JET LOADS MYSTERY CARGO AS AGENT INVOKES CIA NAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100670008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 30, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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s2 WILMINGTON MORNING STAR (NC)
0 PAGX_A~% 30 JANUARY 1981
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Thursday night as fighting escal'at- -' Officials at the Ecuadorean Em-
ed in a border war between Ecuador bassy in Washington werean a umeet-
and Peru. ing and could not comment, accord-
When a Wilmington Morning Star ing to an embassy -spokesman who
photographer took pictures of the said nothing was known of the ship-
==ment.
Boeing 707 aircraft, he was accosted _' ~.~ '?
by a Spanish-speaking officer in a The cartons 'at the Wilmington
foreign uniform who waved him off. airport were on wooden pallets and
When the agent of the Miami-based hidden by : tarpaulins. The pallets
firm handling the shipment was were being loaded into the four-en-
called to the scene, he shouted at the gine aircraft by forklift from a truck-
photographer: "The CIA knows and-trailer.'`
about this. This is big trouble, big The mysterious jet, trouble.' looming over
_ smaller private aircraft- parked
Martin Feigenbaum, the . agent, nearby, was loaded at Aeronautics
refused to give details of the cargo. Inc.a private flight service -based
He told photographer Dan Sears he several , hundred yards . from the
had to call the CIA Miami office for main passenger terminal..
instructions. S Few 707s land at the Wilmington
Reappearing," Feigenbaum said airport, where Piedmont Airlines,
the whole thing had been a misun- i'the only major airline. serving the
derstanding. The plane;-he said, was ..airport, uses smaller. aircraft
scheduled- to leave Wilmington-, The cargo was tieing shipped by`
Thursday night and fly to Miami . Marvitec Exports a Miami-based
and then onto Ecuador. firm. Feigenbaum, the represents
The U.S. Customs Service report-' tive of the firm; declined to discuss
ed the aircraft was carrying "emer- the shipment further.
gency supplies." The supplies; were 'The-'CIA has been known in the
listed on the manifest as 40 tonsof past to make use of Ma-'-based
"foodstuffs." companies in connection with its
Nobody connected with the flight South-American activities.ti- -
would ,say whether the supplies Neither Feigenbaum nor,, Nelson
were-destined for-Ecuadorean troops. Garcia, an airline representative
fighting with Peruvian troops in a whowas at the airport, would say
flare-up of -an old dispute between where. the cargo had beertrucked
the two South American countries from.
over territorial rights involving ac- There are several large military
cess to the Amazon River. i bases within a radius of :100 miles
If so, this would mark the first from Wilmington; including a large
known intervention by the new Rea- mmunition terminal located, at
gan administration in a foreign con- ~unny Point south of the city.
Thursday night.
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