Date: Sun Nov 12, 1995 2:22 pm CST From: snet l EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snet-l@world.std.com TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Clinton body count - summary -- Area : AEN CHAT -----------------------------------------( M-BOARD.FR2 )---- Msg# 21534 Loc Date: 11-04-95 07:46 From: William Kuehne Read: No Replied: No To: All Mark: Subj: Bill Clinton's death count ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following excerpts are from copyrighted material and are posted here without permission. My comments in [brackets]. Begin excerpts: [text omitted] With the release of this report, I may be the #1 target of a group of very short-tempered gentlemen who have thus far dispatched [at least] 21 people who were an embarrassment to their friend Bill Clinton. All of the 21 knew a bit too much about Whitewater or Troopergate or Cattlegate or some other Clinton scandal. In some ways, I know more than they did. I spent 20 years in Arkansas, and I personally knew Clinton, Jim Blair, Vince Foster, Jim McDougal, David Hale, Don Tyson, Governor Tucker, and dozens more of that bunch. Some of the dead probably died by accident. But it's silly to pretend they all did. For example: Victim 1: On September 26, 1993, Luther "Jerry" Parks enjoyed a nice dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Little Rock. On the way home, his car was forced to a stop and he was mowed down by unfriendlies with nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistols. [text omitted] Jerry was the owner of American Contract Services, which supplied the guards for Clinton's presidential campaign and transition headquarters (Clinton still owed him $81,000) so he knew a lot about Clinton's comings and goings. As a matter of fact, Jerry had quietly been compiling a major study of Clinton's sexual affairs for about six years. Not quietly enough though. Shortly before his demise, his home was broken into and the study's backup files - filled with photos and names - were stolen, according to his widow, Jane, after the security alarm was skillfully cut. [text omitted] After a long investigation, Little Rock police detective Sergeant Clyde Steelman gave his character endorsement, "The Parks family aren't lying to you." Victim 2: You must understand the central fact about the Whitewater Development Corporation: It was not the main crime. Whitewater was only a pretext set up by Jim McDougal and the Clintons to milk millions of dollars from the SBA [Small Business Administration], banks, Arkansas Development Finance Authority [ADFA], and Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC] people eventually figured out that their investigation of Madison wasn't getting anywhere because it was based in Kansas City, where Clinton's people stymied it. So Jon Parnell Walker, a Senior Investigation Specialist in the RTC's Washington [D.C.] office, began a campaign to get the case moved to DC. Soon after, Jon was looking over a possible new apartment in Lincoln Towers in Arlington, Virginia, when reportedly he suddenly decided to climb over the balcony railing and jump. Victim 3: You remember the name Danny Ferguson. He is the Arkansas patrolman who once said he brought Paula Jones to Bill Clinton's hotel room. Kathy, 38, his wife at the time, blabbed a lot about such things. She often told friends and coworkers about how Bill had gotten Danny to bring women to him and stand watch while they had sex. [text omitted] Kathy told people that Bill was really mad when Paula Jones wouldn't "put out." Bill hates to be refused. On May 10 [year?], Kathy was found dead with a pistol in her hand. A suicide, the police said. [text omitted] Footnote to story: About three weeks later, Danny reversed his story, saying he didn't lead Paula to Clinton's room after all. Second footnote: Bill Shelton, Kathy's new boyfriend since her separation from Danny, was loudly critical of the suicide story and complained to many people about it. Bill was found dead on June 9. They're calling this a suicide, too. Victim 4: Vincent Foster, who was Clinton's counsel for Whitewater, was the highest government official to meet an untimely death since the Kennedys. He could have killed himself on July 20, 1993, Robert Fiske, Clinton's "independent" counsel claimed. But it's rather doubtful. The story line concocted by Fiske has about 20 major holes in it, which partly explains his replacement by Kenneth Starr. [This section was to long to type!] Victim 5 & 6: Then you have the small-plane crashes, which are fairly easy events to stage. [text omitted] [...] C. Victor Raiser II, the former finance co-chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign, and his son, Montgomery. Their plane crashed in good weather near Anchorage, Alaska, on July 30, 1992. Victim 7: Herschel Friday was another member of Raiser's committee and a heck of a nice guy. His plane dropped out of sight and exploded as he approached his own private landing strip in Arkansas in a light drizzle on March 1, 1994. Herschel was a top-notch pilot and his strip is better than those in most cities. [...] Victim 8: Just two days later, Dr. Ronald Rogers, a very vocal dentist from Royal, Arkansas, was on his way to reveal some dirt on Clinton to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a reporter from the London Sunday Telegraph, when his twin-engine Cessna crashed with a full tank of gas in clear weather south of Lawton, Oklahoma. [text omitted] Victim 9: [...Barry Seal's] story is so exciting that Hollywood made it into a movie, 'Double-Crossed' [...] Barry made about $50 million as a pilot and plane supplier in Clinton's incredibly elaborate and successful drug-running operation out of Mena, Arkansas. [text omitted] Barry Seal was eventually arrested by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. To get off the hook, he turned state's evidence and fingered several big drug dealers. He even managed to take clandestine photographs of major Colombian and Panamanian figures, one of which President Reagan showed proudly in a nationwide TV speech. But in the end, the DEA betrayed the flamboyant Barry by allowing him to be sentenced to a halfway house, where a few days later he was a sitting duck for three Colombian avengers with Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns with silencers. [This section was to long to type!] Victim 10 & 11: Kevin Ives and Don Henry, two Bryant, Arkansas, teenagers, apparently were a bit too snoopy about the air drops of dope and cash they had observed in the nearby countryside at night (part of the Mena operation). They were found on the morning of August 23, 1987, having been run over by a train. "They fell asleep on the tracks," according to state medical examiner Fahmy Malak, a Clinton appointee [...] ( [...] Malak once declared that a decapitated man had died of "natural causes," a ruling Clinton defended as a mere symptom of overwork.) Malak's opinion caused a big ruckus locally. Eventually, the boy's irate parents managed to get a second coroner's opinion, and the official causes of death were changed to being stabbed in the back and getting a crushed skull before the train came. At this point... Victims 12 - 17: ...six local people came forward independently, each claiming to have some special knowledge about the deaths of the boys on the track. All were slain before their testimony could do any good. Police involvement is suspected in most cases, but not all: Keith Coney had been slashed in the neck and was fleeing for his life when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck. "A traffic fatality," police said. Gregory Collins was found shot in the face by a shotgun. Keith McKaskle was brutally stabbed at home 113 times. He knew he was doomed, and had told his friends and family goodbye. The burned body of Jeff Rhodes was found in the city dump, shot in the head and with his hands, feet, and head partly cut off. Richard Winters was killed by a man with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. Jordon Ketelson died of a shotgun blast to the head and was found in the driveway of a house in Garland County. "A suicide," the sheriff said. Do you see a pattern here? All in all, after ten years of Mena operations, not one arrest was ever made [...] Victim 18: Danny Casolaro was a reporter who was investigating the connections between Mena, BCCI, Iran-Contra, Reagan's "October Surprise," Park-o-Meter Co. (which made dope-storage nose cones for the airplanes at Mena), and the ADFA (Clinton's billion-dollar state bonds racket). [...] On August 10, 1991, just as he was about to receive information linking Iran-Contra to the Inslaw scandal, Danny was found with his wrists slit in the bathtub of a hotel room in West Virginia. What a coincidence. Victim 19: Paul Wilcher, a Washington D.C. lawyer, was deeply investigating Mena and other scandals. He was scheduled for a meeting with Danny Casolaro's former attorney, but on June 22, 1993, was found dead in his apartment, sitting on his toilet. (The bathroom killer strikes again?) Victim 20: Ed Willey, the manager of Clinton's presidential campaign finance committee [...] supposedly shot himself on November 30, 1993. Victim 21: John A. Wilson, a [...] city councilman in Washington D.C., knew a lot about Clinton's dirty tricks. [...] on May 19, 1993, he just decided to hang himself [...] [text omitted] Footnote: I hereby serve notice that I am not depressed in the least, and that if anything happens to me, I publicly accuse Bill Clinton and his circle of power. End excerpts. By Nicholas A. Guarino Editor The Wall Street Underground 1129 East Cliff Road Burnsville, Minnesota 55337 ... Warning: The author of this message has Patriot's Disease --- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.12 [NR] * Origin: Gun Control=Criminals & Gestapo vs. the Unarmed. (1:231/110.0) Date: Mon Nov 20, 1995 11:24 pm CST From: snet l EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snet-l@world.std.com TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: (fwd) BBC Video Tape on Mena Xref: linex1 alt.conspiracy:144762 alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater:20768 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:301591 alt.politics:3295 alt.politics.clinton:212621 alt.politics.usa:6949 alt.politics.usa.constitution:49965 talk.politics.misc:437313 Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater, alt.conspiracy,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.politics.usa.constitution, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton,talk.politics.misc Path: linex1!pagesat.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!newstand.syr.edu! newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com! howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!rivero From: rivero@netcom.com (Michael Rivero) Subject: BBC Video Tape on Mena Message-ID: Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 17:42:31 GMT Lines: 92 Sender: rivero@netcom13.netcom.com Status: N >> >>Try reading the British press and watching British news documentaries, >>and you'll see exactly how derelict the American press and >>electronic media have become. >> > > That's true. While I was down in Australia, everyone was talking about the >British 20/20 program on Mena. I was not able to see it myself, but from the >second hand reports it must have been a very thorough expose. > > I guess that, like "The Atomic Cafe", this is another forign documentary >that will never be shown in our "free" society. Hey, I was wrong! The show IS available here in the United States. The following is offered for informational purposes only. I am not affiliated with the Washington Weekly (although I am a fan), and share no commercial interest in this video tape (but my money is on the way as I type this). ------------------------------------------------------ "The Cocaine Connection" "Reveals a trail of guns, cash and cocaine leading to the front door of the White House" This is the story that American TV should have told, but didn't. This is a scandal that Congress should have exposed, but wouldn't. 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Sussman EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: djsussma@jupiter.acs.oakland.edu TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Re: "The Cocaine Connection": BANNED IN THE USA Question: Has the ownership of the program changed recently? i.e. did Carlton just buy the rights and want to stop all distribution or did Carlton ALWAYS hold the rights and just now decide for reasons not given, to stop the distribution in the US? It is my impression that Carlton is the same firm that negotiated the deal to distribute the tape in the US and now wants to stop the deal. If this is the case then it would appear that Carlton is afraid of reprisals from unfriendlies. If Carlton bought the rights and NOW wants to suppress distribution, then we have a different animal altogether. I worry when I am told all about something by people who have not seen it, and when I cannot see something that was produced to be shown to a wide audience because it offends someone politically or is otherwise an expose of criminal wrongdoing. DS On 25 Nov 1995, John Q. Public wrote: > found at http://dolphin.gulf.net/tape.html > > > BRITISH MENA TAPE BANNED IN THE USA > > The British Mena tape that the Washington Weekly started offering to > subscribers last week, has been banned for wider distribution in the > USA. > > The Washington Weekly originally received a master tape from the > producer of the documentary, who had no objections to distribution of > the tape. > > For unexplained reasons, however, the owner of the rights to the program, > Carlton Television Limited, has refused to negotiate wider distribution > in the U.S. under any circumstances. Carlton Television did not respond > to questions from Washington Weekly asking whether they had been subject > to political pressure to prevent distribution in the U.S. > > Reliable sources have told the Washington Weekly that U.S. Senator Bob > Dole has asked the London Telegraph to curtail its investigation into > the Mena scandal. > > All orders received before the cease and desist demand from Carlton have > been filled. The Washington Weekly is considering further actions in > this matter. > > > Date: Mon Nov 27, 1995 8:35 pm CST From: David J. Sussman EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: djsussma@jupiter.acs.oakland.edu TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Repost: The lights are going out all over this land (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 27 NOV 1995 04:09:02 GMT From: Martin Anderson Newgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater Subject: Repost: The lights are going out all over this land The November 27 Washington Weekly has foreboding news. The long arm of the Clinton's has reached across the Atlantic to prevent the American distribution of the British 20-20 television documentary on the Mena Scandal. Also, there is information that the internet has come under control of SAIC, a CIA contractor. Editor Marvin Lee has now learned that the matters of greatest interest to SAIC, in his publication, are the Mena scandal and the Inslaw scandal. These, with the Foster death, are the tripod of the Horrors that now stand at the moral foundation of this Administration. Beyond this, Marvin Lee also discloses Republican Senator Robert Dole's ongoing involvement in the Mena coverup. Forget Whitewater, Robert Dole's creature, Senator D'Amato has, by deliberate intention, reduced that to a niggling bore. All this is evidence of the continuing coup that has been rolling across America since the Clinton inaugural. Already, this administration holds the commanding heights of the media; Federal law enforcement, police, intelligence, and regulation; and now has the leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties well in hand. What is next as the lights go out all across this land? Martin >INVESTIGATING MENA > > House Banking Chairman James Leach, in a memo to his committee's >members, has suggested that his low-key Whitewater investigation may lead >to hearings on a high-profile issue: allegations of money laundering and >drug smuggling at Mena Airport in southwestern Arkansas. > Leach disclosed that investigators are probing "whether businesses >based at, or operating through, the Mena Airport engaged in systematic >money laundering." They also are exploring, he said, whether the source of >laundered money was convicted drug smuggler Barry Seal during the time he >said he was working for the Central Intelligence Agency. > Published accounts for years have linked wrongdoing at Mena to the >then-governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. But Leach's memo did not mention >Clinton and asserted "the Mena-related allegations involve possible >improper conduct spanning several federal administrations." > Date: Sun Dec 10, 1995 9:58 am CST From: David J. Sussman EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: djsussma@jupiter.acs.oakland.edu TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Clinton,Bush & CIA question & answer (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 7 DEC 1995 20:35:56 GMT From: Robert Lee Sitler Newgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater Subject: Clinton,Bush & CIA question & answer Hello everyone. I have Bob Harris's email address now: 75720.2644@compuserve.com Bob Harris is a lecturer and investigator of government abuse. He helped produce the CD "Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination". He has actually been to the Mena airfield, and dug into the facts surrounding Clinton, Foster, etc... I emailed him the following question. Have you read Clinton, Bush & CIA by Terry Reed? And if so, do you have anything to add? Following is his response. Hi Rob. Actually, I haven't spent a lot of time on the Mena airport story. It's apparently just one of many bases used to ship nasty stuff, and unfortunately a lot of political folks have used it to distract attention from the far bettet-documented involvement of Bush's NSC in similar shipments through Homestead AFB in Florida, John Hull's farm in Costa Rica, and even apparently a strip of land way out in the Texas hill country owned by one of Bush's closest friends. But to listen to some of the folks who tout that book, the governor of Arkansas somehow caused our nation's drug problem, which is nuts. Anybody with integrity should call it down the middle, not exploit the activities of somebody in one party for political gain. Which isn't to say that's what Reed's doing-- I have his book, and it looks like he's a pretty straight-up guy--but when I look at how folks like Jerry Falwell have used him to imply that the Clintonistas are major smugglers and then turn around and support Ollie North for the Senate--well, that's just repellent. I've been to Mena, by the way. Gave me the willies. The airstrip really is way the bloody hell too big for that little town. Something's definitely up. Clinton's dirty as hell, no doubt--the commodities stuff was a payoff from Tyson, for example--so, sure, what Terry Reed says could have happened. Just keep in mind that the problem is structural, it's integral to both parties, and so if we want to put an end to it, the answer isn't be electing religious fundamentalists but by enacting campaign finance reform, so neither party can be bought and sold the way the both currently are. Long answer to as short question. Hope it made sense. Bob Date: Fri Sep 08, 1995 9:43 pm CST From: Duane Roberts EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: eaou669@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Re: Molehills and Mountains - some news On 4 Sep 1995, Edward W. Zehr wrote: > Although there is considerable evidence that the CIA routinely financed > covert operations with drug money, that does not appear to have been done > in the Contra supply operation. The amount of aid being given the Contras > was actually quite modest compared to the profits Seal was making on his > drug-running operation. The irony of it is, had drug profits been used to > finance this operation, instead of involving other countries, especially > Iran, the spooks running the show would probably have gotten clean away > with it, given the unwillingness of politicians in both parties to > investigate drug-related covert operations. If as you claim in the preceding paragraph that drug profits weren't used to finance the Nicaraguan Contras, then why did the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations headed by Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) generate roughly fifteen hundred pages of documentation proving that in fact this was the case? And why did Senator Kerry write the following conclusions in a report that was released to the public on April 13, 1989 if there was no evidence to make these claims? There are many other things I could post from this report, but I think this will do for now. ----------------------------------------------------------- DRUGS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND FOREIGN POLICY: A REPORT ----------------------------------------------------------- Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. December 1988. ----------------------------------------------------------- Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., April 13, 1989. ----------------------------------------------------------- GOV DOC # Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.100-165. ----------------------------------------------------------- From pages 36 and 37. NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND THE CONTRAS I. INTRODUCTION The initial Committee investigation into the international drug trade, which began in April, 1986, focused on allegations that Senator John F. Kerry had received of illegal gun-running and narcotics trafficking associated with the Contra war against Nicaragua. As the Committee proceeded with its investigation, significant information began surfacing concerning the operations of international narcotics traffickers, particularly relating to the Colombian-based cocaine cartels. As a result, the decision was made to incorporate the Contra-related allegation into a broader investigation concerning the relationship between foreign policy, narcotics trafficking, and law enforcement. While the contra/drug question was not the primary focus of the investigation, the Subcommittee uncovered considerable evidence relating to the Contra network which substantiated many of the initial allegations laid out before the Committee in the Spring of 1986. On the basis of this evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter. The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included: - Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement. - Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations through business relationships with Contra organizations. - Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers, including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers. - Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies. These activities were carried out in connection with Contra activities in both Costa Rica and Honduras. The Subcommittee found that the links that were forged between the Contras and the drug traffickers were primarily pragmatic, rather than ideological. The drug traffickers, who had significant financial and material resources, needed the cover of legitimate activity for their criminal enterprises. A trafficker like George Morales hoped to have his drug indictment dropped in return for his financial and material support of the Contras. Others, in the words of Marcos Aguado, Eden Pastora's air force chief: ... took advantage of the anti-communist sentiment which existed in Central America ... and they undoubtedly used it for drug trafficking. While for some Contras, it was a matter of survival, for the traffickers it was just another business deal to promote and protect their own operations.... From page 136. COVERT ACTIVITY ISSUES 5. The war in Central America contributed to weakening an already inadequate law enforcement capability which was exploited easily by a variety of mercenaries, pilots and cartel members involved in drug smuggling. In several cases, drug smugglers were hired by Contra organizations to move Contra supplies. In addition, individual contras accepted weapons, money and equipment from drug smugglers. The Subcommittee did not find evidence that the Contra leadership participated directly in narcotics smuggling in support of their war against the Sandinistas, although the largest Contra organization the FDN, did move Contra funds through a narcotics trafficking enterprise and money laundering operation. There was, moreover, substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of individual Contras, pilots who flew supplies, mercenaries who worked for the Contras, and Contra supporters throughout the region. There is also evidence on the record that U.S. officials involved in assisting the Contras knew that drug smugglers were exploiting the clandestine infrastructure established to support the war and that Contras were receiving assistance derived from drug trafficking. Instead of reporting these individuals to the appropriate law enforcement agencies, it appears that some officials may have turned a blind eye to these activities. Sincerely, Duane J. Roberts eaou669@ea.oac.uci.edu Undergraduate Student Criminology, Law, and Society School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine Date: Fri Sep 08, 1995 9:47 pm CST From: Duane Roberts EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: eaou669@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Re: Mena & mainstream media On 5 Sep 1995, Edward W. Zehr wrote: > North mentions in his book *Under Fire* that Seal was used in a sting > operation against the Sandinistas, who were trafficking in drugs at > that time. A well-known article that ran in the monthly Texas Observer > quoted a DEA agent as saying that drugs were being smuggled into the > country from El Salvador. Several newspapers embellished the story, > saying that North had been aware of the drug trafficking. The Washington > Post checked into the story and concluded that the DEA agent had NOT said > that North knew about the operation. If *The Washington Post* ran an article claiming that this DEA agent "had NOT said that North knew about" what was going on at Ilopango airport in El Salvador, then *The Post* was disseminating misleading and inaccurate information about this matter (as usual). The agent you happen to be referring to is a gentleman by the name of Celerino Castillo III. Mr. Castillo was the Drug Enforcement Administration's top man in El Salvador in the early 80s. Last year, Mr. Castillo publically accused Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and other government officials of collaborating with drug traffickers at Ilopango airport in El Salvador to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. in return for using a portion of the profits to buy weapons and supplies for the Contras. Mr. Castillo gave numerous interviews to this effect. The following is a transcript of one of several interviews conducted with him that I have in my possession (I also have a copy of the book he has written about his experiences). [It should be noted that that the C-123/C-130 cargo planes flying in-and-out of the Intermountain Regional Airport in Mena, Arkansas frequently travelled to Ilopango.] ----- Interview: Celerino Castillo ALL NORTH'S PILOTS RAN DRUGS, SAYS FORMER DEA AGENT Celerino Castillo, who was the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) top agent in El Salvador during 1985-87, is the co-author, with David Harmon, of a new book, *Powder Burns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War* Interviewed by Edward Spannaus on Sept. 10, 1994. Spannaus: Mr. Castillo, before we get into the question of Oliver North, I'd like to ask you a little bit about your background. Could tell us what your employment with the DEA was? Castillo: Being born and reared in south Texas, we come from a family which is very patriotic. My father was a World War II hero who was shot six times in an ambush in the Philippines, and he is the recipient of the onze Star, and of course the Purple Heart, and so forth. I'm the only male in the family, and I could have been kept from going to Vietnam. But I did go to Vietnam; I'm a Vietnam veteran. I'm a recipient of the Bronze Star. Because of my combat experience, I decided to go into law enforcement. I saw a lot of my buddies shoot up heroin in Vietnam, and I decided when I got back I would get involved with the federal narcotics system. I went to school, got my degree in criminal justice, and was a police officer at the time I was going to school. I worked the midnight shift and went to school during the daytime. After that, I applied with the DEA, and was hired by the DEA in 1979. My first assignment with the DEA was in New York City. I turned out to be the first Mexican-American to work in New York City. I teamed up with another agent who was Italian, and we ended up conducting the investigation that ended up in one of the biggest heroin seizures in New York City of all time. After four years in New York City, I was assigned, because of my Vietnam experience, to conduct jungle operations in Peru. I did a lot of assaults on airstrips there, and air assaults on cocaine labs. We conducted an operation there called Operation Condor, which was the first time in history that the Peruvians and Colombians worked hand-in-hand in combatting narcotics trafficking. We ended up seizing a cocaine lab in Peru that