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also: Southern Air, Southern Air Transport Command, SAT

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Claims (56)

James Schlesinger rejected Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“All of that in the Department of Defense. So I'm going to go back to the book now. A former owner of Southern Air Transport bid for the corporation and offered $5.6 million. Helms approved the sale during his last month as DCI. And the Sout…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 13:01
William Colby ordered_assassination_of Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“As acting director, Colby ordered final liquidation on July 31st, 1973, but the former owner made a further counteroffer. The sale closed on the last day of 1973. There were later repercussions when the owner himself then liquidated Souther…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 13:34
Richard Helms approved Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“All of that in the Department of Defense. So I'm going to go back to the book now. A former owner of Southern Air Transport bid for the corporation and offered $5.6 million. Helms approved the sale during his last month as DCI. And the Sout…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 13:01
Southern Air Transport front_for CIA documented
“There will be more about this later on. Samos also appeared in the Iran-Contra scandal in connection with an off-the-shelf Panamanian company called Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises, or ACE. That company was set up in 1984 and then sold t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 34:48
Southern Air Transport contracted_with Burlington Air Express documented
“Flying night freight. Buffalo had five aircraft then and sold a couple of them to Burlington. Then we were the unsuccessful bidders in a second contract with Burlington. We went back to ad hoc freight business from 1984 to 88. That's the of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 19:26
United States funded Southern Air Transport host_asserted
“Plan Colombia has played a similar role in restructuring Southern Air Transport, which declared bankruptcy in September 1998. Southern Air Transport had utilized considerable profits from the Persian Gulf War in 1990, just eight years befor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 39:53
Southern Air Transport based_in Miami caller_asserted
“So this is what I have. He worked the late 1980s until up till 2010. So not only Southern Air, which was based out of Miami, he also worked, did contracts. And sometimes they were, he had a non-disclosure agreement and sometimes he did not …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:09:43
CIA funded Southern Air Transport documented
“As in the Far East, the CIA proprietary and contract airlines have been accused of a more direct involvement in drug trafficking. The U.S. airline Southern Air Transport has been flying to Colombia and Venezuela since at least 1960, when it…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 34:39
United States Department of Defense covered_up Southern Air Transport documented
“In January 1987, during the first phase of the Iran-Contra revelations, newspapers reported that the Justice Department had recently suppressed a DEA investigation into Southern Air Transport's role in drug trafficking. Here's a quote.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 35:07
Southern Air Transport won_contract_from U.S. Air Force documented
“This is what William Polly was setting up over there. Much smaller but still significant was Southern Air Transport, which grew large enough to have a semi-autonomous corporation division for the Atlantic and the Pacific. This company both …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 58:44
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Contras documented
“When Southern Air's role in the Iran-Contra scandal was exposed, it had been an airline of choice to haul arms to Iran and to the Contra. Bastian denied any connection to the CIA, because of course you're going to. What he couldn't deny wer…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 55:17
John Bastian purchased Southern Air Transport documented
“What are they flying out of Iran covertly with CIA assets? Oh, that's right. Iran in the north had opium. The fall of the Shah hurt business. Even with the Iranian deals, Southern Air Transport posted a loss. The Iranian account disappeared…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 38:44
William Langer appointed Southern Air Transport documented
“Bastion had been Southern Air Transport's lawyer for the CIA. So they're not really selling it. It's just a paper shuffle. Southern Air Transport maintained headquarters and operating facilities in Miami. Operating revenue in 82 totaled alm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 39:16
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Angola documented
“Total revenues of almost $40 million. So they were basically doing about 60% of their business with either the Pentagon or the CIA. Southern Air's largest private account was a subcontractor to the Anglo-Irish firm IAS Guernsey to provide f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 40:19
U.S. State Department warned Southern Air Transport documented
“Southern Air Transport flew almost 600 flights to Angola. Again, not civilian. At one point, the State Department warned Southern Air Transport against carrying, they put out a formal warning saying, don't carry Cuban soldiers to Angola. Li…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 41:23
