In a message dated 08/03/2000 5:01:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << He said he wouldn't do it again because the same people who sold it in Colombia were taking DEA bounties for turning unconnected individuals in. >> And that brings us to this note from an editor friend at HT. Peace, Preston Preston-- Ah, so the dopers with government contacts were flying coke (and surely pot) out of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and wherever all through the 70s to Panama, while it was little independent 'snowbird' pirates WITHOUT government contacts who were running coke in condoms in their pants on commercial flights to Florida and California. And these little independent chumps thought they were SO cute and smart when they got introduced to the Latin American majors and colonels who were running the trade down there. Probably these CIA fartbags made a point of introducing the snowbirds to the big brass down there, so when they ALL got busted in the big cocaine 'cleanups' in 1978-9, it would look to everyone in the USA that the coke trade had been pulverised forever--and nobody would be looking for the tons and tons of coke that the government spooks began brokering right at that very moment in time, great big Caribou cargo holds full of it. And yeah, I can see where it might take a few years, from 1975-7, for these spooks to set up that radar-dodging beacon system, using these little twin-engine Beeches and Cessnas to TEST it, before putting big, expensive C123ks on the route. What an AUDACIOUS enterprise, though! To bring up that enormous 1978 coca crop in Bolivia, which enabled them to start running coke by the ton per load, they had to have PLANTED all those thousands of brand-new coca plants back in 1976. So at the same time as they started planting this humongous crop in Roberto Suarez' terraces in Bolivia, they also started planting these damn radio beacons on hilltops from Santa Marta to San Juan, a couple thousand miles. What a fabulous investment that was in just INFRASTRUCTURE, setting up irrigated agricultural terraces on the Bolivian savannah and these fucking radio beacons all the way up to Panama, four whole years before the real dope money began kicking in.... Man, if the fucking UNITED NATIONS was just a tenth as effective and farsighted in engineering development projects, they would've licked world hunger a generation ago. But then, that would've caused a big INFLATION spiral, right? So we went and did something else. --------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- <FONT COLOR="#000099">Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/6630/6/_/475667/_/965336724/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:HI Mike,Preston,
I have a question. Weren't the first plane loads of cocaine into the US
flown in the late 70s? Like 78, 79?
Thanks,
Peace,
PrestonOld money and wooden ships are the place to start.
Cocaine use did lag the Haight-Ashbury era LSD and marijuana
boom, due to high price of the powder form, but there was plenty
of it around in 1970 for rich kids and musicians and single people
with professional incomes.It seemed that an aspiring rock group's manager was apt to be
a Jewish guy with Lansky cocaine connections for an ounce of
powder anytime, cost comparable to $2000 in today's money.
Drugs and other fringe benefits and expenses are one way to
mortgage future earnings from musicians, similar to drugs/guns
exchanges in the cultivation of third-world police states. That
could imply that successful musicians are to art what fascist
puppets are to political science and government.A NYC coke dealer told me drugs were coming in on ships.
That was about 1974. In 1976 or 1977 I met people who
confirmed the NYC sea route and in much more detail that
a Miami connection was available through the Port Authority.
About 1976 I knew someone who had an Air Force pilot friend
who was flying cocaine to South Carolina. In 1976 I had a friend
who was on probation and said that the criminals and cops are
the same people. He had carried cocaine through the Darien Gap
on foot. He said he wouldn't do it again because the same people
who sold it in Colombia were taking DEA bounties for turning
unconnected individuals in. He had bought a golf-ball sized
brown rock resembling crack in 1975.-Bob
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