Part of the $48 million paid by Iran to the U.S. for the Hawk and TOW missiles was in turn used to fund the Contras in their fight against the Marxist Sandinistas. Jack Ruby said Well the answer is the man in office now ___Thats all I have to say. Did Jack Ruby idolize you? promote bull fights in New Orleans.Lunch Pat OBriens for Hour. [12] He first admitted this under oath before the President's>Commission on Organized Crime. The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." Barry Seal graduated highSchool 1957. The Boland Amendment was one of those federal laws the>CIA held in particular disdain. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . Arthur>lived on South Caicos, where he ran a smuggling-related business. Irwin Weiner. MENA NOIR: Aircraft pilot Barry Seal, a Baton Rouge native who smuggled drugs into the U.S. for the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, used this airport in Mena, Arkansas, as his hub, according to several investigative reporters.Seal ultimately became a federal informant and was assassinated by Colombian hitman in 1986. Have a suggestion for a story? Likewise, the DEA in>Florida may have been concerned about losing its key informant if information>about Seal's DEA-related activities was conveyed to anyone else. >Although he spent most of his time out of state, Barry Seal maintained close>ties with friends and family in Louisiana. Seal was murdered just before he was . 340, 341. (Barry) Seal also talked big and did big things. ; see, also, New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986. Later Reed moved to Mexico setup company. Before he got involved in the criminal, he used to be an American aviator. They played ball in the yard of the one-story white frame>house on Lover's Lane, a shady street in a quiet neighborhood. Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton In 1981, he was making daily deposits of $50,000 into an account at a bank in the Bahamas. >22. (born 1939/40) 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana. In the 2017 Doug Liman-directed movie "American Made," which was previously titled "Mena," Deborah DuBois, the third wife of Barry Seal, was portrayed by the character Lucy. In 1981, Seal set up shop at Mena. New Orleans Times Picayune, 21 February 1986. [23] In fact, in November 1984, Seal released an>hour-long videotape publicizing his CIA and DEA-related smuggling activities.>The tape, entitled "Uncle Sam Wants You," was narrated by John Camp, who is>now an investigative reporter for CNN. no. >37. While in the>islands, Seal was introduced to Aulden Smith and, at the DEA's behest, paid>Smith two thousand dollars to be introduced to Norman Saunders. >rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. Barry Seal. In>fact, in the federal proceedings in Baton Rouge, Seal's lawyers filed>pleadings containing the following language: >The defendant [Seal] has been restrained by Court order in Florida, and so has>the prosecutor here, from fully outlining to the Court the danger to the->defendant and the activities of the defendant on behalf of various Federal>agencies, including the D.E.A. After the details were discussed and "a division of>labor" was decided on, Seal promised that the islanders would divide at least>$1,250,000 annually. At that point, if they hadn't known it before, the>government now knew who Seal was and would soon learn what he was about. Seal flipped, becoming a valuable government informant. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. Co-defendant Aulden Smith had been a>police officer in Grand Turk, and codefendant Andre Fournier had assisted the>others in making connections with BCCI and the Colombian cartels for years. U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. Marilyn Monroe July28,1962 weekend and the next weekend August 5, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home.Paul DAmato (born 1908- died Jun. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. Since May 1986, the law has flatly prohibited the transfer or possession>of automatic weapons not registered before the May 1986 cut-off date. He also bought over a thousand acres of land across a>gravel road from the camp and had a large portion of it cleared of trees and>brush, leveled, and sodded with a carpet of thick Bermuda grass. Ibid., 521; Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 221, 223. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. A drug shipment transfer in Nicaragua was in fact videotaped>with The Fat Lady's surveillance camera. Tax records show that, having assessed Seal posthumously for some $86 million in back taxes on his earnings from Mena and elsewhere between 1981 and 1983, even the l.R.S. Polozola further stipulated that Seal could not carry a gun or hire armed bodyguards. David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many planes to fly.David Ferrie -1948 Stinson plane #108 2sn 108 1293.Stinson Franklin plane #12974 valued $3,ooo.David Ferrie last payment on car 6-26-19621959 (1960) Ford address 11 Prospect St Alexandria La. >13. Back at Mena, Brown says, he and Seal walked to Brown's car, a Datsun hatchback, and Seal put one of the duffel bags under the hatchback. Mr. WOLF How long have you known Paul Doffman?Mr. Then both men got into the front seat of the car, and Seal reached back into the duffel bag, and pulled out a manila envelope with $2,500 in it. New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986, reported that Seal's brother, Ben>(also known as "Benjy"), had commented that there was nothing Barry Seal>couldn't fly. >41. Seal became obsessed with aircraft and took his first solo flight at the age of fifteen and was soon making a living towing advertising banners. Seal's airplane, with a cargo of some>thirteen thousand pounds of C-4 explosives, was seized in Louisiana in 1972.