Oliver North used Southern Air Transport documented
“but an arrangement to deliver humanitarian assistance to Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras as well. And those are the ones that Oliver North and his buddy in the State Department is going to use. Southern Air Transport remained strong through t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 42:54
Southern Air Transport laundered_money_for James Bastian documented
“We know the report's coming out that implicates our proprietary company and drug running. So we're just going to go ahead and file bankruptcy. No big deal. Proceeds from the sale of the Southern Air Transport assets were deposited in the pe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 32:47
Pacific Corporation secretly_owned Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“was a holding company, Pacific Corporation, also known as Pacific Power and Light. Did you know that? Also, Pacific Corp. and Pacific Harbor Capital. Pacific Corp. owned CIA companies such as Air America, SAT, and Intermountain Air.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 52:56
CIA financed_via Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“Beerly slated a first mission for the same weekend that Francis Gary Powers was shot down in Russia. In early August, the CIA acquired cheaply for exactly $300,000, a little over $300,000, all outstanding shares of Southern Air Transport, a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 39:39
Southern Air Transport front_for CIA documented
“the CIA front company that owned the C-123. Southern Air Transport was a CIA proprietary until 1973 when it was sold to the man who had been fronting the ownership for the CIA. The airline company was later sold to James Bastian, who had be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 54:45
CIA front_for Southern Air Transport host_asserted
“Much smaller but still significant was Southern Air Transport, which grew enough to have a semi-autonomous corporate division for Atlantic and Pacific operations, another air proprietary. This company both owned and leased DC-6s and C-54 pr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 49:10
CIA laundered_money_for Southern Air Transport host_asserted
“From World Airways, they leased it to Air America. Wandering planes in addition to money. At other times, Air America lent money to Southern Air. Southern Air won a $3.7 million Air Force contract to move cargo and passengers to inter-islan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 50:13
Southern Air Transport front_for CIA documented
“wanted removed from other countries and brought to the United States. You know, those Afghan national kind of people that shoot up Washington, D.C.? Yeah, Evergreen was flying those people. Quote, and we don't know when we supported them an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 42:54
Southern Air Transport trafficked United States documented
“CIA and DEA records show that the airline was under investigation for drug trafficking by the U.S. Customs Office by 1987. Southern Air was of record in the DEA's database from 1985 through 1990 for alleged involvement in cocaine traffickin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 50:48
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Nicaragua documented
“wanted removed from other countries and brought to the United States. You know, those Afghan national kind of people that shoot up Washington, D.C.? Yeah, Evergreen was flying those people. Quote, and we don't know when we supported them an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 42:54
CIA secretly_owned Southern Air Transport documented
“Colby ordered further liquidation. And there were some repercussions when the former owner himself got involved in basically violating contract provisions. And in the course of lawsuits, the CIA officially admitted over actual ownership of …”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:13:19
CIA funded Southern Air Transport documented
“Southern Air Transport's assets, which led to a lawsuit. But mutual dependency proved too great. The CIA needed Southern Air and Southern Air Transport wanted Langley's business. Iranian Air Force contracts had comprised as much as 42% of S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 38:12
Southern Air Transport purchased Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises documented
“There will be more about this later on. Samos also appeared in the Iran-Contra scandal in connection with an off-the-shelf Panamanian company called Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises, or ACE. That company was set up in 1984 and then sold t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 34:48
Southern Air Transport financed_via Contras documented
“and the Contras. Ace appeared on the diagram of the Contra aid operation found in Oliver North's safe. It was used by Southern Air Transport and North's Enterprise to funnel money to the Contras. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ace wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 35:20
Southern Air Transport trafficked Colombia book_quoted
“And both of those, obviously, Air America was primary in Vietnam, Southern Air Transport. We read about in the Iran-Contra, also in Colombia, ferreting drugs out of there and into the United States. There's Bridget. Excuse me. Okay. And als…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 2:31
South Africa supplied_arms_to Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:22
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted
