If (big, big, IF in Central/South America) the local authorities on the
destination end of the flight would jump in and grab everyone at the
delivery point

The tape refers to them being "only 5 miles from the frontier" where
he'd be "home free".

I would guess that this refers to the border of a country that isn't
going to extradite the bad guys.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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