Chapter 70: Exploiting Loopholes
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When he received the call, Harris was discussing with his men how to get the drugs back from Mexico. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
For Harris, this is a real problem.
In the past, it was transported by military transport planes, without having to go through the border or through customs, and all Harris had to do was buy off the police in major sales areas such as Los Angeles, and he didn't have to think about the purchase channel at all, so he didn't have much to do with that either.
Now if you want to buy goods from normal channels, you have to go through the border and customs, and the problem comes.
Discussing and going, Harris still thinks that air freight is more reliable. Nine tons of cargo can be transported by a small transport aircraft with a slightly larger carrying capacity, such as the G222 tactical transport aircraft in Alenia, Italy, which Harris has in his hand.
The plane was also bought to bring goods back from San Jose.
Landing at a civilian airport is certainly not realistic, after all, the AWACS aircraft of the Air Guard are not vegetarians. Not to mention unloading cargo at the airport, it will be intercepted after entering US airspace.
The solution to this problem is simple: airdrop goods near the border and transport them from the ground.
Harris is sure of that.
G222 can airdrop pallets, and his subordinates are all special forces, so there is no problem with their capabilities. The most important thing is that the AWACS aircraft of the Air Guard are all E-3A, not the E-3C of the Air Force, which has very limited detection capabilities against ground targets and cannot track vehicles.
As long as the goods are shipped in time, the problem is not very big.
As for the transport plane, it is perfectly possible to return to Mexico, or land at a nearby airport. As long as there are no drugs on the plane, there is nothing to worry about. If it doesn't work anymore, you can let the pilot parachute. Anyway, the nearly thirty-year-old transport plane was very cheap when it was bought, and it wasn't worth a few bucks.
Once settled, Harris discussed the flight route with his men.
It was at this time that Vicky's men called back.
Upon learning that Vicky had been killed, Harris froze.
Shocked, Harris immediately sent his men out of Colombia and back to the United States, not allowing them to pursue the attackers who had fled into the jungle.
Regardless of whether it is other drug lords or not, in the absence of reinforcements, blind pursuit will not end well.
Besides, the "drug trafficking" is in an uproar, and it will be even more dangerous if the news spreads and the special forces stationed in San Jose are dispatched.
Hanging up the phone, Harris thought for a while and called Rickell.
Since the U.S. military wants to save face, let them clean up the mess. If the Navy SEALs had killed the attackers, they would have avenged Vicky.
With this arranged, Harris returned to the subject and continued to discuss how to deliver the goods.
At this time, Zhou Yulong and the others had already traveled more than ten kilometers in the jungle. The speed is not too slow, mainly because the first two times he came to investigate the news, Zhou Yulong figured out the situation here. What's more, with twenty mules to help deliver the goods, the pressure on the special forces was greatly reduced.
It was about two hours before the Navy SEALs in San Jose received the order.
Thirty special forces from three squads immediately set off on MH-60 helicopters and rushed to the scene of the incident.
By the time they arrived, the "mule team" led by Zhou Yulong was already forty kilometers away. Although this distance is not a problem for helicopters at all, it is almost impossible to find a "mule team" in the jungle. Not to mention those special operations helicopters, it is also difficult to do it with armed helicopters.
After dawn, the Colombian political axe army also rushed over.
After learning that the big drug lord Pedro was killed, the Colombian authorities immediately released the news, claiming that they had jointly eliminated the number one drug lord with the US special forces, burning dozens of tons of cocaine and marijuana.
The Colombian authorities did this, and the US military did not say much.
After the outbreak of the "drug trafficking" incident, anti-American** was thrown out in Colombia, demanding the expulsion of US troops, and the pro-American Colombian authorities were in an embarrassing situation. This operation just gave the Colombian authorities a chance to step down, and also gave the US military a reason to stay in Colombia.
Either way, both sides have something to gain from it.
It's just that the CIA doesn't see things that simple.
After receiving a call from Harris, Rickel sent a team of investigators to the scene that afternoon.
Although the scene had been disrupted by the SEALs and the Colombian Axe Army, and many traces had been destroyed, CIA investigators still found a problem and judged that there were only a few dozen people who attacked the estate.
Could it have been done by other drug lords?
If nothing else, if other drug lords had done it, they would have taken away all the heroin and marijuana in the drug warehouse, and they would not have burned it.
Although it has been suggested that the attackers did not prepare enough transports and that there were indeed hoof prints of mules at the scene, Pedro was Colombia's number one drug lord and never had less than fifty tons of drugs in his cellar, and the other drug lords must have been prepared not to lose their wealth.
Isn't it another drug lord who could be Pedro's enemy?
This guy must have a lot of enemies, but those competitors in the business field, the others are some civilians who don't have much ability, and it is impossible to take down the entire manor.
Could it be the special forces of neighboring countries?
A few years ago, in order to prepare for the Olympic Games and the World Cup, the Brazilian authorities dispatched thousands of police and special police to sweep away drug dealers entrenched in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and fought for more than 10 days, and the military and police suffered many casualties, but the drug dealers were not affected much.
