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Stories

The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast.

These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need.

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Search results for "air cargo" ...

  • No title (id: 13736)

    Mather Field is a newly converted air force base now being operated by the County of Sacramento as a general aviation and cargo airport. Several key safety and security measures are being ignored so the county can get the facility operating quickly at little cost. Security fencing, control tower, approach and landing lights and radio communications relays are among the missing items. (November 13, 19, 1996)

    Tags: Marshall Baxter Sullivan Mather airport safety Contest entry TAPE No script

    By None

    KXTV-TV (Sacramento, Calif.)

    1996

  • Southern Air: The Hidden Link

    WPLG-TV (Miami) investigates Southern Air Transport, the former CIA-owned air cargo company, and its role in the secret contra supply network; the report is based on a complete set of logs obtained from the "Hasenfus plane" downed by Sandinistas.

    Tags: Southern Air Trans; Florida; CIA; contra supply network; Central America; Tape

    By Susan Candiotti;Marcia Izaguirre;Emilio Rangel

    WPLG-TV (Miami)

    1987

  • No title (id: 2072)

    Shreveport (La.) Journal runs series on continuing contamination from the 1959 crash of Air Force cargo plane that contained three nuclear weapons; Air Force suppressed information about contamination and improperly disposed-of debris, April 1982.

    Tags: None

    By None

    Journal (Shreveport, La.)

    1982