“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 never sells off its planes.
FAA registration records show it was commissioned by U.S. Forest Service in an operation to “sheep-dip” CIA planes in the early 70′s from aircraft manufacturer Swearingen in San Antonio, part of an through the U.S. Forest Service.
“Sheep-dip” is spook-speak for concealing the source or true ownership of something, or, at the very least, hiding it from Congress. When the plane was ordered, the CIA was merely anticipating Congressional calls for reining in the CIA, through (tellingly) forcing the Agency to divest its proprietary airlines.
”The Australian announcement that a global cartel was moving planes like chess pieces across a chessboard the size of the Outback led some to hope that the American Drug Lords might finally achieve overdue recognition.”
Daniel Hopsicker’s “Barry & ‘the Boys’” remains much in demand even after its publication over ten years ago. After an awesome amount of requests he has printed a limited edition available with a donation exclusively online in the MadCow News
