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  • Dripping blood, a severed arm, & 67 tons of cash on a CIA plane

    Dripping blood, a severed arm, & 67 tons of cash on a CIA plane

    It starts out like a Jason Bourne movie. There’s a plane. A body. And mountains of cash (67 tons of it) on pallets running the length of a cavernous wide-body cargo plane. The MD-11 wide-body cargo jet is enroute from Munich to Durban, South Africa carrying what will later be called a “diplomatic shipment” for…

  • CIA Plane in Big Aussie-American Heroin Bust

    CIA Plane in Big Aussie-American Heroin Bust

    Newly-obtained FAA registration records reveal that the American “mystery plane” busted this July with 35 kilos of heroin at an airport outside Sydney, Australia was a CIA plane. At least, it had been when it rolled off the assembly line 40 years earlier,  courtesy a CIA deal with the U.S. Forest Service. And the CIA…