>Ibid. The buyer, it turned out, was a federal agent. total number on board :4 =Hidell Lambert Diaz / Color of aircraft : Red /W.David Ferrie plane found :Stinson Voyager 150 Nobleville.Indiana.Don Roberts shed next to eastside of his home next Nobleville Airport Promise Road Stinson Voyager Single Engine airplane manufactured 1946.David Ferrie sold stinson plane February 13,1967. Seven months after Guste delivered his letter to Meese, on October 5, 1986, a Sandinista patrol shot down a C-123 cargo plane that was supplying the Contras. Seal was also ordered to report address changes to the U.S. attorney, >and his right to travel outside the court's jurisdiction was restricted. That condition was as follows: >(6) The defendant [Seal] shall reside at the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center, 7361 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for a period>of six (6) months. "Official Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of>Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Investiga-tion of Vernon Wayne Howell," also>known as "David Koresh," September 1993. It also appears that the DEA in Louisiana was not contacted by the DEA in>Florida, regarding Seal's status as an informant, until it was too late.>Moreover, state agencies, like the Arkansas State Police Criminal>Inviestigation Division, and federal agencies, including U.S. Customs, the>FBI, and the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the IRS, were>investigating Seal's operations in Arkansas and elsewhere, apparently>independent of each other for the most part. In 1972, he and eight others were convicted>in federal court in New Orleans of running guns and explosives to Mexico. If the US is a democracy, then the voters themselves are responsible for the horrible state of affairs this country finds itself in. After a barrage of requests from media outlets, the FBI released more than 1,000 pages of its file on Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal on July 15th. >Things went smoothly in Medellin, as Seal and Bates met with Jorge Ochoa.>After the two returned, Seal gave a full debriefing to Jura and Jacobson. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. According to the>DEA, Ochoa was "the world's largest cocaine dealer. That's where Seal was shot to death while in his car.A movie titled \"Mena,\" starring Tom Cruise as Seal, is set to be released in early 2017. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. Sad day for AmericansSad day for our children. [Posted 13 November 2002] Just before Labor Day 2002, I was on the road to Texas. . Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. >The fact that Seal had cut a deal with the DEA in exchange for DEA assistance>in his federal prosecution in Louisiana, was apparently never conveyed to the>CIA. In addition, the indictment will contain>one count of causing financial institutions not to file currency transaction>reports (CTRs). Should the grand jury return the indictment, the Government>agrees to allow the defendant to plead guilty to the two-count indictment. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. Barry Seal. Beginnings The first rough airstrip was located south of the town on the McBride family's . Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. >In February 1986, Barry Seal was preparing to be the government's chief>witness in the pending trial of Colombian drug-lord Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez,>head of the notorious Ochoa family of the Medellin cartel. It would focus the glare of the media spotlight on not only the Colombian Medellin Cartel, but also on the FBI and CIA as well as such political icons as then-Vice President George H.W. In the 1980s, the Mena airport was the reported base of a drug-smuggling, money-laundering and arms-smuggling ring run by Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal, according to an Encyclopedia of Arkansas . A DC-4 was seized at the Shreveport Regional Airport loaded with almost seven tons of plastic C-4 explosives, 7,000 feet of explosive primer cord and 2,600 electric blasting caps. >16. >4. [21], >The absence of Customs agents in Mena also meant illegal retrofitting could>take place with little or no concern for the repercussions normally associated>with unlawful activity. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. The FBI and IRS were pulling up the rear, and at least one>special agent with the Arkansas State Police CID was scratching around for>information. >It is well documented that Seal was one of the top five drug smugglers in the>United States. Seal told friends that the judge made me a clay pigeon.. But Im writing incessantly and should stop. The type of conversion kit, or CAR, that>has been most widely used for the Colt AR-15 rifle is the M-16 E-2 .42 Various>parts for such kits were being manufactured at several small plants and>machine shops in Arkansas in the early-to-mid-1980s, including Iver Johnson's>and Brodix, all of which was perfectly legal at the time. When the federal government declared 'war on drugs,' FBI agent Del Hahn, a former Marine of the Korean War era, joined the battle. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. Likewise, we do not charge a subscription fee for our blog. See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Some, like>Terry Reed, who claims to have been a CIA "asset" himself in the 1980s, have>gone much further.