[27] >46. 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? It had been used for several months by Barbque co which he was onceassociated with. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . (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) 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. Reed claims the>meeting with Seal was arranged by Oliver North (aka John Cathey). 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. (Barry) Seal also talked big and did big things. In brief: more plot holes than a meerkat colony. Tom Cruise will portray Baton Rouge drug-smuggler-turned-federal-informant Barry Seal (pictured) in the upcoming Universal Pictures feature film 'Mena.' (The Times-Picayune archive) (utube videos ) Oliver North interviews and Contra Affair. | 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? 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]. 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. From the opinion: On February 19, 1986, Adler B. I had to visit my employer's Houston office, and didn't want to fly because our government was looking for a reason to start an oil war against Iraq. 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. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . The balcony of the motel gave . A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. Mr. WEINER I met him at a club in Cuba. >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. 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. U.S. authorities wanted to put him on trial for drug smuggling. 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. Barry Seal knew them all. 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. >28. 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 . Bowe was a well-known lawyer and drug>smuggler in the region. Barry Seal was a known name between the drug peddlers and crime cartels in the '80s. >The Government and defense further agree that the defendant will receive a>concurrent sentence as to Count 1 not to exceed the ultimate sentence he>receives in a pending proceeding in the Southern District of Florida. 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. >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. Barry, his two brothers, Benjy and Wendell, his mom, a homemaker, and his dad, a candy wholesaler, lived in a house on Lovers Lane. Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. >43. But, they>also made him a marked man. 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 . Gary Webb & Barry Seal. WHY WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT WITNESS NOT GIVEN PROTECTIOIN WHETHER HE WANTED IT OR NOT? Guste asked, using all capital letters. 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. The pot-bellied daredevil>once boasted that he could make $1.5 million in a matter of hours dealing with>Ochoa as long as he had his pocket pager, two payphones to call Colombia and>Miami, and fuel for The Fat Lady. Mena.PamRotella.com. Seal had known of him for "many, many years." 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 . After death, his story was famous, and a lot of people were talking . He died instantly.[2]. 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. . A man with a machine gun approached his Cadillac. [44], >Seal's exploits as a soldier of fortune made him a very wealthy man. >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. >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. 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. Some, like>Terry Reed, who claims to have been a CIA "asset" himself in the 1980s, have>gone much further.[31]. MENA They called him the Fat Man. 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]. Both learned to fly from the same Civil Air Patrol instructor>at the same private airport. For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . | Dark Politics, Pingback: Pablo Escobar: The Many Faces Of The Narco [REVIEW] |, Pingback: Bingo Zone Baton Rouge Louisiana | I love You Zones, Pingback: The Clintons: A Timeline LVX Media, Pingback: Roots of Iran-Contra Crisis Found in Recording of Airport Attack Plan - UNICORN RIOT, Pingback: 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Too Dope Hip Hop, Pingback: 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen | Alt Left Press, Pingback: American Made Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Thinking Port. Cruz and>Vasquez were in the Buick with Velez and were armed with 9 millimeter>automatic weapons. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. Send a free subscription to a friend or subscribe for yourself. 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 . Mr. WOLF Have you ever met with Jimmy Hoffa .?Mr. He next admitted it under oath in DEA>intelligence reports. This is the story that couldn't be suppressed. Early life. 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. Minute entry, 8 January 1986, U.S. v. Seal. See, transcript of>Seal's cross-examination, pp. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. As a result of that arrest, Barry Seal will "get with the program" and move his smuggling activities up to Mena Arkansas. >16. >25. It worked, Unglesby said. Weird Places, Odd Events, Bizarre News : 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 [4]>The conviction was overturned on appeal, but he lost his job with TWA. meeting at camp robinson with other people too. Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udh22kuLebgPlease support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- Noom: https://trynoom. Witnessed Allen Dorfman `Hit June 05, 1996. He attended Louisiana>State University for one year, but decided that he didn't need a college>degree to fly airplanes. They had worked steadily together, as DEA informants from the>spring of 1984 till February 1985. None of this is surprising in 2017. See, transcript of Seal's cross-examination in U.S. v. Saunders, et al. He died of three gunshot wounds. The DEA, long aware of his>drug-smuggling activities, had finally caught up with him in Florida, where>federal prosecutors had a field day. By Robert Morrow, The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. ", >Seal and his copilot, Emile Camp, who had also become a DEA informant in 1984>to avoid prosecution, flew to Grand Turk Island on 2 January 1985, in part to>arrange the sale of a Beechcraft 18 airplane to Leocadida Moreno. