{"id":12581,"date":"2020-12-08T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=12581"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:35:37","slug":"the-2013-shipment-of-24-tons-of-cocaine-to-the-united-states-for-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/the-2013-shipment-of-24-tons-of-cocaine-to-the-united-states-for-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013 Shipment of 24 Tons of Cocaine and Heroin to the United States for Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>According to the July 30, 2013, article published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ticotimes.net\/2013\/07\/30\/costa-rica-sends-24-tons-of-cocaine-and-heroin-to-the-u-s-for-destruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tico Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong><span class=\"mt-first-letter\">&#8220;C<\/span>osta Rican authorities on Saturday\u00a0shipped nearly 24 tons of cocaine and heroin to the United States on a U.S. military plane for the drugs\u2019 destruction.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>The Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) of Costa Rica made the announcement on Monday, having secretly shipped the illicit drugs to Miami, Florida, in a former U.S. Air Force cargo plane.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, The Black Vault filed a FOIA requests for records pertaining to this. It took about 6 years, but records were finally released by the U.S. Southern Command, after consultation with the USAF and the DEA.<\/p>\n<p>The records are available below.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/socom\/2013-24tonscocaine-socom.pdf\">The 2013 Shipment of 24 Tons of Cocaine to the United States for Destruction<\/a> [134 Pages, 32MB]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background According to the July 30, 2013, article published in the Tico Times: &#8220;Costa Rican authorities on Saturday\u00a0shipped nearly 24 tons of cocaine and heroin to the United States on a U.S. military plane for the drugs\u2019 destruction. The Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) of Costa Rica made the announcement on Monday, having secretly shipped the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-intelligence"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-8-2020-6-32-21-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}