William Cooper person
also: Bill Cooper, Cooper
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Claims (2)
Richard Garner recruited
William Cooper book_quoted
“Gadd hired nine pilots, three loadmasters, and seven mechanics. The crews earned $3,200 a month. They had plenty of experience. The project manager, Secord called him the chief pilot, was William Cooper. He had 25,000 hours in his flight lo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 21:28
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
Mentions (11)
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contact they they were a contact of mine and before that it was just doom and gloom it was like real like oh you know they're all in on it real david ike perspective because david i could be quite large in the united kingdom and ireland bei…
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Gadd hired nine pilots, three loadmasters, and seven mechanics. The crews earned $3,200 a month. They had plenty of experience. The project manager, Secord called him the chief pilot, was William Cooper. He had 25,000 hours in his flight lo…
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Baker had spent five years as an enemy prisoner. The youngest was Wallace Buzz Sawyer and David Johnson. They were in their 30s. A British crew with David Walker, the former commando, as minimally capable loadmaster and Ian Crawford for pil…
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But the CIA doesn't know anything about any of this stuff. There, Posada worked as a helper. He rented three houses in nice districts for Sawyer's pilots and a hotel in San Salvador for visitors and the mechanics. You know, doing logistics …
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by expanding the number of Contra troops and opening new areas of operation. But the Soviets and their Sandinista clients would not give up their toehold without a determined fight. The spy chief looked forward to seeing Moscow spending mor…
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Dutton immediately went to El Salvador to meet the people, see the equipment, carrying the legal opinion under his arm. There, he reviewed ground rules with the crews. He emphasized William Cooper's role as air boss and restricted Rafael Qu…
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Bill Cooper, Calero, Quintero, and Rodriguez also had no security clearances. But they were all using this classified encryption machine without authorization. Beyond the use of secret encoding devices, there was many ways in which the U.S.…
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May 21st, Quintero informed Dutton that the CIA officers were saying that they could not talk to Secord's people at all. That applied to Bill Cooper's crew and presumably enjoined CIA Joe Fernandez from helping. Secord went to North, who fo…
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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…
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Secret agreements, the ones that are used by the CIA. The time came on October 5th, 86. That day, one of the C-123s had laid on to deliver supplies to the FDN patrols. The marker was to be used as a smoke signal. Bill Cooper and Buzz Sawyer…
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On October 8th, Robert Gates appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He insisted the CIA had nothing to do with the Hassan bus plane and gave background data on Cooper and Sawyer. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee set a hear…