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). At the time of their extradition and prosecution, billions>of dollars in drug money had already been laundered through banks affiliated>with and operated by BCCI (the Bank of Commerce and Credit International) in>the tiny Caribbean island chain known as the Turks and Caicos. "[29] Unfortunately, the very>liberty Barry Seal sought, and for which he had posted a $250,000 unsecured>bond, made him an easy target for assassins. After a military hitch, he returned to Baton Rouge>and started flying again. Even criminals have a love life and Barry Seal was no different. In his cross-examination, in the trial of United States v. Norman Saunders,>et al., Cr. [44], >Seal's exploits as a soldier of fortune made him a very wealthy man. At almost 300 pounds, Adler B. 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. Send a free subscription to a friend or subscribe for yourself. As to count two (the tax-related charges), the court's>order placed Seal on probation for five years and fined him ten thousand>dollars. >43. Hold that thought. Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. 14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Seal's lawyer wrote the U.S. 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. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. Mr. WOLF Have you ever met with Jimmy Hoffa .?Mr. Seal flipped, becoming a valuable government informant. 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. Gary Webb & Barry Seal. He'd had profitable dealings with Colombian drug lord Pablo>Escobar for a number of years. Both learned to fly from the same Civil Air Patrol instructor>at the same private airport. >The "plea bargain" and "probation" referred to the plea agreement Seal was>finally able to reach with federal prosecutors in Baton Rouge, in November>1984, just before the grand jury indictment was formally handed down. . After Seal pleaded guilty in February 1986, he was given an extremely light sentence of 100 hours of community service thanks to the intervention of the CIA and others and ordered to live . 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. He flew to Washington and met with two members of Vice President George Bushs Task Force on Drugs. He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. >Soon, IRS CID Special Agent William Duncan was asking questions; and Barry>Seal was perhaps the one man on earth who could answer those questions. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) was a Trans World Airlines (TWA) pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medelln Cartel.When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. by Ran. They immediately hopped back into the Buick and>sped away, nearly running over an eyewitness. On February the 19th, 1986, Barry Seal was returning to a Salvation Army halfway house at precisely 6:00 PM as part of his probation for a recent drug convictions. 340, 341. MichelRoux , a.k.a. 85-165-Spellman, United States District Court, Southern District>of Florida, September 1985. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office In high school, while his classmates were riding buses to out-of-town>football games, Barry would often fly to the games in "barnstorming" fashion,>landing wherever he could find a smooth, flat surface. If the US is a democracy, then the voters themselves are responsible for the horrible state of affairs this country finds itself in. Matrisciana, Clinton Chronicles, 51. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. The balcony of the motel gave . 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. Barry Seal in White cadillac -2-20-86 BatonRouge-Escobar and It was also the year certain authorities in>Arkansas began investigating the Mena operation. Smith pointed him in Norman Saunders' direction>and helped arrange a meeting with Saunders at Arthur's hangar. Seal, who began flying at age of 15, flew weapons to Fidel Castro in 1958 when Castro was fighting to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. 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.. His>favorite mode of transportation for these flights was a modified military>C-123 aircraft he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady. Qualified Americans could, until recently, apply for and receive a license>to sell automatic weapons and conversion kits. >41. That investment includes not only the cost of preventative measures, but also the cost of housing fully 20 percent of all federal and state prison inmates (more than 400,000) for drug-related offenses. 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. In>response to a complaint by his federal probation officer, Lionell Jardell,>that Seal wasn't cooperating enough in the pre-sentencing investigation, one>of Seal's lawyers, Lewis Unglesby, reminded Jardell that Seal was working>constantly "under government supervision in dangerous and difficult>situations."[28]. Wow Barry Seal I think he is pretty Awesome loved movie about him. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. both claim that Sinatra got mad at Marilyn threw her out of his Joint. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What a tangled web! Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . .Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. New Orleans Times Picayune, 21 February 1986. 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. Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. Since May 1986, the law has flatly prohibited the transfer or possession>of automatic weapons not registered before the May 1986 cut-off date. John Odom claim that Barry Seal knew LHO and David Ferrie. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. File: Attachment Size; Fourth, Vince Foster worked for the Rose Law firm until he left to . Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. 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 . >Seal and Ochoa had been doing business for years. 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. He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by the Medellns. >28. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. [4]>The conviction was overturned on appeal, but he lost his job with TWA. It's>also what the Branch Davidians were doing at Mt. 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. (across from post office) Clay Shaw 1024 St Peter N.O.La.Is next to camp -canal -near International trade mart.William Reilly Coffee Company and Crescent City Garage (LHO &JvB worked)G.wray Gil said He was with David Ferrie on 11-22-63 until 12:15.Ferrie said Marcello deportation trial 11-22-1963 party at hotel to celebrate. Agents White and Kennedy quickly arranged for Seal to>meet with DEA Special Agents Robert Jura and Ernest Jacobson in Miami. 