September 8, 2021 • 16 mins
Transportista tells his truth about the failed "vuelta" of the DC-9, but the official Venezuelan and U.S. reports John found differ from the pilot's version. Who is lying? John looks again for the reporter who has further investigated the origins of this plane.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
After setting up and administering human smuggling and cocaine shipments
from Venezuela to Mexico, Fernando Blanzo told reporter Manueladius that
he planned to take an extended vacation to attend to
the two thousand six World Cup in Germany. I king
of the world and a huge soccer fan, was in
(00:31):
the process of buying up a called fifty to fight
didically to Germany and enjoy the World Cup with my friends.
I decided to see his operations starting February two thousand
and six so that nothing could get in the way
of my World Cup dream. But well, it seems that
(00:54):
the profit motive gotten away. One of the partners for
Allego is just it on doing so. She keeps insistinct
and talks me into it, and I decided to send
that plane to Mexico with five tons. That plane, of course,
was the infamous cocaine one that was busted in Sea
(01:17):
del Carmen in April two thousand six. In our first episode,
we heard from the Mexican government's press conference announcing the
bust and from then Florida based reporter Howard Altman, who
first looked into both the local owners and the history
of the plane. Now we'll hear how the man who
claims to be responsible for that ill fated shipment tells
(01:39):
the story. Blinko says that he already had the d
cnine available in St. Petersburg, Florida. He says that he
had planned to use that plane for flights to Africa.
Alberto Damiani, of Anezuelan pilot then living in Miami, flew
the plane to Caracas on April five. Damiani delivered it
(01:59):
to blank Hill at the Mike Adia International Airport with
a no fly report. That report detailed a number of
mechanical issues that would need to be repaired before the
plane could be flown again. Blinkio says that he gave
the task of overseeing the repairs to a Venezuelan pilot
who worked for him. This pilot hired a team of
(02:20):
aircraft mechanics from a private company located at the airport.
Blinkio says that he sent his second wife and son
off on a vacation and took a weekend trip to Cartagena,
Colombia with his Miss Germany girlfriend and her parents. He
says he then returned to Caracas the following Monday, loaded
the d C nine with the five plus tons of
(02:42):
cocaine and sent it off. He and his cohort were happy,
he says, with the DC nines on time departure, but
then they got a call the plane had a mechanical
failure and was on its way back. The details get
a bit murky here, but Blinkyo says that the DC
nine full of cocaine took off from Caracas and then
(03:05):
turned around and came back, and then took off again
and returned yet again to the Caracas airport due to
various mechanical failures, and Blanko's interviews with Manueladius he described
those mechanical failures a bit differently. First, he said the
plane had a problem with the cabin door pressure, and
then a second problem with one of the wheels, and
(03:27):
then finally a third problem at the brakes. And it's
subsequent round of interviews, which were used in the The
Diva Spanish language podcast and translated for this podcast, Blankio
described the plane's various mishaps as follows. Was the landing
flare brob sold to micros which is adjusted what that
it works. They live again. We're more relaxed unconcerned because
(03:55):
and then the plane had to turn around and fly back.
A second time goes by and the plane comes back again,
only this time it means or Heaven's seen correctly and
depending was losing pressure for Heaven's sake. Lancia says that
the plane is then further damaged when it landed back
to Caracas that second time where it lands the second
(04:18):
time boat landings with a full load of drugs and
peeled tanks practically and capacity. One of the brakes was damage,
a problem impossible to fix at such late hours. Blincial
emphasizes that the plane took off and turned around, got repaired,
and then took off again and turned around the second time,
(04:40):
only to get parked and wait for the repairs, all
well loaded with add two cases of cocaine. Imagine a
Blaine packed with five tons of cocaine in the platform,
a plane on the runway right under every once Nosi,
this man, it was laughable. During the Mexican government's April eleven,
(05:02):
two thousand six press conference announcing the drug bust, General
Carlos de Metrio Gaitan said that Mexican authorities had detected
anomalies with the plane because it had taken off, communicated
its flight plan, and then turned around without explaining why.