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. [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. >Edward Jay Epstein, writing in the Wall Street Journal in 1994, said the>increased level of activity at the Mena complex in 1984 led to its>investigation by certain individuals with the Arkansas State Police CID.>Special Agent Russell Welch was particularly interested in the increase in>cash transactions in local banks. barry plane crash near 4560 Essen Lane 1960 He was in Hospital for a week . He would work closely with the two agents in setting up a>sting operation involving the Medellin-based Ochoa cartel.[14]. >The Saunders case had enormous implications for the South American drug->trafficking trade. That news proved too enticing for President Reagan who was eager to wage an all-out war on the Sandinistas. 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. The Boland Amendment was one of those federal laws the>CIA held in particular disdain. The facts and circumstances leading up to Seal's death appear in the record as follows: Barry Seal was a pilot and drug smuggler for the Medellin Cartel, a Colombian cocaine . >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. The U.S. would conceal the transactions by selling the weapons first to Israel and then re-selling them at significant off the books markups to Irans Islamist government for use in its war with Iraq. Barry Seal's early life and family background. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. promote bull fights in New Orleans.Lunch Pat OBriens for Hour. He flew to Washington and met with two members of Vice President George Bushs Task Force on Drugs. As long as the Agency got any monies it was>entided to, some CIA agents involved in Centaur Rose were apparently not>concerned about the other things Seal transported from Latin America,>including cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. (jack ruby lived near Paul Dorffman Irwin Weiner chicago il ) Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Dave Yaras .9 >41. Have a suggestion for a story? [35]>According to Reed and Cummings, during this first meeting, Seal advised that>Iver Johnson's Arms, Inc., a New Jersey company that manufactured weapons and>weapons parts, had moved to Arkansas. Things became worse when a report in the Washington Times on July 17 . The author's oldest brother knew Seal>in high school. WEINER Yes. 39. New Orleans Times Picayune, 21 February 1986. 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. It is also documented>that at the time of his death in February 1986, Seal had several sizeable>accounts in BCCI-affiliated banks, including a branch of the Fuji Bank in the>Cayman Islands. [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. Another was through the little town of Mena, in western>Arkansas. 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. | 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? In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." Welch was an investigator for the Arkansas State>Police Criminal Investigations Division, taking part in Seal's prosecution in>federal court in Baton Rouge on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.>He attended one of Seal's depositions on 27 December 1985, and heard Seal make>these admissions.[9]. | 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. 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. Arthur>lived on South Caicos, where he ran a smuggling-related business. Lee Harvey Oswald friend David/Anna Lewis meet CharleSt Thompson Restaurant.Anna said Marina came in look for LHO. departure 13:00 route: Hammond La.1:00 K 7500 Direct Garland Texas. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>517-520. [13] In early 1984, months before the actual>indictment was handed down in Baton Rouge, Seal had realized that it was only>a matter of time before the death knell sounded on his $25 million-a-year>drug-trafficking operation. I am working long hours right now, but I will go overthis article and point out the flaws in a week or so. 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. >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. 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. 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. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. >2. 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. WEINER I have known him all my life. (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. The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. 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. "ABC News," in association with Kuhnhart Productions, put together a>documentary a few years ago entitled "The Informers," about federally>protected witnesses. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. By Robert Morrow, Pingback: The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? >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. American Made: Directed by Doug Liman. Late 1982 - Barry Seal makes deal with DEA and CIA and increases his smuggling operations at Mena. The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. in trial Lee Odom said.He doesnt have no idea why box number is in LHO notebook. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. 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. 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. 