was producing 100% hydrochloride cocaine. Spannaus: What year was this? Castillo: This was in 1984.... I was supposed to do a two-year tour there, but I ended up doing about a year and a quarter, because of my exposure to international stardom in Peru. There was a picture of me during the operation that was in every newspaper in South America. For security reasons, I left Peru and I was assigned to work in Guatemala. I arrived in Guatemala in October 1985, and of course that was the first time I was forewarned by the country attache, Bob Stia, about the Contras being involved in narcotics trafficking. Spannaus: What was Stia's position? Castillo: Robert Stia was the country attache, which involved two agents and himself. Two agents covered four countries, including Belize, Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras. Spannaus: What did you find out while you were there? Castillo: At the beginning, I was in charge. I was supposed to be the agent in charge of El Salvador, which means I was the DEA representation in that country. One of the things that we had in El Salvador was an informant who was in place at Ilopango airport. This informant was the one who did the flight plans for the Contras, and he had previously given reliable information to the U.S. Embassy in regards to some of the pilots who were involved in narcotics trafficking. We had another individual who had been a DEA informant since 1981, and he was also very politically involved with the Arena Party, which was the party of the far right, the party of Maj. [Roberto] D'Aubisson, [Napoleoan] Duarte, and [Alfredo] Cristiani. We had gathered intelligence, and we continued to start the investigation on it. Spannaus: What was going on at Ilopango? Castillo: We had pilots, who were being hired down in Central America, who were running supplies for the Contras and were also involved heavily in narcotics trafficking. When we finally got the names of all the pilots who were involved, we ran it through our computers, and it was revealed that every single one of them was documented as a narcotics trafficker. This was brought to the attention of the U.S. ambassador, Edwin Corr. He was advised of the investigation that we were conducting. His answer to me was the fact that it was a covert operation from the White House and Ollie North, and he advised me that I would be safer to stay away from that investigation, because I would be stepping on people's toes at the White House. Spannaus: What were these pilots doing? Castillo: They were flying narcotics into the United States. They were also flying monies--U.S. currency--into Panama, into the Bahamas, to launder money for the Contras. Spannaus: Were they also flying guns? Castillo: They were flying guns. They were flying supplies for the Contras, and they were also involved in narcotics trafficking. On Jan. 14, 1986, I met George Bush, then vice president, at a cocktail party in Guatemala City. It was at the U.S. ambassador's residence. He came up to me, and asked me what my job description was as a DEA agent in Guatemala. I told him that I was an agent conducting international narcotics investigations, and I told him that there was something funny going on with the Contras at Ilopango airport. As soon as I said that, he shook my hand, he smiled for the cameraman, and then he just walked away from me without saying a word. I knew then that he knew what I was talking about, about the Contras. Spannaus: Was there any doubt in your mind that he knew what you were talking about? Castillo: Not at all. I want to go on the record saying that on that same day, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm sure I'm not, I saw Oliver North in Guatemala City, and I definitely saw Calero, the leader of the Contras, at the same time in Guatemala City at the U.S. Embassy. Spannaus: This is Adolpho Calero? Castillo: Yes, sir. They were all there at the same time. Spannaus: Did you have any information as to what they were doing there? Castillo: They were meeting in the ``bubble,'' and the ``bubble'' means the CIA room up on the third floor, where they were discussing sensitive information. I knew Calero was there and [involved] in discussions about the Contras. That's just what I think was going on. Spannaus: Let me come back to this question of the pilots again. Who hired these pilots? Castillo: These pilots were being hired, according to the pilots and according to our informant, by Felix Rodriguez, who was running Hangars 4 and 5 of Ilopango. They were hired by the CIA, Oliver North's Contra operation, and so forth. Spannaus: What was Rodriguez's relation to George Bush and Bush's office? Castillo: They were very close friends, according to a lot of information we had received. What happened is that this investigation snowballed in early 1986, and I got a cable from the country attache in Costa Rica, advising me that they had received reliable information that there were Contra pilots flying out of Costa Rica into Ilopango into Hangars 4 and 5. It turned out Hangars 4 and 5 are owned and operated by the CIA and the National Security Council--which is Oliver North--and were run by Felix Rodriguez. When we contacted our informants in there, they just went ballistic, telling me that that is what they had been trying to tell everybody: that the Contras and the CIA and everybody else in Hangars 4 and 5 were heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. This informant himself saw, in one instance, $4.5 million in cash going from Ilopango into Panama. Secondly, he saw drugs. Thirdly, he would call us and let us know when a certain pilot was on his way to airdrop money into the Bahamas. One of his pilots was Chico Guirola, Francisco Guirola, a Contra pilot. This same individual, who had gone to the Bahamas on certain days, had also been arrested in 1985 in south Texas, with $5.5 million in cash. That was a Contra operation. He was deported and, if I'm not mistaken, that money was given back to him. Spannaus: What's the story on this fellow ``Brasher''? [In Castillo's book, Walter Grasheim is referred to as William Brasher.] Castillo: Mr. Walter ``Wally'' Grasheim was a civilian. He was a documented narcotics trafficker. When I approached everybody in the U.S. Embassy to find out who this individual was, they told me that he was working for the Oliver North Contra operation out of Hangars 4 and 5, and was the liaison officer between General Bustillo and Oliver North. I built a unit in El Salvador, an anti-narco-terrorist unit, and this individual was hit, his house was searched, by my unit in El Salvador. When it was searched, he happened to be in New York City at the time, and we found a lot of U.S. munitions, cases of grenades, cases of explosives--C4. Every explosive we could find was found at that residence, including sniper rifles, helicopter helmets, you name it. This guy was a civilian who was not supposed to have any of this stuff with him. Surprisingly, what we also found at his residence was that all his vehicles had U.S. Embassy license plates. We found radios belonging to the U.S. Embassy. We found weapons belonging to the U.S. Embassy. Spannaus: This is somebody who is a documented drug trafficker? Castillo: A documented drug trafficker and a civilian. He violated every Customs law there is, in the exportation and importation of those items into El Salvador. Spannaus: What happened? Was he prosecuted? Castillo: Well, no. We had a warrant for his arrest, if he was to come back. He found out.... Spannaus: When you obtained information about drug trafficking running out of Ilopango, what did you do with that information? Castillo: I wrote cables; I wrote DEA-6s; I wrote reports. I did everything I was supposed to do. Spannaus: Now these reports would go where--to DEA headquarters? Castillo: The DEA in Washington. Exactly. We've got to remember one other thing that a lot of people are not aware of. Every time I wrote a report, every time I sent a cable out, it had to be approved by the country attache and the U.S. ambassador. Those reports had to be approved, and they did not interfere with me sending those reports, because they knew that some day it was going to come back and bite them in the butt if they didn't do it. Spannaus: What was the response from headquarters to this? Castillo: I got no response in the beginning. None at all. For example, on June 19, 1986, the informant at Ilopango called and advised me that Chico Guirola had departed Ilopango to the Bahamas with large shipments of money--and he was the one documented in 11 DEA files, and he was the same one arrested with $5.5 million in cash. I have certain times and dates, to verify what they were doing. We're going to go back to 1986, in the Kerry Report, on July 26, 1986. The Kerry Report reported to Congress on Contra-related narcotics allegations. The State Department describes the ``Frogman'' case. The Frogman case was a case out of San Francisco. This case got its nickname from swimmers who brought cocaine ashore on the West Coast from a Colombian vessel. It focused on a major Colombian cocaine trafficker by the name of Alvaro Carvajal. He was the one that supplied a number of West Coast smugglers. It involved another Nicaraguan citizen by the name of Pereida, and two other Nicaraguans--Carlos Cabezas and Julio Zavala. Now, these guys testified before the Senate committee that the money they were smuggling, or profiting from the cocaine that was being smuggled into San Francisco, was going to the Contras. They testified to that. It's a funny thing and it's a small world: In 1991, I was conducting an undercover operation in San Francisco, and the wife of Carlos Cabezas delivered to me five kilos of cocaine. She was arrested. Carlos Cabezas came in, and advised me that he, and also Carvajal, was an informant for the FBI, going back to the Frogman case, and that we needed to release his wife. I said, ``I think I know you from somewhere.'' He went on and he discussed the Oliver North/Contra narcotics-trafficking operation in detail. Of course, a report was written on this all the way into 1991, in reference to Oliver North. He described everything else that he had done for Oliver North, running drugs for the Contras. Spannaus: Did he describe that Oliver North was personally involved in this? Castillo: He said that they all have personal contact with Oliver North. Oliver North has given them permission to do whatever they want. I have a recorded statement from the informant at Ilopango where he goes into detail, that every single pilot that was involved with the Oliver North/Contra operation gave Oliver North's name as having permission to run drugs freely. They all had credentials by the Salvadoran government and by the CIA so that they would not be searched. Spannaus: You have described that there is an awful lot of evidence against Oliver North. Oliver North says that he is ``the most investigated man on this planet.'' This is the response he gives whenever the question of his involvement in drugs comes up. What would you say about that? Castillo: Point one: He was not ever investigated on the narcotics matter, ever. He was investigated on everything else. If Oliver North had been investigated on narcotics trafficking, they would surely have contacted the agents down in Central America--which includes me--who conducted the investigation on him. In October 1986, 1987, I'm not sure what day it was, but I got a call from the DEA in Washington, not to close the case on the Contras, because the Kerry committee wanted access to my reports and the DEA had told them there were no reports. Maybe that's why they never contacted the agents down in Central America. But if somebody is going to do an investigation on the Contras, and there's a lot of implication of narcotics trafficking, they should have and would have contacted the agents in Salvador. Spannaus: You sound like you were continuously writing reports and sending information to Washington. Did you get any reaction? Did anybody indicate some interest in investigating this? Castillo: Finally, they decided to come down. What happened was the DEA sent a rookie intelligence analyst, and another guy from intelligence, and they came down to Salvador, and after debriefing two of the informants in the case, went back and reported that it was a couple of Contra pilots, but it was not organized. What happened was they had made up their minds what they were going to write, before they even got to Salvador. They just wanted to cover their butt.... In two days they were able to determine it was just a couple of pilots and not very organized. Of course, we found out later on from several testimonies from several of the pilots who had been testifying before the committees, that it was a very well-organized operation being run by Oliver North. Spannaus: Is there any way that those two agents could have arrived at that conclusion based on what you told them? Castillo: Oh, no. What happened was they {were} told, the people they interviewed were the Contra--the informant who worked at Ilopango. He told them exactly what he was reporting to me. It wasn't like, they knew right away, but they needed to say something, that this was happening. What happened then, the guy who was in charge of the Latin American desk for DEA, his name was John Martsh. And he is now, if I am not mistaken, the deputy administrator for the DEA; he just got promoted. This is the same individual who conspired to hide the truth about the Contras' involvement in trafficking. He came back to me and he suspended me for three days without pay, because I was ``too close to my informant.'' This informant, that ``I was too close to,'' was my {only} backup in El Salvador. He was an informant because he was the Salvadoran officer who ran the narcotics unit in El Salvador. He was the one that raided Mr. Grasheim's residence. To put pressure on me, they came back [saying] that the DEA manual says I cannot associate with an informant. The DEA does {not} give us backup. And that's what got Kiki Camarena killed in Mexico. That's what caught Victor Cortez in Guadalajara, Mexico, because the DEA would not furnish Hispanic backups on that investigation. The only person I could work with, and the only person that was given to me to work with, was this informant. Of course, we became friends. But DEA policy says you can't do that. Yet this guy was the adviser, DEA adviser to my narcotics unit that I built in El Salvador. This guy was not just an informant. He had credentials as a national police officer. Spannaus: Was this an unusual step for the DEA to take, to discipline you for that type of thing? Castillo: No. They just wanted me to stop. I had several calls. Mr. Martsh called me to stop reporting this information. Spannaus: He told you to stop reporting? Castillo: Yes. To stop reporting it. And if I was going to do any reporting, I should use the word ``alleged.'' I have a letter from him. Spannaus: Did you ever, in any other case, have a superior tell you to stop reporting? Castillo: Never. Never. I have a letter where he says I should use the word ``allege,'' and that my grammar was terrible. I'm going back. Every evaluation I've gotten has been an ``outstanding'' evaluation--up to then. Even then, even when I got suspended for three days, a month later, I was put in for a promotion. I had ``outstanding'' evaluations. It is just the fact that the pressure was being put on me to stop the investigation on the Contras. Spannaus: Were there other forms of pressure put on you also? Castillo: Yes, sir. I was ordered to travel to Salvador constantly, by land, by myself, through guerrilla country. It's like they were looking for me to get killed or something. I have proof, that I'll show later on, that they were trying to get me killed. Without any backup, they re having me go out undercover on the Salvadoran military corruption--weapons that were being seized from the guerrillas, they were selling to the cartels. They were sending me out there by myself, so I could get killed. Spannaus: You would attribute this to your involvement in the Contra operation? Castillo: With the Contra operation, exactly. I continued, I continued, and I continued to report this. We'll go back to where several people were starting to report this on the Contras. For example, on March 16, 1987, on a plane owned by a narcotics trafficker, U.S. Customs found an address book and the address and phone numbers were to Robert Owen, North's courier. We go back to the Kerry report in 1988: They confirm my allegation that there was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zone on the part of the individual Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and the Contra supporters throughout the region. Spannaus: Let's talk about the Kerry Committee report for a minute. When that report came out, it got very little attention, it seems. Why was that? Castillo: It got very little attention because there was no credibility on the part of the people who were testifying before the committees, because they were all smugglers, they were all Contra pilots that had been let out to dry, they were all criminals. So there was no credibility at all on them. But, they never, ever brought {me,} the agent in charge of El Salvador who conducted this investigation, to ever go before a committee. They never contacted the Guatemala office. Why? Spannaus: You say you were never contacted by the Kerry Committee? Castillo: Never contacted by the Kerry Committee in any way, shape, or form. I was never contacted by the FBI, which was trying to file the violations of the Neutrality Act out of Costa Rica on John Hull, on Oliver North, and all those people. {Never} did anybody contact the DEA [officers] in Central America who actually conducted the investigation. Spannaus: When the congressional committees were investigating the so-called Iran-Contra affair, they had the public hearings and a lot of private interviews and depositions. Did they ever contact you? Castillo: No, sir, not at all. And I was the agent in charge in El Salvador. I was the one who was reporting everything. Maybe they didn't want to hear the truth. Spannaus: What about the special prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh? Castillo: Let me tell you something about Lawrence Walsh. I had my attorney in San Francisco in 1991 contact Walsh's people to tell them that I had substantial evidence in regards to Oliver North getting involved in narcotics trafficking. The DEA did not, in any way, shape, or form, want for me to contact them. I went ahead and contacted them secretly. I had a covert meeting with FBI agent Mike Foster, at my attorney's office in San Francisco. He was shocked to find out that there was a lot of evidence that the Contras had been involved, that Oliver North had been involved, in the knowledge of the narcotics trafficking. When he asked who in the White House did I think knew about the Contras being involved in narcotics trafficking, I showed him a picture of George Bush and myself. His mouth dropped. He couldn't believe what I was tellihim. He said, ``Cele, if we can prove that the Contras and Oliver North were involved heavily in narcotics trafficking, it would be like a grand slam home run!'' Those are his words. Spannaus: Did you ever get any feedback from Foster or Walsh's office? Castillo: I called Mike Foster several times, and he kept telling me that he still hadn't gotten approval from Mr. Walsh to continue the investigation. That was the end of the investigation. They weren't about to open up another can of worms, because what happened was, everything was dropping, everything was going off. They were working on [Defense Secretary Caspar] Weinberger at the time.... They weren't interested in conducting a narcotics investigation. Spannaus: Have you looked at the final report issued by Lawrence Walsh? Castillo: Yes, sir. I have that. Nowhere in this whole report does it indicate that there is any narcotics investigation at all. Spannaus: There's no reference to narcotics? Castillo: No reference to any narcotics investigation. Oliver North is saying that he is the most investigated person--and if he is, then why isn't there anything in the Walsh report? Spannaus: In the course of your 12 years with the DEA, how many cases or prosecutions were you involved in, would you estimate? Castillo: Thousands of them. All over the country, all over the world. I was constantly having fugitives arrested.... I was an agent who was not scared to get involved. I lost my family because of that. I was just a workaholic; I believed in the system; I believed in the agency, and I believed that what was right is right, and what was wrong is wrong. And it didn't take me 20 years to try and figure this out. I found out after my six years that the DEA was corrupt--in the sense that there was a major coverup. We were losing agents because of political fights within Washington, and I decided to leave. And I negotiated my leave from the DEA. Spannaus: You say you're involved in thousands of prosecutions. So you're pretty familiar with what kind of evidence is needed to get a conviction in a drug case. Do you think that the evidence that you compiled concerning Oliver North would have been sufficient to get a conviction? Castillo: Absolutely. Absolutely, from the get-go. I kept waiting for the phones to ring. I kept waiting for someone to call me. ``We need you to testify before a committee. We need you to tell us what you have on Oliver North.'' Nobody. {The phone never rang}. There was enough evidence, especially on violation of the federal narcotics law, where if a U.S. official has knowledge that there's narcotics trafficking being conducted by somebody, and he does not report it, that's a violation of the law right there. We had the Contras; they were heavily, heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. Spannaus: What do you think about the idea of Oliver North becoming a U.S. senator? Castillo: Well, it's going to be the first felon, convicted felon, to become a U.S. senator. He should be in jail. He should be in jail. On his own words, he lied to Congress, he lied to everybody, he deceived, he's deceiving the American people right now. I think people do not know the real fact that he was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking--his organization was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. And he had {knowledge} that these people were involved in narcotics trafficking. Spannaus: That knowledge would be sufficient for him to have been convicted? Castillo: Absolutely. But nobody ever contacted me down in Central America. Now, why? Was there a conspiracy to protect him? Was there a conspiracy to protect the President of the United States, George Bush, or the vice president at the time? Apparently there was. All of these things happened. It's documented, it's in black and white, I have case file numbers where it can be obtained. The DEA refuses to release that information. The funny thing about it is: They're talking about Oliver North with the Contras. Well, there is a case file in 1991 that came out of Washington D.C., that implicates Oliver North. The file number is under Oliver North's name for smuggling weapons to the Philippines with known narcotics traffickers. Now, he's under the investigation by DEA and he's running for U.S. senator: Explain that one to me. Spannaus: And you believe this case is still open with the DEA? Castillo: Well, I don't know, maybe it is. Nobody can get access to it. Spannaus: Is there anything else you would want to tell the people of Virginia about Oliver North? Castillo: One of the things that Oliver North is stating, is that I am doing this because he is running for U.S. senator. But, the truth of the matter is that I have been trying to report this going back all the way to 1985-86, then in a memo in 1989, when I met with Walsh's people in 1991; there was a newspaper article that came out with this story in 1993, and in 1994 the Associated Press picked it up again. So it's a continuation of my attempt to educate U.S. citizens to the fact that Oliver North had knowledge that his operations were heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. Spannaus: Are you going to come to Virginia and tell your story to the people of Virginia? Castillo: Absolutely, I will go to Virginia. And the other thing I will say: I've never been paid 1 cent to tell my story. Never. When I found out that nobody was listening at the time to my story, I decided to write a book, a year ago. One of the other things I want to remind the Virginians, is that I kept a daily journal of everything I did with the DEA. That's why I'm able to put these stories together with times and dates and so forth. So everything was documented.... Even Jack Blum, the special counsel for Kerry Committee, resigned his post saying, ``I'm sick to death of the truth I cannot tell.'' So it's not me, there are other people out there who are saying the same thing. In the Kerry Report, it says there is impressive evidence on the record that U.S. officials who turned a blind eye to narcotics trafficking and opposed the investigation of foreign narcotics smuggling, must also bear the responsibility for what is happening in the streets of the United States today. And Oliver North should be responsible for that. Oliver North cannot stand there and say that nobody died of the narcotics that the Contras ran into the United States--which could be the ``Frogman'' case, or any other case. He cannot guarantee me that. [end of transcript] Sincerely, Duane J. Roberts eaou669@ea.oac.uci.edu Undergraduate Student Criminology, Law, and Society School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine Date: Sat Jan 06, 1996 8:29 pm CST From: snet l EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snet-l@world.std.com TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Mena case Clinton/Bush/CIA: Mena news ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From stephenh@netcom.com (stephenh) Organization NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date Sat, 16 Dec 1995 17:11:58 GMT Newsgroups alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.usa.congress,alt.politics.reform, alt.politics.org.cia,alt.politics.org.fbi,alt.politics.org.covert, dc.politics,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,rec.aviation.military, alt.impeach.clinton,alt.politics.democrats.d,alt.news-media,alt.journalism, alt.censorship,alt.society.foia Message-ID ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Article crossposted from alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater ] [ Author was John Q. Public ] [ Posted on 16 Dec 1995 15:58:44 GMT ] [ Original subject: Washington Weekly: Mena news from 12/11 issue ] with permission; not to be used for commercial purposes COUNTDOWN TO MENA TRIAL ARKANSAS ATTORNEY GENERAL SUBPOENAED IN MENA CASE The defense of Buddy Young in the Mena trial is handled by the Arkansas Attorney General's office. Criminal actions taken by the Attorney General Winston Bryant, however, have now made him a witness in the trial. "We have served a subpoena on Attorney General Winston Bryant who we have discovered was involved in obstruction of justice," says Robert Meloni, counsel to Terry Reed. "He had ordered the removal of all of the Mena files from his office in order to circumvent a FOIA request." "There's an affidavit that we just got from Bill Duncan.... he was ordered to purge the Attorney General's office of all files. There was also a demand for those files by Terry Reed in this case in February 1992. And at that point we had moved to compel the Attorney General's office to produce them and their response at that point was, we don't have them," Meloni said. "We have three people from the Arkansas State Police, in the criminal intelligence division, who we deposed this summer: Michelle Tudor, John Morrow, I forget the third one, who have testified that they were told to remove files and destroy files in the Mena case." "So we are trying to subpoena him [Winston Bryant], because we caught him in a lie. They are moving files around, you know, it's like a shell game with these Mena files. We are trying to depose him, we are going to make him a witness in our case" "Winston Bryant walked into a situation of obstruction and concealment, and he continued the pattern." The Attorney General's office has filed a motion to quash the subpoena. DEFENSE MOVES TO SUPPRESS CIA EVIDENCE The defense in the Reed Mena trial has filed a motion to suppress CIA evidence. "This motion is saying that the judge should exclude all evidence concerning CIA activities at Mena because we have been unable to establish a link between Buddy Young and all of those activities, even if those activities were true," says Robert Meloni, counsel to Terry Reed. "Why the motion doesn't make any sense is because we never had to establish any link because we haven't had the trial yet. That's what you do at a trial. And we do have a link, but this is not the time and place to establish it." "I think they are just doing it so they can get it in the paper," Meloni explains. "It appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette two days later. Nobody called me up to ask my opinion about it. They just put it in, I think just polluting the jury pool with this garbage." "I am almost certain the judge is going to deny it," Meloni told the Washington Weekly. Trial is scheduled for January 16, but Reed's legal team has moved for another continuance. "We are getting stonewalled by a few federal agencies, the FBI, the Department of Justice, they are moving to quash a number of subpoenas." BARRY SEAL'S "FAT LADY" FOUND IN FLORIDA! Barry Seal's C-123 cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus being the only survivor, right? Wrong! It has long been suspected that Barry Seal had two identical C-123 cargo planes, and now Terry Reed has located the remaining one outside a museum near Titusville, Florida. "We have been able to trace the registration history directly back to Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame." Terry Reed told Chuck Harder of For the People Radio Network. "So we have good, solid linkage now between the Iran Contra scandal and Barry Seal's [gun running and drug smuggling] operation," Reed said. Reed received a tip about the airplane after he had appeared on a talk radio program. A mechanic who had worked on the plane told Reed where he could find it and said that it was bearing Honduran registration. "We subpoenaed the FAA's records out of Oklahoma City, showing the correspondence between the FAA and one of Richard Secord's executive officers through a company called Corporate Air Services," Reed said. STARR SAYS HE WON'T TOUCH MENA In a speech to the Century City Bar Association in Los Angeles Wednesday November 29, Kenneth Starr responded to a question whether Whitewater had anything to do with the airport at Mena, Arkansas. "The answer is, the scope of our investigation, the subject matter of our investigation, does not run to any activity which has been reported in the press, or alleged activity reported in the press, with respect to possible illegal activities in various administrations at the now legendary Mena airport." In the past year, questions asked by Starr's people of witnesses with knowledge of Mena have led these witnesses to conclude that Starr was interested in the affair. Copyright (c) 1995 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) Date: Mon Jan 15, 1996 12:24 pm CST From: snet l EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snet-l@world.std.com TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Mena (fwd) >>Spin control? The following paragraph was printed on the front page of the Friday, November 24, 1995 issue of *The Wall Street Journal* in the Washington Wire column: MENA PROBE: House Banking Chairman Leach sends colleagues a letter on |plans to investigate allegations of drug smuggling and money laundering at the Mena, Ark., airport during the 1980s. Leach says he will also examine "whether past government reviews and investigations associated with Mena Airport were handled properly." The following excerpt is from a newspaper article written by columnist Robert D. Novak that was published in the Sunday, December 3, 1995 issue of *The Chicago Sun-Times* on page 43: House Banking Chairman James Leach, in a memo to his committee's members, has suggested that his low-key Whitewater investigation may lead to hearings on a high-profile issue: allegations of money laundering and drug smuggling at Mena Airport in southwestern Arkansas. Leach disclosed that investigators are probing "whether businesses based at, or operating through, the Mena Airport engaged in systematic money laundering." They also are exploring, he said, whether the source of laundered money was convicted drug smuggler Barry Seal during the time he said he was working for the Central Intelligence Agency. Published accounts for years have linked wrongdoing at Mena to the then-governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. But Leach's memo did not mention Clinton and asserted "the Mena-related allegations involve possible improper conduct spanning several federal administrations." The following paragraph was published on the front page of the Friday, December 29, 1995 issue of *The Wall Street Journal* in the Washington Wire column: The House is investigating alleged drug smuggling and money laundering at Mena Airport in Arkansas. Congressional investigators already have met with officials from the intelligence community, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. To date, they have turned up nothing to indicate Clinton was associated with any wrongdoing at the remote airport. Sincerely, Duane J. Roberts eaou669@ea.oac.uci.edu Undergraduate Student Criminology, Law, and Society School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine Date: Tue Jan 23, 1996 10:42 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 06 The following is brought to you thanks, in part, to the kind assistance of CyberNews and the fine folks at Cornell University. Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 06 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- HOUSE PANEL TAKES A LOOK AT MENA ================================ By Rowan Scarborough (Washington Times National Weekly Edition, Jan. 22-28, 1996) The House banking committee is investigating suspicions of criminal activities at Arkansas' Mena Airport, trying to separate fact from fiction in a list of accusations about drug dealing, gun running and government cover-ups during the 1980s. The inquiry is a spinoff of the panel's extensive Whitewater probe, during which Arkansas sources repeatedly urged congressional staffers to explore dealings said to have occurred at the municipal airport while Bill Clinton was governor and Ronald Reagan was president. Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa Republican and chairman of the committee, agreed in November. He issued a memo to committee members saying staffers would try to determine whether money from Barry Seal, a drug dealer, was laundered by businesses in and near the secluded airport in the Ouachita Mountains 130 miles southwest of Little Rock. The memo outlining Mr. Leach's intentions was disclosed by Insight magazine in its Jan. 29 issue. Mr. Leach's task is daunting, considering the breadth of the rumors buzzing around Seal, a convicted cocaine dealer and flamboyant aviator. Seal will be no help in sifting the truth. Columbian drug kings had him slain near his home in Baton Rouge, La., in 1986 after he became a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant. "This is one of the most complex, tangled tales that we've come across ever," says a committee investigator and Whitewater watcher. "Our objective is to investigate this, and to either prove or disprove the allegations that are floating around Mena. The chairman sees as much virtue in laying these rumors to rest as in exposing a scandal." It has been alleged that Seal used Mena as a base to ferry cocaine, launder money and supply the Nicaraguan Contras -- all while working for the DEA, the Reagan White House and the CIA. A banking committee staffer said Jan. 17 that at this point the panel's inquiry is confined to one issue. "This is a money- laundering investigation," the aide said. "It may lead into other things. We have no interest in replowing old Iran-Contra ground." The laundering was uncovered by an Internal Revenue Service official, William Duncan, and an Arkansas state policeman, Russell Welch. They believe there is enough evidence to bring charges against Seal's associates but claim they were stymied by federal authorities who wanted to keep a lid on clandestine activities at Mena. The House panel has requested documents from the IRS, the CIA and the DEA but has not yet chosen to subpoena witnesses, the aide said Jan. 17. Investigators have interviewed Mr. Duncan, Mr. Welch and Bill Alexander, a former Democratic congressman from Arkansas who has sought a federal inquiry for years, beginning when he was a member of the House. "I feel that the people of Arkansas and the people of the nation deserve to know the facts about the illegal drug trafficking and blatant money laundering that took place at Mena, Ark., during the 1980s," said Mr. Alexander, who practices law now in McLean, Va. and in Jonesboro, Ark. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation." ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like "Conspiracy Nation" sent to your e-mail address, send a message in the form "subscribe cn-l My Name" to listproc@cornell.edu (Note: that is "CN-L" *not* "CN-1") ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to receive the new Conspiracy Nation Newsletter, send an e-mail message to bigred@shout.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know more about Whitewater, Oklahoma City bombing, etc? (1) telnet prairienet.org (2) logon as "visitor" (3) go citcom ----------------------------------------------------------------- See also: http://www.europa.com/~johnlf/cn.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- See also: ftp.shout.net pub/users/bigred ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) MENA: The Testimony of William C. Duncan (7/24/91) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:11:51 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA alt.politics.reform:75611 alt.politics.usa.congress:38674 talk.politics.libertarian:102445 talk.politics.misc:478108 Path: world!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu! csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!taurus.oac.uci.edu! eaou669 From: Duane Roberts s.libertarian,talk.politics.misc Subject: MENA: The Testimony of William C. Duncan (7/24/91) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:09:34 -0800 Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 331 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: taurus.oac.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ----------------------------------------------------------- CONTINUED INVESTIGATION OF SENIOR-LEVEL EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT AND MISMANAGEMENT AT THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE: ----------------------------------------------------------- Hearing before the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 24, 1991. ----------------------------------------------------------- Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1992. ----------------------------------------------------------- GOV DOC # Y 4.G 74/7:Em 7/16 ----------------------------------------------------------- The following excerpts are from pages 64-73, 85-86. Congressman Doug Barnard, Jr. (D-Georgia) was Chairman of the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee in 1991. Mr. BARNARD. Thank you very much. Our next panel consists of Mr. William C. Duncan, a former IRS senior Criminal Investigation employee, and Mr. N. Paul Whitmore, group manager of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. Gentlemen, we appreciate you again being with us today for this important hearing. We will include your entire testimony, without objection, in the record and would like for your statements, if possible, to be summarized. Thank you again for being with us. We will first hear from Mr. Duncan. Incidently, I want to congratulate you. I understand that you are now gainfully employed again. Mr. DUNCAN. I finally got a job; yes, sir. Mr. BARNARD. Chief investigator of the Arkansas attorney general's office. I am glad that you are now employed. Mr. DUNCAN. Thank you, sir. Would it be better if I just responded to questions from the panel because it takes about 20 to 25 minutes for me to read this? Mr. BARNARD. Could you just sort of summarize to begin with? We have some questions for you and Mr. Whitmore, but couldn't you just sort of summarize what your statement includes? Mr. DUNCAN. This was my summary. Mr. BARNARD. A 20-page summary. STATEMENT OF WILLIAM C. DUNCAN, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR, OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF ARKANSAS Mr. DUNCAN. No, sir. It is about 9 pages. I can just say that Mr. Whitmore and I have testified truthfully about the events that occurred in connection with my testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime and m briefing process. We have provided documentation pertaining to our trips here. We have testified on several occasions, and we volunteered for and submitted to polygraph exams which we passed. And we also cooperated with Treasury IG in their extensive investigation. I don't know what more we can do. Mr. BARNARD. Well, we have some questions that we will direct to you. [The prepared statement of Mr. Duncan follows] TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM C. DUNCAN BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER, AND MONETARY AFFAIRS HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JULY 24, 1991 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Since my testimony before you on July 27, 1989, I have cooperated completely with investigators from the U. S. Treasury, Inspector General's Office and Government Accounting Office in an attempt to deal with the integrity problems and criminal acts of IRS Chief Counsel Attorneys. To my knowledge, not one of the IRS Attorneys has been punished, additional IRS Executives apparently have provided false, misleading or incomplete testimony to Treasury IG Investigators, and the conspiracy to cover up the illegal acts continues. The system now in place for investigating Senior Level IRS integrity problems has not worked. My prior testimony before you related to instructions given to me by IRS Chief Counsel Attorneys concerning my testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime on February 26, 1988, about criminal investigations in which I participated while assigned as an IRS Special Agent to the Fayetteville, AR Post-of-Duty. These joint investigations were initiated because of information which we received during 1983 and 1984 concerning the Barry Seal smuggling organization's move from Louisiana to the Mena, AR Airport. By the end of 1987, it was apparent that thousands of law enforcement manhours and an enormous amount of evidence of drug smuggling, aiding and abetting drug smugglers, conspiracy, perjury, money laundering and illegal modifications to smuggling aircraft had gone to waste. Not only were no indictments ever returned on any of the individuals under investigation for their role in the Mena Operation, there was a complete breakdown in the judicial system. The United States Attorney, Western Judicial District of Arkansas, assured us that there were no national security or other issues involved which would impede investigation and prosecution of criminal violations in Arkansas, however, he refused to issue subpoenas for critical witnesses, interfered in the investigations, apparently mislead grand juries about evidence and availability of witnesses, refused to allow investigators to present evidence to the grand jury, and in general made a mockery of the entire investigative and judicial process. The Subcommittee on Crime, through media reports, became aware of public concern over lack of indictments and requested my testimony. As you are aware from our testimony and statements made to your investigators by Hayden Gregory, Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on Crime, if I had followed the directives of [deleted] and [deleted], I would have completely mislead the Subcommittee about the problems which we encountered in the investigations, and ultimately would have perjured myself in connection with an allegation about a bribe from Barry Seal to a high ranking Department of Justice official. The intense IRS Disclosure Litigation process which we described was purely and simply designed to impede the Congress of the United States in their investigation of issues which impact on the very heart of our judicial system, and ultimately the security of this country. Why did this happen? What could have been important enough for the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury to join hands in an effort which resulted in such interference? Perhaps there are answers. Evidence gathered during the last year and a half indicates that during the period 1984 through 1986, the Mena, AR Airport was an important hub/waypoint for transshipment of drugs, weapons and Central American "Contra" and Panamanian Defense Force personnel who were receiving covert training in a variety of specialties in the Nella Community, located ten miles north of the Mena, AR Airport. The evidence details a bizarre mixture of drug smuggling, gun running, money laundering and covert operations by Barry Seal, his associates, and both employees and contract operatives of the United States Intelligence Services. The testimony reveals a scheme whereby massive amounts of cocaine were smuggled into the State of Arkansas, and profits were partially used to fund covert operations. Two witnesses testified that one of the Western District of Arkansas Assistant U. S. Attorneys told them that the U. S. Attorney's Office received a call to shut down the investigations involving Seal and his associates. Is this the reason why the IRS went to such great lengths to cause me to withhold information from Congress? I don't know. It is obvious that their interference had little to with 6103 or 6E information. There had to be another reason. Something so important, that it would cause IRS Attorneys to deny even the meeting during which the subornation of the perjury occurred. I have been asked to comment on the Treasury Inspector General's Office Investigation into this matter. After reviewing unredacted portions of the investigative report, I can tell you that it contains many inaccuracies and it should be the subject of intense review by this subcommittee. The conclusions exhibited in the report allow criminal violations to go unpunished, and provide fertile ground for similar violations in the future.... When this subcommittee formally requested my testimony, the pressures from [deleted], and my immediate supervisor [deleted] increased dramatically. [deleted] told me not to even call the Little Rock, AR District Office to inquire as to the location of case files concerning the Mena Investigations. I was not allowed to either inquire about the files or return to Little Rock in time to review the files for information relating to my contacts with the Disclosure Litigation Attorneys.... It is ironic that the Internal Revenue Service promotes use of polygraph examinations in conduct of criminal investigations of American taxpayers because they, along with most other investigative and intelligence agencies, know that polygraph is an excellent investigative tool for determination of the truthfulness of witnesses. Paul Whitmore and I volunteered for, and submitted to, polygraph examinations administered by the United States Secret Service, because we were eager, as we told Commissioner Goldberg, to prove the truthfulness of our testimony. I again challenge [names deleted] and any other Internal Revenue Service personnel who dispute our testimony, to take a polygraph so that the truth can be displayed and this matter put finally to rest. Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman, it is unlikely that any of the IRS executives and attorneys who were involved in this matter will ever take polygraph examinations, and they will probably never admit to their deception. They know full well that they do not have to submit to polygraph, and that they have protection within their powerful circle of co-conspirators who have distorted the truth so many times on behalf of this organization that they now comfortably perceive the truth to be whatever the Internal Revenue Service tells them it is. Loyalty is an important and valued asset. But never, ever, should loyalty be justification for perjury. History is filled with tragedies resulting from deception and crimes in the name of loyalty, patriotism and national security. It seems that most of America keeps their hands over their eyes, even when it comes to evidence of U.S. Government involvement in drug smuggling and IRS corruption that erodes voluntary taxpayer compliance, and ultimately, the very fiscal foundation of this country. With the exception of a few in depth articles by publications such as the Boston Phoenix, even the media has refused to demand answers. Please do not allow this matter to remain unresolved. The personal cost? The loss of an unblemished federal law enforcement career and my retirement; emotional and financial trauma beyond description; my portrayal by IRS Management as someone who turned their back on their organization, in other words, a traitor; inability to obtain other federal law enforcement employment because of perceptions that I am a "whistleblower" and because the Internal Revenue Service withheld my closing evaluation for over eighteen months.... I am thankful for the Attorney General of the State of Arkansas who viewed my refusal to perjure myself as a quality which he wanted in his administration. Otherwise, I might still be unable to find employment as a criminal investigator. Unfortunately, reprisal against me for truthful testimony and cooperation with congress continues. The U. S. Attorney in Western, Arkansas has sent word on two occasions that his office will not handle any Medicaid Fraud cases for the State of Arkansas as long as I am on staff with the Medicaid Fraud Division. In other words, he is willing to allow Medicaid Fraud, which affects healthcare of the poor and elderly, to go unchecked in the entire western half of the State of Arkansas, in order to sabotage my first full-time employment in nineteen months. His actions have caused us to have to take all of our criminal cases to the Eastern Judicial District U. S. Attorney, placing an unfair workload on both he and his staff. How is it that IRS and Department of Justice Attorneys continue this type of action with no perception of risk. Why are we powerless to stop it? The Attorney General of the United States should directly intervene with [deleted] to stop retaliation against me. Mr. Goldberg should take charge and begin to deal with integrity problems at the top of his organization. He should also, very quickly arrive at a solution in order to fully restore my Federal Law Enforcement career, with full benefits and compensation for the effects of IRS corruption on me and my family. He should gladly provide Mr. Whitmore and his family full compensation for any losses which they have incurred, and allow him to effectively continue to progress in his management career. People who cooperate with truthful testimony should be promoted, not demoted. We have fulfilled our responsibilities to the Internal Revenue Service and Congress under extreme duress. If the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Attorney General refuse to fulfill the responsibilities of their jobs, they should be replaced with someone who will. What can be done to protect IRS Whistleblowers? The first thing you can do it make sure that whistleblowers are given the guidance and emotional support which they are going to need to get through some very tough times. We were totally unprepared for the emotional trauma of dealing with an enemy which we really didn't understand. How many IRS Employees know that IRS Attorneys are not there to protect them individually, but are there to protect the IRS Organization? There is no Attorney-Client relationship between an employee and an IRS Disclosure Litigation Attorney. The employee will not even be able to obtain the briefing records prepared by the attorney. Yet I was told repeatedly that I had to use the assigned Disclosure Litigation Attorney, that I had no choice. Finally, you can insure, that complaints about retaliation are promptly addressed, and that action is taken to intercede, and provide immediate relief to the extent possible. People are not going to willingly expose themselves and their families to economic and emotional peril, without some assurance that there will be real support from Congress. During a portion of the past three years I found myself filled with feelings of rage, disgust and helplessness as I discovered that I was powerless to deal with managers within IRS who perceived me as a troublemaker, and even a traitor, because I insisted on telling the truth. I believe that I exhibited the ultimate in loyalty to the Internal Revenue Service. I did not begin dealing with anyone outside my organization until I felt that I had exhausted all avenues within the organization. I sought guidance from each of my supervisors, who, until I became involved with this subcommittee, did nothing but encourage me to go back and go through the same horrifying process again. I feel now that I have done all that I can do. I despise the corruption that I have witnessed first hand, but I have had to displace my anger toward the people who participated in it. I am in the process of trying to reconstruct some semblance of life and security for my family. It is my sincere hope that others within the Internal Revenue Service will read the transcripts of the hearings conducted by this subcommittee and learn from them. Mr. BARNARD. As we begin our interrogation of these two gentlemen, I want to thank both of you for coming to the subcommittee to tell your story. I think that your testimony in the past has helped us mold an IRS of the future that will certainly not tolerate situations like the ones that you have experienced, and hopefully ill prevent any retaliation against whistleblowers in the future. Mr. Duncan, if IRS had given you more latitude in your Justice Department testimony in 1988, would you still be an IRS employee today? Mr. DUNCAN. I am certain that I would. Mr. BARNARD. Why do you believe that? Mr. DUNCAN. I thought I had the greatest job in the Internal Revenue Service. I thoroughly enjoyed my work, and I enjoyed the coworkers. Mr. BARNARD. Where do you think that your investigation would have led? Mr. DUNCAN. Well at the time I testified before the Subcommittee on Crime, we had just touched the tip of the iceberg, in my opinion. Since then we have received additional testimony that there were a lot more things going on, there was a lot more money that was being laundered. All I wanted to do was to be able to respond truthfully and answer questions completely before the Subcommittee on Crime. Mr. BARNARD. What has happened to that investigation since you left it? Mr. DUNCAN. The IRS investigation? To my knowledge, it has been closed. Mr. BARNARD. What about the Justice Department? Mr. DUNCAN. The statutes of limitations have expired on the cases and, to my knowledge, nothing else will be done. Mr. BARNARD. Mr. Duncan, do you believe that the information on the $350,000 bribe to a high-level Justice official was valid? Mr. DUNCAN. That is not a determination for me to make. I can only communicate that the law enforcement officer who received that information told me on numerous occasions that the informant that provided the information had provided in the past nothing but good information. Mr. BARNARD. Had he ever been tested, as far as a lie detector test is concerned? Mr. DUNCAN. I am not aware of that. Mr. BARNARD. Mr. Duncan, why do you believe that [deleted] and [deleted] requested that you not offer this information to the Justice Subcommittee? Mr. DUNCAN. I have asked myself that question thousands of times. Based on the information we have received in the last year and a half it appears that things were going on at that airport that could have been related to the Contra resupply, I don't know. I perceive that they wanted to protect the Internal Revenue Service from anything controversial. Mr. BARNARD. What has happened in that particular case since you left, to your knowledge? Mr. DUNCAN. Information is still coming in, additional witnesses are testifying, and we are gathering information right now. Mr. BARNARD. Are you associated with that case now as an investigator for the Arkansas attorney general? Mr. DUNCAN. I receive information and pass it along to the attorney general, and also to Congressman Alexander. From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) MENA: Letter from the Arkansas Governor's Office (8/12/91) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:12:30 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA alt.politics.reform:75539 alt.politics.usa.congress:38600 talk.politics.libertarian:102336 talk.politics.misc:477874 Path: world!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu! csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!rigel.oac.uci.edu! eaou669 From: Duane Roberts s.libertarian,talk.politics.misc Subject: MENA: Letter from the Arkansas Governor's Office (8/12/91) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:56:15 -0800 Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 54 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.oac.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ------------------------------------------------------- The following text is from a photocopy of a letter that was originally sent to Mark Swaney, then-President of the Arkansas Committee, a student organization that was investigating Mena, by Robert J. DeGostin, Jr., Office of the Governor, State of Arkansas, on August 12, 1991. ------------------------------------------------------- STATE OF ARKANSAS OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Bill Clinton State Capitol Governor Little Rock 72201 August 12, 1991 Mr. Mark Swaney, President Arkansas Committee Arkansas Union Room 517 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 Dear Mr. Swaney: Thank you for your recent letter to Governor Clinton regarding your desire to have a state grand jury investigate possible criminal activity in the Mena, Arkansas area. The Governor has asked me to respond on his behalf. It is my understanding that Attorney General Bryant and Rep. Bill Alexander have brought this matter to the attention of Lawrence Walsh's Office in Washington, D.C. It appears to me that a meeting with Attorney General Bryant, rather than Governor Clinton, would be more appropriate at this time. The Governor appreciates your bringing this matter to his attention. Sincerely, R O B E R T J . D E G O S T I N , J R . Robert J. DeGostin, Jr. Senior Advisor on Criminal Justice RJD: prn From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) MENA: Letter to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (1/26/89) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:12:38 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA alt.politics.reform:75609 alt.politics.usa.congress:38671 talk.politics.libertarian:102441 talk.politics.misc:478105 Path: world!