Billy Graham, Drug Trafficking, Ebola, and the CIA?

[Doug Fisher]

Samaritan's Purse is Billy Graham's missionary and charity group. They have a global presence, including in West Africa. When two of their workers, Brently and Writebol, became sick with Ebola, they hired Phoenix Air to evacuate them.


http://mashable.com/2014/08/05/shadowy-a...ents-home/

At a small, single runway airport in Cartersville, Georgia, a tiny airline got an urgent and unprecedented call last week: to fly the only two Americans known to have contracted the Ebola virus from West Africa to the U.S. for treatment.

We do a lot of very unique programs that involve aviation for various federal agencies, this is simply one of many contracts that we hold," Dan Thompson, a Phoenix Air spokesman told Mashable. "We do a lot of weird stuff."

It's no secret that Phoenix Air is involved with extraordinary renditions (torture) for the CIA. They've been identified by Amnesty International and Shannon Watch.


http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/...2006en.pdf


http://www.shannonwatch.org/content/airc...on-flights


Amazingly, Samaritan's Purse is linked to another CIA rendition company.
Aircraft N4042J was sold from Stevens Express Leasing to Samaritans Purse.


http://fareport.noblogs.org/post/2011/12...h-certain/

Stevens Express Leasing is not the only suspicious company that Kershaw works for. Devon Holding & Leasing in North Carolina and Premier Executive Transport Services in Massachusetts are two more companies that Paglen and Thompson name in their book. The New York Times also found this tangled web.


So how did Samaritan's Purse zero in on this particular plane? How did they do a deal with people who don't exist and who work for companies with no working address aside from a lawyer's office? Virgil Gottfried, SP's Director of Aviation, should know. His signature is on the FAA forms.

How indeed. The NY Times notes:


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...wanted=all

But whoever created the companies used some of the same post office box
addresses and the same apparently fictitious officers for two or more of the companies. One of those seeming ghost executives, Philip P. Quincannon, for instance, is listed as an officer of Premier Executive Transport Services and Crowell Aviation Technologies, both listed to the same Massachusetts address, as well as Stevens Express Leasing in Tennessee.


No one by that name can be found in any public record other than post office boxes in Washington and Dunn Loring, Va. Those listings for Mr. Quincannon, in commercial databases, include an anomaly: His Social Security number was issued in Washington between 1993 and 1995, but his birth year is listed as 1949.

But Samaritan's Purse managed to find him. Maybe the same way they managed to find the other CIA rendition company, Phoenix Air?