Word: airlifters
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...supposed to have seized, federal agents became suspicious. Surveillance revealed that Dan Mitrione Jr., 38, a ten-year FBI veteran, had been involved on the sly in the same drug deals he was assigned to monitor. According to official sources, Mitrione, while working on a project code-named "Operation Airlift," sold the more than 90 lbs. of cocaine skimmed from the Memphis bust for cash and property worth about $850,000, and took bribes from the drug traffickers he was investigating. Said FBI Director William H. Webster: "The corrupting power of drug money is one of the obvious reasons...
...premature release of news about the airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel: I feel very bad about it. I believe the efforts Israel makes, with the support of others, to bring over 10,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel brought Israel (to a realization) of the reason for its existence more than anything else. There are a quarter of a million Ethiopian refugees in Sudan. Who gives a damn about them except Israel...
...least one side benefit of the airlift of the 10,000 Blacks is that the rug have been pulled out from under Arab racist resolutions against Israel in the United Nations. On January 9at Yenching Institute, Harvard. U.N Secretary General Javier Perez talked on "The U.N. Potential in Shaping Tomorrow's World. "I asked him when would the U.N. reverse All he could say was that he, personally, had never considered Israel racist...
...between 3,000 and 7,000 of them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Nimeiri, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudanese cooperation in the resettlement and ordered the airlift cut off. That left several thousand Falashas still in Sudan, many with relatives already in Israel...
...Khartoum, the Sudanese government denied any role in the airlift. Foreign Minister Hashem Osman called in Arab, African and Asian diplomats to charge that Ethiopia had been "closing its eyes" to the Falasha exodus in return for weapons and money from Israel. Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde countered with the accusation that Sudan had been bribing "a large number of Ethiopian Jews to flee Ethiopia...