“As with Secord, he arranged through Southern Air Transport, which had made at least 14 flights to fly weapons to the Contras. Gad played a primary role in setting up the private benefactor airlift. He found the airplanes. Gad almost bought …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 20:23
William Cooper member_of Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“Buzz Sawyer's flight log recovered from the wreckage showed that he had performed flights for the U.S. military with Southern Air. It also showed that Southern Air transport personnel, including its president, William Langton, along for som…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 16:25
Buzz Sawyer member_of Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“Buzz Sawyer's flight log recovered from the wreckage showed that he had performed flights for the U.S. military with Southern Air. It also showed that Southern Air transport personnel, including its president, William Langton, along for som…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 16:25
William Langer headed Southern Air Transport book_quoted
“Buzz Sawyer's flight log recovered from the wreckage showed that he had performed flights for the U.S. military with Southern Air. It also showed that Southern Air transport personnel, including its president, William Langton, along for som…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 16:25
Wanda Palacios trafficked Southern Air Transport documented
“who reported in 1986 that she had witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and then loaded with guns in Colombia in 1983 and 1989. Palaos, the wife of a Colombian trafficker, said she had accompanied Pablo Escobar i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 59:53
Sandinistas carried_out_attack Southern Air Transport documented
“Out of the sky over Nicaragua in October 1986, the dead pilot's flight logs revealed that he had flown several Southern Air Transport flights from Colombia to the United States. The flights had occurred between October 1985, exactly when Pa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:02:13
CIA secretly_owned Southern Air Transport host_asserted
“Two CIA proprietary airlines, Southern Air Transport. I knew they'd show up eventually. Evergreen International Airlines, which, by the way, is my old company. I worked for Evergreen. But you didn't. I was a maintainer in Louisville. They h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 55:56
Richard Secord headed Southern Air Transport host_asserted
“through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've looked into them before, owned by a Hon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:01:54
Stanley Williams sold Southern Air Transport documented
“the CIA had them all, proprietaries, to do all of that. When Langley liquidated Southern Air Transport, its buyer, Stanley Williams, once the manager, the liaison for the CIA to Southern Air Transport, oh, and they liquidate it but sell it …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 37:40
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Nicaragua documented
“lent substance to her story. First, when a Southern Air Transport plane was shot down in Nicaragua in 86, flight plans found in the wreckage showed that the pilot had flown a Southern Air Transport plane to Colombia in 1985. Second, the U.S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 37:32
Southern Air Transport operated_in Nellis Air Force Base caller_asserted
“for the FBI nationwide response. Like if they have like go bags and they jump on the aircraft there and take them to any hotspot, like that's where they left from to go to Waco, that type of thing. So yeah, keep going. And then you'll proba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:12:02
Southern Air Transport operated_in Aviano Air Base caller_asserted
“for the FBI nationwide response. Like if they have like go bags and they jump on the aircraft there and take them to any hotspot, like that's where they left from to go to Waco, that type of thing. So yeah, keep going. And then you'll proba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:12:02
Southern Air Transport operated_in Colombia caller_asserted
“Because I asked him if he knew about Operation Gladio and the Gray Wolves when he brought up Turkey and he did not. Right. And then, of course, Central and South America, I asked him to start naming countries and he said pretty much every o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:13:51
Southern Air Transport operated_in Dominican Republic caller_asserted
“And he he did share that. Oh, Dominican Republic and Haiti, Port-au-Prince and Panama. Those were probably the most naturally. And Granada, he and he said that sometimes they would do night missions into Central, South America or wherever, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:16
Southern Air Transport operated_in Haiti caller_asserted
“And he he did share that. Oh, Dominican Republic and Haiti, Port-au-Prince and Panama. Those were probably the most naturally. And Granada, he and he said that sometimes they would do night missions into Central, South America or wherever, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:16
Southern Air Transport operated_in Panama caller_asserted
“And he he did share that. Oh, Dominican Republic and Haiti, Port-au-Prince and Panama. Those were probably the most naturally. And Granada, he and he said that sometimes they would do night missions into Central, South America or wherever, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:16
Southern Air Transport operated_in Grenada caller_asserted
