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If you search Wikipedia for "rendition aircraft" you will find a plane that crashed in Mexico in 2007 while carrying multiple tons of cocaine. Do a Google searc

If you search Wikipedia for "rendition aircraft" you will find a plane that crashed in Mexico in 2007 while carrying multiple tons of cocaine. Do a Google search on the tail number of the aircraft and you'll find a couple sites who did extensive investigation of the aircraft's previous owners (an empty business office) and interesting flight history (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.)

wmil 12y ago
I'm not so sure about that one, FARC is a marxist group that had ties to Chavez. I can't see the CIA helping them. It seems more likely that anyone looking at the flight / maintenance logs noticed discrepancies. No legitimate buyer would take it.
- tjradcliffe 12y ago
  Why not? The CIA is a highly compartmentalized organization staffed by people with extremely pragmatic (albeit often relentlessly anti-Bayesian) attitude. As such, they will--and historically have--ally themselves with pretty much anyone if it seems like a plausible way to further their immediate, narrowly-defined mission. As such, supplying arms to Iran was no big deal for them in the 80's, and helping FARC today is likewise no big deal. You have to understand that the typical CIA operative (or at least the ones who get caught doing something egregiously illegal) has absolutely no moral compass. They are purely interested in the narrowest possible operational goals, and this unfortunate reality is extremely well-documented.
- csorrell 12y ago
  As an intelligence agency, I imagine that it would be highly desirable for the CIA to have contacts close to FARC.
- junto 12y ago
  The CIA has a history of funding black ops through drug running, regardless of which side they are supposed to be helping.
samstave 12y ago
[1] Here is another one about a plane in australia they just busted. The article is a bit all over the place - but it has some really interesting information about how the CIA gets its rendition aircraft. [1] http://www.madcowprod.com/2014/09/12/mystery-aircraft-busted-in-australia-was-cia-plane/ http://www.madcowprod.com/2014/09/12/mystery-aircraft-busted...

wmil 12y ago

I'm not so sure about that one, FARC is a marxist group that had ties to Chavez. I can't see the CIA helping them. It seems more likely that anyone looking at the flight / maintenance logs noticed discrepancies. No legitimate buyer would take it.

tjradcliffe 12y ago
Why not? The CIA is a highly compartmentalized organization staffed by people with extremely pragmatic (albeit often relentlessly anti-Bayesian) attitude. As such, they will--and historically have--ally themselves with pretty much anyone if it seems like a plausible way to further their immediate, narrowly-defined mission. As such, supplying arms to Iran was no big deal for them in the 80's, and helping FARC today is likewise no big deal. You have to understand that the typical CIA operative (or at least the ones who get caught doing something egregiously illegal) has absolutely no moral compass. They are purely interested in the narrowest possible operational goals, and this unfortunate reality is extremely well-documented.
csorrell 12y ago
As an intelligence agency, I imagine that it would be highly desirable for the CIA to have contacts close to FARC.
junto 12y ago
The CIA has a history of funding black ops through drug running, regardless of which side they are supposed to be helping.

samstave 12y ago

[1] Here is another one about a plane in australia they just busted. The article is a bit all over the place - but it has some really interesting information about how the CIA gets its rendition aircraft. [1] http://www.madcowprod.com/2014/09/12/mystery-aircraft-busted-in-australia-was-cia-plane/ http://www.madcowprod.com/2014/09/12/mystery-aircraft-busted...