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Well, I guess many things could be said about this. This always happens. This never happens. They should have gotten CIA clearance before trying to leave the country.
Of course, I don’t know what it means, if it has to mean anything. But I have never been a fan of Plan Colombia. I think it is disgraceful that we have military and private contractors in Colombia spraying the countryside with poisons to eradicate the coca plant. The poisons do not discriminate, they’ll kill anything that’s growing, get into the ground water, into other crops. They don’t target only coke plants.
I wonder how often this happens, how often a group of soldiers gets the idea to smuggle a payload out. I wonder how many contractors do. They are less regulated than the military, they could have more room to do this.
Or this could be another group of bad apples. Never happened before, will never happen again.
is about the money. They want to make sure they get their cut, plain and simple.
As for the GI’s, well, that’s a big temptation, and it was probably one of those idea’s that did’nt fly. One time, I’m done, enough money to set me up type idea’s..who knows.
It used to be SouthEast Asia, during the 60’s, and early 70’s, we had to get the hell outta there, so it just moved to Central/South America.
Couple of notes:
BTW OT I had a little tip that Luis Posada Carriles has been definitely sighted in Miami.
Pax
I wonder how much cocaine has made into the country (USA) via diplomats and military cargo planes. I am sure we are all familiar with the past, Gary Webb’s allegations (which I agree with), and Al McCoy’s brilliant works showing the level of US complicity in the trade. I wonder if these GIs were acting independently, like IP said, perhaps it was a “do this one time and never work again” gig. But what it does show, is that these channels exist, they will continue to exist, and they will only be exposed in cases of clear carelessness without approval from higher ups.