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. regarding Seal's criminal>activities, telling the court that the charges in the indictment were based on>solid evidence. 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 White House restricts military gear NATO Jade Helm 15 Stockholm Syndrome 1984 sample explaining the purpose of war Rand Paul v. Patriot Act Corbett 9/11 a conspiracy theory 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 . 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]. He was never able to testify against William Jefferson>Blythe Clinton either. >Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported in the 9 October 1994 London Sunday Telegraph>that the diary of former Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch>contained the following entry on 4 June 1985: "[An agent from the DEA]>informed me in strictest confidence that it was believed, within his>department, that Barry Seal is [sic] flying weapons to Central and South>America. He met Clay Shaw through Andy Anderson manager Roosevelt >When Seal returned to the Turks and Caicos in February, he initially met with>Smith. Individuals who wanted to>help the Contras would allow big-ticket items like boats, helicopters, small>planes, and sport/utility vehicles to mysteriously disappear. In 1964, Seal went to work for TWA and became their youngest 707 captain and later their youngest 747 captain. Mena is the small town in Arkansas where Barry Seal, who was born in Baton Rouge, conducted operations. The DEA was>doing the same. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. Your email address will not be published. "He never had a lesson on a helicopter, he just took one up one>day after watching a few times.". Letter of 19 November 1985, prepared by U.S. Attorney Stanford 0.>Bardwell, on file of record in U.S. v. Seal, Crim. Salvation army halfway house 7361 Airline Highway, BatonRouge. (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 . 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. Barry Seal was an American-born Trans World Airlines pilot who . The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. 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 secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. >40. Seal then made a series of drug-smuggling>flights, all with DEA approval. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. With Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons. Through a prearranged agreement, the insured property owner would>file a loss claim, be paid by his insurance carrier (so his only loss was of>the item, not its value), and the insurance carrier would then get the benefit>of certain "tax breaks" which allegedly increased the "net income for the>losing insurance company" due to increased underwriting losses. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . [8] Micah Morrison,>writing in the 18 October 1994 edition of the Wall Street Journal, says Seal>actually began operating out of the Mena (Arkansas) Intermountain Regional>Airport in 1981. He said the money had been brought back from Tegucigalpa. "Barry" Seal was shot to death with machine gun fire in the parking lot of a Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. >11. Before long, Seal was importing up to a thousand pounds of cocaine a month. Despite several such transactions, it would take years to obtain freedom for all the prisoners. He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. This was in direct violation of a 1984 law banning such aid. >47. He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot . Escobar Hitmen cross over border from Mexico and who leak [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. [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. 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. Staff Report. See, Title 26 U.S. Code, chapter 53, section 5845(b). > 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. It isn't>every day that one of the top five drug smugglers in the country turns>informant. >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. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. >However, another federal law, the Boland Amendment, came into play where the>Contras were concerned. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. 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. He was a gunrunner to Cuba, and a veteran of the Bay of Pigs. 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. A>secondary purpose was to avoid U.S. Customs scrutiny. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. >Now officially known as Confidential Informant No. "[48] At the time, he was>in custody in Spain, fighting extradition to Florida. The buyer, it turned out, was a federal agent. Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in San Jose The Mercury News in 1996. no. >Polozola's order also contained certain "special conditions." 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. >5. Later Reed moved to Mexico setup company. Thats not likely. Seals lifeand deathwould seem a perfect fit for Hollywood. 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. 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. >13. 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 . 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. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 108. He was married three times throughout his life. The Crimes of Mena. WEINER Yes. That was what the white>supremacist cult, CSA, was doing in Arkansas in the early to-mid-1980s. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the . (barry Seal Friends James Poche-David Holmes-John Odom.) Bustamonte was also associated with the Ochoa family of the infamous>Medellin drug cartel. 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. Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. No,wonder why militias hate our govt. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally .

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