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net! usc!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu! taurus.oac.uci.edu!eaou669 From: Duane Roberts s.libertarian,talk.politics.misc Subject: MENA: Letter to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (1/26/89) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:08:04 -0800 Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 86 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: taurus.oac.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -------------------------------------------------- The following text is from a photocopy of a letter that was originally sent to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton by Arkansas Congressman William Alexander on January 26, 1989. -------------------------------------------------- BILL ALEXANDER, M.C. 233 CANNON HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING ARKANSAS WASHINGTON, DC 20515 (202) 225-4078 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES January 26, 1989 Gov. Bill Clinton State Capitol Little Rock, Arkansas Dear Bill: The investigation into alleged drugs and gun smuggling at Mena airport can be cleared up by a local grand jury that will require state funds. Deputy Prosecutor Charles Black of Mt. Ida, the state police and congressional investigators are interested in convening such a grand jury, which is probably the only way that the matter will be resolved and laid to rest once and for all. Black estimates that about $25,000 will be required, because witnesses will have to be brought in from out of state. This figure cannot be paid for out of local resources. Black knows of witnesses who will testify that planes loaded with guns went to Central America and returned loaded with drugs. Certain DEA agents have stated that the late convicted smuggler Barry Seal was flying weapons to Central America in violation of U.S. foreign policy and in return, the federal government secretly allowed Seal to smuggle drugs back into the United States. Congressman Bill Hughes' Subcommittee on Crime has learned independently that at the time Seal was working on the famous Nicaraguan "sting" operation for the DEA and the CIA in 1984, he was still running drugs. Sources in Mena indicate that smuggling activities at Mena continued after Seal's murder in 1986 and are still continuing. My involvement in the case stems from two sources: I initiated a General Accounting Office investigation into drug trafficking from Latin America to the United States, and secondly, because of my position as the senior ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee that handles Justice Department funding. Prosecutor Black, State Police Investigator Russell Welch, and others who have been involved in the investigation have done an exemplary job, but they have been frustrated by the failure of some federal officials to proceed with the case. The only way to get the matter cleared up is to convene the local grand jury. Otherwise it will continue to fester and be a thorn in the side of local, state and congressional resources. I hope you will grant Mr. Black's request for funding in this matter. With kindest regards, I am. Sincerely, BILL ALEXANDER Member of Congress From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) CIA Cocaine: Sunday Telegraph 7/17/94 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:14:14 -0500 Organization: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA alt.politics.usa.republican:225184 alt.president.clinton:83946 Path: world!uunet!in2.uu.net!interaccess!d108.loop.interaccess.com!lar+jen From: lar+jen@interaccess.com (Larry + Jennie) . Subject: CIA Cocaine: Sunday Telegraph 7/17/94 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:15:55 -0600 Organization: InterAccess,Chicagoland's Full Service Internet Provider Lines: 231 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: d108.loop.interaccess.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] This is a truly disgusting article. It alleges that Bill Clinton had a taste for marijuana, cocaine and young women. One of the sources for this report comes from files kept by former Clinton security man, Luther Parks. Parks was gunned down in Little Rock. No one has ever been arrested for his 1993 murder. Larry ____________ "Cocaine and toga parties: Clinton stands accused" By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (London) July 17, 1994 (Copyright 1994 ) The Telegraph plc, London) When Bill Clinton was asked during the Presidential election campaign whether he had ever used drugs, he gave one of his carefully crafted, lawyerly answers. Yes, he had smoked two or three "joints" of marijuana at Oxford, but had never inhaled. And he insisted that he had never violated a drug law within the borders of the US. Now new evidence is emerging that Mr. Clinton may have been more than a casual user of marijuana. A variety of witnesses interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph at the President's former Arkansas haunts claim his drug habit stretched well into his political career. The pattern alleged by these witnesses goes far beyond questions of inappropriate personal conduct. At the time Mr Clinton was either Attorney-General or Governor of Arkansas. He was part of the law-enforcement machinery that gave stiff prison sentences to drug felons. And if the President once had a major drug habit, when did it end? 1986? 1990? 1994? Perhaps the most compelling allegations revolve around Roger Clinton - rock musician, perennial ne'er-do-well, and the President's younger brother. In summer 1984 Roger spent two months as a non-paying guest at Vantage Point, an upmarket apartment complex in Little Rock. At the time big-brother Bill was in his second term as Governor. Roger's rooms were in the corporate suite, number B107, which was separated from the administrative offices by a thin partition. On the other side of the wall was Jane Parks, manager of the complex. Until now Mrs Parks, 41, had remained stubbornly silent about what she saw and heard while Roger was at Vantage Point. But following the mysterious murder of her husband Jerry last year, and the failure of the Little Rock Police Department to solve the crime, she has decided to speak out. She is in the advanced stages of multiple sclerosis and she feels she no longer has anything to lose. During the time she worked next to Roger's apartment, she could hear the conversations in B107 very clearly. Governor Clinton was a frequent visitor. There was drug use at these gatherings, she claims, and she could clearly distinguish Bill's voice as he chatted with his brother about the quality of the marijuana they were smoking. She said she could also hear them talking about the cocaine as they passed it back and forth. When Roger finally moved out, Mrs Parks found drug paraphernalia left in the kitchen drawer, and cocaine spilt on the furniture. It was not uncommon during the brothers' alleged drug-taking sessions in the apartment for them to be joined by young women. Apart from sharing the drugs, the women on occasion had sex with both the Clinton men, she alleges. "What really concerned me were the young girls going in and out of there," Mrs Parks said. Other tenants in the complex frequently complained to the management about the rowdy scenes in B107. Mrs Parks's testimony is backed up by another resident of Vantage Point, who wishes to remain anonymous. She told me that she saw the Governor enter the apartment on at least three occasions. She also heard some of the activity going on inside while visiting Mrs Parks's office, and backed up claims of drug parties. "Bill had his girlfriends in there," she said. "You could hear them through the walls. Some of them looked like very young girls to me." Mrs Parks relayed her concerns to her husband, Jerry, a former police officer who was then branch manager of a private security firm in Little Rock. He also occasionally worked as a private detective. Fearing difficulties for his wife in her capacity as the building manager, he decided to conduct his own discreet surveillance of Roger's apartment, writing down names, dates, and detailed accounts of who was coming and going. He kept his handwritten notes in a file, which was stored in a dresser in their bedroom. After Roger Clinton moved out of the complex, Mr Parks gave up his inquiries. By a quirk of fate, in 1992 Mr Parks, who by then had set up his own firm, was awarded the security contract for the Clinton-Gore Presidential campaign headquarters in Little Rock. According to records at Mr Parks's firm, American Contract Services, he was not paid immediately. In early 1993 he made repeated calls to the White House demanding payment. The money finally came in July. Just a few days later the secret file was stolen from the Parks's dresser in a sophisticated burglary. The telephone wires were cut to disable the house's high-tech alarm system, and the file was the only item taken. Shortly after the burglary, Mr Parks received two telephone calls which, Mrs Parks said, left him in a state of paranoia. "He was popping my valium. He took a pistol with him everywhere, even to collect the post from the end of the driveway," she said. Two months later he was shot several times at short range at a suburban intersection outside Little Rock. A police source in Arkansas said that Mr Parks had made duplicates of the secret file and entrusted them to people in Little Rock. One set has been passed on to a federal law enforcement agency. The contents, he said, supported Mrs Parks's account. Her allegations would be outlandish if it were not for her reputation for straightforwardness and Christian devoutness. Even diehard enemies of her husband say they have never known her fabricate stories. Her description of Roger Clinton's lifestyle is also consistent with a police drug investigation in the mid-1980s in which Roger and his former boss, Dan Lasater, for whom he worked as a chauffeur and in his racehorse business, were both convicted on federal charges of distributing cocaine. Several women testified in secret to a federal grand jury that they were offered free cocaine by Mr Lasater as a way of seducing them. The youngest was only sixteen, a student at North Little Rock High School. She told me that she also met Governor Clinton several times at Mr Lasater's parties. Before his conviction in 1986, Mr Lasater, who had a variety of business interests, was a close associate of Bill Clinton and a major contributor to his campaign funds. A military subcontractor, another witness interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph who wished to remain anonymous, alleges that he watched Bill Clinton smoking a marijuana joint at a party given by Mr Lasater in 1984. The subcontractor says cocaine use was rampant at the party, although he did not see Bill Clinton partake. "I was smoking a cigar and every time I tried to find an ashtray the damn thing was full of cocaine," he said. "I was afraid to breathe." A former friend of Bill Clinton's has also told The Sunday Telegraph that on one occasion he produced a bag of cocaine in her living room and prepared a "line" on the table. This accusation is made by Sally Perdue, a former radio talk-show hostess in Little Rock, who told The Sunday Telegraph exclusively earlier this year that she had had an affair with Bill Clinton when he was Governor. Referring to the cocaine incident, she said: "He had all the equipment laid out, like a real pro." Ms. Perdue alleges that he came to her house about a dozen times in late 1983, a claim that is broadly confirmed by Arkansas State Trooper L. D. Brown. He smoked marijuana regularly, she claimed, pulling joints ready-made out of a cigarette case. Typically, he would smoke two or three in the course of a three-hour stay, she said, and he always inhaled. There was no indication that it greatly affected his judgment or behaviour. These claims suggest marijuana use may have been a feature of his life throughout his twenties and thirties. A one-time reporter for student newspaper The Daily Texan - he is now a prominent national journalist - says that he saw Mr Clinton smoking a joint in Austin in 1972 at the headquarters of George McGovern's Texas campaign. "Nobody thought anything of it at the time. We were all doing it," he said. Drug use within Clinton's political circle in Arkansas was blatant during his first Governorship from 1978 to 1980. "I can remember going into the Governor's conference room once and it reeked of marijuana," said Democratic State Representative Jack McCoy, a Clinton supporter. As late as 1986 Clinton was still smoking marijuana, according to Terry Reed, a former intelligence operative based in Arkansas who recently published a book about Mr Clinton's involvement in efforts to resupply the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s. Finally there is Sharlene Wilson. The 39-year-old Ms Wilson was interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph at the women's prison in Tucker, Arkansas. Her testimony must be treated with caution as she is serving a 31-year sentence for minor drug dealing. Despite it being her first drug conviction, Ms Wilson received a long sentence for selling half an ounce of marijuana and $60-worth of methamphetamine. She now claims she was set up to discredit testimony that might prove damaging to Bill Clinton and senior Arkansas officials. The FBI is investigating the possibility that she is the victim of an abuse of judicial power. Ms. Wilson says she came to know the Governor when she was a friend of his brother in the late 1970s. For a time she was a bartender at Le Bistro nightclub in Little Rock, where Roger used to play with his band Dealers' Choice, and was known as the "lady with the white snow". The Governor would come by frequently to listen to the band and would often snort cocaine, she alleges. On one occasion in 1979, she says, she sold two grammes of cocaine to Roger, who immediately gave some to his elder brother. Ms. Wilson also claimed to have attended toga parties at the Coachman's Inn outside Little Rock where she saw Governor Clinton using cocaine. Guests at these parties would wear sheets and share sexual partners. Ms. Wilson tried to break away from drugs in the late 1980s and began helping federal and state agencies. Gary Martin, an officer with the Drug Enforcement Agency in Little Rock, said she proved very reliable: "I have no reason to doubt her word." In December 1990 she testified as a star witness to a federal grand jury, held in secret, about her knowledge of cocaine use by Bill Clinton and others. This testimony, for a task force investigating drug involvement by Arkansas public officials, will remain secret forever. According to Jean Duffey, who headed the drug task force, within days the investigation was in effect closed down. Ms Wilson was subsequently entrapped. "Sharlene was my best informant," says Jean Duffey, who says she herself was hounded out of her job for being too diligent. She now lives at a secret location in Texas. "They couldn't silence her so they locked her up in jail and threw away the key. That's Arkansas for you." ************************************************************************* These sites are filled with facts about CIA covert operations how they work against the best interests of the citizens of the United States. David Feustel's great archive on CIA cocaine smuggling: http://www.mixi.net/~feustel/ Lisa Pease's Real History Archives: http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/ Bob Parry's The Consortium is filled with important investigative reporting that the mainstream media won't touch: http://www.delve.com/consort.html Whitewater & Vince Foster site: http://www.cris.com/~dwheeler/n/whitewater/whitewater-index.html Covert Action Quarterly home page: http://www.worldmedia.com/caq/ Federation of American Scientists' library of U.S. intelligence documents http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/ ************************************************************************* From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) MENA: Letter to Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:10:32 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA alt.politics.reform:75534 alt.politics.usa.congress:38592 talk.politics.libertarian:102331 talk.politics.misc:477855 Path: world!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net! usc!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu! aldebaran.oac.uci.edu!eaou669 From: Duane Roberts s.libertarian,talk.politics.misc Subject: MENA: Letter to Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:49:04 -0800 Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 67 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: aldebaran.oac.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -------------------------------------------------- The following text is from a photocopy of a letter that was orginally sent to Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh by Arkansas Attorney General Winston Bryant on May 30, 1991. -------------------------------------------------- OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 200 Tower Building WINSTON BRYANT 323 Center Street ATTORNEY GENERAL LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 (501) 682-2007 May 30, 1991 Mr. Lawrence Walsh Office of Independent Council Suite 701 555 13th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 Dear Mr. Walsh: I am forwarding petitions to you bearing the signatures of more than 1,000 citizens, mostly Arkansans, who are calling for an investigation into the activities of the late Berriman "Barry" Seal in regards to an airport in Mena, Arkansas, which Seal and his associates allegedly used as a drug smuggling depot during the early to mid 1980's. Their specific concern, as well as my own, is to learn why no one was prosecuted in Arkansas despite a mountain of evidence that Seal was using Arkansas as his principal staging area during the years 1982 through 1985. Because your office touched on these matters during the Iran-Contra investigation, I, along with Congressman Bill Alexander of Arkansas and a number of my fellow Arkansans, ask that you direct your continuing investigation towards the events which occurred at the Mena, Arkansas airport. The people of Arkansas need, and deserve, a final and full accounting of this matter, and it is our hope that the Office of Independent Council can provide one. My office, as well as Congressman Alexander's, stands ready to assist in any manner that we can. Sincerely, W I N S T O N B R Y A N T WINSTON BRYANT Attorney General WB:djh Enclosures From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) More Terry Reed Lawsuit Judicial Stonewalling Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:24:09 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Xref: world alt.conspiracy:177867 alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater:42422 alt.journalism:46893 alt.politics.corruption.mena:190 alt.radio.talk:10624 misc.legal:163901 Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater,alt.conspiracy,alt.journalism, alt.radio.talk,alt.politics.corruption.mena,misc.legal,us.legal Path: world!uunet!in2.uu.net!news-feed.iguide.com!imci2! news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com! howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!feustel From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) Subject: More Terry Reed Lawsuit Judicial Stonewalling Message-ID: Organization: DAFCO X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:04:04 GMT Lines: 63 Sender: feustel@netcom18.netcom.com U.S. District Judge George Howard has in his latest (March 8th) ruling on the Terry Reed lawsuit stated that Terry may bring any and all evidence to the lawsuit *except* that which pertains to the charges Terry makes in the lawsuit (my interpretation). Text of the order follows: ========================================================================= IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS WESTERN DIVISION TERRY K. REED, ET AL. PLAINTIFFS v. Civil No. LR-C-94-634 RAYMOND YOUNG, ET AL. DEFENDENTS ORDER Pending before the Court is defendants' [Raymond (Buddy) Young and Tommy L. Baker] December 4th motion in limine to exclude the following matters:...These general areas will be referred to as the "Mena" evidence or Documents. ......Even if the Court were to find that the complaint adequately states sufficient facts to make the allegations.....relevant to the alleged overt actions of these defendants, the probative value is substantially outweighed by the dangers of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, the potential for misleading of the jury and considerations of undue delay and waste of time. The following description will control: [may not be introduced into evidence or made part of the court record] Any reference to the plaintiffs' [Terry and Janis Reed] participation in programs, operations or missions sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investgation or the Central Intelligence Agency or any other agency of the United States government, covert or otherwise, as well as any organization sponsored by or aligned with teh United States government specifically including, but not limited to, any programs, operations or missions conducted in southwest Arkansas regaring the training of Nicaraguan nationls, the funding and support for any factions involved in the Nicaraguan conflict and any contact or communications with opeatives or officials of the above-named agencies or organizations. Any reference to President or Governor Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton and the Mena or Nella Airports. Any references to Barry Seale [sic] and any alleged drug smuggling operation or other references to the Mena and Nella Airports, or to a business relationship of Barry Seale [sic] and Dan Lasater, Lasater and Company and the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority (ADFA) and ADFA's former Director, Bob Nash. .....IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 8TH day of March, 1996 ==================================================================== I think under the terms of this order even the text of Reed's lawsuit cannot not be introduced as evidence. Judge Howard is also the judge for the Whitewater case that allowed President Clinton to testify on video tape. -- feustel@netcom.com Dave Feustel N9MYI For PGP Public Key, finger feustel@netcom.com Fort Wayne, IN Or else access http://www.mixi.net/~feustel/ 219-483-1857 From: snet@world.std.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (fwd) Clinton Pal Dan Lasater & the Mena-Related Laundry Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:49:04 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Xref: world alt.conspiracy:176654 Path: world!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com! news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Orlin Grabbe Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Clinton Pal Dan Lasater & the Mena-Related Laundry Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 00:07:01 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 135 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1e.delphi.com Clinton Pal Dan Lasater & the Mena-Related Laundry [The following is the text of John Crudele's article in the NY Post, Friday, March 15, 1996.] Ex-pol: Ark. airport was depot for dope and guns A former Arkansas congressman is about to blow the lid off what some say was a Washington-sponsored gun- running operation that illegally provided weapons to the Contra rebels of Nicaragua. Democrat Bill Alexander, defeated for his congressional seat in a 1993 primary after the House check- kiting scandal. today will release seven boxes of documents he says prove that an airport in Mena, Ark., was used to transport guns to the Contras and smuggle drugs back into the United States in the 1980s. Some of these drugs, Alexander says, ended up in the hands of John Gotti's crime family in New York. Others have made these same charges, and the Mena operation has become the subject of an investigation by the House Banking Committee. Sources say the federal Drug Enforcement Administration is gathering information that will be turned over to that committee, headed by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa). Alexander will give his Mena documents to the University of Arkansas at Jonesboro at noon today. The Post obtained some of these documents, including a draft indictment--never presented to a grand jury--that could have brought the Mena matter to light nearly a decade ago. "Mena was a U.S. government staging area to support the Contras in Central America. The planes that were contracted to ship the weapons brought drugs back to the U.S.," Alexander told The Post. "Absolutely no doubt about it. And I have evidence of it . . . The drugs came back to the U.S. and they went to various ports of entry, including Mena. Some of the drugs went to New York." Alexander said one witness said the Gambino crime family--then headed by John Gotti--received some of the Mena drugs. Alexander said then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was never implicated in the Mena operation. "So far, it doesn't touch Clinton. This is pre-Clinton," he said. But others in Arkansas have alleged that Clinton benefited indirectly from what was going on in Mena. And some sources place Clinton on the ground at Mena airport at the time of this alleged drug-and-gun-running operation. Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr has begun looking into the actions of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, which was reformed in the mid-1980s by Clinton to spur economic development in his state. Starr is not officially investigating Mena, although his probers have put out feelers for anyone who might want to volunteer information. Some sources in Arkansas have alleged that ADFA eventually saw some of the Mena drug money flow into its coffers through the purchase of bonds. Dan Lasater, a convicted drug dealer, friend of Clinton and owner of a brokerage company, is often mentioned as the one who made the bond buys. Alexander investigated Mena in conjunction with the General Accounting Office when he was a member of the House Appropriations Committee. The Probe centered around U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. He was also looking into the matter in his role as special assistant attorney general in Arkansas. He said the probe ended when the National Security Council ordered all government agencies not to cooperate with either him or the GAO. Alexander said he has documentation that the Reagan administration quashed the investigation.. Part of the cache of documents Alexander will make public today is a draft of a 24-count indictment that he says was written by the U.S. attorney in Arkansas at the time. It was drawn up with former IRS investigator Bill Duncan, who Alexander says is the top money-laundering expert in the country. The indictment was never presented to the grand jury for action. The draft alleges that four people and an Arkansas corporation "would transport and cause to be transported quantities of United States currency to various financial institutions, and, there, used this currency to purchase numerous cashiers' checks all in amounts of less than $10,000, thus causing no currency transactions report to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service." (Banks are required to report transactions of $10,000 or more to the IRS.) In short, the transactions looked like a money- laundering operation. The proposed indictment covered only a "pattern of illegal activity involving transactions exceeding $100,000 in a 12-month period" starting Aug. 23, 1982. The proposed indictment also said the late Barry Seal, the alleged ringleader in the Mena operation, modified "numerous aircraft" at the airport. Seal allegedly delivered drugs in his planes. Alexander's stash of documents includes copies of a number of cashiers' checks that Seal made out to the Union Bank of Mena. Most journalists have avoided the Mena tale because they're afraid of being considered part of the lunatic fringe. But the press at large will probably start to notice as more and more is revealed about the antics of Arkansans in the 1980s. Alexander's trove could be a starter kit for the lazy and reluctant. ### Date: Sat, 06 Apr 96 20:46:32 GMT From: carlolsen@dsmnet.com (Carl E. Olsen) To: drctalk@drcnet.org Cc: carlolsen@dsmnet.com Subject: (Fwd) Mena documents via FTP - Was Re: Mena Evidence on Public Display Message-ID: <9604062047.AA11984@dsm7.dsmnet.com> On 2 Apr 1996, Michael Rivero wrote: > ------------------------------------------ > The Oral Deposition of Richard J. Brenneke > ------------------------------------------ > Joint Investigation by the > Arkansas State Attorney General's Office > and the U.S. Congress, June 21, 1991. > ------------------------------------------ This deposition, along with text files of all the letters, testimony, reports, and Congressional hearings pertaining to Mena, Arkansas that I have posted on the internet in various usenet newsgroups, are now available via FTP at "pencil.cs.missouri.edu" (or "128.206.100.207") in directory "/pub/mena". Sincerely, Duane J. Roberts duane@uci.edu Undergraduate Student Criminology, Law, and Society School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine ****************************************************************** * Carl E. Olsen * carlolsen@dsmnet.com * * Post Office Box 4091 * http://www.calyx.com/~olsen/ * * Des Moines, Iowa 50333 * Carl_E._Olsen@commonlink.com * * (515) 262-6957 voice & fax * 73043.414@compuserve.com * ****************************************************************** Reporters and Researchers are welcome at the world's largest on-line library of drug policy material at: http://www.druglibrary.