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William Robert Tush Plumlee person

also: Buck Pearson, James Plumlee, James Rawlings, William Pearson, Juan Carbello, Plumlee, Mr. Plumlee

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Senate Foreign Relations Committeeorganization · 7CIAintelligence service · 7United Statescountry · 6Central Americacountry · 3Mexicocountry · 3Gary Hartperson · 2Phelps Dodge Corporationorganization · 1Boron, Californiaplace · 1Coloradocountry · 1Desert Springs, Californiaplace · 1Aerospace Technologyorganization · 1Riddle Airlinesorganization · 1Evergreen Helicoptersorganization · 1Cabo San Lucasplace · 1Santa Elena, Costa Ricaplace · 1Humboldt Mountain, Arizonaplace · 1Buckskin Mountainplace · 1Parker, Arizonaplace · 1Havasu City, Arizonaplace · 1Carlos Quinteroperson · 1Contrasorganization · 1Cubacountry · 1Panamacountry · 1Air Americaorganization · 1

Claims (7)

William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of CIA documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09
William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Riddle Airlines documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09
William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Phelps Dodge Corporation documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09
William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Intermountain Aviation documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09
William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Evergreen Helicopters documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09
William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Aerospace Technology documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09
William Robert Tush Plumlee member_of Air America documented
“military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 9:09

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The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 7:04 In closed-door testimony in 1991 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the CIA asset and pilot William Robert Tush Plumlee blew the whistle on alleged CIA narco-trafficking corruption in Latin America. Closed door. We're no…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 7:34 you're not allowed to know that your government is bringing drugs into the country to kill you. That meant that if he went public with the allegations, they would send him to jail for leaking classified information. You see how that works? …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 8:37 There was a summary of his congressional testimony leaked out about 10 years, if I recall right, after he did it. And I'm going to read you a part of it because it's very interesting. Sensitive documentation provided by law enforcement to t…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 9:09 military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 9:42 The Dodge Corporation, Intermountain Aviation, Evergreen Helicopters, Ace Technology, and Air America. There were other companies whose name he couldn't remember. As a standard CIA procedure, Plumlee stated to this committee that the agency…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 10:10 Some of his aliases included Buck Pearson, James Plumlee, James Rawlings, William Pearson, Juan Carbello, and others he, again, could not remember. Plumlee, having served in the U.S. Army, told the committees that he tried to leave covert o…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 10:40 projects. Mr. Plumlee confirmed to the committee the existence of alleged drug smuggling operations involving the CIA and the U.S. military with the full knowledge of the White House and the National Security Council. He mentioned drug flig…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 11:10 Gary Hart, isn't that the one that they set up with the honeypot? Yeah, that Gary Hart. Mr. Plumlee testified under oath that there was close cooperation between Mexican and U.S. government officials in drug smuggling. There is other eviden…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 11:41 Mr. Plumlee described one of the drug corridors used by the CIA that ran the length of the Baja California with a refueling stop at an airstrip north of Cabo San Lucas. He described another common drug route that he flew starting in Panama …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 12:10 drugs to airfields throughout the United States Southwest, including Borigo Springs, California, and another one near Humboldt Mountain in Arizona. He provided the committee with detailed maps of the airstrips near Buckskin Mountain, close …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 12:38 Mr. Plumlee mentioned in passing the infamous Mexican narco-trafficker Carlos Quintero in a major drug deal in 1984 involving Quintero, then involved in U.S.-backed right-wing Contras. Plumlee's information corroborated what other several s…