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 ? In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. > 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. The brutal murder of Barry Seal, 46, at a Baton Rouge halfway house in 1986 would send shock waves up and down the political spectrum. 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. He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . Seal's arraignment proceeded as scheduled on>that date. Seal's exploits brought him into close contact with infamous figures like Medelln cartel kingpins Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa and Panama dictator Manuel Noriega and he was . Like The Wolf of Wall Street, American Made is based on the real-life exploits of a "lovable" rogue, Barry Seal. During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. Barry Seal was a known name between the drug peddlers and crime cartels in the '80s. That agenda would turn up in the sordid details of the Iran-Contra scandal. Lee Odom said.p o box 19106 had never been in his name.but [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. Barry Seal knew them all. >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. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. 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. >Seal was indicted by a federal grand jury in Baton Rouge on 20 December 1984.>He was charged with possession of 462 pounds of cocaine, a Schedule II>federally controlled narcotic dangerous substance, and for conspiring with>others to distribute that cocaine between 1 June 1982 and 1 January 1983.>Those were alleged violations of Title 21, Sections 841 and 846, of the United>States Code. He attended Louisiana>State University for one year, but decided that he didn't need a college>degree to fly airplanes. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. 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. Ibid., 521-531. A>secondary purpose was to avoid U.S. Customs scrutiny. His>next DEA-related trip was to Panama. The C-123 that had been shot down was The Fat Lady, Seals beloved cargo plane. He met Clay Shaw through Andy Anderson manager Roosevelt They had worked steadily together, as DEA informants from the>spring of 1984 till February 1985. Seal told friends that the judge made me a clay pigeon.. One thing is for sure: Barry Seal was never able to testify>against any of them. Was it Noreiga? None of this is surprising in 2017. 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. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. was the sister of Marguerite Oswald. WEINER Yes. He normally received a commission for his work.>It wasn't unusual for him to transport up to $20 million in cash in exchange>for a commission of 5 percent of that amount.[7]. 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. >4. The DEA, long aware of his>drug-smuggling activities, had finally caught up with him in Florida, where>federal prosecutors had a field day. Terry Reed knew Oliver North / Feliz Rodruez. 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. >14. 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. Advertisement. Several clips from "Uncle Sam Wants You," were included>in the film, which has been aired on cable television networks in recent>years. (born 1939/40) promote bull fights in New Orleans.Lunch Pat OBriens for Hour. Individuals who wanted to>help the Contras would allow big-ticket items like boats, helicopters, small>planes, and sport/utility vehicles to mysteriously disappear. [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. As the light of day>began to fade, a gray Buick driven by Velez raced into the parking lot,>pulling within a few feet of Seal's vehicle, on the driver's side. David Ferrie gas Station 1964 Dav-Al Gulf Service 2316 Veterans Highway Metairie La.Ferrie former address 331 Atherton Dr Metairie.Gordon Novel 124 Lake ave Metairie. Spoiler alert: It's 9:30 p.m. Friday and I just returned from watching American Made, the Tom Cruise movie about Baton Rouge drug smuggler Barry Seal.. Mena is the small town in Arkansas where Barry Seal, who was born in Baton Rouge, conducted operations. >7. >1. At Arkansas, he ran sales and operations of fleets . However, as fate would have it, Seal was placed in>the same jail cell as Emile Camp, a pilot from Slidell, Louisiana, who had>also been arrested for smuggling. The rich & powerful, including the political elite are free to do as they please without regard to consequences. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. 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. Seal" is the owner of the airstrip. It prohibited the exportation of arms like>M-16s and kits, like the CARs used to convert semiautomatic weapons, without>congressional approval. The 70s. The Real Story Behind 'American Made' Is Much Darker Than the Movie. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. Adler Berriman Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986), better known as Barry Seal, was a United States drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Medelln Cartel. Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. > According to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner, Dr. Hypolite>Landry, and the report of detectives with the Baton Rouge City Police, seven>rounds fired from an automatic weapon known as a Mac-10 struck Seal in the>head and upper body. The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. No,wonder why militias hate our govt. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. Seal then made a series of drug-smuggling>flights, all with DEA approval. See, transcript of>Seal's cross-examination, pp. >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. By this time, Seal had purchased a C-123. >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. [49] But, since 1984, Seal's luck had been>running out. Little did the islanders know that the>evidence elicited from the videotape of this meeting would ultimately lead to>the arrest, extradition, and conviction of three of the men present.