(Click Image to Enlarge)The CIA, Siberia And The $5M Bar Bill -- New York Post
A Federal Court Case Reveals A Bizarre Tale Of Post-9/11 Operations In Afghanistan.
On Dec. 4, 2001, five members of a Las Vegas-based charter crew were detained by Russian authorities after they landed without visas in Petropavlovsk. The remote Russian city, located on the Kamchatka peninsula and surrounded by active volcanoes, is nine time zones east of Moscow and cannot be reached by road.
Three days earlier, the privately owned Boeing 737 had left Biggs Army Airfield in Texas, carrying the crew and 16 Americans traveling on tourist visas. The plane, a luxury aircraft outfitted with wood paneling and a three-hole putting green, had been chartered by a small company from Enterprise, Alabama, called Maverick Aviation.
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My Comment: I am sure there are even more stories that are hidden away in some archive somewhere and/or in the minds of a few CIA agents.