General Gaitan said that the plane then took off again
and flew onto Mexico. That is coined to the Mexican government.
(05:25):
The plane only returned to Caracas once, not twice, as
blank here describes. Here's General Kaitan from that press conference.
I don't know it just base on Venezuela. Sema uh
(05:45):
Norman Ligan's population. Nothing wells when the female Mexico, regardless
(06:13):
of how many times the plane turned around and came back,
and of what exactly broke down when Blankiell tells the
tale of a private US owned aircraft with there were
five tons of cocaine lining the aisles, basically flying in
circles and falling apart over a Venezuela. Then in the
heyday of Google chavis is fourteen year Bolivarian Revolution, and
(06:36):
so finally on April ten, two thousand six, the plane
would take off and make the flight to its scheduled
stop order into got him in and the waiting arms
of the Mexican Army. Let's we approached the end of
this podcast, I'd like to address one of the difficulties
and potential pitfalls of working on a global, multibillion dollar
(06:58):
industry that is designed to be officially invisible, an industry
whose workers, executives, and security forces are mostly armed to
the teeth and to some extent, trained and guaranteed impunity
when enforcing the laws of official invisibility. In the realm
of transnational illegal drug trafficking and drug policing, information is
(07:21):
as much of a commodity as all the wildly popular
oblivion or euphoria inducing chemical compounds. Everyone in the business,
from the drug producers, shippers, dealers, and consumers to the
drug police, prosecutors and legislators, is on the lookout for
(07:43):
the best deal, the information that will get them out
of jail or ruin their competitor's latest venture, or make
their career, or get them re elected, or save their life.
The global drug and drug war industries depend on always
shifting sub markets of information. One of the main features
(08:05):
of those sub markets is this everyone lies, at least
some of the time, or perhaps more accurately, The best,
the most successful entrepreneurs in the transnational illegal drug industry
combined truth and lies seamlessly. This leads the reporter interested
(08:30):
in evading lies to a pessimistry cool of thumb. Don't
trust anyone who makes their living in this industry. Don't
trust the self proclaimed narco who wants to feed you
a story. Don't trust the government press releases and statements.
Don't trust the court files and police reports. Don't trust
any of them. My name, so I'm told, is John Gibler.
(08:52):
And this, in a sense is Transportista Episode nine, Cocaine
one revisited. While I was looking into Blink Youll story,
(09:14):
reporter Manuel Latio sent me a link to a Venezuelan
court decision from April two thousand nine. This document, which
Menu found during his initial research into Blink Youll Story,
which I hadn't seen referenced anywhere else, contains Venezuelan police
reports from their two thousand six investigation into the DC nine.
These reports include police interviews with both government and private
(09:35):
airport workers. Like all such government documents composed of interviews
that could have taken place under durest or torture or negotiation,
it must be taken as a matrix of possible lies
and truths, rather than as a straight record of the truth.
One thing that sticks out, for example, is the testimony
(09:56):
of a couple of mechanics saying they worked on the plane,
had access to its interior, and did not see any suitcases,
much less a hundred and twenty eight of them inside
the cabin. That contradicts blank Kiell's statement that they had
loaded the plane with cocaine before the first takeoff, that
the plane and the coke were sitting right there on
the tarmac the whole time the plane was being repaired. However,
(10:18):
the numerous and varied testimonies contained in the court document
largely coincide with blank Kiell's description of the plane's misadventures.
Several of the mechanics described seeing a man with a
Mexican accent around the plane. Those mechanics say that they
received one thousand U S. Dollars in cash for working
on the plane on their spare time. That is, of course,
(10:38):
off the books. The court document includes airport fee receipts
and landing and takeoff permission documents, all in the name
of Royal Son's, Inc. The Florida based company with the
weird political connections. Recall that Fred Geffon told reporters that
he had just sold the plane through a broker and
had no idea who the buyer was. That statement seems
(11:02):
impossible to sustain, given both the documents contained in the
Venezuelan case file and blink hills story. The court document
also includes a number of seats and permissions from two
thousand five and early two thousand six for the Falcon
twenty airplane that blank Hill says he sent to see
the Del Carmen to wait for the DC nine. I
(11:22):
have sent my fark on twenty the extra Bravo India Kio.
