I, Bradley E. Ayers, do swear and affirm that the following Statement is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief:
Based on suspicions that I developed while working as an undercover informant for DEA in the Miami area in 1983 and 1984, and with leads supplied to me by a former U.S. Customs Special Agent who had worked for the Joint Task Force during the same period, I entered the secured compounds of Southern Air Transport and Pan Aviation at Miami International Airport on three and four separate occasions, respectively, during the summer and fall of 1985 and the early months of 1986, and on two of the occasions with Southern Air and on three occasions with Pan Aviation, entered aircraft parked on their ramps, collected, examined and tested residue found in the aircraft.
I found residue of marijuana and a powdery substance which tested positively as nearly pure cocaine. Another grey/brown pasty like substance was found that I do not believe was cocaine and may have been heroin. This substance also reacted positively as a narcotic to the testing kit which I was using.
For reasons which I trust may be obvious to you and from your reading of the prospectus to my book in progress, OUT OF POCKET, I did not go to the authorities with this information. Over the past months I have continued to try to encourage media attention to the problem of selective enforcement in the war on drugs and feel that now, with revelations that are being made, it is my duty and an appropriate time, despite the risks, to come forth with this information.
Bradley E. Ayers