Michael Palmer person
also: Palmer, Mike Palmer
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Claims (5)
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
CIA knew_about
Michael Palmer documented
“With CIA agents in 1991, CIA officer Fryer admitted that the CIA had gotten information that Palmer was dealing drugs during that. Fires heard that since Palmer's people got caught taking a plane of drugs into the U.S., and this is what cau…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:13:34
Pat Foley oversaw
Michael Palmer documented
“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 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:14:57
Alan Fiers knew_about
Michael Palmer documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:22:04
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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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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I'm sensing another pattern. Palmer, a former airline pilot, had worked since 1977 for the largest marijuana business cartel in the history of the country, according to a federal prosecutor in Detroit. Yet in 1985, Palmer became a freedom f…
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With CIA agents in 1991, CIA officer Fryer admitted that the CIA had gotten information that Palmer was dealing drugs during that. Fires heard that since Palmer's people got caught taking a plane of drugs into the U.S., and this is what cau…
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The FBI reported CIA thought that the Northern Contras were clean, but Palmer was its exception. Yeah, they're all dirty. So I'm getting the sense that if you get convicted of drug trafficking in the United States, they just make you an inf…
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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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And that, aside from Costa Rica, its itinerary had included a stop in Panama in Mexico after it left Colombia. Another contra flight, Lippard's plane came back with a unexpected 12 and a half hours of excess flying time on it. Palmer told h…
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In his testimony to the Iran-Contra Committee, Rob Owen confirmed that the airplane was involved in an unexplained, embarrassing situation in Costa Rica. That's when I decided some real strange shit was happening, Lippert said. It came back…
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I'll buy the damn plane from you. Palmer, who the CIA admits was working as an agency subcontractor at this point, arranged to buy Lippert's DC-4 through some associates of his, a Cuban lawyer from Miami named Jose Insua and an aircraft com…
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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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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…