I had sent the federal police commander and other officials
to prepare so to say the technical stop over that
the DC ninth with the drugs how to make in
Suban del car This seems to corroborate at least a
(11:43):
bit of blank Hill's tail of running drug and human
smuggling flights between Caracas and to Luca. The court document
also includes the testimony of Alberto Damiani, who flew the
DC nine to Venezuela. Damiani describes meeting Raoul Jimenez Man
with a Mexican accent and the gold Role Nex with
another band. He said his story also coincides with Blinkos.
(12:08):
When I first spoke with Daniel Hopsiker, the Cocaine one
chronicler based in Florida. I mentioned the Venezuelan court document
to him. He asked if I sent it to him,
and I did, and then called him back, summarized blink
Hill's story and asked him what he thought as far
as a ghost story. He told you, seems too in
major ways match what the Venezuelan investigation into the DC
(12:33):
nine plane um related. But the Venezuelans, of course, I
had their own extra grind and and we're happy to
release the information. And that m Frederick gap in, the
sky Way Communications principal who actually owned the DC nine
when it was supposed had a previous encounter with the
d d A and Haddy and I met this guy, Okay,
(12:55):
I mean did not surprise me at all. Be it
either like middle middle management executives part of the American
drug cartel, all right, one of the American drug boards
which we're not supposed to have. Wait a minute, Geffon
worked with the d e A. It seems so. In fact,
the d A report is why Manuel sent me the
(13:16):
Venezuelan court document in the first place, and why I
mentioned it's a hop sicker. The court document summarizes a
d e A report center Venezuela on May fifth, two
thousand six, and signed by Paul Able Samra, who is
currently listed on LinkedIn as a criminal investigator of the
Department of Justice and this report, the d e A
states that fred Geffon was an airplane businessman working with
(13:38):
drug traffickers while also working as a d A source
all the way back in Royal Sons transferred the ownership
of the d C nine to fred geff On, the
individual on March six. At that time, according to Blankio,
the plane was ready and waiting for his use. The
d e A report also links for Nando and kill
(14:00):
Si Sena and his Guadalajara based business to the alias
role he manz Alfaro to the Falcon twenty and the
previous flights between Mexico and Venezuela. So the d e
A both new and informed Venezuelan authorities that Blankio was
Raoul back and made two thousand six. The d e
A also told Venezuelan authorities that fred Geffon was connected
(14:23):
to both drug flights, and the d e A going
back to US authorities did not charge geffen with any
crimes related to the five plus tons of cocaine found
on his plane in Sila del Gardmen. Nor did they
charged for Ernando blink Kills SNA What does this all
amount to? When I recounted blink Hills, small time, catch
(14:43):
me if you can ask tail of Miss Germany, Carthagena,
the two thousand six World Cup and the Jelapi DC
nine to Daniel hop Sticker. He was not impressed. One
of the first things he said to me was this
American dwords are the story here. He is enjoying about
that heavy next time. Transportista is a detective production with
(15:23):
Exile Content Studio in partnership with I Heart Radios Michael
Dura Podcast Network. Directed and narrated by John Gibbler, Transportista's
voice by jrquin Cosio, Editing and sound design by Ferrando
l la Rossa and Pedro Garcia. Reporting by John Gibbler
and Manuelarios, produced by Juli Gonzalez, Voice recording by Ugo
(15:45):
Merino and Rene Garcia. Transportis interviews translated by Carlo ris
Ar Guys. Production supervision by Nando Vila and Alvarospatis. Associate
producers Alonso Hilar and Alexandro Duran Diego and Driquez. Sorro
is the creator and executive producer, along with Danielle Eilenberg
and E s Ackley. Executive producers for i Heeart Media
(16:08):
are Conald Burne and just Sell Bunces. For more podcasts
from My Heart, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
After setting up and administering human smuggling and cocaine shipments
from Venezuela to Mexico, Fernando Blanzo told reporter Manueladius that
he planned to take an extended vacation to attend to
the two thousand six World Cup in Germany. I king
of the world and a huge soccer fan, was in
(00:31):
the process of buying up a called fifty to fight
didically to Germany and enjoy the World Cup with my friends.
