Daniel Hopsicker
Both men who died in the crash of a twin-engine plane in Colombia last week on the shoot for Tom Cruise’s new “Mena” movie have backgrounds more like those of spies, spooks, drug movers or clandestine agents than pilots on a film shoot.
One owned offshore entities in the Netherland Antilles that controlled even more offshore entities, very useful for money laundering; owned a $2 million home on the Intracoastal Waterway with a dock handy for unloading knick-knacks and bric-a-brac from cruises in the Caribbean; and once lived in a small town in Texas next to a secret CIA base.
The other was even more mysterious.
He owned a company selling black helicopters and aerial surveillance packages to urban police departments and military clients around the world.
Still, it's important to speak only good about the dead—especially the recently dead. Had news reports from