[31]. After death, his story was famous, and a lot of people were talking . >The Ochoa family cartel, led at the time by Jorge Ochoa-Vasquez, the son of>Fabio Ochoa-Vasquez, a prominent Colombian cattle farmer, found Seal to be>such a reliable pilot that they paid him to make dozens of cocaine runs. In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. (lho kid lived 126 Exchange place) .Clay Shaw Hangout Dixies (KATS) 701 bourbon St(corner St peter).LHO lived with Murrets 757 French Street New Orleans Louisiana.Lillian Murret,(Charles murret) [47] It may well be that the CIA>was hesitant to divulge Seal's activities on its behalf for fear that a leak>would jeopardize its effectiveness in aiding the Contras. "The trial of the C4 Seven" One clue to Seal's status is that, after having been caught illegally exporting 7 tons of C4 explosives, no one was in any hurry to bring him to trial. Atlantic City and Skinny, was the owner of the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey ( trump Hotel)..Sinatra Chauffer G.Jacobs and Buddy Greco The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. | B'Man's Revolt, ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. >Hired by TWA, at age twenty-seven, Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was the>youngest pilot in U.S. history to fly a commercial airliner. None of this is surprising in 2017. At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. Seal, Crim. Mena.PamRotella.com. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. That target was the>Medellin cartel. Witnessed Allen Dorfman `Hit June 05, 1996. > When he was cross-examined in the Saunders trial, Seal didnt deny that>he "had worked on CIA-sponsored activities in Nicaragua," and he admitted that>"the CIA installed the cameras in the C-123," which were used in the>Sandinista sting operation. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office Barry Seal was an American-born Trans World Airlines pilot who . He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. was the sister of Marguerite Oswald. box number in their address books and this coded form ,the unpublished phone number of Jack Ruby in 1963.The Code by use the Telephone dial for conversion of letters and numbers explained the letters P.O.becomes the digit 13,only exchange which numbers 13 converts to in Dallas -He added -Is WhiteHall -when Unscrambled,becomes 1-6901 by subtract 1300 from 1-6901,(garrison) he added,the result ,if 1-5601.Jack Ruby unpublished number Dallas texas in 1963 was WHITEHALL 1-5601.The code involvestransposition of digits accord to pattern then add -sub-of numbers ,familiar to Oswald ,that Jack Ruby unlisted phone number ,coded formhas been found ,notebooks by Lee harvey Oswald/Clay Shaw.Jim Garrison was once that figured out landlady Earlene Roberts is Bertha Cheeks sister which means that Lee Harvey Oswald knew >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. Staff Report. He died of three gunshot wounds. Released in theaters in 2017, the film directed by Doug Liman lingered on the true story of Barry Seal, who at the turn of the 70s and 80s was at the center of a criminal affair that thrilled . Both Smith and Missick were interested in Seal's proposal and>were given cash advances on the spot out of what Seal called his "trafficker>fund" (money 'provided by the DEA for its informants' use) for "transportation>expenses" associated with a meeting arranged for Miami in March. >7. When he was a boy, he would frequently ride his bicycle to a local>private airport two miles from his house, where he would lean on the chain->link fence and watch small planes take off and land. Seal's lawyers immediately>protested by filing motions averring that, in an effort to fulfill the terms>of the plea bargain, Seal was engaged in activities which could place him in>serious danger if he were housed at a halfway house. They remained partners until>Camp's untimely death in a plane crash just north of Mena, Arkansas, on 20>February 1985. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. He would work closely with the two agents in setting up a>sting operation involving the Medellin-based Ochoa cartel.[14]. Arthur>had a very large airstrip and a clean spacious aircraft hangar on a tract of>land he leased from the Turks and Caicos government. Seal and the others were arrested for alleged violations of the Mutual>Security Act of 1954, a federal law barring the exportation of explosives>without prior State Department approval. Polozola on December 20, 1985, invoked the sentence handed down by the Florida judge and sentenced Seal to six months supervised probation, taking the occasion to say that people like Seal were the lowest, most despicable people I can think of. A condition of the sentence was that he had to spend every night, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at the Salvation Army halfway house on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. A quarter-century later, Americas war on drugs continues at a cost of $52 billion per year, or $1600 for every second of every day. According to Seal, he and Arthur had>made "a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]" together over the years. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. meeting at camp robinson with other people too. Saunders>couldn't make the Miami meeting, but Seal was assured he would be part of any>deals the five men might strike. The balcony of the motel gave . >Who really hired Vasquez, Quintero-Cruz, and Velez to assassinate America's>number one drug informant? That news proved too enticing for President Reagan who was eager to wage an all-out war on the Sandinistas. 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