His>next DEA-related trip was to Panama. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . If you want to catch the movie for yourself and don't want to know in advance about the movie's adherence to or deviation from the facts, stop here because I intend to go into more detail . By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. But even in death, Seal would not go away easily. >For his part, Seal may not have known that a number of weapons-manufacturing>and sales firms were operating in Arkansas in the 1980s. The Boland Amendment was one of those federal laws the>CIA held in particular disdain. no. 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. 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. According to the indictment, Seal had made unlawful transfers in>the amount of $51,006.64 by purchasing a cashier's check in that amount with>$8,656.64 in cash and five cashier's checks in amounts of less than $10,000>each.[11]. >The next day, Saunders drove up in a white Lincoln Continental Mark IV,>accompanied by two bodyguards and a third man dressed in a white seersucker>suit. On Feb. 19, 1986, Barry Seal, a very prominent CIA drug smuggler and ace pilot, was murdered outside his halfway house in Baton Rouge, LA. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. >2. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. Reagan was ecstatic and went on national television shortly afterwards, waving the photograph given to him by Col. Oliver North and denouncing the Sandinistas as drug smugglers corrupting American youth.. It was in 1973, the year that followed the end of his second marriage that Seal got married to Deborah DuBois and they . 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. Most reports show that Barry Seal started his drug operation in 1981, and set up shop at the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport. Jim Garrison said: Real Lee Odom lives Irving Tx (Ruth Paine) Lee Odom p.o.box 174 (1968-9),however not the point ,the point In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. (born 1939/40) At the time he was also>under indictment in the same federal jurisdiction on thirteen counts of>possession with intent to distribute phenobarbitol, Demerol, and Quaaludes.>With the threat of a lengthy prison term looming ominously over his head, the>freespirited Seal decided to cooperate with authorities and become an>informant. Mena.PamRotella.com. Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Dirty politics, love for money is the root for all evil. Seal Texaco.located corner Acadian Thruway andGoverment Street ,Baton Rouge La.Father Benjamin C Seal and the Sons Benjy Jr,Dean ,Jason ,Aaron, Curtis R,Wendell K, work the gas station and Barry Seal would work when he wasnt flying. 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. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. . WEINER Since I was a little boy. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. 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 He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. Lewis McWillie: In a sort of way I would think so, yes.Lewis McWillie ran the Tropicana Casino in Havana.McWillie traveled by car from Miami to Lake Tahoe,Cal-Neva Lodge in Lake Tahoe owners Sam Giancana ,Paul D Amato , Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe forever tenants at the Cal Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe in cabin ? 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. Seal was convicted on numerous charges.>Soon, federal prosecutors in Louisiana were breathing down his neck. 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. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. North, meanwhile, was busy orchestrating a complicated arms deal with Iran in negotiations to obtain Irans help in freeing seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian terrorists in Lebanon. Seal told friends that the judge made me a clay pigeon.. >24. According to Seal, he and Arthur had>made "a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]" together over the years. Investigators are still trying to separate myth from reality. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. These required>Seal to carry a telephone paging device, file monthly financial reports, and>abstain from all contact with a co-defendant named Gary Seville. >45. After a military hitch, he returned to Baton Rouge>and started flying again. no. At Arkansas, he ran sales and operations of fleets . He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. He was never able to testify against William Jefferson>Blythe Clinton either. Rich Mnt Aviation Inc Star Route 9 box 6G Mena Arkansas.Seal coin operated phone booths 12688-13241 Perkins Rd.Barry Seal box 64801 baton Rouge.Seal Planes Piper Navajo ,Piper Seneca,Cessna,Piper Azteo, beech, beechcraft Kingair,etc!Seal 8216 Oakbrook Dr Baton Rouge.David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many . When we mention CIA drug smuggling in Mena, Arkansas, the first name that comes to mind is Barry Seal. The larger transport plane, which he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady, was needed to haul tons of cocaine for the cartel. WEINER Yes. Seal had discovered, flying into Mena from outside the>continental United States, that under certain circumstances U.S. Customs>agents at the airport did not inspect aircraft. His>favorite mode of transportation for these flights was a modified military>C-123 aircraft he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady. > No one knows exactly why, but for some reason, after pulling the Cadillac>into its normal parking place, Seal, dressed in his customary olive-drab>flight suit, and wearing his amber Ray Ban aviator sunglasses, sat in the .>car that evening a lot longer than was his usual custom. In his cross-examination, in the trial of United States v. Norman Saunders,>et al., Cr. Using my iPhone, I shot this video of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport on July 22, 2016. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. He was also the>youngest pilot to be promoted to captain of the crew of a Boeing 707, and>later of a Boeing 747. 