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat Apr 06, 1996 11:36 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 59 The following is brought to you thanks, in part, to the kind assistance of CyberNews and the fine folks at Cornell University. Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 59 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- ARKANSAS 101 ============ Barry Seal, a skilled pilot, drops duffel bags filled with cash at the Triple S Ranch near Hot Springs, Arkansas. An estimated $9 million per week falls out of the sky. The state of Arkansas gets 10 percent and also temporary use of the entire amount. Finis Shellnut, son-in-law of Seth Ward, lives at the Triple S Ranch. Seth owns the ranch, but Finis is the go-for who retrieves the weekly cash bundles. Finis works for Dan Lasater as a bondsman. Roger Clinton, brother of Bill Clinton, also works for Dan Lasater. Seth Ward, owner of the Triple S Ranch, has a daughter, Suzy, who is married to Webster Hubbell. Webster ("Webb") Hubbell is a close friend of Bill Clinton. Webb Hubbell works at the Rose Law Firm. Hillary Rodham Clinton's office is right next to Webb Hubbell's office at the Rose Law Firm. Hillary Rodham Clinton is married to William Jefferson Clinton, Governor of Arkansas at the time. The weekly $9 million falling out of the sky seems to have been put into ADFA, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Or else where *was* its money coming from? The state budget had no funds earmarked for ADFA and the State Constitution barred deficit financing. ADFA was, in effect, a bank, making preferred loans. Because ADFA is a state agency, it is not legally required to publicly divulge its records. ADFA paid more than $100,000 in legal fees to the Rose Law Firm. Was any of the money "loaned" out by ADFA ever re-paid? ----------------------------------------------------------------- I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation." ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like "Conspiracy Nation" sent to your e-mail address, send a message in the form "subscribe cn-l My Name" to listproc@cornell.edu (Note: that is "CN-L" *not* "CN-1") ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to receive the new Conspiracy Nation Newsletter, send an e-mail message to bigred@shout.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know more about Whitewater, Oklahoma City bombing, etc? (1) telnet prairienet.org (2) logon as "visitor" (3) go citcom ----------------------------------------------------------------- See also: http://www.europa.com/~johnlf/cn.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- See also: ftp.shout.net pub/users/bigred ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 02:30:54 +0200 From: mario lap To: drctalk@drcnet.org Subject: Interesting 2: IRT in de States... Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960417003054.0060029c@xs4all.nl> Sorry when this is old news >Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:34:29 +0200 >From: dirk van der woude >Organization: GG&GD Amsterdam >To: mario lap >Subject: Interesting 2: IRT in de States... > >Airport scandal set to crash into White House > >By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington > >UP TO now Bill Clinton has escaped scrutiny over the alleged drugs >smuggling and gun running channelled through Mena Airport in Arkansas >when he was the state's governor. But a federal lawsuit in >Little Rock is beginning to unearth information that is extremely >embarrassing for the White House. > >Larry Patterson, an Arkansas State Trooper, testified under oath this >month that there were "large quantities of drugs being flown into the >Mena Airport, large quantities of money, large quantities of guns". >The subject was discussed repeatedly in Clinton's presence by State >Troopers working on his security detail, he alleged. Patterson said the >Governor "had very little comment to make; he was just listening >to what was being said". > >Clinton has given conflicting answers when asked about the mysteries of >Mena. At a campaign stop in April 1992 he lost his temper and dismissed >the allegations as "fantasy". But last October, pale and >uneasy at a White House press conference, he said that it was "primarily >a matter for federal jurisdiction . . . we had nothing, zero, to do with >it." > >Extensive police documents describe Mena Airport, in the remote Ouachita >Mountains of western Arkansas, as having been the headquarters of a >high-volume cocaine operation in the 1980s. Sources at the >Drug Enforcement Administration say major trafficking was still going on >there as late as December 1994. > >Patterson's testimony has not been released to the press, but The Sunday >Telegraph has been able to review a copy. It was one of three >depositions taken in a lawsuit that is likely to rock the White House >in coming months. > >The plaintiffs in the suit are Terry and Janis Reed, who claim that they >were embroiled in a US covert operation to assist the Nicaraguan Contras >between 1983 and 1986. They say that the mission was >based in Arkansas, with the alleged active involvement of Governor >Clinton. > >Targeted because they had become a threat to Clinton's political career > >The Reeds are suing Clinton's chief of security, Buddy Young, a former >Arkansas State Police captain, alleging that he tried to frame them on >trumped up theft and fraud charges and inserted a false profile >of them in US criminal intelligence files listing them as "armed and >dangerous" - a pretext to shoot on sight. They believe they were >targeted because they had become a threat to Clinton's political career. > >The Reeds were, in fact, acquitted of all wrongdoing in a federal court >in 199O. The judge said that Captain Young had "displayed a reckless >disregard for the truth". > >The Reed saga is so bizarre that the American press has refused to take >it seriously. But in a book published last year, Compromised: Clinton, >Bush, and the CIA, Terry Reed alleged that he wasrecruited by >Oliver North to help train Contra pilots in aerial supply skills, and to >put his machine tool expertise to use developing a clandestine network >for the manufacture of untraceable weapons parts. > >Reed also claimed to have been present in an ammunition storage bunker >outside Little Rock in 1986 when North and other Reagan Administration >envoys allegedly met Clinton to discuss the covert >operation - and to reprimand the Governor for members of his entourage >skimming off money earmarked for national security purposes. > >Over the past year The Sunday Telegraph has been able to confirm most of >Reed's claims in interviews with pilots, Central American sources, and >senior officials from the US Defence Department, the >CIA and the Reagan-Bush White House. > >The secret Contra scheme was devised in 1982 in order to circumvent an >anticipated ban by Congress on hostile actions by the Reagan >Administration against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. It skirted >countless laws prohibiting covert activities on US soil. > >Large amounts of cocaine were flown into the US > >In order to maintain total "deniability" - and to avoid detection by the >US Congress and the press - the operation was subcontracted to Barry >Seal, a renowned drug trafficker from Louisiana. He established >his nerve centre at Mena Airport, where he maintained a fleet of >modified aircraft with hi-tech equipment provided by the US Air Force. > >He continued smuggling, of course. That was his "cover". Large amounts >of cocaine were flown into the US while the government looked the other >way. Indeed, the Louisiana State Police were convinced >that he was using his status of immunity to increase the volume of >trafficking, supplying cocaine to the organised crime machine in Little >Rock and Hot Springs - part of what is known as the Dixie Mafia. > >The government still denies that Seal worked in US covert operations. It >will admit only that he was an informant for the DEA, agreeing to help >penetrate Colombia's Medellin Cartel after being convicted of >drug smuggling in 1984. Seal was assassinated by Colombian gunmen in >1986. > >But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that Seal was working for the >Defence Intelligence Agency all along, answering to a top secret outfit >in Fort Meade, Maryland, known as the US Army Operations >Group. > >His recruitment was put into the Pentagon computer system through the >highly classified RODCA Channel, a "source management system" used to >prevent the exposure of secret assets. The last two >numbers of his 10-digit "source code identifier" were 82, showing that >he was recruited as an outside operative in 1982. > >None of this came out in the investigation by Lawrence Walsh, a special >prosecutor who spent six years and almost $40 million looking into the >Iran-Contra affair. That poses the question of whether >members of Walsh's staff with a Left-liberal political bias suppressed >information that would have exposed the involvement of Arkansas's >Democratic governor. > >The Reeds said they spent three days in Washington in 1988 telling their >story to Senate investigators. But Walsh asserts that he was never given >a proper briefing on the Mena angle. "I'm glad you told me >about this," he confessed, jokingly, to The Sunday Telegraph. "I keep >learning new things all the time." > >There have been nine state and federal probes into Mena. None of them >went anywhere. In several cases investigators say that they were >thwarted by high-level obstruction. Trooper Patterson casts some >light on this mystery. In his sworn deposition he claims to have been >present when the Arkansas State Police commander told Governor Clinton >that he, the commander, had been instructed to "stay out of >Mena" by two Democrat Senators. > >His secret passcode was somehow cracked > >A second deposition suggests that measures are still being taken to >cover up the Mena scandal. Bill Duncan, who conducted a probe for the >Internal Revenue Service and the US Congress on drug >trafficking and money-laundering linked to Mena, has testified that his >computer files were broken into in January 1995 at his office within the >Arkansas Attorney-General's office. > >His secret passcode was somehow cracked, allowing the intruder to tamper >with his files. He noted that the codes of his highly sensitive >7,000-page Mena archive - the most comprehensive set of >documents in existence - had been broken. He has not yet been able to >assess the level of damage. > >The US press has made little of the "Colombianisation" of Arkansas by >the Dixie Mafia during the 1980s, and it has ignored the fact that two >of the biggest financial supporters of Clinton's political career in >Arkansas were under investigation for narcotics trafficking by the DEA >at the time they were making big contributions to his campaign. > >But the Reed lawsuit is beginning to open up this whole can of worms. >Only three depositions have been taken so far. Another 107 witnesses are >on the list for questioning under oath between now and the >end of the broad "discovery" process in August. The trial date is set >for September 27. > >Among the witnesses are a number of State Troopers who have told the >Reeds' lawyers that they want to "go to confession", as well as Oliver >North and a whole cast of characters involved in the weird >co-mingling of covert operations and drug trafficking in Clinton's >Arkansas. > >The next round of depositions is due to be taken in April. The process >is moving inexorably forwards. > > "As a butterly lifts the cat" From: steve@linex2.linex.com Reply-To: SNETNEWS@XBN.SHORE.NET Subject: (Fwd) PIML 96052004 - L&J: Jean Duffy Int: Drug Task Force in Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 19:13:46 -0700 Organization: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 04:44:45 -0500 To: emailwru@aol.com From: Bill Utterback Subject: PIML 96052004 - L&J: Jean Duffy Int: Drug Task Force in AR PIML 96052004 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 07:16:13 -0700 From: Joe Horn <6mysmesa@1eagle1.com> Subject: L&J: Jean Duffy Int: Drug Task Force in AR ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 MAY 1996 04:56:39 -0400 From: Edward W. Zehr Newgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater Subject: BILL CLINTON'S ARKANSAS: Jean Duffy's Story JEAN DUFFY interviewed by Randall Terry May 1, 1996 _________________________________________________________________ Jean Duffy headed a drug task force for the law enforcement community in Arkansas. Duffy and three other law enforcement agents have come forward in a new video called "Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection." The video deals with the murders of two boys and their connection with drug money. All four law enforcement agents came from different agencies. All of them met with stonewalling and opposition from highly placed officials. __________________________________________________________________ TERRY: As many as nine people who were potential witnesses in this case have been murdered already. If you could say anything you wanted for the next ten or fifteen minutes, what would you say? DUFFY: I would like for people to wake up and understand the massive amount of drugs that have been transported into the United States and that the war on drugs is a myth. That our government is very well aware, and in some cases is a participant in the drug smuggling. I believe that is incredible for people to understand as it would have been for me had I not been involved in it and [understood] how it happened and why it happened. I would like for people to buy our video, "Obstruction of Justice." TERRY: Why? DUFFY: It will begin to explain all of the connections of drug smuggling and how it affects people's lives. It will help people to understand how it is allowed to continue, and why it is allowed to continue. There will be a sequel to "Obstruction of Justice" that will go more in depth into the actual drug-smuggling operation. But our video explains very poignantly how it affected the life of an American family. Linda and Larry Ives, the parents of Kevin Ives, who was killed when he was 17-years-old because he stumbled upon a drug drop. [There was also the death of his friend, Don Henry]. As if their murders were not bad enough, they were murdered by law enforcement officers who were part of the drug-smuggling operation. TERRY: Let's just stop right here. DUFFY: Alright, TERRY: I watched this video yesterday and when I was done, I took my entire staff up after yesterday's show and told them "you all have to watch this." They all went home late for dinner. I don't usually react to things this bad[ly]. The clear implication of the video is that Dan Harmon and other law enforcement agents murdered these boys. DUFFY: Well, that's absolutely correct. TERRY: You're not a crackpot - you're involved in law enforcement. There are other law enforcement [officers] in the film, all risking life and limb and future careers to say things against some very powerful people. You really believe that these boys were murdered by law enforcement agents? DUFFY: I don't think there's any doubt about it. And I believe the law enforcement agents were connected to some very high political people because they have never been brought to justice and I don't think they ever will be. I think they are protected to avoid exposing the connection. TERRY: To who? To higher-ups? DUFFY: Yes, absolutely to higher-ups. TERRY: How high? DUFFY: Well, I know that there were CIA people involved in this drug-smuggling operation, that's pretty much un-disputed. I can't really say whether the CIA people were acting officially or whether they were rogue operators, acting outside their official capacity and taking advantage of an opportunity to make private profits off of this drug-smuggling operation. Obviously they were connected to very high-up people. The U.S attorney who first shut down a federal investigation was appointed by a Republican president - he was appointed by President Bush and I don't believe he had any direct connection with any of this, but he certainly took orders from someone to close down that investigation. TERRY: This all sounds so fantastic. How unbelievable. I mean how the average America just cannot grasp that state officials in Arkansas, or federal officials were somehow even remotely connected with drug-smuggling, and then to say that some of the lower officials actually murdered these boys - I've got to stop myself. I'm a Christian and I'm a Calvinist and I believe in the wickedness of man's heart, so it should not surprise me that wicked men can do wicked things. Do you believe that Dan Harmon was involved with these murders? DUFFY: I don't think that there is any doubt that he was. TERRY: Explain to the listeners who Dan Harmon was at the time and who he is now. DUFFY: At the time he was a person who was in and out of politics in Saline County. He had been a judge. He had been a prosecutor and, at the time the boys were murdered, he was in private practice. After they were murdered, he approached the parents of the two boys and [offered] his services to find out who had murdered the two boys. And he was subsequently appointed to be special prosecutor to head a county grand jury. Now for years the parents thought that Dan Harmon was trying to solve their murders, but later found out that he had very wisely put himself into a position of not only orchestrating the coverup, but being in the position of controlling the information that came in and the information that went out. TERRY: Well, it's worse than that. People who came forward and said that they had information on these murders ended up getting murdered, themselves. DUFFY: There have been several murders of potential witnesses. Anyone who could have solved this murder many years ago has been systematically eliminated. TERRY: What did these boys see that was so critical that they were murdered that night - that the third boy who was with them, and then escaped - who ran away, was tracked down and murdered a year later - what was so critical to this whole process that all these people had to be killed? It's just - it sounds crazy! DUFFY: It really does. I've been called crazy before - that's for sure. TERRY: Before you answer the question, I just want to say in your defense ... these people are just doing their duty as law enforcement agents and they stumbled into this black, bloodstained hole involving the murder of these two boys. So go ahead Jean, if you could answer my question. DUFFY: I will - what you said brought up a point I would like to make. When I was investigating this, I was crucified in the media by public officials who were involved in this, and I was labeled a whacko, a fruitcake, a nut case. In the U.S. attorney's office there were people who were supposed to be helping in this investigation who turned their backs on any of the information that my drug task force took in, because we had been so discredited. When this video came out, one of the people [who had been] in the U.S. Attorney's office back then saw the video, took it to work nd asked every person in the U.S. Attorney's office to sit down and watch [it]. He said, "this will change your mind about what we thought about Jean Duffy back in 1990." TERRY: I am going to take a break and when we come back you can ask Jean Duffy why it was necessary that these two boys be murdered, and subsequently nine other witnesses were murdered. [Break for commercials] TERRY: Before we took the break, Jean, I asked what these boys saw that caused not only them, but several other potential witnesses to their murder to be murdered. DUFFY: Well, it's really quite simple. They stumbled upon a drug drop from an airplane that was part of the major drug-smuggling operation out on Mena, Arkansas. TERRY: But, drug drops happen every day and there aren't 11 people murdered as a result. DUFFY: This drug-smuggling operation had been set up in Mena by Barry Seal and was part of a CIA covert operation. To expose the murders would have exposed some very high[ly placed] political people - in fact I believe if it's ever solved completely it's going to expose a lot of Democrats and Republicans alike. And it's my personal opinion that's why it is not going to be investigated thoroughly by either party. Both parties stand to lose from exposure of this drug-smuggling operation. TERRY: Have you heard of Terry Reed's book, "Compromised?" DUFFY: Yes, I have. I've read it. TERRY: Do you think it's credible? DUFFY: Ah - I think without really knowing... TERRY: Terry was a co-pilot with Barry Seal, and Barry Seal was the one who was gunned down - he was murdered a little more than 10 years ago. The book "Compromised" basically says the same thing you guys are saying, only that Terry Reed was an insider. DUFFY: Yes, absolutely. I try not to report anything that I don't really know first hand. But reading his book certainly helped me to understand how the Mena operation was set up. And nothing in his book is inconsistent with what I know first-hand from what my task force developed. TERRY: Tell us some of the things. You had several informants working for you. Tell us some of the things your informants uncovered. DUFFY: They immediately linked drug traffic at the local level to local political people - local public officials. And because of that we routed-out information to a federal U.S. Assistant Attorney, who was a good guy. TERRY: You say you found local political figures involved. And your informants were credible? They had concrete evidence? DUFFY: Oh yeah. When one informant tells you something independently of one or two or three other informants, and they're all giving exactly the same information... TERRY: Do they know that the other informants exist? DUFFY: No. TERRY: These are all separate? DUFFY: They would be independent. It would be foolish to just listen to one informant and try to build a case based on what that one informant said. But the informants we used had been tested and proven. Also we had informants and witnesses who passed polygraph tests. So there are several different ways to determine the credibility of an informant or a witness and one is corroborating testimony. TERRY: So you gave this testimony to federal law enforcement agents and thought that you were going to get justice at that point.And you were told by the federal prosecutor that they were going to indict some of these local political figures? DUFFY: Oh, I was absolutely assured that there would be indictments and prosecutions of key public officials and in fact the same public officials who were conducting the media smear campaign against me at the time. This had been going on for several months, but the U.S. Attorney that was in charge of the federal grand jury investigation said "just hang on, because any day now..." I heard this week after week, and the weeks turned into months. Then he said I'm ready to have the grand jury indict and I'm ready to prosecute these same people, and as soon as that happens then everyone will understand the smear campaign and why they tried to discredit me professionally. TERRY: We have about a minute left. You can say anything you want. This is Jean Duffy who headed up a drug task force. How many investigators did you have working for you? DUFFY: I had seven undercover officers. TERRY: And five of them resigned in protest over the way you were treated. DUFFY: They did. TERRY: That's unbelievable. You have the last minute to tell the listeners anything you want. DUFFY: [Encourages listeners to order the video "Obstruction of Justice" which will be used to fund a civil action]. TERRY: I want to commend you again for putting your life on the line by stepping forward like this. Obviously some very powerful people have already murdered nearly a dozen people in connection with the drug smuggling there, starting with the two young boys. Certainly other law enforcement officials have been threatened. Were you threatened at all? DUFFY: There was a $50,000 price on my head back in 1990, when I left the jurisdiction, and I was actually in hiding for nine months. TERRY: They put a $50,000 hit fee on you? DUFFY: That was the information my parents were given, and they were certainly very fearful. But once I left the jurisdiction and stopped doing the investigation they left me alone. They stopped the smear campaign. I didn't feel like anyone was looking for me. What they wanted me to do was just shut up and go away. When I did that they didn't have a problem. When I got involved again in 1994, at the request of the FBI, the FBI agent I was working with got the information that Harmon was looking to have my body laid out on the railroad track and run over. The agent was pretty fearful that that was a direct threat, but I was really not very intimidated by that. TERRY: Ben Harmon, folks, is the fellow who eye-witnesses said was seen with the boys on the tracks the night they were murdered. And he is a prosecutor there. DUFFY: He is the prosecuting attorney there and has been since 1991. TERRY: If the allegations that our friend Jean Duffy has been telling us are true, then he is a monster. Jean, thank you very much for taking the time,and we applaud your courage...We hope that justice is done for these boys, and that all of the political power players who are involved in this coverup are exposed. DUFFY: Thank you very much for your concern. 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Date: Fri May 31, 1996 11:33 pm CST From: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com TO: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: COCAIN AND THE PREZ'S FRIENDS? -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- THE BARRY SEAL - BILL CLINTON CONNECTION II Editorial An editorial in this space recently explored the connection between the late drug smuggler Barry Seal and the current President Bill Clinton. The editorial pointed out that they had shared the same legal counsel, Richard Ben-Veniste, and the same press lackey, pseudojournalist John Camp. But the connection goes beyond that. Consider the following: Barry Seal was prosecuted and convicted in Florida for possession with intent to distribute drugs. His sentence was reduced after he turned informant. Barry Seal was also prosecuted and convicted on drug charges in Louisiana. His sentence was reduced considering his work for the federal government. But Barry Seal was never indicted in Arkansas despite the fact that he had been flying thousands of pounds of cocaine through Mena, Arkansas. The lack of indictment was certainly not due to lack of evidence. Mena criminal investigator Russell Welch had followed Seal for years and gathered a voluminous file on his drug smuggling activities. But the Governor was well aware of what Seal was doing. "That's Lasater's deal," he told State Trooper L.D. Brown. Terry Reed has explained what Lasater's deal was: He was using his bond business to launder drug money for Barry Seal. The Arkansas Democrat Machine saw to it that state investigations into the matter went nowhere. A memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal explains the attorney general's "wish to sever any ties to the Mena matter - because of the implication that the AG might be investigating the governor's connection." The name of the governor was Bill Clinton, and the name of the attorney general was Winston Bryant, who last week came in first in the Arkansas Democratic Primaries for U.S. Senator. With Bill Clinton now President, the Arkansas Democrat Machine is still in control in Arkansas. Winston Bryant is currently in charge of obstructing the Mena lawsuit by Terry Reed to make sure that the Barry Seal - Bill Clinton connection never sees the light of day. [Published in the May 27, 1995 issue of the Washington Weekly] Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 iQBVAwUBMa/PpMpevHS+RO/BAQHXdQIAqUWs6o7jJSizwE3NtVu6oOX9/8oz5dl2 wTZCwykzJci2Rz/OoT44icSo2U3KwEu1aognPLzRl1tl/YHRQ2uBRg== =4FvO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- "Into the light from darkness." -cj. -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@alterzone.com -> Posted by: "Craig L. Janeway" Date: Sun Jun 02, 1996 2:54 pm CST From: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com TO: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: (Fwd) Mena Timeline -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 11:09:00 -0500 (CDT) To: cs@oak.oakland.edu From: ed@athenet.net (Edward Immler) Subject: Mena Timeline Found this at: http://wybbs.wynalda.com/~croberts/index.html Go to "Political Journal" and then to "Mena Timeline". Ed ******************************************************* menatime.txt v1.0 Timeline of events, characters, involved in the Clinton's history including: - Mena airstrip and cocaine trafficking - Clinton's governorship and girlfriend scandals - Arkansas Development and Finance Authority (ADFA) scandal - Whitewater land development scandal - Rostenkowski (Chicago) and Citibank and Florida bank money laundering Contents - Timeline - People - Places - Sources None of this information is claimed to be factual. It is taken from various news articles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Timeline 1985 * Welch poisoned by anthrax. 