“And he he did share that. Oh, Dominican Republic and Haiti, Port-au-Prince and Panama. Those were probably the most naturally. And Granada, he and he said that sometimes they would do night missions into Central, South America or wherever, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:16
Southern Air Transport operated_in Albania caller_asserted
“to create blackouts. And so they would land in the pitch black and unload and reload. And he said that was pretty wild. And then he did mention he was in like Bosnia, Albania, the Balkans. So that's pretty much what I got out of it. And the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:42
Southern Air Transport operated_in Guantanamo Bay caller_asserted
“Guantanamo Bay, where he would pick up people at Andrews Air Force Base and would bring down terrorist response teams, interrogators, U.S. Marshals. To get most. Yep. Yeah, that's not surprising because Andrews actually has a, the reserve u…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:11:33
Southern Air Transport operated_in Panama caller_asserted
“And then I asked, of course, where did you fly to? And there's a lot. It's almost kind of like, where did you not fly to? I got a lot of Air Force bases, Honduras, Honduras, Jose Enrique Sotocano, Cherry Point, North Carolina, the Marine Co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:11:05
Southern Air Transport operated_in Bosnia caller_asserted
“to create blackouts. And so they would land in the pitch black and unload and reload. And he said that was pretty wild. And then he did mention he was in like Bosnia, Albania, the Balkans. So that's pretty much what I got out of it. And the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:42
Southern Air Transport trafficked Contras host_asserted
“Once it had arrived at the Salvadoran base, Miranda said, Aguardo and Menendez supervised the loading of the cocaine onto U.S.-bound aircraft owned by the Salvadoran Air Force and, on occasion, Miami-based CIA contractor Southern Air Transp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 50:15
Southern Air Transport trafficked Colombia documented
“As in the Far East, the CIA proprietary and contract airlines have been accused of a more direct involvement in drug trafficking. The U.S. airline Southern Air Transport has been flying to Colombia and Venezuela since at least 1960, when it…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 34:39
Southern Air Transport operated_in Honduras caller_asserted
“And then I asked, of course, where did you fly to? And there's a lot. It's almost kind of like, where did you not fly to? I got a lot of Air Force bases, Honduras, Honduras, Jose Enrique Sotocano, Cherry Point, North Carolina, the Marine Co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:11:05
Southern Air Transport trafficked Colombia guest_asserted
“one made in 1986 by an FBI informant, Wanda Palacio, who was the wife of a Colombian trafficker. Palacio told investigators for the Cary Senate Subcommittee investigation, Contra Drug Trafficking, that in 1983, she had seen Southern Air Tra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 37:02

Mentions (84)

The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 55:56 Two CIA proprietary airlines, Southern Air Transport. I knew they'd show up eventually. Evergreen International Airlines, which, by the way, is my old company. I worked for Evergreen. But you didn't. I was a maintainer in Louisville. They h…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 1:01:54 through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've looked into them before, owned by a Hon…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 1:15:12 We went all the way from World War II to Colombia in the 1980s. SR-71? Hello there, Colonel, and hello everybody in X-PACES and on Rumble, and thank you for attending today. Good to see you and Bridget together, and I can tell you're having…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 1:20:18 What the fuck? We're getting more drugs. How about we just turn off the pipeline? Well, one of the things, okay, actually, SR-71 is, right? Southern Air Transport was sold and combined and grouped into a group called Southern Air, which, ir…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final
▶ 31:49 Kellogg Brown and Root, the Texas company that funded both LBJ's political career and Dick Cheney's career. Halliburton, it's a subsidiary of Halliburton. DynCorp, Aerospace Technology in Reston, Virginia, and SAIC, all the ones that we're …
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final
▶ 32:20 which was active in the cocaine decade, declared bankruptcy. However, investigators found that $32 million of the company's assets had been moved before they filed. The very same day, the CIA IG issued a report outlining allegations of SAT,…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final
▶ 32:47 We know the report's coming out that implicates our proprietary company and drug running. So we're just going to go ahead and file bankruptcy. No big deal. Proceeds from the sale of the Southern Air Transport assets were deposited in the pe…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final
▶ 33:19 successor, Southern Air, to gain access to their Colombian flight schedule, you know, because we're going to keep control of it. We're just going to change the names. Those airlines were Polar Air Cargo, Kitty Hawk Aircraft Incorporated, an…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final
