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Russian Mobster Igor Borisovich “Felix” Rabaev,
the heroin trafficker who was waiting at the
receiving end for the arrival of a weekly drug flight
coming in from Venezuela
during the year 2000 on a Lear jet
owned by terror flight school impresario Wallace J.
Hilliard re-surfaced in the Ukraine last year, where he
masterminded an attempt to assassinate a man
just-appointed
Secretary of the
Ukrainian National Security
Council, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
Vitaliy Haiduk was then the West-leaning
Ukrainian Minister of Energy, targeted for injury (or
worse) in a deliberate crash
landing of a private Challenger jet on
January 5, 2005
at an
airport in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Tensions were
running high at the time, as the world watched to see
what would happen
during the inauguration of Western-backed President
Viktor
Yushchenko, scarred by poisoning during the election
campaign.
Former CIA pilot Mark Shubin, who witnessed the
controlled crash landing of Haiduk’s plane, received
a phone threat on his life last week
to dissuade him
from revealing details of the incident.
But
phone threat were hardly the only examples of the ruthlessness of the Russian Mafia,
visible in a spate of news stories last week, the
most prominent of which involved
speculation at Scotland Yard
of possible involvement of Russian organized crime in
the killing of a KGB defector whose food was spiked with a rare radioactive
substance
Did 'Pirate of Prague' know
Atta?
The
Russian Mob was also in the news in a bizarre
case involving the
FBI's terrorism
unit, investigating charges
Russian Mobsters were
deliberately contaminating their hordes of cash
with a virus designed to sicken anyone who came in
contact with it, after officers in the State Police in
Pennsylvania became ill
after confiscating a stash of drug money.
Stranger still
was a
story revealing that Russian organized crime had been
fingered by police
in Seoul South Korea
during an investigation into a
disgraced Korean cloning scientist, Hwang Woo-suk, who
announced Hwang
made
three attempts to clone a wooly mammoth,
using
mammoth cells bought from the Russian Mafia.
The involvement of
Felix Rabaev in drug
flights on a plane owned by the man whose flight school
was at the same time teaching Mohamed Atta to fly was
just one of several threads involving the
Russian Mob
in the story of the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy.
As we
reported last week the FBI
launched a manhunt scouring the South Pacific for
Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot fingered as
one of Atta's closest associates in
“Welcome to TERRORLAND,”
after he
re-surfaced in the middle of the South Pacific recently
to launch a highly-dubious enterprise on a tiny island
over 1000 miles from a city of any size, where he
planned to open a
flight
school
which would only teach pilots how to fly DC3’s.

Bohringer
was hanging out with Mohamed Atta all
over Southwest Florida in the year before 9/11 while
serving as the
personal pilot of fugitive
financier, Victor Kozeny, the so-called
“Pirate of Prague.”
Kozeny ran afoul of U.S. officials after attempting
to bribe his way to ownership of the state oil company
in Azerbaijan. His endeavor was assisted by shady American
financing, including money from AIG Insurance, whose
subsidiary Coral Reinsurance, according to the Arkansas
Project, was implicated during the 1980's
in cocaine trafficking through Mena, Arkansas.
Our parent company:
'Caught Holding LLC.'
When
the plot against Haiduk
was launched, Haiduk,
one of Ukraine’s biggest oligarchs, was the Ukraine’s
Minister of Energy, and had made enemies because of his
pro-Western positions and hostility towards Russia on
controversial energy issues, including the showdown
between Ukrainian and Russian officials over whether to
hand over Ukraine's gas transport system under a
concession agreement with Russia.
It was
an epic struggle, a Trojan War with no Helen, just lots
of black oily goop.
We
learned Rabaev had been implicated in an assassination
attempt while attempting to learn more about Edgar
Valles-Diaz, the mysterious Venezuelan left almost
literally holding the bag, filled with 43 lbs. of heroin hidden
in his luggage.

The
pilot of Wally Hilliard’s heroin told authorities he’d known
Valles-Diaz for just nine months, during which he flew
him from Venezuela to Fort Lauderdale and then on to New
York at least 30 times.