I decided to see his operations starting February two thousand
and six so that nothing could get in the way
of my World Cup dream. But well, it seems that
(00:54):
the profit motive gotten away. One of the partners for
Allego is just it on doing so. She keeps insistinct
and talks me into it, and I decided to send
that plane to Mexico with five tons. That plane, of course,
was the infamous cocaine one that was busted in Sea
(01:17):
del Carmen in April two thousand six. In our first episode,
we heard from the Mexican government's press conference announcing the
bust and from then Florida based reporter Howard Altman, who
first looked into both the local owners and the history
of the plane. Now we'll hear how the man who
claims to be responsible for that ill fated shipment tells
(01:39):
the story. Blinko says that he already had the d
cnine available in St. Petersburg, Florida. He says that he
had planned to use that plane for flights to Africa.
Alberto Damiani, of Anezuelan pilot then living in Miami, flew
the plane to Caracas on April five. Damiani delivered it
(01:59):
to blank Hill at the Mike Adia International Airport with
a no fly report. That report detailed a number of
mechanical issues that would need to be repaired before the
plane could be flown again. Blinkio says that he gave
the task of overseeing the repairs to a Venezuelan pilot
who worked for him. This pilot hired a team of
(02:20):
aircraft mechanics from a private company located at the airport.
Blinkio says that he sent his second wife and son
off on a vacation and took a weekend trip to Cartagena,
Colombia with his Miss Germany girlfriend and her parents. He
says he then returned to Caracas the following Monday, loaded
the d C nine with the five plus tons of
(02:42):
cocaine and sent it off. He and his cohort were happy,
he says, with the DC nines on time departure, but
then they got a call the plane had a mechanical
failure and was on its way back. The details get
a bit murky here, but Blinkyo says that the DC
nine full of cocaine took off from Caracas and then
(03:05):
turned around and came back, and then took off again
and returned yet again to the Caracas airport due to
various mechanical failures, and Blanko's interviews with Manueladius he described
those mechanical failures a bit differently. First, he said the
plane had a problem with the cabin door pressure, and
then a second problem with one of the wheels, and
(03:27):
then finally a third problem at the brakes. And it's
subsequent round of interviews, which were used in the The
Diva Spanish language podcast and translated for this podcast, Blankio
described the plane's various mishaps as follows. Was the landing
flare brob sold to micros which is adjusted what that
it works. They live again. We're more relaxed unconcerned because
(03:55):
and then the plane had to turn around and fly back.
A second time goes by and the plane comes back again,
only this time it means or Heaven's seen correctly and
depending was losing pressure for Heaven's sake. Lancia says that
the plane is then further damaged when it landed back
to Caracas that second time where it lands the second
(04:18):
time boat landings with a full load of drugs and
peeled tanks practically and capacity. One of the brakes was damage,
a problem impossible to fix at such late hours. Blincial
emphasizes that the plane took off and turned around, got repaired,
and then took off again and turned around the second time,
(04:40):
only to get parked and wait for the repairs, all
well loaded with add two cases of cocaine. Imagine a
Blaine packed with five tons of cocaine in the platform,
a plane on the runway right under every once Nosi,
this man, it was laughable. During the Mexican government's April eleven,
(05:02):
two thousand six press conference announcing the drug bust, General
Carlos de Metrio Gaitan said that Mexican authorities had detected
anomalies with the plane because it had taken off, communicated
its flight plan, and then turned around without explaining why.
General Gaitan said that the plane then took off again
and flew onto Mexico. That is coined to the Mexican government.
