Drug Pilot, Election Exec klled on CIA Plane. by Daniel Hopsicker

[Joanne98]

WORLD EXCLUSIVE
May 7, 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker

One week after the crash outside Caracas, Venezuela of a twin-engine Piper Navajo (N6463L), an air of intrigue surrounds almost everything about the flight, including the plane's ownership, passengers, and pilot.

Woven into one small story about a plane crash in Venezuela that killed seven people are visible threads from two perennial American cover-ups: one surrounding vote fraud, and one covering-up the CIA's role in drug trafficking.

For anyone interested in the news that gets left out of the newspaper, its’ a Perfect Storm. The Mother of All Scandals.

The downed plane's relevance to the ongoing story of vote fraud in America involves the identity of it's passenger, Jose Alfredo Anzola, a 34-year old founder of Smartmatic, a Venezuela-based election company whose American subsidiary counted one in every three votes in the 2004 Presidential election, while engaged the whole time in heated controversy over allegations the firm counting America's votes had hidden ties to—of all people— Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.

The connection between last week's plane crash and the ongoing saga of CIA Drug trafficking begins with 43-year old Mario Donadi Gafaro, the veteran drug pilot at the controls of the twin engine plane.

Donadi boasts a 1999 drug trafficking conviction in the U.S., where he served three years.

Then, even more recently, he was convicted of the same offense in Venezuela, and sentenced to an eight-year stretch at Venezuela’s Big House.

When he crashed and burned last week, reporters noted with surprise, he still had six years to serve. Donadi was supposed to be in prison.

But he apparently has friends in high places.


Seven die in crash
The plane crashed atop a six-story roof near Caracas while attempting to return to the international airport at Maiquetía after both engines quit just minutes after take-off.

Seven people died in the accident, three from the plane and four people living in the apartment house where the aircraft crashed. Two were children, girls 8 and 9 years old.

Crash pictures show the plane's tail, decorated with four aces because it was used to ferry gamblers to Curacao's casinos, sitting upright on a rooftop.

Several aviation observers, citing the rare failure of both engines at once on twin-engine planes, have told the MadCowMorningNews they thought the crash appeared suspicious.

“Charter People,” the Venezuelan company operating the stricken plane when it crashed, has something of a checkered aviation history.

The company owned a Beach King Air 90 that last December ditched in the Caribbean 35 miles short of the Dominican Republic.

Seven people got out through an emergency hatch. 81 year-old Alicia Emmerich Fargie did not. She sank with the plane.

The Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation later issued a statement saying one of their priorities remained locating her body.


"Maybe he was just slippery."

Aircraft registered in another country must have a permit to conduct charter flights in Venezuela. But that was the least of the irregularities which red-faced Venezuelan officials were left trying to explain away.

There were unanswered questions about why pilot Mario Donadi Gafaro's eight-year stretch for drug trafficking had had such little apparent effect on the pilot's freedom of movement.

Aviation officials in Venezuela predictably preferred to dwell on why U.S. authorities should be investigating how convicted felon Donadi got a pilot’s license in the U.S. from the FAA.

Local Venezuelan reporters asked, "How it was possible that Donadi, instead of lifting weights in a prison yard, was able to jet off to international destinations like the flight's announced destination of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles?"

One went so far as to write that it was a "Ripley's Believe it or not Moment."

We recalled what we'd been told while reporting the story of 23 missing helicopters at the Charlotte County Airport (later discovered to have been exported overseas by the CIA.)

The choppers weren't actually missing, said one wag at the airport. They'd just released themselves on their own recognizance.

Maybe that's what Donadi had done, too. Continued>>>
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[wildbilln864]

1. kick! nt

:hi:

[hack89]

2. So Chavez let him out of prison to fly drugs?

Interesting.

[wildbilln864]

3. Thanks Joanne. nt