Editing Air Scranton (section)

===According to Paul Williams, Operation Gladio===
"The CIA was an active participant in the arrangement since the Agency was deeply involved with Escobar and the drug cartels. As soon as the laundries were created, the CIA set up Air America North America, a fleet of Seneca cargo planes that operated out of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport in Avoca, Pennsylvania. The planes made regular three thousand mile runs to Colombia to pick up the bundles of cocaine that were distributed to dealers throughout the east coast." 

[[Frederick "Rik" Luytjes]], the head of the outfit, and his fellow pilots made up to $1.5 million per run. Luytjes, by his own admission, was a CIA operative and the funds were used to sponsor black operations in South and Central America. A substantial amount of this cash was funneled into the IOR's (Vatican Bank) offshore shells.]]