1988 * ADFA Marketing Director position created for Nichols by then Gov. Clinton. 1993 * April 19. Webster Hubbel was highest ranking official during the Branch Davidian standoff today at Waco, TX. * Jul 20. Vince Foster found dead in Ft. Marcy Park, Wash DC. Many inconsistencies are found at the 'suicide' site. FBI prevents normal investigation procedures. Suspicious characters seen at the scene shortly before estimated time of death. 1995 * August. Hubbel sent to jail for Whitewater crimes. * Fall. Clinton claims he will be bankrupt because of the Paula Jones lawsuit and asks supportors for donations to his legal expenses fund. Then later he collects all money needed from an insurance policy. 1996 * Clinton collects $900,000 in 'bimbo eruption' insurance to cover the lawsuit of Paula Jones. * April. Ron Brown killed in a plane crash over Bosnia. Dan Rostenkowski, Democratic congressman, sentenced to 17 months of jail time and $100,000 fine on 17 indictments. Charges include using public money for personal gifts and travel, cashing in stamps used for official business in exchange for cash. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- People * Brown, Ron. Commerce Secretary. * Clinton, Hillary: First Lady of the US. o Sued for improper futures trading in the cattle market. (Turned $1k into $100k in about a week.) o Gary Lane finds damning documents pertaining to ADFA. The next day, Fiske subpoenas the documents and seals them. o One day, Chicago Board of Trade finds all of Hillary's trades, and the next day they're sealed by Fiske. * Davis, LJ. Reporter doing a story on Whitewater. After an doing an interview about it, upon returning to his hotel, he was knocked unconscious from behind and critical pages of his notebook were taken. * Espey, Mike. Sec's of Agriculture accused of taking trips and perks (plane trips, basketball tickets) inappropriately, especially from Tyson Foods. * Fiske, Robert. Member of Congress leading the investigation of Whitewater. Appointed by Jane Reno. * Flowers, Gennifer. One of Clinton's girlfriends. * Foley. Congressman from Washington, receives a lot of campaign money from Tyson Foods. Asked federal court to make taxpayers to repay his legal fees for his fighting term limits. * Foster, Vince. Supposedly Hillary's boyfriend. Killed in July 20, 1993; part of Clinton's cabinet. * Hubbel, Webster. Created ADFA. * Jones, Paula. Filed suit vs Clinton about sexual harrassment which occurred in the early 90's. * Knepp, Lou, President of ADFA. * Lasater, Dan. Clinton's best friend, did bond underwriting for ADFA. Went to jail with Roger Clinton for GIVING away large amounts of cocaine. Owned a bonding house. * Lane, Gary. From Pat Robertson's CBN, he was investigating Mena, received death threats, then he had to leave town. * Nichols, Larry. Former marketing director of ADFA. * Packwood, Bob. (R-OR) Member of Congress accused of fraud for ???. Accused of touched the behind of a waitress. Forced to resign his Senate seat. * Parks, Jerry. Was a Clinton political foe, but then hired as security directory for the Clinton-Gore campaign. He had a file about bad stuff pertaining to Clinton, but was assassinated before he could hand the file to anyone. * Reno, Janet. Clinton appointed cabinet member, head of Dept of Justice. * Rostenkowski, Dan. Owns part of Guarenty Bank, Chicago. US Congress. Involved in the House bank scandal. * Seal, Barry. Hauled arms to the Contras in the early 80's to/from Mena. * Stephens, Jackson. Brought BCCI to America. Owned investment firm. Underwriter of some bonds for ADFA. * Stevens, Jay. Prosecutor ends up investigating Stephens. This former US attorney investigates Rostenkowski. * Tyson, Don. Recipient of loans from ADFA. * Ward, Seth. Father in law of Webster Hubbel. Received first loan from ADFA for $2.85 million and there are no records of him paying it back. * Welch, investigator of Mena airstrip scandal. Poisoned and killed by anthrax, a military biological agent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Places, organizations * BCCI banks. Allegedly Lasater was running drug money through 2 banks in this network of banks. * Guarenty bank, Chicago. Partially owned by Dan Rostenkowski, US Congress. * Int'l Paper. Recipient of loans from ADFA. * Madison Guarenty. The failed S&L which the RTC started investigating. Made loans to Clintons to buy land in Whitewater development area. * Resolution Trust Co. Oversees failed Savings and Loans to liquidate them. Officially closed Jan, 1996. * Rose Law Firm. Where Hillary worked as a lawyer. * Stephen's investment firm. Owned by Jackson Stephens. * Tyson Industries. Owned by Don Tyson. This corporation also recipient of loans from ADFA. * Whitewater Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Sources 1. nicholsl.txt ******************************************************************* *Edward F. Immler Lawrence Chemists * *ed@athenet.net are Free Radicals * * * *Lawrence University '95 * *Interests: HAZMAT, EPA/OSHA Compliance, SARA III, Wastewater * *DISCLAIMER: Opinions are mine...unless someone else agrees * ******************************************************************* Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.linex.com/ufo -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@alterzone.com -> Posted by: "Steve Wingate" Date: Sun Jun 02, 1996 9:55 pm CST From: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 05 -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List The following is brought to you thanks, in part, to the kind assistance of CyberNews and the fine folks at Cornell University. Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 05 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMPROMISED =========== (From the May 1996 Conspiracy Nation Newsletter) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CAST OF CHARACTERS Hillary Rodham Clinton -- wife of Bill Clinton, her office at the Rose Law Firm is right next to "WEBB" HUBBELL's office. Roger Clinton -- brother of Bill Clinton. Roger works for DAN LASATER. Webster ("Webb") Hubbell -- a close friend of then-Governor Bill Clinton. "Webb" Hubbell works at the Rose Law Firm. Dan Lasater -- Arkansas "Bond Daddy" and close friend of Bill Clinton. His firm, Lasater & Co., was handling more than $300 million per year in preferred state bond activity. Barry Seal -- a skilled pilot, from his plane he drops duffel bags filled with cash onto the Triple S Ranch near Hot Springs, Arkansas. Finis Shellnut -- son-in-law of SETH WARD. Finis lives at the Triple S Ranch and is the go-for who retrieves the bundles of cash being dropped by BARRY SEAL. Finis works for DAN LASATER as a "bondsman". Seth Ward -- owner of the Triple S Ranch. His daughter, Suzy, is married to WEBSTER ("WEBB") HUBBELL. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Cummings is a former prize-winning investigative reporter at New York Newsday. He has co-authored the Heist (1987), Goombata: The Improbable Rise of John Gotti and His Gang (1990) and Death Do Us Part (1993). His latest book, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA (Clandestine Publishing, ISBN: 1-883955-02-5), co-authored with Terry Reed, has been a bestseller. For over thirty years, since the Bay of Pigs, Cummings has studied the confluence of intelligence gathering, money laundering and drug-trafficking. I spoke with Mr. Cummings on March 25, 1996. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CONSPIRACY NATION: I heard you and Terry Reed, I think it was on Radio Free America with Tom Valentine. And as I recall, you were investigating some kind of corruption in Florida that led you to, when you first became aware of Terry Reed and his situation... JOHN CUMMINGS: It began around the time of the Bay of Pigs. And I came to know a lot of the guys who were involved in that. And it worked out that I began to look into this question of covert operations. And the more I looked into it (prior to that, I'd been working on organized crime), the more I found organized crime and drug trafficking. They always seemed to go hand-in- hand. And that led to my looking, some years later, at Barry Seal. And from Barry Seal, I was led to Arkansas by some friends in the Louisiana State Police who believed that Seal was doing more than what most people *thought* he was really doing. This one particular cop came to believe that Seal had some kind of government protection and that he was probably engaged in some kind of covert activity. And he said that he left Louisiana and he went up to Arkansas. And then I started to look up there. And the more I looked up there, the more suspicious I got, the more it smelled of an intelligence operation. (Which I had seen a lot of in Florida.) And *that* led me, eventually, to Terry Reed. CONSPIRACY NATION: How did you first get in contact with Reed? JOHN CUMMINGS: I heard about Terry Reed from a friend who is a private investigator in Washington. (He's a retired CID man. [IRS Criminal Investigation Division]) And he told me about Terry's case. Terry at the time was under indictment for mail fraud. And so I called his lawyer (and in the interim, I'd done a big piece on Barry Seal for Penthouse, and she had read it.) And she sent me some of the pleadings from the case. And here I see Terry was at Mena. So I began to pursue Terry. CONSPIRACY NATION: What exactly was Mena about? JOHN CUMMINGS: Terry came in contact with a man who was introduced to him as "John Cathey." And John Cathey was, in reality, Oliver North. And he came into contact as the result of the Toshiba investigation. And you know what that was, right? CONSPIRACY NATION: That was something with submarines, wasn't it? JOHN CUMMINGS: The Toshiba Machine Tools was secretly selling propeller technology to the Soviet Union. This equipment would allow the Soviets to make propellers that would elude American detection. There was a *big* scandal about it. At one point, Congress wanted to totally stop trading with Toshiba and not allow them in the country. There was a tremendous tumult about this. Well North, or "Cathey," asked Terry to make... Terry, at the time, was working for Toshiba. And they wanted him to try to find out what was going through the Toshiba warehouse. Anyway, that's how he came to meet North. (Although he didn't know his name was Oliver North. He only knew that he had been in Vietnam like Terry had been.) And they were very *simpatico*. So at some point, Terry decides to go into business for himself and he's gonna move to Arkansas. And North tells him, "Well. If you're moving to Arkansas, there's a guy there who's running some stuff for us that you ought to meet." And he says, "You can probably make some money out of this." So anyway, North gives him the name of Barry Seal and says that Seal will contact him. And Terry moves to Little Rock, and not too long thereafter, Seal comes to see Terry at his place of business. And he has with him, when he comes that day, a guy name of Dan Lasater. And working for Lasater, as a chauffeur, was [Bill] Clinton's brother, Roger. Well he meets Seal, and they hit it off. And Seal tells him that he needs someone who can train *Contra* pilots to drop supplies into areas of Nicaragua at night; you know, teach them how to do air drops. CONSPIRACY NATION: And they trained those pilots so that the CIA would have plausible deniability. JOHN CUMMINGS: Right. The CIA would appear to have no "hands-on" knowledge. This [would appear to be] simply a free-lance operation. At the same time, Terry (whose background is in machine tooling)... Seal needed help with producing untraceable weapons that they could give the *Contras*. Anyway, that's how it came about. That's how he met Barry Seal. CONSPIRACY NATION: And then, what wound up happening was that the guns were being flown down there, but either (I'm not clear on this) it was, say, "individual entrepreneurship" that caused some pilots to decide to fly back with drugs? Or were the drugs... JOHN CUMMINGS: Well Terry did not know about the drugs. All he would do was go to Mena, teach these guys, in various places, [about flying]. And they were kept at a place out in the woods. This area is very remote. And they built a makeshift base out in the woods near Mena, Arkansas. And all Terry would do was take 'em up and try to teach 'em. And although these guys had had pilot training, they were very rough. They could fly, but barely. So Terry's job was trying to teach them how to drop this stuff at night, in the jungle, to supply their own troops. Because they didn't want (what later happened), they did not want a plane shot down with an American crew on board. (And of course, that *did* happen.) And one of the people working with Terry, working with Seal at that time, was William Cooper -- who was a pilot of the C-123 that *was* shot down. CONSPIRACY NATION: And Cooper died in that crash, right? JOHN CUMMINGS: He died. Only [Eugene] Hasenfus survived. CONSPIRACY NATION: But in general, these planes were not flying back to the U.S. empty. JOHN CUMMINGS: Well, separate and apart from this. See, my suspicion was, as they were flying weapons in, since the cargo... You know, the planes were empty. They weren't gonna come back empty. I mean, Seal's (how shall I say?) "cover" was that of a drug trafficker. In other words, he had gotten into that game early. And for all the world, all the time they were chasing Seal around Mena, they were looking for drugs. But what they were *really* doing was running a supply operation. Now if Seal was running stuff *back*, it was not something Terry was involved in. Terry didn't find out about the drugs until much later, when he was in Mexico. CONSPIRACY NATION: And that was what caused him to break off from the operation. JOHN CUMMINGS: Yeah. He broke off from that. And right after he did, he started having legal problems. CONSPIRACY NATION: So he found out, while he was in Mexico, that drugs were involved. And he didn't want to have anything to do with the drugs. JOHN CUMMINGS: He was down there supposedly to run a machine tool company. And he had acquired a big warehouse for putting machine tools. He'd been told that what they were gonna do with this proprietary company was run guns from the U.S. to Central America. But when he went to his warehouse one day, he opened one of these big, huge containers, and it was full of cocaine. And at which time he then confronted his then boss, a man named Felix Rodriguez (although *he* was going under a pseudonym too.) CONSPIRACY NATION: Yeah. "Max Gomez." JOHN CUMMINGS: Max Gomez. Yeah. And he [Terry Reed] bargained his way out of there. He thought he was home free. He says, "I just want out. I'm gonna go home. I'm not gonna say anything to anybody. I just want out of this." And then suddenly, it turns out that a plane that had been stolen from [Reed] years earlier turns up in a hangar he had rented in Little Rock. CONSPIRACY NATION: Wasn't Buddy Young, then working as Clinton's chief of security, involved? JOHN CUMMINGS: Buddy Young is one of the people he's sueing. CONSPIRACY NATION: And what happened was, Reed thought everything was okay, and he heads north. And Buddy Young puts out a "profile" on him, through the computers. JOHN CUMMINGS: He put out a phony profile on him! Saying that he was a known drug trafficker and that he had been dealing in drugs in Central America. He put that into the government computers. CONSPIRACY NATION: So then, Reed figured they must be out to get him. He figured that they'll probably, since they've got this false profile on him, that he's this "dangerous drug trafficker", he'll be lucky if he gets captured alive. JOHN CUMMINGS: Yes, well that was the idea. They had listed, on this alert, "Armed and dangerous" -- which is a tip-off to every cop: shoot first and ask questions later. But, you see, he had enough knowledge that he could have implicated both Bill Clinton *and* George Bush in this. CONSPIRACY NATION: So Reed went "underground" for what, 18 months or so? JOHN CUMMINGS: Well, a little less than a year. He and his wife took off with their children and drove across the country, trying to stay out of sight, figuring that he had been marked for a hit like [Barry] Seal had been! He was convinced they would do the same thing to him that they did to Seal. CONSPIRACY NATION: Barry Seal had taken that secret videotape of [the Sandinistas] loading that plane with narcotics. And who leaked that tape? Was it Reagan or North? JOHN CUMMINGS: It was photos, not videotape. CONSPIRACY NATION: But wasn't it North, or Reagan, that made the photos public? JOHN CUMMINGS: Reagan put 'em on the air. CONSPIRACY NATION: Yeah. Because Reagan was under political pressure. JOHN CUMMINGS: He wanted to get aid to the *Contras* through Congress. And they wanted to show, "Look. These guys [Sandinistas] are all drug dealers." And by doing that, they made it known who was informing on them. CONSPIRACY NATION: And then Seal was a marked man. And by the government putting him in a position where he was easily found, it was the same as setting him up. JOHN CUMMINGS: Yeah, that's a well-documented story. CONSPIRACY NATION: So after about a year underground, Reed decides that he's gonna turn himself in. JOHN CUMMINGS: No, he learns that he's been indicted. So having been indicted, he decided that he'd better surrender before they tried to come and find him. And he did. He arranged to surrender. And he went with an attorney and surrendered. And his wife was also indicted. And she had done absolutely nothing. CONSPIRACY NATION: Yeah. She says in the video ["The Mena Connection"] that the judge at one point said, "Mrs. Reed, I don't even understand why you're here in court." JOHN CUMMINGS: What he said was, "Why is *she* here?" And Terry's attorney said, "I guess because she's married to him." The judge asked, several times, "Why is *she* here?" CONSPIRACY NATION: So then Reed was exonerated, and found not guilty. JOHN CUMMINGS: He was acquitted, yeah. He was acquitted by the judge. It was an order of acquittal, from a judge (which you hardly ever see.) There was no jury trial. CONSPIRACY NATION: So he was so obviously innocent that... JOHN CUMMINGS: He was acquitted on the law. Not on the facts. Because the jury decides the facts. But the judge said that the government had no case! (This was after two-and-a-half years.) And when I spoke to the judge about it, he told me that he thought the case "had a high odor to it." CONSPIRACY NATION: And after he was acquitted, he had gone through a lot of hardship because of all this and had to spend a lot of money, I assume, with legal fees and everything. And at what point did you meet up with him? JOHN CUMMINGS: I met up with him while he was still under indictment. I met him for the first time, personally, the Summer of 1990. The judge's acquittal came in the following November. CONSPIRACY NATION: One of the reasons he decided to work with you on a book was because he figured if he got his story out, he and his family would be safer. JOHN CUMMINGS: *I* told him that. If he got his story out, it wouldn't be a suit of armor, but it would raise more suspicion if something happened to him. Otherwise, if they were to shoot him dead, I mean, who knew about this guy? CONSPIRACY NATION: So after he was acquitted, he wanted redress of his grievances and he also wanted to get the truth out. JOHN CUMMINGS: He was very angry because of what they had done to his wife. He was very angry that they had put her through this. And they had three small children. And it's very obvious that she had done absolutely nothing. In fact, I read the grand jury minutes: there was virtually no case going on there at all. But you know, there's a saying: "A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich." And that's what really pissed him off. So the two of them decided... They were still wary of me, at that point. They decided that they were going to go back into court and seek justice. (Not really realizing that that is a relative term, and seeking justice sometimes can be a very burdensome thing.) But anyway, they decided to do this. And then I went to visit him in early 1991. And that was the first time, in our conversations, that he brought in Bill Clinton, and ADFA [Arkansas Development Finance Authority], and money-laundering, and all the rest of it. CONSPIRACY NATION: The book *Compromised* was kind of a landmark book, or a ground- breaking book, in that it outlined what was going on; it provided a road map for what had been going on in Arkansas. JOHN CUMMINGS: What it was, it was a kind of diary of a foot soldier in that war [i.e. *Contras*]. This is something that he really believed in. He believed in the *Contras* and he felt that they should be helped. (You know, he and I had many arguments about that.) And he said that he, at the time, thought that Oliver North was (although he didn't know, at the time, he was Oliver North), he thought he was a great guy. And he was as pissed off as Terry was about what had happened in Vietnam. CONSPIRACY NATION: And so Reed brought suit against the government? JOHN CUMMINGS: No, it wasn't a suit against the government. It was a suit against the two men who testified against him. There was a third man, who was an Arkansas state trooper, who works for the DEA. CONSPIRACY NATION: He brought suit against these 3 people. Do you know the names of the people? JOHN CUMMINGS: Buddy Young. Tommy Baker. And Sanders -- he's an Arkansas cop who was working with the DEA. Sanders was brought in because of the contacts... I tell you what: to really understand the court case you have to read the chapter, "Department of Injustice." Because these guys lied so many times, in their testimony. They kept getting caught: they would say one thing, and then the facts would show something else. See, the reason he brought suit against those guys, it was very clear that they were lying in their testimony. And they didn't even really make any attempt to hide the fact they were lying. CONSPIRACY NATION: And by bringing suit, this allows what they call the discovery process, right? That he (at least theoretically) should have access to documents that aren't normally available? JOHN CUMMINGS: He got documents from the FBI and from the DEA Intelligence Headquarters in El Paso which showed that Young had planted the profile about him being a drug trafficker, and that they claimed when they found the airplane that they took the VIN number through NCIC [National Crime Information Center] -- but not when they said they did! CONSPIRACY NATION: And so this lawsuit was proceeding well. And in the video, "The Mena Connection," it ends with a request that people try to help with the legal expenses. JOHN CUMMINGS: If they can. Yes. CONSPIRACY NATION: Did he get much help with the legal expenses, from people? JOHN CUMMINGS: Yeah, there was help that came in. Basically, Terry is taking what income, his share of what income there has been from the book, to plough into this case. CONSPIRACY NATION: So he's in a situation that happens to a lot of people: the government has got unlimited funds, but an individual citizen, if they're gonna pursue something like this, they've got to spend their own money. JOHN CUMMINGS: That's right. There's no way you can really out-spend the government. CONSPIRACY NATION: And so, this case was proceeding well, up until recently, right? JOHN CUMMINGS: There was a motion, from the other side, to limit the amount of evidence that Terry could bring in. And that copy of the court order I sent you [See CN 7.56] just about wipes away any reference to Mena or... In other words, he can try his civil rights case, but you can't go into *why* they would have wanted to frame him. CONSPIRACY NATION: So the judge is like a gatekeeper, right? He decides what gets allowed in. JOHN CUMMINGS: The judge is, of course, a product of Arkansas politics. CONSPIRACY NATION: What's the judge's name? JOHN CUMMINGS: George Howard. He's the one that's trying the case now against Jim Guy Tucker. CONSPIRACY NATION: So that would indicate that the case against Tucker is also likely to be biased. JOHN CUMMINGS: I'm not familiar with that *case*. There's a lot of people running interference for Bill Clinton. And I think the thing that you might want to keep in mind: every attempt to pull back the rock on Mena has been thwarted. CONSPIRACY NATION: I don't know if you know this fellow named Sherman Skolnick, out of Chicago... JOHN CUMMINGS: I know who he is. I don't know much about him. CONSPIRACY NATION: Well he's been looking into this whole thing, with Whitewater and Mena, and his end of this is, he represents somebody named Joseph Andreuccetti which, it's a complicated case, but there was supposed to have been a transfer of an RTC [Resolution Trust Corporation] contingency fund -- an *illegal* transfer -- that this money went down to Arkansas to cover up an embezzlement of a savings and loan down there. But just generally, I'm familiar that the state just reeks of corruption. JOHN CUMMINGS: Arkansas? Oh geez. We have a chapter in there which we refer to as "America's Banana Republic." Which is what it is. CONSPIRACY NATION: So at this point you're being stymied. JOHN CUMMINGS: Terry has run into a big road-block with this judge. Yeah. CONSPIRACY NATION: And what's the prognosis at this point? JOHN CUMMINGS: Well, I think that (I'm giving you my speculation now), if Terry appeals this, if he can't appeal it now, it would keep the case out of court until after the election -- which is what I think they're after. CONSPIRACY NATION: In your book, there's two occasions where Reed actually meets with Clinton... JOHN CUMMINGS: There were three meetings. Reed only talks about two. CONSPIRACY NATION: And the third is kept quiet, for now. I talked with Sarah McClendon, the veteran White House correspondent. And she thinks that Clinton is just, basically, innocent. How involved was Clinton? JOHN CUMMINGS: Up to his ears. Here was a guy, what he was doing was playing ball with the Administration in Washington, and for a lot of reasons. There was a lot of money flowing into the state. You have to *really* understand the amount of money that was flowing into Arkansas. And the net effect of this was, the money went to finance firms run by Clinton's friends, who could then make very nice campaign contributions to him. I mean, Clinton never got any of that money directly. CONSPIRACY NATION: When I talked with Sarah McClendon, she said that there were several "Menas", so-called; that this was not an isolated operation. JOHN CUMMINGS: There was at least one other that I know of, out in Texas. [Barry] Seal was involved. CONSPIRACY NATION: The Arkansas Development Finance Authority [ADFA], the way that worked: drug money goes into ADFA and then it gets loaned out to people... JOHN CUMMINGS: [Barry Seal] was dropping $9 million a month into Arkansas. And the money ended up going to Dan Lasater. Where it went from there, who knows? ADFA... Nobody knows where ADFA's money came from. We know that they lent out a lot of money to Bill Clinton's friends -- people who didn't need it! ADFA was supposedly set up to help companies that couldn't get regular financing. CONSPIRACY NATION: You've looked into the drug corruption. What's your opinion on the "War on Drugs"? JOHN CUMMINGS: The "War on Drugs" is a joke. CONSPIRACY NATION: Orlin Grabbe, a former finance professor at the Wharton Business College, has theorized that what this "War on Drugs" is about is inflating the cost of these drugs; that the United States sells arms to the Third World and the Third World has no way to pay, except with their drugs. And the way it works is, the "War on Drugs" artificially boosts the cost of these drugs. JOHN CUMMINGS: I'm somewhat aware of his theory. And I have no serious argument with it, although I have no personal knowledge of that. I'll put it to you this way: the guy who originally put me on to Barry Seal was a narcotics investigator. And he said to me (referring to Seal), "I thought I was chasing the biggest drug trafficker in the country, only to learn that the biggest drug trafficker in the country *was* the country." (And I think that really tells it all.) He suddenly realized that he'd spent his life on a fool's errand. The "War on Drugs" is a tremendous farce. 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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@alterzone.com -> Posted by: Brian Redman Date: Sun Jun 02, 1996 10:37 pm CST From: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com TO: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: (Fwd) [FreeSpeech-NewsWire] Dornan Fingers Bush for Mena?! -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 11:43:19 -0400 (EDT) From: James Daugherty To: New Paradigms Discussion Cc: Free Speech List Subject: [FreeSpeech-NewsWire] Dornan Fingers Bush for Mena?! Did Dornan really say this?! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 19:32:30 -0700 (MST) From: Free Speech To: fsnw-l@freespeechnews.com Subject: [FreeSpeech-NewsWire] Congressional Record May 29th 1996 Congressional Record May 29th 1996 'The wheels of Justice grind exceedingly slow, but they grind exceedingly fine!' - author unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- ------------ The following is taken from the Congressional Record of the 29 of May 1996. The HONORABLE Mr. Dornan of Indiana is the HONORABLE gentleman who has placed them into the Congressional Record for all us. Perhaps "Judge" Kenneth Starr will now have the testicles to place the mill stone in motion! Personally, I doubt that this will ever occur as Starr was appointed Solicitor General of the United States by the most successfull cocaine smuggler in our nation's history, William Jefferson Clinton's partner, George Herbert Bush. -nemo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- ------------ Title: TRUTH IN SPEAKING (House of Representatives - May 29, 1996) CR [Page: H5627] The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from California Mr. Dornan is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, there are so many subjects racing through my mind right now for a 5-minute special order. I was going to talk about an Army hero who was killed in Bosnia trying to, to use his own words from a few hours before his death, clear these stinking minefields for the children of Bosnia, but the last gentlewoman began her remarks by saying it is time for truth in speaking. Let me tell the gentlewoman, as somebody who started investigating Little Rock in 1992, before the Clintons were in the White house, I think Little Rock, just Little Rock, in an otherwise great State, and only in the field of politics with some businesspeople, was a stinking hole of corruption; with not this current Governor, but the prior Governor, a stinking hole of corruption. And that like Hamlet's line about murder, though it hath no tongue, will by most miraculous organ out, all of this financial corruption will by most miraculous organ out by, using her very words, truth in speaking. CR [Page: H5628] Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. DORNAN. I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, what I did in my special order was ask a number of questions that were still unanswered. One of the questions that I think is very, very important is why did the Arkansas Development Financial Authority send $50 million of Arkansas money to the Cayman Islands to deposit in a bank in the Cayman Islands, which is a major drug transit point acknowledged by almost every DEA agent in the world? Why would they send $50 million of Arkansas money down there? That is a question that needs to be answered. I have the electronic bank transfer statements in my office. I am going to put them in the Congressional Record. There is no doubt the money was wired to the Cayman Islands. The question needs to be asked, why was it wired? Why would the Governor of Arkansas allow that? Why would the Arkansas Development Financial Authority, a State-run agency, send their money out of the country to a drug haven? I hope that the independent counsel will explore that. We are going to ask other questions as well. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, no one other than the gentleman has investigated the Vince Foster thing or analyzed it. And the line of Vince Foster's that comes back to us from the grave about the whole Whitewater mess and the IRS problems was, these are Vince Foster's words, `This is a can of worms we do not want to open.' The can of worms was opened in front of that jury and they got 24 felony convictions. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas, the Portia from the other side of the aisle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- ------------ END (or perhaps the Beginning!) Forwarded for Comments and Discussion, Not Necessarily Endorsed by: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \\\\\\\\\*//////////// ///// James Daugherty, volunteer Postmaster for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. 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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 06 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- STATEMENT OF PLAINTIFF TERRY K. REED ==================================== June 3, 1996 RE: LRC 94-634 REED v. YOUNG, et al. On July 5, 1991, one month shy of 5 years ago, my wife Janis and I mustered up the courage to register ourselves as plaintiffs in a civil law suit that we knew was seeded with political land mines. That original lawsuit, LRC 91-414, filed in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later to evolve into case number LRC 94-634, has transformed into an all-consuming endeavor, for not only Janis and me, our team of lawyers, but many concerned American citizens as well. We knew all along, as well did Little Rock Federal District Judge George Howard, Jr., that this case was not only about the violation of our civil rights, but carried with it the burden of re-educating the Court, the jury, and the American people about a painful period known in the annals of history as Iran-Contra. Slowly but surely, we and our legal team have been penetrating layer upon layer of government disinformation created for the sole purpose of preventing the truth to surface concerning the Reagan Administration's efforts to assist the Nicaraguan Contras in Arkansas. The Executive branch's by-passing of congressional restraints designed to prohibit or restrict military aid to the Contras through the law known as the Boland Amendment was in great part carried out on Arkansas soil with the full knowledge and complicity of our now-sitting President, Bill Clinton. Some of the CIA's activities which took place at Bill Clinton's Mena, Arkansas were patriotically driven and justified. Other activities, however, those which included the importation of cocaine and money laundering, can never be justified in the domain of the public. For this reason, there has been a concerted and bi-partisan effort to keep the subject matter known as MENA from becoming legitimized through the court process. Judge Howard's court has at times condoned our efforts to amass non-partisan evidence to not only prove our case, but to also re-write history and do what Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh either feared or failed to do after conducting a $40 million investigation: to tell the truth about the CIA's activities in Mena, Arkansas in the mid-1980s. To begin, let me recap our motivations for suing Raymond (Buddy) Young, then a captain with the Arkansas State Police and serving as Bill Clinton's gubernatorial chief of security. Young is now the director of Region 6 of the Federal Emergency Management Authority (FEMA) and based at Denton, Texas. From his position at FEMA he still finds time to protect Bill Clinton by threatening former Clinton bodyguards whenever they come forward with evidence which may embarrass the President or hint of wrong-doing. We felt then, as we feel now, that Mr. Young was a dangerous and unethical man who should never have been allowed to wear a badge. Yet, there he was in 1987, officing out of the Governor's mansion, drawing from the resources of the state of Arkansas, and behaving as any modern day crime family "enforcer" as he provided "security" for Arkansas' first family, Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton. Providing security: what does this encompass? That is what this case was destined to expose. Does it include destroying the lives of people who innocently become a political liability to powerful politicians, namely his boss, Bill Clinton? Well, the senior federal judge in Wichita, Kansas, Frank G. Theis, ruled in 1990 that these "security services" included at least the orchestration of phony criminal indictments against myself and Janis. The question is, why? We wanted to answer that question in Judge Howard's court. We already knew the answer. I had worked at the Mena airport and could connect prominent Arkansan power brokers and politicians to some very nefarious activity. Simply said: Janice and I were liabilities and had to be dealt with. As Judge Theis clearly saw, Young was not a solo actor as he conducted the despicable deed of trying to wrongfully and illegally cause innocent people to be incarcerated or killed. Theis concluded that Young had at least one accomplice, Tommy Lee Baker, of Little Rock, Arkansas, another former Arkansas State cop and sometimes private detective. Mr. Baker now sells alcohol to some of Little Rock's lower socio-economic groups through his liquor store on East 9th Street. Judge Theis, the senior federal judge for the 10th circuit district, had witnessed Young and Baker shuffling through his court room on more than one occasion between 1988 and 1990 as they emerged as the star witnesses in a U.S. Government prosecution designed to imprison Janis and myself for 20 years each -- for a crime we knew absolutely nothing about. Yet, Young and Baker, through their own perjurous lips, and manufactured material evidence, had convinced a Kansas U.S. Attorney that Janis and I were drug smuggling airplane thieves who were so "armed and dangerous" that we and our young children could have been shot on sight by any overly wary or trigger-happy law enforcement officer. Young, by his own admission, fabricated and authored a criminal profile that presented us as a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. But miraculously, by November, 1990, through two and one half years of effort, a lot of money, and a little bit of luck, Janis and I and our criminal defense lawyers were able to set the record straight in Judge Theis' courtroom. The judge exonerated us of *all* alleged criminal wrong-doing by finding me "not guilty" and at the same time lashed out at the government-embraced accusers. In the judge's own written words, sworn statements made by both Baker and Young were "made with at least reckless disregard for the truth." On my day of judgement, November 9, 1990, when I was acquitted, I quietly vowed to bring Buddy Young and Tommy Baker to justice -- to expose them for the dregs that they are -- simply bad cops hiding behind tarnished badges and taking instructions from corrupt power-brokers and politicians who likewise should be prosecuted and forced from office to an awaiting prison cell. But that is not going to happen in Judge Howard's courtroom, and not through the five years of sweat and effort that Janis and I have devoted to this uphill and horrendously expensive legal exercise. Judge Howard, for reasons unexplained but clearly understood, has decided to protect these scoundrels, and in so doing protect those who assigned Young and Baker their "targets". In recent months Judge Howard has gutted our lawsuit and in the process has exposed the strings to which he is attached -- strings that are obviously being pulled from Washington, and more significantly, the White House. So who is Judge Howard protecting? I can't fathom it would be the enemies of civil liberties like Young and Baker. Why is a federal judge, who up until recently appeared to be so sympathetic with civil rights issues, ordering me to *not* put on the evidence we have amassed that can clearly prove WHO was instructing Young and Baker to violate our civil rights? The judge, by his own order, has specifically forbidden me to introduce the following evidence, evidence my lawyers desperately need to prove motive on behalf of Young and Baker and other unnamed co-conspirators. ORDER Pending before the Court is defendants' December 4th motion in limine to exclude the following matters: ....... These general areas will be referred to as the "Mena" evidence or documents. .......Even if the Court were to find that the complaint adequately states sufficient facts to make the allegations....... relevant to the alleged overt actions of these defendants, the probative value is substantially outweighed by the dangers of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, the potential for misleading of the jury and considerations of undue delay and waste of time. The following description will control: Any reference to the plaintiffs' participation in programs, operations or missions sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Central Intelligence Agency or any other agency of the United States government, covert or otherwise, as well as any organization sponsored by or aligned with the United States government specifically including, but not limited to, any programs, operations or missions conducted in southwest Arkansas regarding the training of Nicaraguan nationals, the funding and support for any factions involved in the Nicaraguan conflict and any contact or communications with operatives or officials of the above-named agencies or organizations. Any reference to President or Governor Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton and the Mena or Nella Airports. Any references to Barry Seale [sic] and any alleged drug smuggling operation or other references to the Mena and Nella Airports, or to a business relationship of Barry Seale [sic] and Dan Lasater, Lasater and Company and the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority (ADFA) and ADFA's former Director, Bob Nash. .......IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 8th day of March, 1996. George Howard, Jr. [signed] United States District Judge Judge Howard, through his own order, has exposed himself. Unwittingly, he and his integrity have now been compromised. By dissecting his order, one can clearly see two things. 1. Judge Howard is eliminating evidence that he has not yet even seen. Most of our 110 witnesses were not deposed prior to trial. The judge, and even worse, the defendants, don't know what our witnesses would say on the stand... and that's the problem, isn't it? Heaven forbid the unadulterated and unedited and unrehearsed and uncensored truth spill out within the walls of a federal court house. 2. Judge Howard is protecting people and government agencies not even named in the lawsuit. This is abundantly clear when one notes the names of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Dan Lasater, Bob Nash, and the Arkansas state agency known as ADFA. Bill, Hillary, Dan, Bob and ADFA are not defendants in the suit. One can only conclude from this judge's bizarre behavior that there has been wrongful, unethical, and illegal communication between the judge and the White House. Otherwise, these names wouldn't appear in the Order -- especially that of Bob Nash. Bob Nash has never been officially accused of any wrong doing, although I have knowledge of same, and this would come out in court. And where is Bob Nash? He's in the White House -- Director of Personnel. As a former U.S. Air Force intelligence professional, I am making the following observation: this Democrat appointed judge is running interference for Bill Clinton in this election year. Mena will not be *allowed* to become a political issue in the 1996 race for the Presidency. Judge Howard has been appointed to be our road block to justice. At the same time he is cleverly putting Janis, me and my lawyers in a suicidal posture. We can go to trial, we just cannot put on our evidence. And speaking of suicide, imagine the forces that are causing judge Howard to fall on his sword. When this is over, surely he will have no judicial integrity or respect. But I guess that is a price one pays when one is securely employed for life. And what was the judge's response when my law team filed a 20 page motion on April 23, 1996 giving him the alternatives to: 1. Reconsider his March 8th gag order, or 2. Hear oral arguments on our evidentiary dispute, or 3. Allow us to appeal this evidentiary dispute to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals prior to trial His succinct response was ORDER Plaintiffs' April 23rd motion for reconsideration and clarification or, alternatively, for leave to file interlocutory appeal (#55) is denied for the reasons contained in the March 8th order and defendants' May 6th response. .......IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 10th day of May, 1996. George Howard, Jr. [signed] United States District Judge Devastation does not come close to describing our feelings. After years of dragging this case through the federal civil justice system, Judge Howard has manipulated us into the following legal posture: we can go to court but we cannot put on critical evidence, therefore we will lose. That loss, even though we could appeal it (and the appeal would consume at minimum another year of our lives and tens of thousands more dollars), will be interpreted by the Clinton spin doctors as a victory. There will be no mention of the fact our hands were tied, and our mouths were gagged, and the so-called "trial" was a travesty of justice. They will attempt to convince the media, at a critical point in the election process, that Mena is a figment of my imagination, even though the Mena evidence was not allowed to be presented in court. Proudly being a former member of the U.S. armed services, I was trained to win wars, not lose them. I refuse to repeat my Vietnam experience and not be *allowed* to win. When we rather naively filed the original complaint, our sons were ages 4, 6, and 8. They are now 9, 11, and 13, and have little or no memory of their parents not being consumed in the efforts to properly litigate this case. For the sake of our children, and the sanity of our family unit, we are making a very difficult and painful decision. Ruefully, after 59 months of a stressful, tumultuous and at times triumphant struggle, we are being forced to conclude that the subject of Mena will never be presented within the confines of a federal court room, and that Janis and I will not see justice served. Instead, we now cynically view the federal court house in Little Rock as a monument to federal corruption, and a slap in the face to all Americans who believe in the separation of powers provided under the Constitution. With tears in our eyes, lumps in our throats, and knots in our stomachs, we are instructing our attorneys to non-suit this case. To the hundreds of people who directly participated in our struggle, we would like to remind them of the many victories achieved throughout the course of our ordeal. In many ways we did win -- at least in the court of public opinion. Our numerous depositions, which were funded in great part by public contributions, have clearly established the fact that the CIA's activities at Mena, Arkansas *did* take place, and that prominent politicians from both parties either were complicit in the illegal activities that swirled around this covert operation, or even worse, were directly involved or benefited. I would like to think that my personal hero, Harry S. Truman, would be proud of our accomplishments, even in the face of overwhelming odds. At times of strife he was encouraged by the average citizen to "Give 'em hell, Harry!" I too have heard voices who backed me shout, "Give 'em hell, Terry!" I hope I've lived up to the task. And to Raymond (Buddy) Young, Tommy Lee Baker, and those working with the Arkansas political establishment who have successfully undermined my efforts to take this material to trial, I will now quote from another hero of mine, Douglas McArthur: "I will return." Terry K. 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(fwd) -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:56:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "David J. Sussman" To: CS Subject: TERRY REED DROPS HIS LAWSUIT !!! (fwd) I missed the story that Reed had dropped it. Was he paid off? Or is he preserving rights to file at a later date where the court will allow his evidence? DS ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 1 JUN 1996 14:58:25 GMT From: Jay A. Newgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater Subject: TERRY REED DROPS HIS LAWSUIT !!! This is a really big surprise. Anybody hear anything about a settlement? Did Terry run out of money? Was he threatened further? What's the deal? Jay A. Newsgroups: clari.local.arkansas,clari.usa.gov.white_house From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters) Subject: Lawsuit against former Clinton aide dropped Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:00:03 PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuter) - A lawsuit against three Arkansas men including President Clinton's former chief of security was dismissed late Friday at the plaintiff's request. Jury selection in the case was to begin Monday, and the plaintiff's motion to dismiss the case was filed only minutes before the close of business Friday afternoon in federal district court in Little Rock. The suit was filed by Terry Reed, a Missouri resident and self-described CIA operative who said he once trained pilots for the Nicaraguan Contra resistance at a remote Arkansas airstrip. Reed claimed he was targeted for economic retribution after he uncovered evidence of cocaine smuggling. Reed's suit alleged that Barry Seal, a well-known drug smuggler and government informant who was shot to death in Louisiana several years ago, had a ``business relationship'' with Dan Lasater, a former Little Rock investment banker with social and political ties to Clinton. Lasater testified recently before the Senate Whitewater Committee regarding allegations that he received preferred treatment on a bond issue after making contributions to Clinton's campaign for governor of Arkansas in the 1980s. Lasater denied the charge. Lasater served a prison sentence several years ago on cocaine charges, and he has acknowledged loaning Clinton's younger brother, Roger, $8,000 to pay a cocaine debt. One of the defendants in Reed's suit was Raymond ``Buddy'' Young, a former captain in the Arkansas State Police who commanded Clinton's security detail while he was governor. After being elected president, Clinton appointed Young a regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Reed's motion to dismiss the suit was filed so late in the day that reporters could not obtain copies of the document, which could indicate his reasons for withdrawing the action and whether a settlement was involved. Lawyers for President Clinton were watching the case because of the number of individuals with current or past ties to Clinton were either defendants or potential witnesses. Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.linex.com/ufo -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@alterzone.com -> Posted by: "Steve Wingate" Date: Tue Jun 11, 1996 3:23 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 09 The following is brought to you thanks, in part, to the kind assistance of CyberNews and the fine folks at Cornell University. Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 09 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with either all or parts of the following. -- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + WHAT IS WHITEWATER REALLY ALL ABOUT? By Sherman H. Skolnick The popular press would have us believe that Whitewater was a few real estate mistakes of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Totally no more than 69 thousand dollars or so. Why the press is kidding us may become more clear after considering a few items the press has not seen fit to tell us. William Jefferson Clinton deems himself a clever man. Recruited by CIA early on, he was in a position to understand counter- intelligence and espionage agencies using different financial entities as a money laundry to disguise covert action funds. Bill was recruited by Central Intelligence supposedly as a travelling student. In Prague, at the time [of] the Soviets' bloody seizure from the local communists, Bill stayed at the home of the son of a leading communist leader. Those not understanding the use of students as spies and counter-spies might simply label Clinton as a "Red". Actually, Bill was part of a CIA counter- espionage scheme, similar to the role of Allard K. Lowenstein as head of the National Student Association in the 1950s. Lowenstein's operation, somewhat similar to Bill's, was done with foundations acting as conduits for CIA funding. Some journalists, like this writer, began confronting Lowenstein with his CIA links. While plotting to help Ted Kennedy somehow steal the 1980 presidential election, Lowenstein was blown away by a so-called "lone assassin". Clinton also went to Moscow, again the travelling student with an espionage agenda. He accomplished what his bosses at CIA considered a brilliant move: Clinton stole a secret transcript of a tongue-lashing one Soviet dictator gave to others in their ruling elite. Conveyed by Clinton to CIA, this endeared Bill to the Rockefellers. After all, CIA's worldwide job has been to guard Rockefeller's foreign oil properties. So Clinton's rise to power has to be understood in this context. After all, Arkansas is a sizeable state with a small population. Is it a secret the Rockefellers own and operate Arkansas? Winthrop Rockefeller was Governor of the State a few terms before Bill. Worthen Banking Group and the Jackson Stephens family -- headquartered in Little Rock -- are the largest bond brokers and investment bankers outside of Wall Street. They apparently are all fronting for the Rockefellers and the American spy shop. Hillary Rodham is a CIA darling as well, in some ways separate and apart from "Sludge Willie". In spook parlance, they are a "CIA couple". Yes, they are married and had a daughter. Yet, Bill and Hillary are part of somewhat separate espionage agendas. Hillary understands plenty. She was a key aide during the Watergate investigation whitewash of the role of CIA. Put in a nutshell, Nixon wanted to become an imperial president by blackmailing CIA on their role in the murder of President Kennedy. CIA double agents supposedly working for the Nixon White House arranged to get themselves caught at the Watergate Hotel. Result: the downfall of Nixon, arranged by CIA, and Hillary, early in her career, played her part. Hillary went on to become board chairman of a CIA foundation instrumental in funding dirty tricks using agents provocateurs. The CIA and their use of foundations, like the one later headed by Hillary, is a story all by itself. This writer once taught a course at a radio/TV broadcast school on the subject of CIA and their foundations and how to research and investigate the same. An entity much-used by CIA was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International [BCCI]. Foreign espionage agencies, like those of France and Israel, likewise used BCCI. The popular press has given Americans the false understanding that the rogue bank was a purely Arab creature. There are profound reasons why the mass media are fearful of pushing too hard on the Clintons. The fall-out would damage a few other windows as well. In 1991, four major news organizations had obtained the bribery list, showing who BCCI had bribed, worldwide, including the United States. By some mystery it was, for thirty days only, a public record at the Bank of England. One of these news groups corroborated that the list was correct as to the United States. According to the details, 108 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 28 U.S. Senators received bribes from BCCI. Part of the scheme involved 6 Chicago commodity brokers, some with offices in London. One of them, Capcom, was reportedly secretly owned by major officials of one of the largest cable companies with purported links to Turner Broadcasting of Atlanta. BCCI wanted to penetrate the American banking scene in a big way. They did a thing natural to cynical big business: they bought Congress. The details were too shocking for the major news group. So a brave journalist turned over the details to this writer and his associates who further verified the details and wrote exclusive stories in 1991. Reportedly implicated was Wendy Gramm, at the time head of the federal agency regulating commodity brokers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She is the wife of Senator Phil Gramm (R., Texas). The strange death of Vincent Foster, jr., Clinton White House aide, is bound up with activities of Foster and Hillary to assist BCCI to penetrate American business. Records of the House Banking Committee show BCCI was practically a twin of another scandal-ridden operation, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [BNL], Italy's largest bank, owned in part by the Vatican. The Congressional Committee sought further records of BNL's Chicago branch. A Federal judge in Chicago, close to the Bush White House, issued an injunction to stop the House Banking Committee from using records of BNL Chicago. Involved were huge transactions of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi strongman, and his secret, private business partner. In May, 1991, shortly after the Persian Gulf War, the case ended up to be heard by a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. This writer and his associates were the only journalists attending the hearing. Afterwards, in the back of the courtroom, we did exclusive interviews with some of the participants in the case. They confirmed what we had heard elsewhere from reliable sources: that George Herbert Walker Bush, at the time President, was the secret, private business partner in joint ventures with the Iraqi dictator. Involved in the bank records were tens of billions of dollars of oil kick-backs from various Persian Gulf oil-soaked sheikdoms, shared by Bush and his cronies with Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator was the bully boy of the Persian Gulf and received 25 percent of the proceeds of oil shipped to the West. So, when oil was 20 dollars per barrel, Hussein split the 5 dollar per barrel kick-back with Bush and his bunch. A trillion dollars of oil was shipped from the Gulf in the decade, 1980 to 1990. The corrupt rake-off amounted to 25 billion dollars per year, making Saddam Hussein and Bush the richest men on the planet. The federal trial judge had ordered the Banking Committee to return the records and enjoined their disclosure and use. After the appeals court hearing, the Bush Justice Department leaked details to certain journalists, that one of the 3-judge panel had taken bribes, known to the Justice Department, in eight other unrelated cases. In that context, the end result became obvious. The appeals court panel ordered the BNL Chicago case to be removed from the courthouse, a way of hushing the matter up. The press, other than small publications, will not say a single word about the case of Bank Lavoro's Chicago branch. And not a single committee of the House or Senate will utter a single word about the Chicago mess. Congress and the press have discussed a federal case involving BNL's Atlanta branch. Some 5 billion dollars was secretly diverted to Iraq -- a paltry sum by comparison to BNL Chicago. Disguised as Agriculture Department loans, the funds were diverted for Iraq to buy weapons from American companies. The press and Congress have omitted some key details about Iraq and BNL Atlanta. The deal was arranged and strategized by Hillary Rodham Clinton in conjunction with her law partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, namely, [Vince] Foster. Part of the Iraqi weapons money reportedly was washed through the banks of Clinton's cronies, Jackson Stephens and the Worthen Banking Group. 