Lajitas place
also: La Jitas
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Walter Mischer secretly_owned
Lajitas book_quoted
“Michener started out with 26,000 acres and eventually bought the entire town. About the only living thing around the area in 1952 were a few ranchers, prospectors, and an occasional tourist or two. They would go up to Presidio or Big Ben, b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 11:59
Richard Benenke spied_on
Lajitas book_quoted
“Benake said that he flew into Texas landing strip in the early 1980s with some Colombian and Panamanian associates of the Medellin drug cartel. He said they told him the landing strip was Walter Michener's. This was in 82 or 83. And that it…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 22:58
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▶ 11:28
at large, goes way back, perhaps as early as the 1950s. In 1952, Michener bought his first property called La Jitas, a little hole in the wall on the Rio Grande, just west of Big Bend National Park in far west Texas. Now, he's from Houston.…
▶ 11:59
Michener started out with 26,000 acres and eventually bought the entire town. About the only living thing around the area in 1952 were a few ranchers, prospectors, and an occasional tourist or two. They would go up to Presidio or Big Ben, b…
▶ 12:33
Black Jack Pershing in his pursuit of Poncho Velo. Michener said he wanted to restore the area into an Old West town and make it the Palm Springs of Texas. He put a restaurant in, a hotel, and a few other tourist traps, as well as a nine-ho…
▶ 13:06
The biggest business in the area was narcotics trafficking. Some of it came across the Rio Grande on foot, some on truck, and some by airplane. One of the landing strips used for this was about 12 miles northeast of Lajitas. That came from …
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that he is frustrating to deal with. Because as you see, most of these people don't ever tell the truth the first time. It was only after the author confirmed Beneke's description of the landing strip outside of Lajitas and its use that I g…
▶ 28:40
Attorney S. Cass Weiland is in the middle of an unidentified White House project in Belize, where Michener and his partners owned 700,000 acres. Huh. So they were using this money to build terror training camps in northern Belize. Plumlee s…
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county road that goes from Lajitas Highway right up to the landing strip, like where you would be taking trucks or vehicles out of. Another important factor, Plumlee said, is that the people in the isolated conservative Big Bend area, inclu…