Brazil is a neighbor of Colombia, and it is easy to send special forces over.
But Brazil is an ally of the United States, and such a large-scale cross-border operation will definitely be known to the United States.
Besides, the ability of the Brazilian special forces is extremely difficult to deal with domestic drug dealers, so why fight Colombian drug lords?
With the exception of Brazil, Colombia's other neighbors have no reason to deal with Pedro.
Although the relationship between Venezuela and the United States is very hot, Chavez has no reason to deal with Pedro, because this guy has caused thousands of Americans to become addicted to drugs, causing the United States to lose hundreds of billions of dollars in social assets every year, and drug-related crimes have stimulated domestic conflicts in the United States.
With all these possibilities ruled out, there is only one possibility left, and the attackers are not dealing with Pedro.
It's not him, who is it?
Investigators quickly focused their attention on Vicky.
CIA agents know very well who this guy is, and they know the identity of his boss, that is, Harris.
As they left, CIA agents took away Vicky's body, as well as rifle bullets dug up from the wall.
Arriving in San Jose, the agent in charge of the investigation spoke with Rickel on the phone and reported on the investigation. Instead of letting them stay at the military base, Rickel told them to immediately take Vicky's body and the clues gathered at the scene and return home on a transport plane.
At this time, Liu Wei was also in action.
After Harris went to Mexico, he received information from Long Minjiang and immediately guessed Harris's purpose. It must have been a problem with Colombia's supply that forced him to go to Mexico to buy cocaine and marijuana. As a result, Harris had to find a way to get the goods back.
After getting the detailed information provided by Long Minjiang, Liu Wei's first thought was also air transportation.
Because he is also a special soldier, Liu Wei also feels that air transportation is the safest, and the idea is similar to Harris, which is airdropped near the border and then transported by vehicle.
A few hours later, Liu Wei received the exact news that the G222 transport plane had left Los Angeles.
After deciding that Harris would take the airlift route, Liu Wei immediately contacted Komatsu Kawano, who was spying on Hebberin in Cuba.
Because Cuba had been under a US blockade for a long time, most of the planes purchased from the former Soviet Union were scrapped due to improper maintenance, so Heblin could only get a DHC-3 amphibious aircraft from a Cuban general he knew.
The speed of this piston aircraft is not fast, but it has a large cargo capacity, and the low-altitude and low-speed surname can stand out.
In the hands of a good pilot, he can fly at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour at an altitude close to the sea surface, which is enough to avoid most anti-aircraft search radars.
The first two tons of methamphetamine were already on the plane and ready to be shipped back to the United States.
Hebelin didn't brag, making methamphetamine is not troublesome, and the raw materials are cheap, the key is whether there is a suitable place, and whether there is a safety guarantee.
After receiving the call, Komatsu Kawano took off in a transport plane.
Coming to Cuba, she had little to do and spent most of her time on this transport plane. The DHC-3 is a relatively simple aircraft, and it is not very difficult to learn.
Two hours later, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, a G222 transport plane carrying a ton of cocaine and eight tons of marijuana also took off.
Although the G222 is not an amphibious aircraft, but a standard tactical transport aircraft, Harris arranged for two pilots to fly the plane north along the Mexican coastline at an altitude of less than 50 meters.
There is no way to do this, there is an E-3A AWACS aircraft in the sky over the Gulf of Mexico at any time, and it will definitely be detected if it flies high.
About half an hour after G222 took off, Liu Wei called Long Minjiang.
Fifteen minutes later, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration received a tip that a transport plane loaded with drugs had taken off from Mexico and was on its way to the United States.
This is a terrible thing, because the informant clearly mentions that it is a transport aircraft, not a small civilian aircraft.
A small civilian aircraft can only transport a few hundred kilograms of drugs at a time, while a small transport aircraft can transport several tons at a time!
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is not a dry meal, and in terms of efficiency, it can even be regarded as the best federal agency.
Five minutes after receiving the tip, the E-3A patrolling the Gulf of Mexico immediately turned closer to Mexico, focusing on monitoring the airspace over eastern Mexico. Subsequently, another E-3A took off from an air base in Southern California and headed over the Pacific Ocean to monitor the airspace over western Mexico.
The route of the transport plane was not mentioned in the informant, and in fact, Liu Wei did not know much about the flight path of the transport plane.
About an hour after the E-3A flew away, Kawano Komatsu's DHC-3 entered U.S. airspace and flew north along the Florida coastline.
It has to be said that the speed of DHC-3 is indeed too slow.
Less than seven hundred kilometers, almost seven hours of flying.
After another hour and a half of flight, DHC-3 reached Appalachian Bay and landed at the mouth of the Suwannee River.
Batavia's men had already arrived, unloaded the cargo, refueled the DHC-3, and Kawano Komatsu flew the plane back to Cuba.
At this time, the operation of the US Air Guard to intercept the G222 had already begun.
(To be continued)