During
much of the year 2000, Russian Mobster Igor
Borisovich “Felix” Rabaev, late of the Russian
enclave of Brighton Beach in New York City, current
whereabouts unknown, met imprisoned Venezuelan drug
trafficker Edgar Valles-Diaz on his arrival on over
thirty weekly flights, each of which began in Venezuela
with a stop-over in Fort Lauderdale before landing at a
general aviation airport just outside New York City in
Teeterboro, New Jersey.
A sailor in every port

In a
later conversation, the pilot stated
that each time the private jet landed in New York,
Valles-Diaz was met by Igor “Felix” Rabaev, who he
claimed was Valles-Diaz’ “boyfriend.”
"He gets picked
up at the airport by an Uzbek named Igor Rabaev, his
heroin connection from Central Asia.”
Valles-Diaz was no ordinary South American drug dealer,
we soon learned. He reportedly had close ties to
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, with a serious
involvement in geopolitical activity.
Rabaev, a member of one of the three largest Russian Mob
families in the U.S., flitted in and out of Central
Asia at will, eyewitnesses told the MadCowMorningNews,
using the Uzbek capital of Tashkent as a transshipment
point for heroin from Afghanistan wending its way to
Russia and the West.
Tashkent: Casablanca on the Steppes

Most
of the intrigue in the story appears to center on
Central Asia’s vast oil reserves, which is not just a
game for oilmen and petroleum geologists.
Mixed
in with the usual assortment of soldiers of fortune and
raffish adventurers we would hear about weapons
merchants,
narcotics traffickers, diamond smugglers,
Russian-Israeli mafia tycoons, and terrorists.
The
downside is that losers in the struggle can occasionally
expect to be boiled alive. Alone among
the nations of the Earth, at least since Idi Amin left
Uganda, Uzbekistan under the regime President Islam
Karimov preserves the ‘quaint’ custom of boiling alive
the occasional political dissidents.
Unlike
Amin, however, there has been no intimations that Uzbek
Karimov then has the bodies salted to taste.
“Igor
Rabaev was in business with Edgar Valles-Diaz,” an
aviation executive in Fort Lauderdale told us.
“You
should ask Hilliard’s partner about Rabaev. Mark
Shubin knows him. Rabaev and
Shubin had a run-in just last
year, I hear. They were in an accident together."
Everybody brace! (Not
you Vitaly)
We
located a pilot in Miami who had flown with both Rabaev
and Shubin in Central Asia.
After we convinced him that we already knew at least
some of the essential back-story of Mark Shubin’s
colorful life, which included flying U-2 and SR-71
high-altitude reconnaissance planes over Russia and
other Cold War hotspots for the CIA, he launched into a
strange tale of attempted murder and spooky intrigue in
Central Asia.
The
“incident” went down like this:
Snow
was falling, visibility was poor under a dark gray
winter sky, and there was tension in the cockpit of the
Challenger 600 jet (N187AP) carrying one of the
Ukraine’s biggest oligarchs home to the industrial
Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
Shubin
had been Haiduk’s personal pilot for long enough for the
Ukrainian Minister to be so confident in his abilities
that he rarely bothered to strap-in, even during
take-offs and landings, but made it his custom to easily
wander up and down the plane’s aisles.
But
this time, instead of piloting the plane, Mark Shubin
had been cajoled into letting an inexperienced American
pilot and journeyman adventurer named Travis Paul
have the controls, while he sat in the co-pilot’s seat.
Same
technique was used in 'Last Seduction'
Paul,
instead of fastening his seat belt, instead strapped
himself into his shoulder harness for the landing, an
unusual move. Maybe something was about to happen.
"Shubin was screaming at Travis, ‘You’re going too fast!
Slow down!' Mark ordered him to slam on the brakes,”
said the crewman.
“Travis answered, ‘I am stepping! I have no
brakes!’”
“The
airplane bounced once and then went flying down the
runway. Later Shubin told me Travis was breathing heavy
and sweating profusely, but wasn’t trying to stop
airplane, or exit to the taxi way.”
Igor
“Felix” Rabaev had
enlisted the rest of the plane’s motley crew in a plan.
