Tuesday, December 4, 2012

U.S. Ready to Offer Mercenaries $10 Billion for a Drug-War Air Force

By Spencer Ackerman-Wired 

 

 The State Department needs a business partner to keep its fleet of drug-hunting helicopters and planes flying worldwide. You could make up to $10 billion-with-a-B. ...


The aviation contract covers more than just counternarcotics. State needs vendors for “personnel and cargo transport, aerial reconnaissance, medical and casualty evacuations, aerial herbicide application, aerial support to narcotics interdiction operations, aircraft ferrying, and emergent surge type operation.” But the lion’s share of missions have to do with stopping drugs.

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