Mysterious jet tied to torture flights

Chicago Trib via Yahoo ^ | 1/8/05 | John Crewdson

[aynrandfreak]

The first question is: Where is Leonard T. Bayard? The next question is: Who is Leonard T. Bayard? But the most important question may be: Does Leonard T. Bayard even exist?

The questions arise because the signature of a Leonard Thomas Bayard appears on the annual report of a Portland-based company, Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC, that was filed in August with the Oregon secretary of state.

According to federal records, Bayard Foreign Marketing is the newest owner of a U.S.-registered Gulfstream V executive jet reportedly used since Sept. 11, 2001, to transport suspected Al Qaeda operatives to countries such as Egypt and Syria, where some of them claim to have later been tortured.

The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) has declined to discuss the plane. But one retired CIA (news - web sites) officer said that he understood the Gulfstream had been operated by the Joint Special Operations Command, an interagency unit that organizes counterterrorist operations in conjunction with the CIA and military special forces.

A search of commercial databases turned up no information on Leonard Thomas Bayard: no residence address, no telephone number, no Social Security (news - web sites) number, no credit history, no automobile or property ownership records--in short, none of the information commonly associated with real people.

And yet, someone signed the name Leonard T. Bayard to Bayard Foreign Marketing's annual report.

The report, which describes the company as an "international marketing firm," lists Bayard's principal place of business as a suite in a historic downtown Portland office building known as the Pittock Block. But a visitor to the suite who asked to see Bayard was told by a receptionist only that "Mr. Bayard doesn't work here."

[Yasotay]

I smell Evergreen Airlines .....

[MindBender26]

Back then, if you had a log book to show MPs, any vehicle was cool. We had two HQ3 M151s, one in Cu Chi, the other in Tay Ninh!

[Publius6961]

I have mixed feelings on whether the press should be reporting on these types of subjects.

So why did you post the article and give them exposure and publicity that they don't have enough money to pay for?

[Ciexyz]

Damn, I thought this thread was about US Airways.

[BIGLOOK]

The Inspector General couldn't enter our spaces; just had to count the vehicles outside. A pickup and a stake truck. Also, they couldn't approach our aircraft or hangers. You've no idea how pissed off IG can be when they aren't allowed to inspect something. IG would have hooked us for an unaccounted sandwich...but in our business we had early warning. And dutifully directed them to the location of the disposed sandwich.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Torture?

[AntiBurr]

Interesting note: Landings.com search of N number registrations returns "cant find N379P"

[MindBender26]

Ten steps dealing with an IG's questions regarding the sandwich in question

What is a sandwich?
What sandwich?
Do you see a sandwich?
Do you have any photographs of a sandwich here?
Do we have TO&E for a sandwich?
Did you ever see a sandwich here?
Do you have clearance to see a sandwich?
What is your need-to-know regarding this so-called sandwich?
We have no recollection of a sandwich
What is a sandwich?

[BIGLOOK]

We directed the IG to the Post Consumption Sandwich Disposal Unit (PCSDU) next to the showers to facilitate their inspection. It was occupied at the time but we made every effort to cooperate, evicting the occupant and preserving evidence.

[fire_eye]

Heh heh heh... Crewdson, you dumb schumerhead, I've got a pretty good idea, since I live here in Oregon, of EXACTLY what's going on and who's doing it, and it'd be obvious to ANYONE unless they were as stupid as YOU.

However, rest assured that the torture does not start until after the jet has landed. It's too hard to hold the syringes steady while the plane is in flight.

(stupid, whining leftist POS...)

[txhurl]

bttt

[Experiment 6-2-6]

That's the reason for and the benefit from sitting in the comfy seats in the front of the bus..

[19th LA Inf]

Air America Ping

In the 1970s I worked for a company which built night vision equipment. I got a mysterious phone call from one of our customer contacts advising me to call a certain phone number. I did so, the call was answered "Johnson Aviation". When I identified myself I was invited to come to their office at a local general aviation airport to brief them on our product line. The place turned out to be a sort of duplex hangar/office building. At the first door I tried, which had no sign, I asked if this was "Johnson Aviation". With a sort of sly grin the receptionist said "No - they're next door".

Turned out to be a DEA operation, some of the meanest looking guys I ever met, and with a back room full of enough ordnance to topple a small country. They didn't "own" any planes, though, they just used whatever they confiscated from the people they caught.

(I'm still wondering who was behind the first door.)

[BIGLOOK]

Got me on door #1. But the DEA using confiscated assets is a sound tactic. A/C recognition by the drug lords allows infiltration.

Heard so many stories of private citizens whose A/C and small craft being pirated by bad guys that I don't criticize DEA tactics. Catch 'em anyway you can.

[Lloyd227]

I'd like to be on that ping list if it's not too much trouble.

Thanks, Lloyd

[Lloyd227]

I thought Evergreen was an airliner maintenance company in Arizona...... not an actual airline... ?

[Cicero]

I dunno, but I did a Google search for "Leonard T. Bayard," and I turned up a bunch of porn sites that seem to be running extracts from this article.

Liberals and porn, just like peanut butter and jelly or green eggs and ham.

[BIGLOOK]

Lloyd, I'm on the wrong side of the time zones to be timely but am contacting ASA Vet.

ASA, please add Lloyd227 to your MI ping list.