Greg Smith person
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Claims (9)
Greg Smith member_of
World Jet Inc. documented
“Gregory Smith currently works as a contract pilot for Don Whittington and World Jet Inc. Don Whittington and World Jet Inc. were implicated in brokering the cell from SA Holdings LLC to an undercover company, Donna Blue. Gregory Smith has b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 9:50
Donna Blue Aircraft sold
Greg Smith documented
“The DEA affidavit indicated that Donna Blue was in fact a front company for an ICE undercover operation called Mayan Jaguar. Donna Blue subsequently sold the jet stream to the Florida duo called Clyde O'Connor and Gregory Smith. About a wee…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 6:11
Greg Smith member_of
Global Jet Solutions guest_asserted
“I was falsely written up and they named my country, my company. Greg Smith said he owned Global Jet Solutions of Pembroke Pines, Florida. There's probably three or four of us, Greg Smith's running around in South Florida in aviation, but it…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 36:56
Greg Smith member_of
Arrow Group Jets documented
“Smith's name. The emergence of this document, which has been discussed in many media reports, but not made available to the public, creates an opportunity for some comparison because there was a signature on it. Smith, who Vega claims serve…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 9:37
Greg Smith member_of
Gulfstream II Crash documented
“Another Florida pilot, identified by his license number and signature as Greg Smith, also signed the document, but his relationship to O'Connor is not detailed, unquote. So, what's that all about? There needs to be a review of the timeline …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 29:41
Greg Smith headed
Arrow Group Jets host_asserted
“that had been used for narco-trafficking from its Florida owner, a company called Lone Star Aviation. Smith, through Arrow Group Jets, served only a chartering service for that jet. He didn't hold title to it. However, about a month prior t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 4:36
Greg Smith trafficked
Sinaloa Cartel documented
“Jaguar. Earlier in 2007, the aircraft was sold from a Delaware-based holding company called SA Holdings LLC to Donna Blue Aircraft Inc., which in turn produced a bill of sale for an aircraft to Clyde O'Connor and Gregory Smith. Clyde O'Conn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 11 @ 9:19
Baroque Vega recruited
Greg Smith guest_asserted
“So it does appear that the Greg Smith with the millions of dollars of cocaine in the crashed aircraft is the CIA associated Smith pilot that had been used repeatedly by the CIA. Weird. It was during his work for the FBI and DEA in Latin Ame…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 12:32
Greg Smith member_of
Baroque Vega book_quoted
“grow very well in Mexico. According to Vega, he had traveled between South Florida and South America via a private jet on at least 30 different recruiting trips with different FBI agents and DEA agents, as well as CIA. Vega claims the main …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 33:09
Mentions (37)
▶ 1:35
Under the previous owner, the article goes on to say it had visited Guantanamo Bay and flew for the CIA rendition program. Under the CIA contractor, Richmore Aviation, which we talked about yesterday. So the author obtained information that…
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The guy we've been talking about through the whole last part of this book, Vega. So Vega leased the Hawker jet used for his U.S. government-sanctioned narco-trafficking recruiting missions in Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was le…
▶ 7:11
was an active participant in moving the Hawker jet around these shell companies. Vega says, in that regard, this is too coincidental for all these same players to be involved in all of the same aircraft. Smith and his partner O'Connor purch…
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he is also the previous owner of the Hawker that was moved around five different times. The co-owner of the Gulfstream II jet, Greg Smith, owned the Florida company Aero Group Jets that leased the Hawker to the CIA, Vega. Smith also served …
▶ 6:11
The DEA affidavit indicated that Donna Blue was in fact a front company for an ICE undercover operation called Mayan Jaguar. Donna Blue subsequently sold the jet stream to the Florida duo called Clyde O'Connor and Gregory Smith. About a wee…
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the kind of CIA behind WorldJet and potentially could be exposed as, again, we should add that word again, as being involved in narco-trafficking. The DEA search warrant now filed in federal court also alleged that one of the owners of the …
▶ 9:19
Jaguar. Earlier in 2007, the aircraft was sold from a Delaware-based holding company called SA Holdings LLC to Donna Blue Aircraft Inc., which in turn produced a bill of sale for an aircraft to Clyde O'Connor and Gregory Smith. Clyde O'Conn…
▶ 9:50
Gregory Smith currently works as a contract pilot for Don Whittington and World Jet Inc. Don Whittington and World Jet Inc. were implicated in brokering the cell from SA Holdings LLC to an undercover company, Donna Blue. Gregory Smith has b…
▶ 10:17
loads of cocaine and marijuana from South and Central America into Mexico and the United States, end of quote. The author contacted WorldJet by phone and asked to speak to Gregory Smith. The individual who answered the phone said he wasn't …
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Another connection to all of this is the fact that Mexican government claims a money exchange company called Casa de Cambio Puebla, operated by an individual by the name of Pedro Alfonso Alatorre Dami, fronted the money for the purchase of …
▶ 29:13
fact relates to an individual by the name of Greg Smith. He was identified in a McClatchy Washington Bureau report on the Gulfstream 2's crash. Quote, a bill of sale obtained by McClatchy newspapers indicates that the Florida pilot Clyde O'…
▶ 32:10
for a payment of $2 million on September 16, 2007. That's where Greg Smith comes into the picture as one of the co-signers on the bill of sale drafted by Donna Blue for the Gulfstream. Smith is not exactly a unique name, so it turns out tha…
