a future government
operation  and it was, according to the press reports, turned back
over to the Nicaraguan government after all."

Conroy writes that the growing evidence of U.S. intelligence
involvement in anti-narcotics operations (including new revelations of
CIA infiltration of the DEA in Asia published in Counterpunch last
week by Doug Valentine) are beginning to make the drug war look like
"one giant cover story."

Read the full report here:

http://www.narconews.com

Also new in The Narco News Bulletin, Nancy Davies' latest commentary
from Oaxaca, where she writes that Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz' is
mired in more scandals than ever but continues to smile for the
cameras as if nothing was wrong. Davies writes:

"Sunday evening the governor appeared on channel 9, his state channel
The scene was set at the foot of the broad marble staircase inside the
ex-government-palace-museum (who knows what to call it?) with a table
and chairs set onto a small rug in this odd location, surrounded by
vases of flowers and ferns. The cameras kept panning up the stairs to
the hall murals. URO demonstrated his ease by wearing a leather jacket
and a shirt open at the neck. The TV showed scenes of his accompanying
Eurofrosonia Cruz, scorned as president, with his comments that women
should have all rights. (Every time he refers to usos y costumbres,
saying they should be respected, he smiles. Oaxaca residents know he
is trying to do away with that system so that political appointees of
the PRI can enter those municipalities. It's frightening to see him
smile. He repeated many of the "profound reforms of the state"
programs I have heard before, including the Cuban program (of three
years ago) to teach reading to the many who are illiterate, and
repeated his stock answers to parents' demand for better education. He
insisted that important changes are underway. He assured the listening
public that the incomplete highway to the Isthmus will be completed.
He assured us that the two million Oaxaqueqos who still live and sleep
on dirt will be recipients of a program for installing cement floors,
another federal program of several years ago. Mobile health units are
going around the state taking blood pressures and tests for
papillomavirus (HPV). These services are free.

"In other words, he trotted out the same programs which are exposed
daily by Noticias as false, fraudulent or uncompleted, with photos of
half-built roads and decaying abandoned structures."

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>From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

Dan Feder
Editor-in-Chief
The Narco News Bulletin
www.narconews.com

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