Video footage reveals deadly mishap by CIA

A recently released video from 2001 — showing jets hunting down a small passenger plane above the jungles of Peru — is drawing public attention to a CIA operation gone terribly wrong, and the inherent dangers of an all-out war on drugs.

It was only after the small plane was shot down that federal agents realized it contained an American missionary family and not drug traffickers. In the video, the Bowers family — parents Jim and Veronica, and children Cory, 6, and adopted baby Charity — can be heard screaming for their lives as the Peruvian air force, in cooperation with the CIA, attacked them from the air.

By the time the pilot was able to make an emergency landing in a river, Veronica Bowers and baby Charity had been shot dead. Now, nine years later, the surviving Bowers are seeking justice. “I want somebody to have to stand up and say I was responsible,” said Mrs Bowers’ mother, Gloria Luttig.