AIR AMERICA WAS BASED ON A REAL OPERATION REVEALED TO SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY BY THE FBI ON JULY 7, 1989
FBI Report, dated July 7, 1989, to Senator Edward Kennedy regarding Kennedy’s request for information on “Japanese/Singapore/New Zealand/Kentucky” connection.
I have typed a portion of the report below, but what was posted online is below.
“During the tenure of Richard Helms as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, decisions were made by the director, with implied approval of the Oval Office, to draft a blue-print and put into motion a plan by which the CIA could have as much funds as, and when, needed, without knowledge of Congress.”
Helms wrote a memo to the Oval Office (FBI intercepted) in which he stated in part, “….If Congress, or any other uninformed “do-gooders” ever become aware of this operation, this agency and its director will invoke the 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act,…”
The plan presented called for a second airline to be set up by the CIA (the first was “Flying Tigers”). This was done, and the airline was named “Overseas National Airline.” This airline, suddenly, without yet having any aircraft, received the contracts for all civilian carrier and military cargo into the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia. The master plan called for the CIA to enter into the drug smuggling business, in a total and complete fashion. Each of the five planners would have his own field to handle. Bush would be the secret head of DNA and handle all the shipping of the drugs under forged waybills. Armitage would be the “gopher” for the group and the intermediary with any “undesirables.” General Landsdale would handle all the distribution network and collection services within the military in Vietnam. William Colby was to handle the setting up of all the man-power—from runners, peddlers, pushers, collectors, and so forth, as well as the elimination of any who might prove to be uncontrollable, be they American or Vietnamese. Lt. Col. Ferrera was to use his contacts in Latin America and in the middle-east, to obtain from various governments the needed drugs – heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD, etc., etc., as ordered by Colby. Bush was to handle the opium from China.