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He ran across the trail of at least one Greg Smith who has plenty of experience flying in South Florida and in Latin America. That's where broke Vega comes back in. The FBI, DEA, CIA asset. So he would be in a position to know what's going …
▶ 33:09
grow very well in Mexico. According to Vega, he had traveled between South Florida and South America via a private jet on at least 30 different recruiting trips with different FBI agents and DEA agents, as well as CIA. Vega claims the main …
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Well, originally, I met Greg Smith. We needed a pilot, a very trustful pilot, someone that could get us to bring in the Colombian drug traffickers to surrender for their little secret backroom plea deals. Then the FBI recommended to get in …
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It says the CIA involvement in one flight in 1999 that departed from Panama for Florida involved Vega, federal agents, and an indicted Colombian narco trafficker. So that proves that what Vega was saying about that part is true. And then Ve…
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There's a mention of another aircraft. And this one I've come across several times. Arrow Group Jets. In the lawsuit, quote, on or about November 17th, 1999, the appellate, a DEA supervisor, received an invoice from Arrow Jet.…
▶ 35:57
contracted flight of saying he basically wasted that money so that's all part of that story it would seem the real question now is whether greg smith who allegedly signed the paperwork in the purchase of the crash golf stream as reported by…
▶ 36:26
claims to have already interviewed the right Mr. Smith, but by his own admission, it was through a third party. So he didn't. So yet another reporter with a Florida Weekly also claimed to have interviewed a Mr. Smith related to this. And wh…
▶ 36:56
I was falsely written up and they named my country, my company. Greg Smith said he owned Global Jet Solutions of Pembroke Pines, Florida. There's probably three or four of us, Greg Smith's running around in South Florida in aviation, but it…
▶ 37:27
but the author obtained a copy of the 2007 document that contains the signature that belongs to Greg Smith of Global Jet Solutions. That signature does appear to be different than the signature of the Greg Smith contained in the annual repo…
▶ 6:03
Baroque Vega public records and other sources, the author had confirmed that one of the Gulf Stream 2's owners at the time that it crashed in Mexico has the same name as a pilot who transported U.S. law enforcement with CIA assistance durin…
▶ 6:34
Greg Smiths. So there's going to be some confusion over which Greg Smith they are. And interestingly enough, there's more than one Greg Smith in Florida. That's a pilot that flew this type of aircraft. Isn't that convenient? So the Greg Smi…
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was questioned as to whether that was the same one that Vega had mentioned flying CIA missions. The author's efforts to contact Smith and O'Connor, who was the other name on the bill of sale, proved unsuccessful. But he did manage to track …
▶ 7:35
the company that sold the jet to Smith and O'Connor. Malayo, who is a Brazilian citizen with business interests in Florida, shared his concern about how his company had been portrayed in the news. Quote, I had some problems when I sold the …
▶ 9:37
Smith's name. The emergence of this document, which has been discussed in many media reports, but not made available to the public, creates an opportunity for some comparison because there was a signature on it. Smith, who Vega claims serve…
▶ 11:30
Group Jets do include Smith's signature from a 1998 annual report filing. The bill of sale provided to me by Donna Blue Company also includes a signature supposedly by Smith. There are some striking similarities, including the fact that som…
▶ 12:02
a former undercover DEA officer who now is an expert witness in court cases, had this to say about the signatures. Quote, I did much of this handwriting comparison work without using an expert, but my opinion was accepted before grand jurie…
▶ 12:32
So it does appear that the Greg Smith with the millions of dollars of cocaine in the crashed aircraft is the CIA associated Smith pilot that had been used repeatedly by the CIA. Weird. It was during his work for the FBI and DEA in Latin Ame…
▶ 13:05
brought in by the FBI to pilot some 25 to 30 flights back and forth for him and narco-traffickers. The author already revealed the leaks of classified information from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota that were discovered in 1999 in the course of…
▶ 15:48
Given Mr. Smith's connection to the Gulfstream cocaine jet allegedly tied to past CIA operations, Vega now says he cannot rule out that Smith might be a player not only for the DEA and FBI, but the CIA. It's just a matter of time in every o…
▶ 16:11
Vega also says by the events that played out after he was released from his 52-day jail stint stemming from the tax case related to his work with Tensley's DEA group, Vega claims that prior to his arrest on the tax charge, as part of a leas…
▶ 18:05
Because of the nature of the clandestine work, the source contend that the CIA has to deal with the shadowy world of criminal organizations because the agency itself is considered an illegal operation in foreign countries. It should be stre…
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That was a CIA jet. He has companies that look like CIA front companies. And his jet that he had just bought several days before the mission had a whole crap ton of drugs on it. So, weird. I'm sure it's all just a coincidence. It turns out …
▶ 23:41
way that this operation worked that we've noticed in the past. You never out your own organization. So the author goes back to the bill of sale of the Gulfstream jet, which was sold only weeks before the crash. Listed Greg Smith, who we've …
▶ 26:24
by Harold Altman and Karen Branch Bioso of the Tampa Tribune. That's like right down the road. So there is clearly a connection between the two jets. They are both sitting on the same tarmac. The thread that ties them together is the Sinalo…
▶ 26:53
That gets really confusing. Did the cartel hire Smith and Clyde O'Connor, the other individual listed as the bill of sale owners, to handle the plane's purchase unaware that they were participating in a government operation? Well, that's a …