CIA Linked Air Freight Company Smuggled Weapons into Venezuela

[goldenequity]

CIA Linked Air Freight Company Smuggled Weapons into Venezuela
https://geopolitics.co/2019/02/15/cia-linked-freight-company-smuggled-weapons-into-venezuela/

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Steffan Watkins, an Ottawa-based analyst, told McClatchy in a telephone interview that the plane, which is operated by U.S. air cargo company 21 Air, had been “flying between Philadelphia and Miami and all over the place, but all continental U.S.” during all of last year. However, Watkins noted that “all of a sudden in January, things changed” when the plane began making trips to Colombia and Venezuela on a daily basis, sometimes multiple times a day.

According to Watkins’ analysis, this single plane had conducted 40 round-trip flights from Miami International Airport to Caracas and Valencia — where the smuggled weapons had been discovered — in Venezuela, as well as to Bogota and Medellin in Colombia in just the past month.

[Origanalist]

This is all over the net, but you won't hear about it on the "noos".

[Stratovarious]

We smuggle weapons and funds into countries all
over the world, yet right here in the US , our government
is working overtime to strip us of our weapons,
does anyone know why>? (rhetorical)
:check:
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[angelatc]

This is all over the net, but you won't hear about it on the "noos".

Nobody but me thinks it odd that the US and/ot the carrier hasn't been formally notified by any arms seizure by Maduro? Do the guns look military issue? Why would the CIA take weapons through a commercial airport, including the inspection portal?

Is it a possibility that Maduro's government is fabricating this "seizure?"

And by the way, how many threads do we need on this?

[AZJoe]

US Air Freight Company that Smuggled Weapons Into Venezuela Linked to CIA “Black Site” Renditions (https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-company-that-smuggled-weapons-into-venezuela-linked-to-cia-renditions/255049/)
The parallels between aspects of the Contra scandal and the current situation in Venezuela are striking …

Two executives at the company that chartered the U.S. plane that was caught smuggling weapons into Venezuela last week have been tied to an air cargo company that aided the CIA in the rendition of alleged terrorists to “black site” centers for interrogation. …

Last Tuesday, Venezuelan authorities announced (https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-authorities-discover-cache-of-us-made-guns-amid-uss-slow-rolling-coup/254698/) that 19 rifles, 118 ammo magazines, 90 radios and six iPhones had been smuggled into the country via a U.S. plane that had originated in Miami. …

A subsequent investigation (https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/latin-america/article225949200.html) into the plane responsible for the weapons caché … uncovered information clearly showing that the plane responsible for the shipment had been making an unusually high number of trips to Venezuela and neighboring Colombia over the past few weeks. …

the plane, which is operated by U.S. air cargo company 21 Air (http://21air.us/about-us/), had been “flying between Philadelphia and Miami and all over the place, but all continental U.S.” during all of last year. However … “all of a sudden in January, things changed” when the plane began making trips to Colombia and Venezuela on a daily basis, sometimes multiple times a day. …

this single plane had conducted 40 round-trip flights from Miami International Airport to Caracas and Valencia — where the smuggled weapons had been discovered — in Venezuela, as well as to Bogota and Medellin in Colombia in just the past month.

Publicly available flight radar information (https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n881yv#1f69aaff) shows that the plane, although it has not returned to Venezuela since the discovery of its illicit cargo, has continued to travel to Medellin, Colombia, as recently as this past Monday.

Multiple CIA ties
In addition to the dramatic and abrupt change in flight patterns that occurred just weeks before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence prompted Venezuelan opposition member Juan Guaidó to declare himself “interim president,” a subsequent McClatchy follow-up investigation (https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article226011940.html) also uncovered the fact that two top executives at the company that owns the plane in question had previously worked with a company connected to controversial CIA “black sites.” …

the chairman and majority owner of 21 Air, Adolfo Moreno, and 21 Air’s director of quality control, Michael Steinke, both have “either coincidental or direct ties” to Gemini Air Cargo, a company previously named by (https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/72000/amr510512006en.pdf) Amnesty International as one of the air charter services involved in a CIA rendition program. …

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