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24 timer, men ettersom ekstradelene trengte 24 timer på å ankomme, gjaldt ikke det lenger
dette spesielle flyet.
Dette var tydleigvis et problem for de to høytstående amerikanske offiserene ombord
som hadde ansvaret for de døde soldatene; de forsvant fra basen uten å melde fra, hvilket
var svært uvanlig. De japanske tollerne ble informert om dette, og da de tok en titt i lasten,
fant de at hver i eneste døde amerikanske soldat om bord på flyet var innvollene fjernet, og
erstattet med heroin som skulle smugles til USA.
Den ene av de to offiserene som hadde ansvar for lasten, ble pågrepet noen dager
senere på Hawaii, men innen saken kom opp for retten var alle inkriminerende papirer og
bevis forsvunnet.
Kirkconnell forteller om dette: “The evidence never got to the court. I know this
because I was concerned that the records needed to be returned to the files, and I inquired
about them about once a week. The OSI agent [Office of Special Investigations, en
etterforskningsenhet i Luftforsvaret] eventually told me that the records had disappeared
and signed a statement that the documentation was missing and could not be returned. I
put this in the files. He also told me that Sutherland [offiseren som ble pågrepet på Hawaii]
was convicted of only one charge – unauthorized wear of a US military uniform. None of the
other charges were proven because of lack of evidence. He also told me that Sutherland was
not his real name, and that he and the major with him had never been in the Army.
I knew this OSI agent because I had researched several other cases of drug smuggling
on military aircraft. I usually did not ask him questions which I thought he was not at liberty
to answer. He always told me everything that I needed to know to research illegal activities.
Most of the cases were relatively smalltime drug smuggling. This case was something that
was way over-the-top. All of us that knew the enormity of this case were flabbergasted. The
forged documentation was flawless and had to have been done by experts in the air
transportation field. Also, our people who saw the two impostors said that their uniforms
and ID cards were perfect.
Further, when we talked about this, we were astounded with the enormity of this
operation. The mortuary in Vietnam had to have put the heroin in the bodies, and the one
at Travis Air Force Base, California had to remove the heroin, and it had to be distributed, ID
cards had to be obtained, orders had to be made, etc. This was no smalltime operation.” (Se
brevet i sin helhet på http://www.wanttoknow.info/militarysmuggledheroin)
Bob Kirkconnell avslutter brevet sitt til wanttoknow.info nettredaksjonen med at han
gjennom sin karriere i militæret, aldri var utstasjonert på en flybase han ikke mistenkte for å
bli brukt til narkotikasmugling. Redaktørene tok etter dette brevet kontakt med Michael
Levine, en DEA agent vi har vært innom tidligere i boken, og formidlet kontakt mellom
Kirkconnell og sistnevnte.
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