▶ 52:56 was a holding company, Pacific Corporation, also known as Pacific Power and Light. Did you know that? Also, Pacific Corp. and Pacific Harbor Capital. Pacific Corp. owned CIA companies such as Air America, SAT, and Intermountain Air.…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 50:15 Once it had arrived at the Salvadoran base, Miranda said, Aguardo and Menendez supervised the loading of the cocaine onto U.S.-bound aircraft owned by the Salvadoran Air Force and, on occasion, Miami-based CIA contractor Southern Air Transp…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 50:48 CIA and DEA records show that the airline was under investigation for drug trafficking by the U.S. Customs Office by 1987. Southern Air was of record in the DEA's database from 1985 through 1990 for alleged involvement in cocaine traffickin…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 59:53 who reported in 1986 that she had witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and then loaded with guns in Colombia in 1983 and 1989. Palaos, the wife of a Colombian trafficker, said she had accompanied Pablo Escobar i…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 1:01:43 But when her allegations leaked to the press, Palacios was publicly dismissed as a crank by top justice officials who had basically just admitted it was all true. They basically said she was a liar and a lunatic. Her story, though, was supp…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 1:02:13 Out of the sky over Nicaragua in October 1986, the dead pilot's flight logs revealed that he had flown several Southern Air Transport flights from Colombia to the United States. The flights had occurred between October 1985, exactly when Pa…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 4:45 In early 1986, it wound up with none other than CIA contractor Southern Air Transport, where it was used for Contra supply runs out of the El Salvador airport until its fatal flight. Unfortunately, the informant's allegations of the guns fo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 59:08 Supporting evidence, DEA says. The Times reported that a Senate committee investigating reports that Nicaraguan rebels and their American supporters had helped smuggle cocaine into the United States. But DEA officials says they have no evid…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2
▶ 2:01 He owned an airline called Global International Airways, and it became involved in the 1980s in U.S. arms trafficking to Afghanistan. It was also part of a complex of CIA-linked contract cargo airlines that included ones that we know a lot …
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2
▶ 2:31 And both of those, obviously, Air America was primary in Vietnam, Southern Air Transport. We read about in the Iran-Contra, also in Colombia, ferreting drugs out of there and into the United States. There's Bridget. Excuse me. Okay. And als…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 34:39 As in the Far East, the CIA proprietary and contract airlines have been accused of a more direct involvement in drug trafficking. The U.S. airline Southern Air Transport has been flying to Colombia and Venezuela since at least 1960, when it…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 35:07 In January 1987, during the first phase of the Iran-Contra revelations, newspapers reported that the Justice Department had recently suppressed a DEA investigation into Southern Air Transport's role in drug trafficking. Here's a quote.…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 35:37 operation involving Southern Air Transport, the former CIA-owned airline, at the heart of the IranGate shipments as long ago as last September, only to have their evidence discounted by the Justice Department, unquote. The New York Times th…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 36:06 more like buried. Predictably, they were not, yet allegations continued. And according to the CIA Inspector General, quote, a 1991 DEA cable to CIA reported that Southern Air Transport was of record in DEA's database from January 1985 to Se…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 36:34 DEA knew unequivocally that it was a drug trafficking airline. An August 1990 entry in DEA's database reportedly alleged that $2 million was delivered to the firm's business site and several of the firm's pilots and executives were suspecte…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 37:02 one made in 1986 by an FBI informant, Wanda Palacio, who was the wife of a Colombian trafficker. Palacio told investigators for the Cary Senate Subcommittee investigation, Contra Drug Trafficking, that in 1983, she had seen Southern Air Tra…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 37:32 lent substance to her story. First, when a Southern Air Transport plane was shot down in Nicaragua in 86, flight plans found in the wreckage showed that the pilot had flown a Southern Air Transport plane to Colombia in 1985. Second, the U.S…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 53:29 What keeps me motivated? Because some days are really, really tough. Trust me. So, yeah, it's all good. Renee, go ahead. Hey there, Colonel. Let me know if there's too much background noise because I'm driving right now. No, you're good. Ok…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 39:53 Plan Colombia has played a similar role in restructuring Southern Air Transport, which declared bankruptcy in September 1998. Southern Air Transport had utilized considerable profits from the Persian Gulf War in 1990, just eight years befor…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 40:20 The Air Cargo Division of Southern Air was bleeding red throughout the 90s, a loss of $24 million in 95. And in 97, Southern Air's Air Cargo Division lost money every month, more than $39 million for a year. But in 1999, they saw two other …
