[narconews] Conroy: Cocaine Plane Evidence Points to Covert Op Targeting Venezuela
 
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:22:16 -0500 (CDT)


March 12, 2008
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Dear Colleague:

In his latest story on U.S. government connections to a growing  
number of drug trafficking planes, Bill Conroy presents his strongest  
argument yet that these aircraft may be linked to a major covert  
operation in Latin America. The likely target? Venezuela and its  
president, Hugo Chavez.

Conroy reports:

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 countrys outspoken leader,  
Hugo Chavez, 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.

Read the full story, only in The Narco News Bulletin.

http://www.narconews.com

 From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

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

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