Covert US Operation Sends Manned Aircraft to Help Mexican Police William La Jeunesse - FOX News
go to original August 30, 2013

Operation "Lowrider" - Feds Using Planes To Target Mexican Cartels (FOX/Mass Tea Party)

A covert U.S. operation sending manned aircraft south of the border has helped Mexican police identify, capture and kill some of that country's most wanted criminals, according to sources.

Under the direction of the Pentagon's Northern Command, "Operation Lowrider" began in 2011 after the death of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata.

"It's been successful in identifying, eliminating and bringing to justice those who brought tons and tons of drugs into the United States," says Phil Jordan a former DEA Special Agent and director of the agency's El Paso Intelligence Center.

Unlike drones operated by the Department of Homeland Security, the two prop planes are manned by a subcontractor to Sierra Nevada, a U.S. defense contractor, according to the website vocative.com. Using advanced eavesdropping equipment, "pattern of life" reconnaissance missions expose the schedules and routines of high level traffickers.

That information is passed on to U.S. officials who contact Mexican police or military units to apprehend the target.

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