The Expert Witness Radio Show with Michael Levine and Mark Marshall - primarily centers around issues of government ineptitude and media complacency -- with a particular focus on politics and the intelligence community. Not to say that the show is limited to those subjects... for over a decade, we have covered a wide range of topics, both unusual and un-mainstream. With a great array of knowledgeable guests, the show covers stories that aren't being covered elsewhere. Broadcast in NYC at WBAI-FM. The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in the fall of 2007 with a cargo of 3.7 tons of cocaine onboard appears to be an example of a case that points to a deeper corruption problem within the US bureaucracy. That jet was part of a long-running US covert operation, called Mayan Jaguar, that involved the sale of dozens of aircraft to Latin American narco-trafficking organizations, court records recently revealed. It now appears, based on a Narco News investigation, that a number of the jets sold through Mayan Jaguar or related parties may have been used to move tons of cocaine into the European market, via Africa, despite the fact that some of these aircraft were supposedly being monitored and tracked by the US law enforcers and/or intelligence agents overseeing Mayan Jaguar. Media reports as well European investigators have connected the Gulfstream II jet, via its tail number, N987SA, to past use by the CIA, including alleged flights from 2001 to 2005 between the United States, Europe and Guantanamo Bay, home to the infamous prison camp for targets of the so-called War on Terror. The Gulfstream II jet was sold twice between Aug. 31, 2007, and Sept. 24, 2007 — the date of its crash landing in Mexico' s Yucatan Peninsula with a payload of cocaine. Two Florida companies involved in those sales have been called out in federal court pleadings that allege the Gulfstream jet was part of a bizarre Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) undercover operation carried out in Latin America (Mayan Jaguar) — which netted no arrests or indictments in the US over the four years or so that it was reportedly officially in motion. The plug was pulled on the operation, US prosecutors now claim, with the crash of the Gulfstream II in Mexico. Multiple law-enforcement sources who spoke with Narco News say an operation like Mayan Jaguar would have required a number of high-level approvals and ongoing oversight, not only from ICE and Department of Homeland Security officials, but also from officials at the Department of Justice and the State Department — including the US ambassadors in the affected nations. Mayan Jaguar's lack of law-enforcement success over four years, despite all of that oversight, led those same law enforcers to conclude that the true purpose of Mayan Jaguar was not to gather evidence to make arrests or pursue indictments. Instead, they suggest that ICE's Mayan Jaguar could well have been a CIA cover operation utilizing multiple front companies to penetrate narco-trafficking organizations with the goal of gathering intelligence and recruiting assets — all aimed at advancing US interests deemed vital to the intelligence community. Interesting News Stories: Second Informant Surfaces in ICE's Mayan Jaguar Cocaine-Plane Op (June 3, 2014) http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/06/03/narconews-second-informant-surfaces-in-ices-mayan-jaguar-cocaine-plane-op/ US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach (February 9, 2014) http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/02/us-sponsored-drug-plane-operation-had-global-reach Pleadings in Federal Court Reveal ICE Undercover Operation Marked With CIA Fingerprints (January 4, 2014 ) http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/01/dea-case-threatens-expose-us-government-sanctioned-drug-running ICE Investigation Targeting Drug Planes Plagued by Scandal, Court Records Show (January 19, 2014) http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/01/ice-investigation-targeting-drug-planes-plagued-scandal-court-records-s Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government (May 24, 2013) https://globalintelnews.wordpress.com/tag/zambada-niebla/ EU Officials: Investigate CIA Plane Used in Renditions Caught with 4 Tons of Cocaine (September 10, 2008) http://www.madcowprod.com/09102008.html New Document Provides Further Evidence That Owner of Crashed Cocaine Jet Was a U.S. Government Operative (December 1, 2007) http://www.narconews.com/Issue48/article2919.html Mysterious Jet Crash Is Rare Portal Into the "Dark Alliances" of the Drug War (November 17, 2007) http://narconews.com/Issue47/article2885.html

• published: 04 Jun 2014
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