Set in the early 1980s, to combat the spread of communism . strange coincidence :John Odom baton Rouge. >Many individuals in Arkansas, and elsewhere, bought weapons and conversion>kits from those companies, sometimes in large quantities. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. Saunders>couldn't make the Miami meeting, but Seal was assured he would be part of any>deals the five men might strike. A drug shipment transfer in Nicaragua was in fact videotaped>with The Fat Lady's surveillance camera. >Seal testified in the Saunders trial that "Uncle Sam Wants You" was produced>to publicize his covert activities because he was afraid that if he continued>to work in the obscurity of the drug-trafficking trade, he might be killed by>the CIA or DEA, and those investigating his death might try to create the>illusion that thugs hired by some Medellin drug lord had assassinated him. >Gun smuggling, especially the brand the CIA and Seal were engaged in in>Arkansas and elsewhere in the 1980s, was risky business. Three can keep a secret if two are dead. Carlos Marcello, Pingback: Podcast Recap: #208 Freeway Ricky Ross The Joe Rogan Experience Database, Pingback: Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? But, Barry's first love was>flying. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. In December of 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana for flying a cargo of marijuana into the state. >The National Firearms Act establishes a fairly comprehensive tax and>registration system governing the manufacture, transfer, and possession of>certain firearms including, especially, "machineguns. The criminal case against Seal was entitled, United States of America v.>Adler Berriman Seal, criminal docket number 84-77, section B, United States>District Court, Middle District of Louisiana. He grew up three blocks from the Seal family, in the same>neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At the same time, Seal was introduced to the>man in the white suit, Stafford Missick, minister of Commerce and Finance in>the islands. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. >18. Oliver North said:I only shot at who shot at me. Matrisciana, Clinton Chronicles, 51. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." According to a story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in the 9 October 1994,>issue of the London Sunday Telegraph, one interest-bearing account opened by>Seal in the Cayman Islands had a balance of over $1.6 billion at the time the>article was written. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. Salvation army halfway house 7361 Airline Highway, BatonRouge. Much of the factual information about Seal is based on the author's>personal knowledge. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. Lee Odom said He met Clay Shaw Nov 1966. They also>souped up old cars in the garage behind the house. >43. A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. President Reagan used some of the>footage on national television to reveal the involvement of the Sandinistas>and the Medellin cartel in drug trafficking and to demonstrate the need for>stronger drug enforcement.[22]. >46. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. Saturday, February 19, will mark the 25th anniversary of one of the most sensational high-profile killings to rock Baton Rouge since the 1935 assassination of U.S. Sen. Huey Long. But, the obvious>difference between Nessard, Sarco, and the others and Iver Johnson's and>Brodix was that the physical plants of the last two were located in Arkansas.>In theory, that meant the state of Arkansas was able to exact tax revenues>from them. Thank you. Oliver North said:Seal offered witness protection . >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. >24. The Saunders case was consolidated with>criminal actions against Stafford Missick, Aulden Smith, and Andre' Fournier,>and tried before judge John H. Moore, II, and a jury, in September 1985. [40] That also means anyone attempting to purchase automatic>weapons before May 1986 could only do so lawfully by registering the weapons>with the federal government. Ibid. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . Beginnings The first rough airstrip was located south of the town on the McBride family's . The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. 84-77-B, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana,>filed 30 December 1985 (emphasis added). 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. Barry was one of three brothers, including Benjy and Wendell. He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. Rambler station wagon ,outside of TSBD building ,Craig saw LHO in the Police Station being interrogated ,Captain Fritz, Interrogation of Oswald, did not record the most crime of the century . The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . >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. Ibid., 521-531. Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton.Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. On March 24,>Vice-Presidential Aide Jim Howell met with Seal, as did DEA Special Agents>Frank White and Bill Kennedy. By Robert Morrow, Pingback: The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? Norman Saunders>and Stafford Missick were high-ranking public officials in the islands.>Saunders had been the government's chief minister, and Missick was the>minister of Commerce and Development. [3] A former Green Beret, Seal became one of TWA's top>pilots. Corey Plante. no. The sign boldly>reflects that "A.B. In purchasing the future claims, the second company would>be provided with "instant tax write-offs through mandatory, tax-exempt cash>set aside requirements. Some, like>Terry Reed, who claims to have been a CIA "asset" himself in the 1980s, have>gone much further.