No one would suspect a crash-landing on an icy runway in
the dead of winter of being an attempt to do the
Ukrainian Minister bodily harm.
The
plot was only discovered days after the crash, when an
argument was overheard, between crew members promised
bribe money Rabaev had promised to ensure the crew’s
silence.
Another plane
registered to Wells Fargo, Salt Lake. Hmm.
“On
January 4, 2005, at about 1701 coordinated universal
time, a Canadair CL-600 airplane (N187AP) received minor
damage when it departed the end of runway 26 during the
landing roll at the Zhuliany Airport, Kyiv, Ukraine,”
said the NTSB accident report.
“The airplane was registered to Wells Fargo Bank
Northwest, Trustee, Salt Lake, Utah, and operated by
Vladimir Kravets, Kiev, Ukraine, under the provisions of
Ukraine Civil Aviation Regulations.”
“The pilot, copilot, and an unknown number of passengers
were not injured,” the report went on. “Information
provided by the Government of Ukraine, and from a
statement provided by the pilot, indicated that the
runway was contaminated by ice and snow."
"The
runway braking action was reported as fair. Upon
touchdown, the crew was unable to deploy the thrust
reversers because they were not armed. The captain
applied maximum braking but was unable to prevent the
airplane from departing the end of the runway.”
“The
NTSB report is bullshit,” a member of the doomed
flight’s crew told us. “Rabaev spread money around to
keep the true story from coming out, but it wasn’t
enough to keep my mouth shut. He’s a cheap
bastard, and that’s a fact.”
New Spystore opening:
Oligarchs R' Us
Shubin
had been active flying the infamous
“rendering” flights across Europe and Central Asia, we
learned, until early 2004, when he flew his last flight
for the CIA. Both Sky Bus Inc and International
Diplomatic Courier Service had been launched with CIA
money, our pilot informant told us.
Now he
was the chief pilot running a charter aviation company
for a Ukrainian conglomerate owned by Vitaly Haiduk and
his two partners. The trio were among the wealthiest men
in the country. All of them belonged to the new class
known as “the oligarchs,” people who had grown rich
buying up state-owned enterprises on the cheap after the
fall of Communism.
Before
leaving the U.S. for the Ukraine,
Shubin hired new co-pilots. One was an American
named Doug Laundin, and a Russian, Lev Soburnov, a
former MIG pilot with an FAA license and
years flying jets.
Also coming aboard the aviation venture just days before
departure was Igor Rabaev, hired after
Shubin was prevailed upon by German Galilov,
Operations Manager for a Fort Lauderdale-based charter
jet company which flew air cargo flights between an
abandoned military base in West Germany and Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, and was partly-owned by government officials
in Tashkent.
Galilov, who lives (where else?) in Miami, wanted
Shubin to help a relative of
his, an immigrant from Tadzikistan living in New York,
who reportedly had a pilot’s license, but little
experience.
“Rabaev claimed he had been flying for Uzbekistan
Airways as Captain of a 767,” related an
aviation executive in Fort Lauderdale, who then waved
his hand through the air dismissively. “He was lying.”
It's not a carry-on.
It's a
'diplomatic pouch'
Rabaev’s
negatives went beyond merely being a poor pilot. One of
Shubin’s most experienced Captains, Lev Soburnov, a
Russian, who refused to fly with Rabaev a second time,
said he also “apparently had a fear of flying.”
But he
did have a few things of value: a brother in
Miami, connections to international narcotics
traffickers, and a number of aliases: “Igor Rabaev.”
“Edgar Rabaev.” Even “Felix Rabaev.”
Mark
Shubin
and Wally Hilliard had done quite a bit of business
together, we learned, while
investigating Hilliard’s associates for “Welcome to
TERRORLAND.”
Shubin’s company, Sky Bus, Inc., for example, shared
ownership of at least four private jets with Hilliard’s
Plane 1 Leasing, two of which had what we considered to
be “unusual” tail numbers: “N11UN” and “N111UN.”
