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William Robert Plumlee in Panama City, Florida

Panama City, Florida

-Personal income:The median income for a household in the city was $31,572, and the median income for a family was $40,890. Males had a median income of $30,401 versus $21,431 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,830...

is an American

United States

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pilot who worked for the CIA. He was known as "Tosh" and also as William H. "Buck" Pearson.

Military service

Plumlee enlisted in the U. S. Army in April 1954 and was assigned to the Texas 49th Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas. He later transferred to 4th Army Reserve Military Intelligence Unit at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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Civilian career

He became an aircraft mechanic after leaving the Army and obtained an airplane pilot's license in 1956, he worked as airplane mechanic at Southwest Airmotive at Dallas Love Field.

CIA Service

He subsequently worked as a pilot for secret CIA flights including some for William King Harvey

William King Harvey

William King "Bill" Harvey was a Central Intelligence Agency officer, best known for his role in Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond."...

, Tracy Barnes

Tracy Barnes

Charles Tracy Barnes was a senior staff member at the United States' Central Intelligence Agency , serving as principal manager of CIA operations in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion....

and William "Rip" Robertson and he flew arms to Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...

in Cuba

Cuba

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prior to the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the United States-aligned Cuban President, dictator and military leader who served as the leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1944 and from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution....

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After Castro took over Plumlee then flew arms to Castro's opponents.

In 1962 he joined Task Force W Section for the Cuban Project

Cuban Project

The Cuban Project was a program of Central Intelligence Agency covert operations developed during the early years of the administration of President of the United States John F. Kennedy...

(also known as Operation Mongoose) then run from the JM/WAVE station in Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

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where he worked as both a pilot and undercover CIA CAG (Covert Action Group) operative. His code name was "Zapata". He was also a member of the Operation 40

Operation 40

Operation 40 was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the United States and the Caribbean , Central America, and Mexico. It was created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution, and was...

project.

Plumlee claimed to have flown John Roselli

John Roselli

John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli , sometimes spelled John Rosselli, was an influential mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped them control Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli was also involved with the Central Intelligence Agency plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s...

from Tampa to Dallas, arriving on the morning of November 22, 1963, on a mission to abort the assassination of President Kennedy

John F. Kennedy assassination

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He later worked as an undercover pilot and operative during the Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

Administration's "Drug War" flying arms to Nicaragua

Nicaragua

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n Contras

Contras

The contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's dictatorship...

and cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...

back to the United States

United States

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Testimony to various Federal and State Government Investigations

J. Edgar Hoover

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(1964)

Senator Frank Church

Frank Church

Frank Forrester Church III was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981....

Church Committee

The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in 1975. A precursor to the U.S...

(1975 - 1976)

Senator John F. Kerry, Kerry Committee report

Kerry Committee report

The Kerry Committee report were hearings chaired by Senator John Kerry which found the United States Department of State had paid drug traffickers. Some of these payments were after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges or while traffickers were...

(1988 - 1991)

Congressman Thomas N. Downing

Thomas N. Downing

Thomas Nelms Downing was a lawyer, politician, and Democratic Congressman from for nine terms.Downing was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia. He attended Newport News High School, and graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1940...

, Chairman of House Select Committee on Assassinations

Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt

Bruce Babbitt

Bruce Edward Babbitt , a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona, from 1978 to 1987.-Biography:...

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