Vortex Aviation organization
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Claims (5)
U.S. State Department hired
Vortex Aviation documented
“Just stay away from it, the judge snapped, refusing to allow any questions in the Noriega trial about any interactions with the CIA. Do you think he got a fair trial? Another Miami company the humanitarian office hired to ferry supplies was…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:12:37
Michael Palmer operated
Vortex Aviation documented
“Just stay away from it, the judge snapped, refusing to allow any questions in the Noriega trial about any interactions with the CIA. Do you think he got a fair trial? Another Miami company the humanitarian office hired to ferry supplies was…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:12:37
Vortex Aviation landed_at
San Andrés Island documented
“One of D.C. one D.C. for Palmer was using to deliver contra aid was shot up in February 1986 as it attempted to airdrop over Nicaragua and it made an emergency landing in San Andreas Island off the coast of Nicaragua, a notorious haven for …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:14:27
CIA knew_about
Vortex Aviation documented
“and two pilots for the prime contractor, all who were affiliated with the CIA Contra support program, may have been involved in narcotics prior to their relationship with the agency. That came from a CIA IG report. Records show that top CIA…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:21:38
Michael Palmer member_of
Vortex Aviation host_asserted
“a CIA veteran in Vietnam, directed both CETCO and Southern Air Transport. In other words, he was like the CEO. The second contractor was D-I-A-C-S-A. It was owned by a Bay of Pigs veteran, Alfredo Caballarero. The third was Vortex, whose vi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:02:22
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a CIA veteran in Vietnam, directed both CETCO and Southern Air Transport. In other words, he was like the CEO. The second contractor was D-I-A-C-S-A. It was owned by a Bay of Pigs veteran, Alfredo Caballarero. The third was Vortex, whose vi…
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Cocaine trade involves the billions of dollars in U.S. military hardware, which we pay for, used on the war on drugs and terror. This phenomenon is described as a military industrial narcotic complex. The Cold War saw the growth of this com…
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Just stay away from it, the judge snapped, refusing to allow any questions in the Noriega trial about any interactions with the CIA. Do you think he got a fair trial? Another Miami company the humanitarian office hired to ferry supplies was…
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was used at one time to run drugs, and part of the crew had criminal records. Nice group of boys chose Pat Foley as the owner of the Delaware-based company Summit Aviation, a longtime CIA and U.S. military contractor, often for clandestine …
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while Vortex was hauling, quote-unquote, humanitarian aid for the Contras. Those flights were piloted by Vortex's own crew, Lippert said. He knew one of the flights wound up in Columbia because he got a call from the FAA in Miami asking wha…
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As Lippert aptly observed in 1997, Jose Insua, a drug dealer, said he's hanging around a company, Vortex, with the State Department contractor, Michael Cepedis, and a drug dealer, and he issues two letters of credit for planes that are used…
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You tell me what's going on. Actually, the litany of drug dealers working for Vortex was less longer than that, according to, was even longer than that, according to the CIA inspector general. Michael Palmer, Joseph Haas, Alberto Herrero, M…
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and two pilots for the prime contractor, all who were affiliated with the CIA Contra support program, may have been involved in narcotics prior to their relationship with the agency. That came from a CIA IG report. Records show that top CIA…
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even before they recommended the company for the humanitarian project. It's the fucking reason they did. Come on. At least two agency officials, Alan Fiers and an unnamed CIA contractor, knew about Palmer's drug dealing before the agency ag…