Paratrooper’s Run-Ins With Russian Special Forces #327

Posted on 9 March 20239 March 2023 by Chris Thrall

Paratrooper’s Run-Ins With Russian Special Forces, features Dave Hutchieson, who’s life story resembles an action movie script.

Paratrooper’s Run-Ins With Russian Special Forces

Dave Hutchieson is a former paratrooper and a satellite systems engineer. In his work over 100 countries, he has crossed paths with narcos, the Mujahideen, the CIA and Russian special forces. Escaping with his life on numerous occasions, Dave’s story reads like an action movie script.

Transcript from ‘Paratrooper’s Run-Ins With Russian Special Forces’ podcast

Dave – The house they put me in was right across from the secret police headquarters. They did that deliberately to try and intimidate people. At that time there was a massive drug problem with Escobar. What he was doing was, was flying aircraft from both Colombia and Venezuela and the planes were dropping drugs off the keys or they were Landing in Lakeland in Florida.

A lot of the aircraft didn’t have the range at the time, so they were landing on South Caicos, which was the next Island dock from Grand Turk. The prime minister of Caicos was actually getting money from Escobar for allowing these aircraft to land. So what happened was a guy called Barry Seal, he was an ex-green Beret and he’d been caught by the DEA for flying drugs in and out of Nicaragua. He was told that he had to work with the D.A or else he was going to go to prison.