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 Me. The C-123 was ultimately sold to a company with connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. >Who really hired Vasquez, Quintero-Cruz, and Velez to assassinate America's>number one drug informant? Terry Reed said while was Little Rock social circles. [27], >At the time the order was signed, and in the weeks that followed, Seal>continued to work with the government as an informant, although his smuggling>activity had been substantially curtailed by judge Polozola's order. He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot . 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. In October, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Narcotics and Drug Interdiction of the Presidents Commission on Organized Crime, I had presided over a seminar at which Barry Seal had testified, Guste continued. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana. 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. Books, 1994), 58. Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. 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 was at this time that he moved his operations from Baton Rouge to Mena, Arkansas. >Gun smuggling, especially the brand the CIA and Seal were engaged in in>Arkansas and elsewhere in the 1980s, was risky business. (jack ruby called Yaras) U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Gary Webb & Barry Seal. And the rest, of course, is history. >In light of the manner in which Seal was killed, what is perhaps most>incredible about the way his prosecution in federal courts in Florida and>Louisiana was handled, is that key DEA and CIA agents in both locales>apparently didn't know much about each others' activities, contacts, or plans;>unless, of course, Seal's assassination in February 1986 was advanced and>facilitated by the very agencies for which he'd agreed to furnish information.>That was certainly Seal's fear when he produced "Uncle Sam Wants You," and it>may have been well founded. The Fairchild C-123K "provider" 54-0663 (20112) Radiocall:"40663" was a part of one of the biggest scandals in the mid 1980's. During this time, the Reagan Administration had set up a bizarre network of arms sales to Iran designed to win release of US hostages being held in Lebanon and raise money to fund the Nicaraguan, counter-revolutionary guerilla fighters, commonly referred to as the . Oliver North said:Seal offered witness protection . When Tom Cruise blasts his dazzling smile at the camera and narrates American Made as Barry Seal, you believe . Seal then made a series of drug-smuggling>flights, all with DEA approval. >However, another federal law, the Boland Amendment, came into play where the>Contras were concerned. >3. >47. He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. The buyer, it turned out, was a federal agent. [10] Jorge Ochoa would>soon discover that Barry Seal, whom the cartel had long trusted, was playing a>significant role in the cartel's looming problems. If the US is a democracy, then the voters themselves are responsible for the horrible state of affairs this country finds itself in. >1. 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. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. 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. 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. Barry was one of three brothers, including Benjy and Wendell. In>Welch's words, "Now we know that there were hundreds of millions of dollars>worth of cocaine coming into the small state of Arkansas [in the 1980s]."[46]. 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. After their release, Seal contacted Camp, and he>became Seal's partner, copilot, and best friend. Barry Seal knew them all. Terry Reed knew Oliver North / Feliz Rodruez. A minute entry on that date reflected that Seal would "remain>at liberty under the terms of his original bond. Barry, his two brothers, Benjy and Wendell, his mom, a homemaker, and his dad, a candy wholesaler, lived in a house on Lovers Lane. WEINER I have known him all my life. >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. It's>also what the Branch Davidians were doing at Mt. Two quick bursts hit Barry Seal's head and a third struck his body. >46. It worked, Unglesby said. >13. Gordon Novel lived before left (garrison trial) Louisiana 336 Exchange place. Bush, as VP under Reagan, was put in charge of the Reagan administrations drug task force and Seal had contacted Bushs office in order to cooperate with the feds to avoid a prison sentence for drug smuggling in Florida. Cruz and>Vasquez were in the Buick with Velez and were armed with 9 millimeter>automatic weapons. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. July 21, 1994. From the opinion: On February 19, 1986, Adler B. Seal>flew fifty cocaine-smuggling and money-laundering missions between 1981 and>1983 for the Medellin cartel. He would work closely with the two agents in setting up a>sting operation involving the Medellin-based Ochoa cartel.[14]. Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. Bustamonte later explained to Seal that Nicaragua was an>excellent place to engage in dope smuggling because the Communist Sandinistas>provided the cartel with a safe harbor for the transfer of Colombian cocaine>from one airplane to another when the final destination was the United>States.[6]. They all claim that Barry Seal involved clandestine activities. Michel Mertz had been ex pelled from U.S. at Fort Worth or Dallas 48hours after JFK assassination.11-22-63. With the TWA money>gone, he looked for other means of subsidizing his income. At the height of his career, he was under investigation by the DEA in Mena, Arkansas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in addition to being under the watchful eye of the FBI. On 1st July, 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of sending C4 explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. A series of drug-smuggling > flights, all with DEA approval United States v. Norman Saunders, al.! 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