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 1:09:14 Okay, great. So I have some stuff to report from yesterday. When you were going over this book and you were mentioning Southern Air, and I spoke up and shared that I had a family member who worked for Southern Air, so I spoke with them last…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8
▶ 1:09:43 So this is what I have. He worked the late 1980s until up till 2010. So not only Southern Air, which was based out of Miami, he also worked, did contracts. And sometimes they were, he had a non-disclosure agreement and sometimes he did not …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16
▶ 19:26 Flying night freight. Buffalo had five aircraft then and sold a couple of them to Burlington. Then we were the unsuccessful bidders in a second contract with Burlington. We went back to ad hoc freight business from 1984 to 88. That's the of…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 1:02:22 after its Batman was murdered. This was the C-123 that was shot down by the Sandinistas in 1986 while it was making a resupply run to the Contras. The resulting crash blew the lid off the White House secret support of the Contras as the pla…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 34:48 There will be more about this later on. Samos also appeared in the Iran-Contra scandal in connection with an off-the-shelf Panamanian company called Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises, or ACE. That company was set up in 1984 and then sold t…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 35:20 and the Contras. Ace appeared on the diagram of the Contra aid operation found in Oliver North's safe. It was used by Southern Air Transport and North's Enterprise to funnel money to the Contras. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ace wa…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13
▶ 36:50 after Corona went to jail, related to Oliver North. A Southern Air vice president then flew to Panama to meet Samos and set up ACE. ACE bank accounts for the Contra operation was at Banco de Iberia America, a Panamanian bank principally own…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 54:15 And the vague plans for this land later vanish. Some say because they were disrupted by the October 1986 downing of Barry Sills' old C-123 with the survivor, Eugene Hassenfuss. One of Corson's former employees said that their office went in…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 54:45 the CIA front company that owned the C-123. Southern Air Transport was a CIA proprietary until 1973 when it was sold to the man who had been fronting the ownership for the CIA. The airline company was later sold to James Bastian, who had be…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 55:17 When Southern Air's role in the Iran-Contra scandal was exposed, it had been an airline of choice to haul arms to Iran and to the Contra. Bastian denied any connection to the CIA, because of course you're going to. What he couldn't deny wer…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 55:47 and now special agent in charge of the FBI office in Dallas, to try and stop an FBI investigation into Southern Air Transport's activities. I'm telling you, the entire freaking government is a crime syndicate. Corson was no stranger to Beli…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 58:44 This is what William Polly was setting up over there. Much smaller but still significant was Southern Air Transport, which grew large enough to have a semi-autonomous corporation division for the Atlantic and the Pacific. This company both …
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12
▶ 59:14 to move cargo and passengers on inter-island routes in the Far East. So you see how that works? The CIA gets to set up a fake airline. Then the fake airline gets Air Force contracts to fly missions so that they're actually making us pay for…
The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont
▶ 1:11:51 Another change initiated by Helms was continued under Schlesinger and consummated by his successor, William Colby. This concerned the major air proprietories like Air America and Southern Air Transport. A former owner of this freight line n…
The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont
▶ 1:12:45 So don't think they're actually doing anything because they're not. They're just shuffling the deck. So other air freight companies objected to the sell. And even one tried to buy the airline that Southern Air Transport bought for $5.6 mill…
The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont
▶ 1:13:19 Colby ordered further liquidation. And there were some repercussions when the former owner himself got involved in basically violating contract provisions. And in the course of lawsuits, the CIA officially admitted over actual ownership of …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20)
▶ 39:39 Beerly slated a first mission for the same weekend that Francis Gary Powers was shot down in Russia. In early August, the CIA acquired cheaply for exactly $300,000, a little over $300,000, all outstanding shares of Southern Air Transport, a…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26)
▶ 49:10 Much smaller but still significant was Southern Air Transport, which grew enough to have a semi-autonomous corporate division for Atlantic and Pacific operations, another air proprietary. This company both owned and leased DC-6s and C-54 pr…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26)
