Posted on 01/21/2002 8:07:02 PM PST by ex-Texan
See also the responses #27 and #28 to the following post by NAFV, and see if anything sounds sort of, ummm, familiar to you:
Bookmarked for the follow-ups....
They've kinda caused a "visibilty" problem with the 9-11 crashes in regard to the importation logistics, haven't they?
With the new measures of travel observation/cross border transport, about the only way the Tonnage of drugs can be continuing to be brought in is by using Military Transport. There's enough "good guys" in the military that it'll get exposed soon, though.
I wonder if any good drug cop has thought to give some military planes/Nat'l Guard type a Drug Dog going over very discretely?
Mr. Winokur .... is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capricorn Holdings, Inc., (a private investment company) and Managing General Partner of Capricorn Investors, L.P., Capricorn Investors II, L.P. and Capricorn Investors III, L.P., private investment partnerships concentrating on investments in restructure situations, organized by Mr. Winokur in 1987, 1994 and 1999 respectively.Did he form the third partnership in 1999 in anticipation of Enron's collapse? Just some food for thought...
There have indeed. Their bosses quietly take them aside and straighten them out, or they find themselves reassigned to office duties counting paper clips. And those military officers upset at the use of their aircraft or base facilities suffer a similasr fate, and sometimes, a more drastic one.
But it's nothing new, having gone on for the last quarter of the Twentieth Century; the use of military aircraft for the transshipment of narcotics into this country has been going on since 1975 and before. When congress cut off funds for the relocation of our South Vietnamese allies who had been military and intelligence assets, many were rescued from their fate in Vietnam and resettled *privately* using unaccountable and untraceable intelligence community funding; by 1976-78 those funds had to be replenished and so some of those in the intel and military spook community found a way to accomplish that end and line their own pockets. The resulting operation was origionally entitled *Operation Watch Tower*.
It had several aspects, including the original resettlement of the South Viets, particularly Naval intelligence and Naval commandos who became the core of an operational cadre useful to the overall operation, to the actual movement of the narcotics, and short-term secret military missions in other south and central American countries to plant and protect electronic navigational beacons for the aviators.
In addition, a DEA operation under former CIA spook Lucian Conein to establish a DEA execution team known as DEA-SOG [S/pecial O/perations G/roup] to eliminate pesky competition expanded to become an assassination unit considering the removal of balky foreign heads of state as well, which grew to include tasks involving uncooperative US congressmen, journalists and religious reformers.
By the 1980s that single-purpose group had split like an amoeba and the operation continued, though less centralized, to include the use of former military aircraft sold off to commercial interests ostensobly for firefighting, and to include the activities of Special Forces and CIA pilot Barry Seal at Mena, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Possibly. Or were there perhaps lesser holdings that went under circa 1987, 1994 and 1999 or a year or so before, from which some assets from those entities might have been relocated into organizations created for just such warehousing purposes. Somebody with better professional knowledge of financial affairs than youI might find those dates more familiar and meaningful....
I can think of a couple of possible candidates, and I'll run the idea past them.
Thanks. You get a cookie.
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Your motivation/action plan is illogical.
If the letter said anything other than what he said it would, then copies of it would be plastered all over the news. - the fact that it is not reveiled is sufficient proof that it is incriminating.
The report says Bastien had in his system a mix of alcohol and clozapine, a drug for severe cases of schizophrenia. When combined, the substances can cause the central nervous system to shut down. The dangerous mix could have put Bastien into a coma, followed by respiratory failure, the report said.
But the exact cause of death could not be determined. Bastien did not have a prescription for clozapine, and medical records cited in the report show he had no history of psychological illness. Coroner Line Duchesne said investigators in Moscow and Canada believed the drug was slipped into Bastien's drink by an acquaintance at a bar, but no conclusive evidence had been found.
this just struck a nerve after all that has been posted about anthrax causing a quick, mysterious respiratory related death.
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