词条 | St. Lucia Airways |
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HistoryDuring the 1986 arms for hostages scandal, U.S. Marine Corps Col. Oliver North arranged for shipments of Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK antiaircraft missiles to Israel. "The CIA's air branch suggested a proprietary which did clandestine work for the agency - St. Lucia Airways." The CIA congressional relations man, Clair George, was unavailable, so Duane Clarridge, the Latin America division chief, checked with the acting Deputy Director of Operations, Ed Juchniewicz, who told North that, in addition to its proprietary work, St. Lucia operated as a commercial venture. So it was available to anyone for special charter operations.[2] "North arranged for St. Lucia to provide two Boeing 707s. They were able to carry HAWK antiaircraft missiles to Israel, where the HAWKs were transferred to Israeli planes for transit to Iran. North was running the operation through a Swiss bank account, Lake Resources, Inc. (number 386-430-22-1 at Crédit Suisse). For coming up with an airline on short notice, North told [Vice Adm. John] Poindexter on their interoffice computer, 'Clarridge deserves a medal.'".[2] Lars Olausson's "Lockheed Hercules Production List" provides the following tie-in between Oliver North's St. Lucia operation and current suspected CIA operative Tepper Aviation: FleetIn 1982 the firm operated two aircraft.
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References1. ^1 {{cite book|last = Endres|first = Günter G.|title = World Airline Fleets 1983|publisher = Aviation Data Centre, Feltham, Middlesex, 1982|page = 224| ISBN=0-946141-02-9}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|title=Veil: The secret wars of the CIA, 1981-1987|last=Woodward|first=Bob|publisher=Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005|ISBN=0-7432-7403-2|page=423}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Lockheed Hercules Production List 1954-2009, 26th edition|last=Olausson|first=Lars|publisher=Lars Olausson, self-published, Såtenäs, Sweden, April 2008|page=59 }} External links{{commons category|St. Lucia Airways}} 2 : Central Intelligence Agency front organizations|Companies of Saint Lucia |
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