The
‘UN’ designation on the tail number turned out to be a
clue of some sort: Shubin had
incorporated a company in Florida, in August of 2001,
called ‘International Diplomatic Courier Services.’
In a
brief interview in his office at the Fort Lauderdale
Executive Airport, Shubin
refused to talk about Rabaev, or anything else.
Not enough said about "Nuff
said."
Post-9/11, there were a number of planes controlled by
Shubin’s company, Skybus, a search of aviation databases
revealed.
‘Plane
spotters,” who have made it their business to observe
the movements of planes suspected of being used by the
CIA in the now-notorious “renditions” which transport
prisoners to Guantanamo as well as other secret
detention centers, made curious notations on the arrival
of one of Shubin’s private jets at airports in Ireland
and the UK.
“N777SA has just dropped in at 0150 Local!” wrote an
English planespotter in Birmingham. “Another due today
is VP-BKZ. Nuff said.”
The laconic “nuff said” drew our attention. N777SA was
a twin-engine Cessna Conquest II registered to
Shubin. Today its registered
owner is “Security Aviation” of Anchorage Alaska.
Hmm...
The
comment seemed to hint at something unspoken. The second
plane named in the note was registered in Mclean, VA.,
home of the CIA.
"Lone cadre" no more

The
news that Igor Borisovich Rabaev— who awaited the
arrival in New York each week for thirty-nine weeks of
terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s Lear jet—has
recently been involved in a plot to assassinate
Vitaly Haiduk, the new Defense Minister
in the Ukraine should finally bury one of the central
lies in the official story of the 9/11 attack, the one
which falsely asserts that 19 hijackers moved through
Europe and America unnoticed, keeping pretty much kept
to themselves.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The
hijackers were not ghostly apparitions.
Based
on an "investigation" notable only for failing to
interview a single firsthand eyewitness, the National
Commission on Terrorism’s 9/11 Report totally ignored
the big dirty secret lying at the heart of the 9/11
cover-up...
A war
for global supremacy being fought through drug
trafficking, weapons sales, and the associated money
laundering necessary to keep secret armies in the field.
They
stuck out like sore thumbs... like Sammy the Bull
Gravano hiding out in a Hasidic enclave in
upstate New York.
In
this light the arrest of the
alleged close associate of Hugo Chavez caught
‘holding the bag’ on Wally
Hilliard’s Lear jet can be seen as just one
more chess move in an ongoing global match being fought
out on a
chessboard as vast as the steppes of Central Asia.
No doubt, this is why when Edgar
Valles-Diaz paid for each charter Lear jet flight in cash, Hilliard
pretended not to notice.
"Active Senior?" Or threat
to U.S.?

A lot
of people retire to Florida. But most retired men settle
for a hobby like woodworking. A boat. A golf game.
Shuffleboard. Tennis. Hilliard bought a fleet of 30-40
jets. What was a retiree in Naples doing with a bigger
Air Force than Panama?
We’d
never heard of anybody retiring to pursue a second
career in espionage, international organized crime, or
drug trafficking.
At a
minimum, worrying your organization has been penetrated
by a foreign intelligence service must wreak havoc on
your backswing.
How did a retired-to-Florida insurance executive named
Wallace J. Hilliard from Green Bay Wisconsin become such
a central figure in the story of the terrorist
hijackers.
Who ever heard of a Midwestern James Bond?
It is
a question that still needs to be asked, by someone with the
authority to compel answers.
Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris &
the CIA (Rogue Div.)
“I
used to ask myself: Why is Wally doing business with all
these foreigners?” asked Dave Montgomery, Hilliard’s
one-time chief mechanic.
“There
was Alfonso Bowe, Mark
Shubin, Pervez Khan… It didn’t make sense.”
This
is the hidden sub-text to 9/11...
Well
after Hilliard was adjudged anything but an innocent
charter flight operator, and forced by the DEA and the Orlando U.S.
Attorney’s office to relinquish his plane, both Governor
Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris
provided celebrity endorsements to his bogus front
"airline," which on a least one route never sold a
single ticket.
It is a
remarkable record. And it's all true.
And, to the shame
of every citizen in the nation, it is America's
secret history.
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