▶ 49:39 is a DC-6A aircraft, tail number N89BL, originally owned by American Airlines. In June of 1960, World Airways bought the plane. And remember World Airways? We talked about that in the book Mafia CIA. Yeah, that one. Leasing it the same day …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26)
▶ 50:13 From World Airways, they leased it to Air America. Wandering planes in addition to money. At other times, Air America lent money to Southern Air. Southern Air won a $3.7 million Air Force contract to move cargo and passengers to inter-islan…
The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36)
▶ 5:11 that had served as proprietary operations under the CIA. The DCI directive in 1972 ordered that Air America be maintained only through the end of the Indochina War, that Southern Air Transport be sold, and its Pacific Division immediately l…
The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36)
▶ 13:01 All of that in the Department of Defense. So I'm going to go back to the book now. A former owner of Southern Air Transport bid for the corporation and offered $5.6 million. Helms approved the sale during his last month as DCI. And the Sout…
The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36)
▶ 13:34 As acting director, Colby ordered final liquidation on July 31st, 1973, but the former owner made a further counteroffer. The sale closed on the last day of 1973. There were later repercussions when the owner himself then liquidated Souther…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 37:40 the CIA had them all, proprietaries, to do all of that. When Langley liquidated Southern Air Transport, its buyer, Stanley Williams, once the manager, the liaison for the CIA to Southern Air Transport, oh, and they liquidate it but sell it …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 38:12 Southern Air Transport's assets, which led to a lawsuit. But mutual dependency proved too great. The CIA needed Southern Air and Southern Air Transport wanted Langley's business. Iranian Air Force contracts had comprised as much as 42% of S…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 38:44 What are they flying out of Iran covertly with CIA assets? Oh, that's right. Iran in the north had opium. The fall of the Shah hurt business. Even with the Iranian deals, Southern Air Transport posted a loss. The Iranian account disappeared…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 39:16 Bastion had been Southern Air Transport's lawyer for the CIA. So they're not really selling it. It's just a paper shuffle. Southern Air Transport maintained headquarters and operating facilities in Miami. Operating revenue in 82 totaled alm…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 39:47 Langton had previously worked for two other cargo carriers, and you'll never guess which ones. Flying Tiger and Evergreen, the other CIA proprietaries. Isn't that crazy? In 84, Southern Air Transport won a almost $10 million contract from t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 40:19 Total revenues of almost $40 million. So they were basically doing about 60% of their business with either the Pentagon or the CIA. Southern Air's largest private account was a subcontractor to the Anglo-Irish firm IAS Guernsey to provide f…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 40:54 currently operating in a covert manner. So is that really civilian? Yeah, I don't think so. About 300 flights were made to Angola between June and December of 84 alone. Business increased further in 85 after a competing company left Angola …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 41:23 Southern Air Transport flew almost 600 flights to Angola. Again, not civilian. At one point, the State Department warned Southern Air Transport against carrying, they put out a formal warning saying, don't carry Cuban soldiers to Angola. Li…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 41:56 cover it as if that's actually happening when it's actually CIA flights going in and out of Angola. The charter company also worked for the U.S. government. Through 1986, the military airlift command used eight Southern Air Transport L-100s…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 42:25 among bases in the U.S. Oh, isn't that interesting? Southern Air Transport aircraft was used by military airlift command flying things around inside the U.S. With the State Department, Southern Air Transport had contracts for monthly flight…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 42:54 but an arrangement to deliver humanitarian assistance to Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras as well. And those are the ones that Oliver North and his buddy in the State Department is going to use. Southern Air Transport remained strong through t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 43:22 At the time, Southern Air Transport employed 540 people, including 96 pilots. Setbacks were fatal crashes, the first in its history on October 4th, 1986 and April 8th, 1987. Both were the civilianized C-130s flying for the military airlift …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 43:53 As of 1982, only four private corporations, Standard Oil, Tenneco, Rockwell, and Mobile Oil, possessed air fleets larger than the Southern Air Transport Command. So this just illustrates yet again. And I love the fact that Mobile Oil and St…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 47:17 with aircraft maintenance for Southern Air Transport. In 1984, Summit received a grant from the FAA to improve its airfield, enabling it to work on large multi-engine aircraft. Yeah, so the FAA is just spending our taxpayer dollars to incre…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44)