[20]. . photo Escobar with Seal picture on television ?who sit duck at There is no information on Barry Seal's net worth, but it must have been substantial. Bush and Oliver North. Barry Seal murder in Baton Rouge 25 years ago helped expose Iran-Contra debacle, Podcast Recap: #208 Freeway Ricky Ross The Joe Rogan Experience Database, Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. Bill Clinton's Mena, Arkansas drug smuggling and money laundering operation through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA).. Seal was a Green Beret in the Vietnam war and later a pilot for TWA. Seal was also charged with concealing material facts from the>Internal Revenue Service about the existence, source, or origin, of $51,006.64>and for failure to file currency transaction reports on amounts in excess of>$10,000. 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. Ibid. >5. [26], >On 20 December 1984, the grand jury did in fact return an indictment, and U.S.>District judge Frank Polozola signed a Judgment and Probation/Commitment Order>in Seal's criminal proceeding. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. [33] Of course, there were other ways to fund the Freedom Fighters,>including the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, Gomez>International, Miller Communications, International Business Communications,>and Lake Resources, all organizations involved at one level or another in>receiving and redistributing money for Nicaragua. He said the money had been brought back from Tegucigalpa. From the opinion: On February 19, 1986, Adler B. See, transcript of Seal's cross-examination in U.S. v. Saunders, et al. >Gun smuggling, especially the brand the CIA and Seal were engaged in in>Arkansas and elsewhere in the 1980s, was risky business. The information gleaned during these trips led>to the eventual arrest and extradition arrest of Norman Saunders, Stafford>Missick, Aulden Smith, Andre Fournier, and, ultimately, the Panamanian>dictator, Gen. Manuel Noreiga. 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. The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. 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. He died of three gunshot wounds. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. Seal's airplane, with a cargo of some>thirteen thousand pounds of C-4 explosives, was seized in Louisiana in 1972.>Ibid. (jack ruby called Yaras) >rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. At any rate, by 1986, Barry Seal found himself wearing three very>uncomfortable hats; those of key man, straw man, and scapegoat. In 1981, he was making daily deposits of $50,000 into an account at a bank in the Bahamas. >23. | Dark Politics, Pablo Escobar: The Many Faces Of The Narco [REVIEW] |, Bingo Zone Baton Rouge Louisiana | I love You Zones, Roots of Iran-Contra Crisis Found in Recording of Airport Attack Plan - UNICORN RIOT, 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Too Dope Hip Hop, 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen | Alt Left Press, American Made Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Thinking Port, Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Technology Commercialization Credit and Jobs Program, Veteran Initiative and Mentor-Protege Tax Credit. Between 1980 and 1986, Seal is>believed to have smuggled at least 36 metric tons of cocaine, 104 tons of>marijuana, and 3 tons of heroin into Arkansas alone. of three presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. Unglesby said the Medellin Cartel killed Seal to prevent the extradition of Medellin Cartel co-leader Jorge Ochoa from Spain, where he was hiding. Even>though his testimony was critical to the government's case against Ochoa, as>one writer has suggested, Seal knew far more about drug trafficking in>Arkansas, and "where the bodies were buried," than he knew about Colombia, and>he could have helped put a number of prominent American politicians and>officials behind bars.[50]. At the same time, Seal was introduced to the>man in the white suit, Stafford Missick, minister of Commerce and Finance in>the islands. 85-165-Spellman, U.S. District>Court, Southern District of Florida, p. 462. alternate landing: Dallas .Landing:327 Hours 5 30 Min. The DEA called the money>"trafficker funds." 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. >13. 14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. 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. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." 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. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Sunday Telegraph, 9>October 1994. WEINER Yes. By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. "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. >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. As part of his agreement with DEA, he rigged the C-123 with a hidden camera and was able to photograph Pablo Escobar helping Nicaraguan soldiers load 1,200 kilos of cocaine at the Managua airport. 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 (benji/wendell become pilots) Story from John Odom ,fellow cap member claimed thatBarry Seal met Lee Harvey Oswald training exercise that barry enlisted july 1955 same time LHO and Barry Seal knew David Ferrie. In December of 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana for flying a cargo of marijuana into the state. 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. | B'Man's Revolt, Pingback: ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? Salvation army halfway house 7361 Airline Highway, BatonRouge. regarding Seal's criminal>activities, telling the court that the charges in the indictment were based on>solid evidence. But, because>Winters was participating in a trial on 4 January, the arraignment date>initially set by the court, Bardwell sought and was given a continuance until>the next week, 8 January 1985. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Staff Report. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. 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. Why>not the CIA? WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. DPD Curry is on air force one that witnessed LBJ being sworn in JFK coffin looks on and Congressman Albert Thomas winks back at a quickly-smiling LBJ.Henry Wade former _ _ _ then District atty case Ruby.Jack ruby called Irwin Weiner Chicago bail bondsman At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . >24. 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. >2. 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 . In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. 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. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana, filed 21 January 1986. As a teenager, he was naturally gifted as a flier, as confirmed by his flight instructor. He was making daily deposits of $ 50,000 into an account at a motel the... 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