Mystery Jet Now owned by Mystery Oregon Company

Several Human Rights organizations have been following the flights of a mystery Gulfstream V jet that has allegedly been used by the CIA to transport captives to other countries for interrogation. They have used front companies to own and operate the jet. Some may find this offensive but it's not surprising. Perhaps what is most frightening is how bad they have been at covering their deception. The Oregonian reports that the plane was originally "owned" by Premier Executive Transport Services Inc. Of Massachusetts.

This month The Washington Post traced Premier to several shadowy individuals with recently issued Social Security numbers.

Primier recently sold the jet to Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC which is owned by Leonard Thomas Bayard. The only contact for Bayard or his company is Portland Lawyer Scott Caplan.

Portland corporate attorney Scott Caplan, insists Leonard Bayard is a real person. If so, he's doing an awfully good job of hiding it.
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Somehow, Bayard avoided the kinds of public record lists that include people who hold driver's licenses, own land, are registered to vote, have been married, divorced, killed or convicted.
Leonard Bayard seems to have no Social Security number at all. But he can, apparently, sign his own name.

Bayard's signature appears, tantalizingly, in neat script at the bottom of an August corporate filing with the Oregon Secretary of State's office. The handwritten document identifies only one owner of Bayard Foreign Marketing, "Leonard Thomas Bayard." It lists the company's business address as Caplan's downtown Portland law office, and Caplan as the company's registered agent.

It appears the CIA can't even put together a decent front company so how can they do the spy stuff?
They have apparently given up even trying to hide the plane.

At this point, Malinowski said, the CIA has apparently given up on keeping the airplane secret.

"Their cover has been blown," he said, and if the agency unloaded its plane and bought another, watchdogs would catch on right away and start tracking the replacement jet.

"Why waste money selling one perfectly good plane and buying another perfectly good plane?" Malinowski asked. "They can't undo what's been done."