[31]. [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. See, transcript of Seal's cross-examination in U.S. v. Saunders, et al. According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an investigative>reporter for a London newspaper, one interest-bearing account opened by Seal>at the Fuji Bank in the Caymans had a balance of $1.645 billion at the time>one of his articles was written in 1994. "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. >37. A joint investigation by the FBI, Arkansas State Police and IRS revealed that Barry Seal used the Mena airport for "smuggling activity" from late 1980 until March, 1984, according . >Special drug prosecutors Bradley C. Myers and Albert J. Winters, Jr., with the>New Orleans office of the U.S. Attorney's Organized Crime Strike Force, knew>all of that and had been breathing down Seal's neck for months. He flew to Washington and met with two members of Vice President George Bushs Task Force on Drugs. They all claim that Barry Seal involved clandestine activities. | 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? A sign located at one end of the property, bearing the standard FAA>announcement that the field is an aircraft landing strip, and forbidding>trespassing or tampering with aircraft, remains to this day. And, because of judge Frank Polozola's gross negligence in>forcing Seal to adjust his lifestyle to fit into an orderly and completely>predictable routine, everyone knew exactly where Barry Seal would be after>5:00 P.m. each day. >17. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. He was well aware of the drug-smuggling>activity and logically concluded it was creating a problem that only a money->laundering scheme of gargantuan proportions could ameliorate. They agreed that $250,000 would be applied>to cover expenses, such as fuel, storage, and lease fees, and the balance>would be divided evenly among Saunders, Smith, Missick, and Bowe, based mainly>on their promise to prepare and sign documents and to look the other way at>certain crucial times. WEINER Yes. >The reason the scheme was so complicated, according to Reed and Cummings, is>that the federal government couldn't legally fund the Contras without>congressional approval, as such actions were prohibited by the Boland>Amendment. Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton "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. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . 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. The Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport near the city of Mena (Polk County) in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas is located approximately 160 miles west of Little Rock (Pulaski County). Seal soon purchased a hangar>and began to operate a new business, Rich Mountain Aviation, Inc. >According to Russell Welch, Seal admitted in late 1985 that aircraft were>being "retrofitted" with cargo doors, bladder tands and special plumbing, and>fuel and navigational system modifications in the Rich Mountain hangar between>1981 and 1985. >31. 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. In March 1984,>frustrated by numerous vain attempts to talk personally with U.S. Attorney>Stanford Bardwell, who was prosecuting the case in Baton Rouge, the>nowdesperate Seal contacted the Vice-Presidential Task Force in Washington,>D.C., and made arrangements to meet with them a day or two later. At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. 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 who said he train pilots in mena arkansas. > 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. (jack ruby lived near Paul Dorffman Irwin Weiner chicago il ) Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Dave Yaras .9 Seal was killed in February 1986 during a hail of machine-gun fire outside a Baton Rouge Salvation Army halfway house after allegedly crossing Pablo Escobar and the Medelln drug cartel . They had worked steadily together, as DEA informants from the>spring of 1984 till February 1985. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. No of Kids with Barry: Dean, Aaron, and Christina Seal. Mr. WOLF When were your meetings with Mr. Trafficante? Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. >Because of the overwhelming evidence against him, Seal had been forced to>plead guilty in 1984 to drugtrafficking charges in an unrelated federal court>proceeding in south Florida. Of the>thirty islands in the tiny chain, only six are inhabited. "Motion to Correct Sentence and to Enforce Plea Agreement," filed in U.S.>v. 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. >Now officially known as Confidential Informant No. (Arkansas State Criminal Investigator Russell Welch), to former drug pilots, that have testified that the CIA operation Barry Seal set up in Mena was used, and is still being used, to smuggle drugs with official sanction into the . In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. >Despite the plea agreement, U.S. Attorney Stanford Bardwell had to prepare for>the worst. These included>Nessard Gun Parts, an Illinois company dealing in semiautomatic weapons;>Sarco, Inc., a New Jersey company known mainly as a retailer, but which also>sold conversion kits in Arkansas in the 1980s; Olympic Arms, Inc., a>Washington retailer handling semiautomatics; Center Fire Systems, of Kentucky,>which continues to do business in Arkansas to this day; and Shooters>Equipment, a South Carolina manufacturer handling conversion kits in the>eighties. The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. 14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. 5, 1984) known as Mr. Waters] is recognized for 5 minutes. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) was an American airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medelln Cartel. Terry Reed knew Oliver North / Feliz Rodruez. Lee Odom of clay shaw trial.Lee Odom wife Mary Francis had foreknowledge11-22-63 her address:211 W French Place SanAntonio.Tx.Lee Odom P.O.Box Dallas Texas. Most of all, Seals murder would lay bare for all the world to see the seamy underbelly of Americas duplicitous war on drugs, and how drug smuggling was in fact sanctioned by powerful men in order to advance a hidden agenda. Weird Places, Odd Events, Bizarre News : >12. Barry Seal wasn't concerned>about the weather anyway; the late model Cadillac Sedan deVille he was driving>had all of the creature comforts and amenities befitting a big-time drug>trafficker. >When Seal returned to the Turks and Caicos in February, he initially met with>Smith. He spent nine months in a Honduran prison and while there, met William Roger Reeves, a fellow prisoner who worked for the Ochoa family of Medellin, Colombia. On March 3, 1986, only two weeks after Seal was murdered, Louisiana Attorney General William Guste hand-delivered a five-page letter to U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. The meeting ended, appropriately, with smiles,>handshakes, and hasta la vistas. He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. Required fields are marked *. In 1983, the DEA arrested him on drug smuggling charges. Exclusive: Tom Cruise's portrayal of drug-smuggler-turned-government-informant Barry Seal is a fast-paced visit back to the Reagan era's shadowy world of the CIA, cocaine and secret wars . Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. 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. Jul 04, 2022 12:40 P.M. The DEA also allowed Seal to pay Emile Camp and other>pilots like Roger Reeves, out of the trafficker funds. File: Attachment Size; When we mention CIA drug smuggling in Mena, Arkansas, the first name that comes to mind is Barry Seal. 506-508. 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. Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . [4]>The conviction was overturned on appeal, but he lost his job with TWA. One thing is for sure: Barry Seal was never able to testify>against any of them. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . MENA They called him the Fat Man. From the official record in United States of America v. Adler Berriman>Seal. In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. According to both Seal and Terry Reed, who claims to>have been a CIA "asset" in the 1980s and who flew with Seal in and out of Mena>on numerous occasions, The Fat Lady was equipped by the CIA with surveillance>cameras for a sting operation in Nicaragua involving the Sandinistas and the>Medellin cartel. He died of three gunshot wounds. In 1964, Seal went to work for TWA and became their youngest 707 captain and later their youngest 747 captain. "Barry" Seal was shot to death with machine gun fire in the parking lot of a Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. Thats not likely. One traffic route was through Miami, often by way of Port-au-Prince, the>capital of Haiti. Your email address will not be published. At the same>time, incredible amounts of cash were transported to and from Latin America,>representing payment for drugs, arms, and equipment. He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by Pablo Escobar, head of . Whether known or not at the time by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, the use of the Mena airport by Seal and others would be used by detractors in efforts to tie Clinton to drug smuggling conspiracies, especially during his first four years as President. Earlene Roberts maybe knew Bertha Cheeks that knew Jack Ruby as And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. That order, which for reasons discussed below>would ultimately become Seal's death warrant, reflected that he wouldn't do>any jail time for the cocaine charges, but instead would pay a fine of twenty->five thousand dollars. Lee Odom said.p o box 19106 had never been in his name.but >2. >Although he spent most of his time out of state, Barry Seal maintained close>ties with friends and family in Louisiana. Daniel Hopsicker barry and seal book. On March 27, a state grand jury in Baton Rouge indicted Miguel Velez, Bemardo Antonio Vasquez, Luis Quintero, and Jose Renteria-Campo for the murder. >47. >The Saunders case had enormous implications for the South American drug->trafficking trade. >42. Shortly before 6:00 P.M., the forty-six-year-old Seal wheeled the>yellow Cadillac into the parking lot of the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center in Baton Rouge. (barry Seal Friends James Poche-David Holmes-John Odom.) In brief: more plot holes than a meerkat colony. Lots of strange Occurrences and Strange Coincidences and >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. no. Renteria-Campo was extradited to Miami to be tried on federal weapons charges. There is no information on Barry Seal's net worth, but it must have been substantial. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Two other Colombians, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz>and Miguel Velez, shared Vasquez's room. >It is well documented that Seal was one of the top five drug smugglers in the>United States. Jack Ruby said Well the answer is the man in office now ___Thats all I have to say. Did Jack Ruby idolize you? They immediately hopped back into the Buick and>sped away, nearly running over an eyewitness. Barry Seal - An American History (American Made in the original version) is a film that tells how the existence of a man can change from one moment to the next, and take a decidedly unexpected turn. .Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C.