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Date: June 6, 2007 2:40:58 PM PDT
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Subject: Leader of "Terrorists" in "JFK Plot" May Have Smuggled
Drugs for "CIA Airlines"
Monday, June 04, 2007
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/06/terror-plot-suspect-worked-
for-cias.html
Terror plot suspect worked for the CIA's airline
The following may be the most important story I have ever written.
It's an incomplete story -- indeed, we have, at present, only about
50 pieces of a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps some of you can
help find missing parts of the picture.
In a previous post, I argued that the "terrorist ring" led by
Russell DeFreitas -- the man who had targeted JFK airport, where he
once worked -- was actually a drug smuggling ring. Now we have a
Newsday piece on the bomb plot which functions as a sort of
palimpsest: The surface text shows hints of a more important tale
which lies beneath.
Authorities were tipped to the plot by a confidential informant, a
convicted drug trafficker who has been working with law enforcement
since 2004, according to the complaint....
The author of this piece does not ask the obvious question: Why was
a drug trafficker tasked to get close to former baggage handler
DeFreitas? The criminal complaint makes clear that DeFreitas
vouched for this drug trafficker to his contacts in the Caribbean
criminal underworld.
The author of the Complaint -- Robert Addonizio, an investigator
with the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force -- prefaces his
findings as follows:
Because the purpose of this Complaint is to state only probable
cause to arrest, I have not described all the relevant facts and
circumstances of which I am aware.
In other words, he does not feel obligated to discuss any subjects
other than terrorism. Subjects such as smuggling.
Although some media accounts have correctly identified Jamaat al
Muslimeen -- a criminal organization based in Trinidad -- as a
party to the JFK airport plot, none of these stories have seen fit
to mention that JAM is in the business of illegal drugs and weapons.
The Complaint makes clear that a JAM leader was cognizant of and
involved with the plot. Although the leader is not named, the
reference almost certainly goes to head honcho Abu Bakr, one of the
world's most dangerous men.
(On page 29 of the Complaint, Kadir is quoted as saying that this
JAM leader -- whose name is redacted -- has strong ties to Libyan
strongman Mohamar Qadafi. So does Bakr.)
This CBS story claims that JAM did not offer the plotters support.
That claim is directly contradicted by paragraphs 53-58 of the
Complaint, which few in the media seem to have read with any care.
So why isn't the Bush administration, which loves a good scare
story, talking about JAM and its leader, Abu Bakr? Bakr knew about
this plot. Why is the media focused on four relative small fry? Why
the odd reticence to mention a Qadafi associate?
I don't have an answer to those questions right now. But I did
discover a genuinely astounding connection.
The afore-cited Newsday piece gives this account of Russell
DeFreitas' employment history:
[New York City Police Commissioner Ray] Kelly said Defreitas last
worked at Kennedy in 1995 as a baggage handler with a subsidiary of
Evergreen International Airlines Inc., an airline services company
based in McMinnville, Ore. Kelly said Defreitas was unemployed and
lived alone.
[Emphasis added.] Oddly enough, the chronology is contradicted by
another Newsday story -- a profile of DeFreitas -- which reports:
Defreitas was hired by a cargo transportation company at Kennedy
Airport, Watts said. Documents show he was employed as a "trainee
supervisor" in 2001 with Evergreen Eagle, a subsidiary of Oregon-
based Evergreen International Aviation. Officials there declined to
comment.
When in 2001? After September 11? More to the point, was he a
baggage handler or a supervisor?
All of this is of no small importance, for one simple reason:
Evergreen is CIA.
Of all the airlines used by the CIA -- and they have used many --
Evergreen has the closest, most longstanding ties to the agency. So
close are they that we may fairly say that the two entities are
kept separate only by a polite legal fiction.
This is not a questioned fact. This is not "tin foil hat" speculation.
For example, this San Diego Union Tribune story (on a non-political
subject) refers to "Evergreen Airlines – the CIA's (contract)
airline that replaced Air America of the Vietnam era." A number of
respected books on the Agency refer to Evergreen as the CIA's
airline. Also see this fascinating affidavit by a pilot who became
involved with these operations.
Evergreen aircraft have, it seems, been used for "extraordinary
renditions" (the transport of captured prisoners for torture): See
here and here.
I have elsewhere argued that, in many cases, these flights make
more sense if viewed as smuggling operations, as opposed to
"torture flights." Although CIA aircraft have undeniably carried
prisoners to remote locations for grisly interrogation, the pattern
suggests that many of these flights have another purpose. (If that
suggestion seems outlandish at first blush, I can only beg you to
read my earlier piece before offering judgment.)
In short and in sum: The CIA has long been accused of using
Evergreen for smuggling purposes. (I do not here refer,
necessarily, to drugs. The CIA must often transport all sorts of
items which it would prefer not to pass through customs.)
Thus, it is of great importance to determine just what DeFreitas
did while working -- in essence -- for the CIA. The disparate and
contradictory reports of his tenure and job title are suspicious in
and of themselves.
It is fair to presume that the CIA vets everyone connected with its
ultra-sensitive air operations. I do not believe that the Agency
would accidentally hire someone linked to a foreign criminal
organization.
But the DeFreitas story gets even stranger.
For someone living in poverty, he did an astonishing amount of
international travel. The Complaint mentions the trip he made late
last year to Guyana, where he met with various shady characters.
Take a look at this paragraph from the Newsday profile:
Acquaintances said that in recent years Defreitas made much of his
money shipping junk appliances, car parts and anything else he
could get his hands on to Guyana, where he would sell them. He also
sometimes sold books and incense on Jamaica street corners, his
retired truck-driver countryman said.
Get real. Nobody goes from New York to Jamaica to sell "incense."
And nobody can earn a living selling junk in a place like Guyana --
at least, not the sort of "junk" described above. Travel and
shipping costs far outstrip the amount of money one can earn, if
one keeps one's business on the up-and-up. If DeFreitas were just a
used appliance salesman, then why does the Complaint portray him as
a man well-known to the underworld?
Newsday's strange claim inevitably calls to mind our recent
discussion of Daniel Hopsicker's latest on the mysterious Agape
airlines. A source who caught a glimpse of the operation told
Hopsicker:
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Its obviously a very well-
funded operation, but the stuff they’re flying down to Haiti is
junk,” he told us bluntly.
“Stuff that didn’t sell at garage sales. Used silverware and
plates, used bedding. Every so often we’d see a new coffeepot, or a
portable generator. But it was mostly all junk.”
“With the price of aviation gasoline today, it costs them between
$6000 and $8000 just to fly down and back to Haiti. And for what? A
couple hundred bucks worth of toasters?”
Cross out "Haiti" in that last sentence and scribble in "Guyana,"
"Jamaica" or "Trinidad."
I think we need to know a lot more about Russell DeFreitas,
associate of the dangerous Jamaat al Muslimeen -- and former
employee of the CIA.
How can we get the media to ask the right questions?
See what's free at AOL.com.
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