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Clips from The Invisible Pilot (2022) - Chapter Three (S01E01)

"♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪"
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"BRIAN BARGER: One of the stories we heard was that there was this fellow"
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"in jail in-- at MCC in Miami, the Miami Correctional Center..."
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"named George Morales. He was a drug smuggler."
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"Had a whole air operation,"
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"and knew something about the Contras."
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"And so, I made arrangements to talk to him."
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"-(BUZZER BLARES) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)"
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"BRIAN: I ended up doing more than 400 hours"
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"of interviews at the jail at Miami Correctional Center."
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"GEORGE MORALES: My name is George Morales."
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"I got involved with these people, the Contras,"
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"to supply them with the-- with money, the airplanes,"
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"-which I did. -BRIAN: I was pressing George"
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"about being able to prove a Contra link"
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"with his drug smuggling. And so, one of the people"
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"he introduced me to was one of his pilots"
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"-named Gary Betzner. -My name is Gary Betzner."
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"Gary Betzner. He took the plane to Costa Rica."
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"George said he wanted me to fly a couple loads of guns"
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"and bring coke back from Costa Rica."
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"This guy starts saying, “Oh, yeah, I've been flying"
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"for George,” and started telling me the story"
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"about how he was flying planeloads of cocaine."
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"...with 500 kilos of coke on my plane."
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"BRIAN: Usually, drug traffickers are people who do not use the product."
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"Gary was different."
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"Gary very much enjoyed the drugs that he was smuggling."
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"(CHUCKLES)"
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"BRIAN: He told me about how he and his girlfriend at the time"
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"used to do cocaine enemas."
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"(LAUGHS) And I thought,"
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""I can't take this guy seriously,""
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"you know? "This is a waste of time.""
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"GARY: I didn't give a fuck whether everybody believed me"
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"or not. I mean, I just told a story, you know?"
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"That's really what happened."
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"BRIAN: Over time, I talked to him more and more,"
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"and he offered up more and more specificity."
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"He was a pilot who had landed on this ranch"
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"in northern Costa Rica owned by an American"
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"who we knew to be a contractor with the CIA, John Hull."
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"Okay, my name's John Hull, and you have permission to use"
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"whatever's said here."
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"I know I did my best to give Brian the full story"
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"and give him everything I could to substantiate it."
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"BRIAN: He was able to establish a direct piece of evidence"
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"about landing there, about offloading guns,"
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"about loading up drugs and flying them back to the United States."
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"I think that Gary Betzner stumbled into..."
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"one of the biggest political scandals"
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"of his lifetime."
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"He stumbled right into the middle of it."
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"♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪"
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"Once Gary started going to the press,"
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"Gary's all of a sudden injected himself into politics."
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"It was an interesting story. It had a lot of intrigue in it."
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"They were exposing government corruption and what have you."
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"I always made contemporaneous notes"
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"of various things."
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"This is January of ‘87. “CBS wants to talk to Gary.”"
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"REPORTER: Gary Betzner was one of George Morales's top pilots."
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"SHELDON YAVITZ: And on the 13th, UPI, BBC in London."
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"REPORTER 2: A former crop duster"
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"who admittedly's been on the wrong side of the law"
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"-for years. -GARY: I became a smuggler"
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"more out of rebellion than I did out of a need for money."
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"SHELDON: And I got someone"
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"from 60 Minutes wanting to talk to him."
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"REPORTER 3: Drug kingpin, a hippie pilot."
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"We're gonna prove that I've been working with them."
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"SHELDON: These two wouldn't shut up."
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"And all of a sudden, Washington wants to talk to them too."
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"(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER SPEAKERS)"
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"SALLY: I'd pick up Sara Lee and Travis,"
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"and, uh, we'd go to see him."
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"Just really strange to go into a prison."
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"(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER SPEAKERS)"
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"Nobody visited him more than me!"
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"I visited more than anybody did when he was in prison."
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"No one visited him more than me."
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"For the record, nobody visited my dad in prison more than I did."
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"SALLY: Now, remember that he had remarried"
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"and had another child at this time."
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"But still, Gary will always be"
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"that part of the spirit that I'm here on this earth with."
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"You know, we've got a bond"
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"that I have no idea where it's gonna go,"
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"but it's strong."
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"We go see him..."
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"And I was, like, giving him and Mom a minute"
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"and let me just sit back in the back."
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"I had my grandmother's diamond ring"
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"that I stuffed a hit of acid in... (LAUGHS)"
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"...and gave it to him while I was in there."
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"It was crazy."
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"Oh, gosh, and he was trippin' his head off too. Mm."
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"Shit, I'd go in there, and I left there"
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"with a bag of weed. I went to prison,"
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"left with a bag of weed, 60 bucks in change"
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"and ten hits of acid. And I got it from him"
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"in the jail. (LAUGHS)"
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"♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪"
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"TRAVIS: This whole time, I was living like a double life here."
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"You know, I was living with my mom,"
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"and I changed schools from Henderson"
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"to Pulaski Heights Middle School here. And uh..."
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"I started seven-- I was in the middle"
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"of seventh grade at Henderson."
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"We moved over here to the Hillcrest,"
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"around the time my dad got arrested."
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"They arrested him in November. We were watching TV one day."
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"It was my dad talking. And all of a sudden,"
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"I was walking around school going, “Hey, my dad's alive.”"
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"GARY: This is bigger than Watergate, I think."
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"REPORTER: Gary Betzner is one of the pilots..."
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"So I kinda had this open space in my life"
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"where I didn't have to lie about my dad."
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"I always told people that he was dead."
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"It kinda made me feel like a little badass in some ways."
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