(05:25):
The plane only returned to Caracas once, not twice, as
blank here describes. Here's General Kaitan from that press conference.
I don't know it just base on Venezuela. Sema uh
(05:45):
Norman Ligan's population. Nothing wells when the female Mexico, regardless
(06:13):
of how many times the plane turned around and came back,
and of what exactly broke down when Blankiell tells the
tale of a private US owned aircraft with there were
five tons of cocaine lining the aisles, basically flying in
circles and falling apart over a Venezuela. Then in the
heyday of Google chavis is fourteen year Bolivarian Revolution, and
(06:36):
so finally on April ten, two thousand six, the plane
would take off and make the flight to its scheduled
stop order into got him in and the waiting arms
of the Mexican Army. Let's we approached the end of
this podcast, I'd like to address one of the difficulties
and potential pitfalls of working on a global, multibillion dollar
(06:58):
industry that is designed to be officially invisible, an industry
whose workers, executives, and security forces are mostly armed to
the teeth and to some extent, trained and guaranteed impunity
when enforcing the laws of official invisibility. In the realm
of transnational illegal drug trafficking and drug policing, information is
(07:21):
as much of a commodity as all the wildly popular
oblivion or euphoria inducing chemical compounds. Everyone in the business,
from the drug producers, shippers, dealers, and consumers to the
drug police, prosecutors and legislators, is on the lookout for
(07:43):
the best deal, the information that will get them out
of jail or ruin their competitor's latest venture, or make
their career, or get them re elected, or save their life.
The global drug and drug war industries depend on always
shifting sub markets of information. One of the main features
(08:05):
of those sub markets is this everyone lies, at least
some of the time, or perhaps more accurately, The best,
the most successful entrepreneurs in the transnational illegal drug industry
combined truth and lies seamlessly. This leads the reporter interested
(08:30):
in evading lies to a pessimistry cool of thumb. Don't
trust anyone who makes their living in this industry. Don't
trust the self proclaimed narco who wants to feed you
a story. Don't trust the government press releases and statements.
Don't trust the court files and police reports. Don't trust
any of them. My name, so I'm told, is John Gibler.
(08:52):
And this, in a sense is Transportista Episode nine, Cocaine
one revisited. While I was looking into Blink Youll story,
(09:14):
reporter Manuel Latio sent me a link to a Venezuelan
court decision from April two thousand nine. This document, which
Menu found during his initial research into Blink Youll Story,
which I hadn't seen referenced anywhere else, contains Venezuelan police
reports from their two thousand six investigation into the DC nine.
These reports include police interviews with both government and private
(09:35):
airport workers. Like all such government documents composed of interviews
that could have taken place under durest or torture or negotiation,
it must be taken as a matrix of possible lies
and truths, rather than as a straight record of the truth.
One thing that sticks out, for example, is the testimony
(09:56):
of a couple of mechanics saying they worked on the plane,
had access to its interior, and did not see any suitcases,
much less a hundred and twenty eight of them inside
the cabin. That contradicts blank Kiell's statement that they had
loaded the plane with cocaine before the first takeoff, that
the plane and the coke were sitting right there on
the tarmac the whole time the plane was being repaired. However,
(10:18):
the numerous and varied testimonies contained in the court document
largely coincide with blank Kiell's description of the plane's misadventures.
Several of the mechanics described seeing a man with a
Mexican accent around the plane. Those mechanics say that they
received one thousand U S. Dollars in cash for working
on the plane on their spare time. That is, of course,
(10:38):
off the books. The court document includes airport fee receipts
and landing and takeoff permission documents, all in the name
of Royal Son's, Inc. The Florida based company with the
weird political connections. Recall that Fred Geffon told reporters that
he had just sold the plane through a broker and
had no idea who the buyer was. That statement seems
(11:02):
impossible to sustain, given both the documents contained in the
Venezuelan case file and blink hills story. The court document
also includes a number of seats and permissions from two
thousand five and early two thousand six for the Falcon
twenty airplane that blank Hill says he sent to see
the Del Carmen to wait for the DC nine. I
(11:22):
have sent my fark on twenty the extra Bravo India Kio.
