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+category: "Organized Crime"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Drug_Trafficker
+  - Honduras
+  - 1980s
+  - Contra_War
+  - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
+summary: Pilot and owner of Hondu Carib Cargo who flew FDN supply missions while under investigation for narcotics offenses by ten law enforcement agencies.
+---
+Frank Moss was a pilot and the owner of [[Hondu Carib Cargo]], an air cargo company hired by the [[FDN]] to fly supplies to the [[Contras]].[^1] Moss was identified in a 1989 Senate report as having "been investigated, although never indicted, for narcotics offenses by ten different law enforcement agencies."
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+### Drug Trafficking and Contra Supply
+
+The report said Moss flew FDN supply missions for both Hondu Carib Cargo and a Honduran air freight company called SETCO, which was owned by Honduras's biggest drug trafficker, Juan Matta Ballesteros. One DC-4 Moss used to ferry Contra supplies was seized by the [[DEA]] in March 1987 on a suspected drug run off [[Florida]]'s coast. Aboard the plane was marijuana residue and Moss's notes which, according to a CIA cable, contained "the names of two CIA officers and their telephone numbers." Also found was the phone number of [[Robert Owen]], [[Oliver North]]'s courier in [[Central America]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty"