Page 94 - Gobierno ivisible
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Date: 4/5/2011 Page: 94 of 237
On December 4, 1962, Pope had put his things in storage -- some personal items, ten stuffed birds, four animal
heads, one stuffed animal, antelope antlers and water-buffalo horns. Then he left the country to go to work for
Southern Air Transport. The Pentagon described this airline as a civilian operation holding a $3,718,433 Air
Force contract to move "mixed cargo and passenger loads on Far East inter-island routes." Its home address was
listed as PO Box 48-1260, Miami International Airport. Its overseas address was PO Box 12124, Taipeh,
Formosa.
However, when asked what sort of work Southern Air Transport did, the company's Miami attorney explained
that it was a small cargo line which simply "flies chickens from the Virgin Islands."
The attorney was Alex E. Carlson, the lawyer for the Double-Chek Corporation that had hired the American pilots
who flew at the Bay of Pigs.
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* The rebels then moved their capital to Menado, which fell late in June.
