On July 25, a plane landed in Mehrabad outside Tehran. Twenty-two tons of Bobbo’s gunpowder deliveries were unloaded from the plane, one he had leased as an emergency solution to fulfill his contract and temporarily remedy Iran’s acute shortage of explosives. The plane was a Boeing 707 that Bobbo had rented from Santa Lucia Airways, which was indirectly owned by the CIA. A month later, Bobbo rented yet another Boeing 707 from the same company for deliveries to Iran. Three months later, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North started using the same airline company and the same type of plane to deliver
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