▶ 49:18 Between January and April of 86 alone, there were four flights from an American base to an airfield in Zaire, identified as a CIA supply point for the United Rebels. There reportedly used a type of plane that exists solely in U.S. Air Force…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 5:41 The Israelis bungled their shipment, routing it through Portugal without appropriate clearance and appealed to the U.S. for help because they got caught. This compromised the White House. McFarland personally intervened with the Portuguese …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48)
▶ 8:22 Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49)
▶ 20:23 As with Secord, he arranged through Southern Air Transport, which had made at least 14 flights to fly weapons to the Contras. Gad played a primary role in setting up the private benefactor airlift. He found the airplanes. Gad almost bought …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49)
▶ 34:21 Until that happened, Felix Rodriguez had had that duty since he was the only one that spoke Spanish. The airlift's first great moment occurred in March of 86. A Sandinista infantry force pursued FDN troops across the border and made for the…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49)
▶ 35:20 between March 24th and 28th alone. In Nicaragua, a Southern Air Transport L-100 completed its first successful air resupply mission to a column that had moved inside of Nicaragua. Another Southern Air Transport flight reached Aquacate on th…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49)
▶ 36:23 In fact, he was there on another purpose as well. The L-100 was supposed to take Contra weapons at Aquacate and fly them to El Salvador, from where the next night it would take its first airdrop into the southern front. Oliver North asked O…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49)
▶ 37:43 Colonel Steele agreed to put through a secure call to Vincent Shields, the Honduras' cheapest station. Ultimately, they had to scrub the airdrop and scramble to inform the affected Contra units. Another attempt took place on April 9th with …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49)
▶ 39:10 like we're still pretending that the CIA works for the State Department. Ha ha! The other nodes on the net were Norse NSC office, Secord, GAD, Calero, Southern Air Transport, Rafael Quintero, and Felix Rodriguez. Fernandez subsequently prov…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 5:07 Max Gomez, i.e. Felix Rodriguez, went back to El Salvador. Dutton had made the chief pilot in charge of maintenance as well. The Enterprise had sent the damaged C-123, the one that sunk in the mud, to Southern Air Transport for repairs whil…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 16:25 Buzz Sawyer's flight log recovered from the wreckage showed that he had performed flights for the U.S. military with Southern Air. It also showed that Southern Air transport personnel, including its president, William Langton, along for som…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 16:54 perpetrated on the Sandinistas in 1984. They hadn't forgotten. Joe Fernandez wired Dunton demanding damage control. North, then John Poindexter, intervened with justice to delay FBI and Customs investigation of Southern Air Transport, where…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51)
▶ 15:22 In Webster's last months at the FBI, the Bureau had been investigating Southern Air Transport, the CIA proprietary. Webster's knowledge of intelligence resulted from participation in the National Foreign Intelligence Board. Webster's tenure…
The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14
▶ 41:01 That incident led to a standing joke among global pilots that when they were asked what cargo they were hauling, they said cabbage and cabbage launchers. At least one global pilot had previously worked for Air America, the CIA proprietary u…
The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14
▶ 41:32 and Global's bankruptcy. So they had borrowed money from the CIA. Azizma said he doesn't recall any work with Southern Air Transport, but Southern Air Transport claimed in Global's bankruptcy that Global owed it $13,000 for service rendered…
The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14
▶ 42:00 Evergreen International Airlines, which is my old company, a company that was formed from the assets of CIA proprietary Intermountain Aviation after its cover was blown in the mid-1970s. So yes, I worked for a CIA proprietary airline comple…
The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14
▶ 42:54 wanted removed from other countries and brought to the United States. You know, those Afghan national kind of people that shoot up Washington, D.C.? Yeah, Evergreen was flying those people. Quote, and we don't know when we supported them an…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11
▶ 32:24 Contra aircraft supplied by the CIA and contract agents flown by Southern Air Transport pilots flew both supplies and bombing missions into Nicaragua to support the Contras, and boats were supplied for mining the operations. And of course, …
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11
▶ 32:57 These operations were finally brought to world's attention when action took place in the world court in The Hague by the Nicaraguan government and accusing the U.S. of participating in combat missions inside of Nicaragua, which of course th…