CIA Drug Planes Tip of the Iceberg
January 20th, 2008Via: Mad Cow Productions:
Two American-registered drug planes busted in Mexico carrying four and 5.5 tons of cocaine are just the “tip of the iceberg” in a blockbuster aviation deal which sold 50 American-registered aircraft to the Sinaloa Cartel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
According to an indictment released over the holidays by Mexico’s Atty. General, Pedro Alfonso Alatorre, already indicted as the cartel’s chief financier, purchased the DC9 (N900SA) airliner, the Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA), and 48 other planes not yet identified for Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel with laundered drug money, using a company he controls which owns currency exchanges at major airports in Mexico.
Now we know who bought the airplanes. The trickier question is: who sold them? The answer, normally, would be, “Their local counterparts in international organized crime.”
But these aren’t normal circumstances. Why? Because the U.S. doesn’t even have any Drug Lords. Ask anybody at the DEA. Apparently, we don’t even bother to field a team.
