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Brass in Adirondack Mountains for Unknown Reason
A large 737 with "United States of America"
emblazoned on the side landed at a small regional
airport in the northern Adirondack Mountains of
upstate New York. Military personnel were guarding the
plane around the clock.
Local officials said the top
members of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were aboard
along with military representatives from Germany,
France, and possibly Great Britain. The plane
landed at the Lake Clear Regional Airport near Lake
Placid on Friday.
It is not known for what
purpose the military leaders were meeting, or why they were
meeting in a relatively remote spot. The Lake
Clear Airport has only one carrier with daily flights,
and most flights are small private planes.
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Top
world military officials meet in Lake Placid
By
HEATHER SACKETT, News Staff Writer,
and PETER
CROWLEY,
October 20, 2008
LAKE PLACID - Powerful
generals and admirals from five of the most powerful nations
on Earth met this weekend at the Whiteface Lodge in Lake
Placid after flying into the Adirondack Regional
Airport in Lake Clear on Friday.
Among the passengers of a
large Boeing 757 airplane with "United States of
America" printed on its fuselage were top members of the
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and their counterparts
from France, Germany and another country, possibly
Great Britain, according to Barry DeFuria, a town of
Harrietstown councilman and Airport Committee
member who was there when the plane landed. A top
military delegation from Italy flew in on a separate
Falcon airplane, DeFuria said.
Security was tight
Saturday night at the Whiteface Lodge, where the
military officials were staying, according to three
separate sources who asked to remain anonymous to
protect their jobs.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff
is the leadership council of the U.S. military,
comprised of the top general or admiral of each branch of
the armed services. Its current chairman is Admiral
Michael Mullen.
Harrietstown
Supervisor Larry Miller, who is on the town's
Airport Committee with DeFuria and was also there when the
U.S. plane landed, confirmed which nations'
officials were on which planes, but he said he did not know what
kind of officials they were or where they were going from the
airport. He said he and DeFuria had to get security
clearances to be present and that soldiers were
guarding the 757 around the clock at the airport, which
is owned and run by the town of Harrietstown.
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