I had sent the federal police commander and other officials
to prepare so to say the technical stop over that
the DC ninth with the drugs how to make in
Suban del car This seems to corroborate at least a
(11:43):
bit of blank Hill's tail of running drug and human
smuggling flights between Caracas and to Luca. The court document
also includes the testimony of Alberto Damiani, who flew the
DC nine to Venezuela. Damiani describes meeting Raoul Jimenez Man
with a Mexican accent and the gold Role Nex with
another band. He said his story also coincides with Blinkos.
(12:08):
When I first spoke with Daniel Hopsiker, the Cocaine one
chronicler based in Florida. I mentioned the Venezuelan court document
to him. He asked if I sent it to him,
and I did, and then called him back, summarized blink
Hill's story and asked him what he thought as far
as a ghost story. He told you, seems too in
major ways match what the Venezuelan investigation into the DC
(12:33):
nine plane um related. But the Venezuelans, of course, I
had their own extra grind and and we're happy to
release the information. And that m Frederick gap in, the
sky Way Communications principal who actually owned the DC nine
when it was supposed had a previous encounter with the
d d A and Haddy and I met this guy, Okay,
(12:55):
I mean did not surprise me at all. Be it
either like middle middle management executives part of the American
drug cartel, all right, one of the American drug boards
which we're not supposed to have. Wait a minute, Geffon
worked with the d e A. It seems so. In fact,
the d A report is why Manuel sent me the
(13:16):
Venezuelan court document in the first place, and why I
mentioned it's a hop sicker. The court document summarizes a
d e A report center Venezuela on May fifth, two
thousand six, and signed by Paul Able Samra, who is
currently listed on LinkedIn as a criminal investigator of the
Department of Justice and this report, the d e A
states that fred Geffon was an airplane businessman working with
(13:38):
drug traffickers while also working as a d A source
all the way back in Royal Sons transferred the ownership
of the d C nine to fred geff On, the
individual on March six. At that time, according to Blankio,
the plane was ready and waiting for his use. The
d e A report also links for Nando and kill
(14:00):
Si Sena and his Guadalajara based business to the alias
role he manz Alfaro to the Falcon twenty and the
previous flights between Mexico and Venezuela. So the d e
A both new and informed Venezuelan authorities that Blankio was
Raoul back and made two thousand six. The d e
A also told Venezuelan authorities that fred Geffon was connected
(14:23):
to both drug flights, and the d e A going
back to US authorities did not charge geffen with any
crimes related to the five plus tons of cocaine found
on his plane in Sila del Gardmen. Nor did they
charged for Ernando blink Kills SNA What does this all
amount to? When I recounted blink Hills, small time, catch
(14:43):
me if you can ask tail of Miss Germany, Carthagena,
the two thousand six World Cup and the Jelapi DC
nine to Daniel hop Sticker. He was not impressed. One
of the first things he said to me was this
American dwords are the story here. He is enjoying about
that heavy next time. Transportista is a detective production with
(15:23):
Exile Content Studio in partnership with I Heart Radios Michael
Dura Podcast Network. Directed and narrated by John Gibbler, Transportista's
voice by jrquin Cosio, Editing and sound design by Ferrando
l la Rossa and Pedro Garcia. Reporting by John Gibbler
and Manuelarios, produced by Juli Gonzalez, Voice recording by Ugo
(15:45):
Merino and Rene Garcia. Transportis interviews translated by Carlo ris
Ar Guys. Production supervision by Nando Vila and Alvarospatis. Associate
producers Alonso Hilar and Alexandro Duran Diego and Driquez. Sorro
is the creator and executive producer, along with Danielle Eilenberg
and E s Ackley. Executive producers for i Heeart Media
(16:08):
are Conald Burne and just Sell Bunces. For more podcasts
from My Heart, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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