Marana Airport place
also: Penal County Airpark, Marana, M-A-R-A-N-A, Marana base
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Intermountain Aviationorganization · 3CIAintelligence service · 3Nicaraguacountry · 1Tosh Plumleeperson · 1Boliviacountry · 1Evergreen International Airlinesorganization · 1Gar Thornsrudperson · 1Connie M. Seigristperson · 1Douglas Priceperson · 1eSystemsorganization · 1Stephen Crittendenperson · 1Tucson, Arizonaplace · 1Maricopa Countyplace · 1Evergreen Aviation Corporationorganization · 1Bay of Pigsoperation · 1
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Marana Airport carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“has always been a CIA front company. Rumors ran rampant that during Iran-Contra, the airstrip had been one of several used for drug shipments. He knew the facility, which was located near Highway 10 that runs from Phoenix to Tucson, that th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 33:16
Mentions (9)
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Yes, I know. I've found them, you know, but they don't check the... No, they don't check the UPS packages either. Same here. Oh, my God. Distributed cocaine and covert operations involving the DEA as well. And the DEA was in on a lot of thi…
▶ 57:26
Marana is M-A-R-A-N-A. CIA money was flown from headquarters in McLean, Virginia, to pay their South American contacts in heavily guarded Marana Airport, sometimes using a Boeing 707 aircraft with NASA markings on it. Crittenden, who flew t…
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Intermountain Aviation was at Marana, Arizona, northwest of Tucson. That's where Evergreen comes in. Intermountain had been formed in the late 1950s as an aircraft modification and maintenance facility, originally the Sonora Flying Service.…
▶ 51:47
The base had long been the center of air crew training, and the CIA soon used it for that as well. They also used it for modifying aircraft. Once succeeding in making their first solo flights, pilots were dunked in the swimming pool that fe…
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showed up at Marana as president of Inner Mountain, ran by the CIA. His chief lieutenant, Connie M. Seigrist and Douglas Price, had been his deputies at trampoline for the Cuba project. So they just picked up and moved that group of pilots …
▶ 15:01
Evergreen invested some $24 million in the Marana base over the decades, turning it into the largest aircraft storage facility in the world. And I've been there, that's true. It's crazy how big it is. And of course, this is the same facilit…
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It was based in Rantoul, Kansas, but one of its subsidiary companies was at the MENA airport. And that's where he pulled in then the Plumlee testimony of having ran drugs out of MENA.…
▶ 32:46
He had heard of covert operations trainings that had been conducted for some time only 90 minutes away at a highly secret base called Penal County Airpark. Known in aviation history as Marana, this airport is locked down secure facility for…
▶ 46:20
Proof that this involved a ground insertion and extraction by vehicle. To prove this last possibility was the case, it would depend on what information came back from Maricopa County in regards to the tracking of vehicles in and out of the …