by Daniel Hopsicker
Venice Airport has had an extraordinary six-decade long history, and been the scene of covert activities including gunrunning, international heroin and cocaine trafficking, and being used as a launch pad for coups in the Caribbean and Central America.Read full article »»
These activities required, available evidence will show, the regular and systematic corruption of officials in Venice and Sarasota County.
The recent infamous and still-painful history of the Venice Airport, home base for Mohamed Atta and his crew of terrorist hijackers, it turns out, is just the most recent in an extraordinary history of elite deviance, criminal mischief, and international intrigue.
An investigation into suspicious circumstances surrounding the sale of the former Huffman Aviation has unearthed an explosive secret at the heart of an otherwise unremarkable aviation facility:
Almost since its inception, the specter of heroin trafficking has hung over the airfield which would later become the Venice Municipal Airport.