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20 lines
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category: "Organized Crime"
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- Person
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- Drug_Trafficker
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- Honduras
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- 1980s
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- Contra_War
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- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
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summary: Pilot and owner of Hondu Carib Cargo who flew FDN supply missions while under investigation for narcotics offenses by ten law enforcement agencies.
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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
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^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"
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