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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 Date: Tue Jun 11, 1996 3:36 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 10 The following is brought to you thanks, in part, to the kind assistance of CyberNews and the fine folks at Cornell University. Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 10 ====================================== ("Quid coniuratio est?") ----------------------------------------------------------------- I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with either all or parts of the following. -- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-Chief + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + WHAT IS WHITEWATER REALLY ALL ABOUT? By Sherman H. Skolnick [...continued...] Almost all in the press ignored the story that the Federal Reserve was investigating Hillary and Foster in respect to money laundering [of] illicit funds through foreign bank arrangements. Were the deals with BNL Chicago and BNL Atlanta arranged by and through CIA? With the aid of former CIA Director George Bush and CIA darling Hillary? A host of circumstantial details, enough to fill several books, tend to prove that. Then there is the case of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the mysterious fifty million dollars. Some background gives the context. Pending since 1984 have been a slew of state and federal cases in the Chicago area that together have come to be called the Andreuccetti Affair. Named for Joseph Andreuccetti, a west suburban caulking contractor pushed, he says, into *involuntary* bankruptcy by massive fraud of several banks and savings and loans. One such S&L [was] taken over by Household International, parent of Household Bank, together successors to the CIA-linked Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. (See: Jonathan Kwitny's book, *The Crimes of Patriots*.) Because of large, pending claims by Andreuccetti against the defunct S&L, the federal bail-out machine, Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC], set up a 58 million dollar fund parked with Household. One of Joe's [Andreuccetti's] attorneys more or less supervised the fund, John E. Gierum. In January, 1994, Gierum, of suburban Park Ridge, confessed to this writer, in the presence of Andreuccetti, about Gierum's troubles. Gierum has been a close crony of Hillary's family (originally from Park Ridge), the Rodhams. The White House, Gierum confessed, is trying to frame Gierum for the secret transfer of 50 million dollars of that contingency fund. The fund was transferred to Little Rock, to make good some 47 million dollars gone from Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan; some federal sources blame the President and First Lady for the missing 47 million dollars, talking darkly of mis-appropriation or bank embezzlement. Gierum knew this writer from a probe of the Andreuccetti Affair by a court reform group headed by this writer. Gierum said he did not think he could prevent from getting "framed" for the mysterious 50 million dollar transfer. "You're a skilled lawyer, you should be able to defend yourself," Gierum was told. The attorney explained mournfully that the powers that be, that is, the Clinton White House, have the matter set up, and the usual defense of the law and the facts cannot help Gierum. Reliable federal sources told us some 32 bookkeepers were unable to locate or figure out how the 50 million dollars disappeared from Household and RTC Chicago. By the way, is it just coincidence? Former CIA pilot Terry Reed, in his book, *Compromised*, telling how he flew CIA dope into the airport at Mena, Arkansas, also mentions a mysterious 50 million dollars. Other senior federal sources contend part of the 50 million dollars was funneled to the Grand Cayman Islands, with the reported help of Fuji Bank, and then, on to Switzerland. A Swiss bank reportedly has part of the money, mixed in with other illicit funds gathered for Clinton, part of it reportedly dope loot, under the code name "Chelsea Jefferson" -- "Chelsea" being the name of Clinton's daughter, and "Jefferson" being Bill's middle name. In the Andreuccetti cases, the details of Hillary's crony Gierum's confession are a matter of court record. Gierum was served a copy and he did not dispute the same. RTC investigators have known about the 50 million dollar fund secretly disappearing and secretly transferred to Little Rock, to cover up the reported Clinton embezzlement. One RTC senior investigation specialist was looking too deep into the matter: Jon Parnell Walker. He was "suicided", that is, murdered, by being thrown off a building in Arlington, Virginia. His friends, family, and co-workers all agree on one fact: Walker was not depressed; maybe just impulsive. In any case, Walker's demise was to show other RTC people it is unhealthy to look into such things as the 50 million dollar mystery. Another mess involving Hillary and Foster involves the Chicago operation of RTC. For several years, RTC's major outside attorneys were the Chicago-based firm of Hopkins & Sutter. So important was the law firm, RTC's offices were actually *inside* Hopkin's Chicago office. Hopkins & Sutter, for RTC, arranged for two members of a distant law firm, namely Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vincent Foster, jr., of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, to work the clean-up details of a defunct savings and loan of a west suburb of Chicago. The S&L, owned by former Illinois Governor Dan Walker, sr., went under in part because of corrupt bond deals done with the Clinton business crony, Dan Lasater. Part of the fall-out resulted in Dan Walker, sr., going to prison. Hillary and Foster did a cover up job. And, is it just another coincidence that Hopkins & Sutter partner, Jay Steinberg, is also the bankruptcy trustee in the Andreuccetti Affair; Steinberg himself reportedly involved in the mysterious 50 million dollar transfer to Little Rock? Hillary and her law partner Foster were also reportedly implicated in arranging the transfer of illicit funds resulting from the cocaine shipments by CIA pilots into Mena. Here is how it reportedly worked: 1. The dope loot was washed through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority [ADFA], a state creature originated by Bill Clinton as Governor. 2. From there, the dope funds were transferred, in part, to Arkansas banks and bond brokers who transferred the loot to Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. That is a small, closely-held bank; the owners include: *** Dan Rostenkowski, owner for more than 20 years of the bank; for more than 30 years a Congressman; now a scandalized former Congressman; *** Dan Shannon, once board chairman of that bank; he and his family closely linked to the illicit financial operations of Mayor Richard J. Daley, who ran Chicago City Hall for 21 years, and his son Richie, Chicago mayor since 1989; *** And, the most important owner, reportedly, as to this context, Hugh Rodham, Hillary's brother who went to law school with Gierum and is the White House connection. Federal investigators contend they have been investigating the Garfield Ridge Bank for the last 2-and-a-half years, as to the dope money trail from Arkansas. >From that bank, the dope loot was reportedly transferred, in part, to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange which also helped cover up Hillary's mysterious 100 thousand dollar windfall on commodity speculations. Several traders on the "Merc", although contending they are not personally involved, admitted to this writer that they expect a horrendous scandal because of the washing on the "Merc" of Mena dope money. >From the "Merc", the dope loot, in turn, was reportedly washed through offshore accounts, reportedly, again, by Fuji Bank, for the benefit of the Clintons. Some of the Arkansas dope loot was disguised as fraudulent or non-existent "loans" of the U.S. Small Business Administration [SBA]. Although the Chicago regional office of SBA does not include Arkansas, the funds were washed through Chicago. Is it just another coincidence that White House crony John E. Gierum has also been senior litigation attorney for the Small Business Administration? As more and more details pile up, you can see why Gierum's undisputed confession takes on such significance. What were some of the purposes of the dope money? Some 18 sizeable businesses have reportedly been financed this way, including, reportedly, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt Trucking, and Wal- Mart. We understand that Wal-Mart officials vigorously deny dope funds played any part in the spreading out of their Arkansas- based firm, nationwide. Perhaps someone never told them. State and federal law enforcement authorities contend that Tyson Foods and Don Tyson, the boss until recently, have long been implicated in dope trafficking. Is Don Tyson, who stepped down as head of the firm, evading a federal grand jury subpoena by way of his extended vacation to the Cayman Islands? Some think so. Then there is the circumstance of San Jacinto Savings & Loan, once located in a Texas town with the same name. Federal investigators contend somewhere between 15 and 150 million dollars disappeared, by way of non-existent home loans to Arkansas, and that Hillary is involved. A senior federal bank investigator, returning from his work in Texas, said cryptically, "Hillary is going to prison." Unanswered questions: 1. Did Bill and Hillary Clinton benefit from all the apparent embezzlement of savings & loan and other funds? 2. Did they only partly benefit personally? 3. Were they, either together, or each in a different project, fronting for CIA covert fund activities, such as at Mena? 4. Is the really big secret about all this -- Mena, Little Rock, Chicago, Atlanta -- that the illicit activities of the Clintons overlapped the covert and illicit doings of George Bush and Ollie North? And that this is what is causing both Democrats and Republicans to be hung up, not wanting to really finger the Clinton White House? ----------------------------------------------------------------- I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation." ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information on how to receive the new Conspiracy Nation Newsletter, send an e-mail message to bigxc@prairienet.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like "Conspiracy Nation" sent to your e-mail address, send a message in the form "subscribe conspire My Name" to listproc@prairienet.org -- To cancel, send a message in the form "unsubscribe conspire" to listproc@prairienet.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 Date: Mon Jun 24, 1996 6:12 pm CST From: snetnews EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: snetnews@alterzone.com TO: Multiple Addresses Suppressed EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: Multiple Addresses Suppressed BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Clinton had CIA ties -> SearchNet's snetnews Mailing List >>>>>>>>>>>>> Book says Clinton had CIA ties "Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America," Biography by Roger Morris http://www.washtimes.com/ [The Washington Times] [Front Page] [Image] Published in Washington, D.C. June 24, 1996 "America's Newspaper" Book says Clinton had CIA ties By George Archibald THE WASHINGTON TIMES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Was Bill Clinton, as a graduate student at Oxford, a boy spy for the CIA? One of the intriguing mysteries of Mr. Clinton's life at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar during the Vietnam War, is how a young man of relatively modest means from a small town in Arkansas managed a luxury tour of Moscow at Christmas 1969. The president himself has never offered a full explanation. A new biography of the president and the first lady, by Roger Morris, who resigned from Richard Nixon's National Security Council to protest the Vietnam War, offers a startling solution to the mystery: The young Bill Clinton was an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency, paid to spy on his friends and classmates, reporting anti-war activities in London. By Mr. Morris' telling in "Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America," Mr. Clinton's connection to the CIA continued through his tenure as governor of Arkansas. Mr. Clinton, he writes, once encouraged his favorite security officer to work for the CIA in support of a program of flying aid to the Nicaraguan Contras out of the airport at Mena, a small town nestled in the dense forests in the Ouachita Mountains of remote western Arkansas. -- Continued from Front Page -- The White House declined to respond to specific allegations in the book. Mark Fabiani, the president's special associate counsel, said in a terse statement released through a spokeswoman that the allegations are "bizarre and they speak for themselves." CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said: "It's our long-standing policy not to comment on allegations of affiliation with the agency." Mr. Morris writes that several CIA officers he knows do not believe that Mr. Clinton became an agency "asset" during the Vietnam era. But others, whom he believes to be "more plausible," say he was. His chief source had made a record of Mr. Clinton's listing within the CIA as an informant for "Operation Chaos" in the late 1960s. The CIA purged the files during the 1970s, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the late Sen. Frank Church, Idaho Democrat, investigated CIA spying activities. Mr. Morris describes the source as "a retired [CIA] officer who had been in many foreign postings as well as in the agency in Washington." "This was a man who was on the operations side, I gather would have been under some degree of cover when he was working abroad, [and] had been in several different stations in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe," he continues. This agent was with the CIA for 20 or 25 years "and had not been purged or, I gathered, was not let go" when he left the agency during the 1980s. "He had served out a normal tenure, but had come to be one of those people who later became very critical of the intelligence operation in a very discreet way." Among the book's other explosive revelations and conclusions: * The Mena operation was a major conduit for cocaine shipments from Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, and its distributors in Arkansas included Roger Clinton, the governor's half-brother, whose drug trafficking helped support a decade-long "four-gram-a-day" cocaine addiction. Mr. Morris describes the Mena operation as "a multibillion gun-running, drug-smuggling and money-laundering operation, an enormous criminal traffic carried on for at least five years with what the U.S. government's own documents secretly recorded as the collusion of organized crime, the CIA, and other Washington institutions." * Mr. Clinton, fully aware of his brother's addiction and drug peddling, received cocaine from Roger Clinton, who described the governor on a police surveillance videotape as having "a nose like a vacuum cleaner." Roger Clinton also supplied cocaine to Dan Lasater, an investment broker with operations in Arkansas and Florida who was among the most generous contributors to Mr. Clinton's campaigns. * In early 1984, undercover police filmed Roger Clinton telling a drug contact he needed $10,000 "for my brother to take care of EPA regs and other environmental oversight problems" involving a land development project owned by Mr. Lasater. Arkansas police forwarded the surveillance evidence to the Justice Department's criminal division to investigate Mr. Clinton for corruption, but no action was taken. * Mr. Clinton persuaded Mr. Lasater to hire his brother and send him to Florida to get him out of Arkansas. But Roger Clinton was indicted in August 1984, was convicted the following January and served a reduced two-year prison sentence after agreeing to testify against Mr. Lasater, who in December 1986 also received a 30-month prison sentence for cocaine distribution and conspiracy. Though once the governor's favorite security agent and bodyguard, state Trooper L.D. Brown fell from favor after he told Mr. Clinton that Barry Seal, a CIA contract pilot, was running arms for the Contras from Arkansas to Honduras and returning to Arkansas with cocaine. Barry Seal was later shot dead on a street near his home in Baton Rouge, La., in a hit believed to have been ordered by the Colombian cartel. Mr. Morris, who is now a history professor at the University of New Mexico, says his 526-page book is the result of a three-year investigation, based on almost 300 separate interviews of law enforcement, political, business and media sources in Arkansas, and friends and colleagues of the president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Much of it had first been reported in The Washington Times. "It's very much like a jigsaw puzzle, it's very much a matter of fitting pieces together from different angles," he says in an interview. "It wasn't meant to be a collection of muck or of smut. It was intended to be what I hope it is -- a serious dual biography of these two people and a serious look at the American political system." Mr. Morris, who holds a doctorate in government from Harvard, served as a Foreign Service officer and as an aide to President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Vice President Walter F. Mondale. Most of his key sources asked anonymity for fear of political retaliation, he says in an interview. "Presidents Johnson and Nixon had a reputation for being tough and ruthless and smearing their opponents," he says, "but I don't think either one of them hold a candle to the Clinton campaign. ... The Clintons have this reputation of being young and congenial and much more modern. They're very old-fashioned in their retaliation." In a 28-page chapter detailing sources, he writes that he "followed the historian's rule of requiring documentary support for every major assertion of fact or state of mind and at least two and usually three verifying sources for any quoted statement." Mr. Morris, who is the author of an acclaimed biography of the 37th president, "Richard Milhous Nixon, The Rise of an American Politician," says that he believes Mr. Clinton has a "deeply flawed" character like Richard Nixon's, and, like him, may also be forced to resign the presidency in disgrace. "I think that probably he'll be re-elected and probably Kenneth Starr's investigation will be a slow-drip undoing of this administration which, I think, is going to be a crisis for the country. It's a sad prospect." Mr. Starr, the independent counsel, he says, is "a very methodical and cautious, careful man. I don't think he's driven by any election calendar. I don't know him personally, but if you look at his track record, it's a very careful and conservative record. He doesn't take risks and he's not very political at all in his approach. I think he'll be very documentary and very methodical. I think the heart of his case will be financial." Mr. Clinton's bodyguards in Arkansas, who say they overheard many conversations involving Whitewater and other disputed financial matters, will provide important supportive evidence as they did in the writing of his book, he says. "The state troopers, who have been vilified so much and attacked on all sides for their credibility, I think proved to be accurate 99 percent of the time ... about the Clintons and the events, the incidents, on sworn statements and depositions. ... Since they deal often with criminal matters, they were liable to have been called up to a grand jury on perjury issues." He credits the troopers' revelations, first reported in the Los Angeles Times and the American Spectator magazine, as "the expose that led indirectly to the media and legal inquiries into Whitewater." Go back to the top of this article. ------------------------------------------------------ Published June 24, 1996, in The Washington Times Copyright) 1996 News World Communications, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------ INDEX | FRONT PAGE | POLITICS | OPINION | WHITEWATER | MEDIA LINKS HOME GUIDE | CLASSIFIED | MARKETPLACE | ARCHIVES | SUBSCRIBE | LETTERS HOW TO CONTACT US | PHOTO GALLERY | TECHNOLOGY | TODAY'S WEATHER --------------451649775661-- QUOTES FROM the BOOK: "Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America." By: Roger Morris Espionage, drugs among the topics Roger Morris, National Secu- rity Council aide for Presidents Johnson and Nixon and author of an acclaimed critical biogra- phy of Richard Nixon, writes in his dual biography of Bill and Hillary Clinton that not since Watergate "has a White House been so under suspicion for acts of wrongdoing both before and during the presidency." The fol- lowing are excerpts from "Part- ners in Power: The Clintons and Their America." >>>>>>>> Bill Clinton, CIA informant?: " 'Bill Clinton's ties to the intelli- gence community go back all the way to Oxford and come for- ward from there,' says a former government official who claims to have seen files long since de- stroyed.... [T]he Central Intel- ligence Agency's infamous Op- eration Chaos of the 1960s had been directed at uncovering some discredited foreign hand in antiwar activities at home and abroad, to the point of recruiting American student informants and placing provocateurs among the demonstrators.... "One more CIA retiree would recall going through archives of Operation Chaos at the Langley headquarters -- part of an agency purge amid the looming congressional investigations of the mid-1970s--and seeing Bill Clinton listed, along with others, as a former informant.... 'He was there in the records ' the for- mer agent said 'with a special designation.' Still another CIA source contended that part of Clinton's arrangement as an in- former had been further insur- ance against the draft." >>>>>>>> Bill Clinton and drugs: "Roger Clinton had begun using cocaine in the late 1970s and . . . eventually was slave to a four- gram-a-day habit. He supported the addiction and a rakish life- style by dealing drugs himself with contacts in New York wind- ing all the way to the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia.... On one of the 1983-84 videotapes filmed by lo Gal narcotics offi- cers, Roger Clinton was said to tell a supplier jauntily, 'Got to get some for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner.' ;; >>>>>>>> Cash payoffs to the governor: "According to the local narcotics officers who made the tapes video surveillance footage showed Roger discussing var- ious payoffs of $30,000 to ar- range government approval of sewer lines for a large develop- ment that was an interest of a close Clinton friend and major contributor, multimillionaire bond broker and later convicted drug dealer Dan Lasater. "'I need $10,000 for my brother to take care of EPA regs and other environmental over- sight problems,' the officer quoted Roger as saying on the tapes, which were turned over to the state police, never to be pre- sented at trial. City police offi- cers who shot the tapes were told the portions dealing with imputed involvement of the gov- ernor had been forwarded to the Public Integrity office of the Justice Department in Washing- ton early in 1984, but then they heard no more." Roger Clinton's drug-traffick- ing conviction: "[Dissident state police] managed to get details of the case to Hillary Rodham Clin- ton as well, counting on her to force the governor to keep his hands off as a political precau- tion. By the dissidents' account, the first lady reacted exactly as they hoped, rushing to Clinton with her own report on Roger and ordering that he do nothing to warn his half-brother or stave off the arrest, actions that might be exposed and used against them in the 1984 re-election campaign or later. " 'I don't think she ever knew how much coke Bill had snorted with Roger or how many girls they'd done together, said one state policeman, 'but we knew she'd tell him to feed ole Roger to the feds for the sake of his career, and that's what he ended up doing.' " >>>>>>>> Mrs. Clinton and Vincent W. Foster Jr.: "There would be sev- eral sources--including a for- mer U.S. attorney, sometime aides, a number of lawyers, so- cial friends, and many of the same troopers who testified about the governor's illicit acts --who described the first lady's affair, dating to the mid-1980s, with Rose partner Vince Foster. "A relationship evident in the semi-private kisses and furtive squeezes at parties and dinners described by the security guards, it was also an intimate professional bond between two I attorneys who worked together e on some of their firm's most sen- 4 sitive cases.... "Foster was known to treat ~I her with the dignity, respect, e and abiding love she was miss- ing in her marriage. 'He adored her,' said a fellow lawyer. Under other circumstances, it might have been one of those relation- ships that remained private and without any relevance to the Clinton presidency. What set it apart was that, once in the White House, the Clintons would in- stall the first lady's confidant in one of the nation's most Sensi- tive positions as deputy counsel to the president, where he would handle controversial matters stemming from their Arkansas past as well as highly classified presidential affairs." -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@alterzone.com -> Posted by: Michael Williams <100705.1252@CompuServe.COM> Date: Mon Oct 28, 1996 8:28 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT (fwd) *caveat lector*. This means, "reader beware." In other words, it is up to the reader to form her/his own judgements as to the following. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 96 13:29:05 EST From: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Subject: THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT Part I. Did Barry Seal Fall Victim To A Government Set-up? William Bottoms is one of the few associates of the legendary drug smuggler Barry Seal that is still alive. He has now decided to come forward and tell his story. A story that goes back to 1962 when he first met Seal and Seal married his sister, and intensifies in the 1980s when he and Barry Seal went into "operation" together. Over the next several weeks, Bottoms is going to give his perspective of the Mena story, a perspective that in some instances leads him to different conclusions than the conclusions reached by others who have spoken out on Mena. We start out this week with an intriguing question that remains unresolved to this day. Why did the U.S. government in 1972 intercept a load of plastic explosives destined for anti- Castro Cubans in Mexico, when a decade before it was the CIA that funded these Cuban exiles in their failed Bay of Pigs invasion? Well, the pilot who was caught with the plastic explosives was Barry Seal, and William Bottoms offers an intriguing explanation. At the time, Seal was a pilot for TWA. He had joined the TWA at twenty-six, one of the youngest pilots in the history of the TWA. As an adventurer, however, he did covert operations on the side. In 1972, Seal was arrested by Customs in New Orleans. His DC6 was loaded with seven tons of plastic explosives. "He was hired by Carlos Marcello," says Bottoms. Marcello was a renowned New Orleans Mob Boss who had been under official investigation in connection with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Bottoms claims that Seal was set up by the government: "Barry said it was because Castro had one of our hijacked airliners, the hijackers, and the ransom. So, the government set the whole thing up from beginning to end. It was a ploy to get Castro to think we were interdicting in his favor so he would give America the airliner back." Seal was charged with conspiracy, but the judge threw out the case when the government wanted to protect the identity of its informant. A law enforcement source familiar with the case confirms that it was Marcello's deal. "Charges were dropped because they couldn't go to court without burning their snitch." Even though the case was dismissed, the publicity cost Seal his job with TWA. "Seal was bitter because he felt he was entrapped besides working for a worthy cause," says Bottoms. It was then Seal started full time on his clandestine work, officially using the title of "airline broker." [Next Week: after Seal was released from Honduran prison where he served eight months on a minor weapons charge, he and William Bottoms, finishing six years of active duty as a Navy pilot, went into "operations" together.] Published in the Oct. 28, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) Date: Mon Nov 04, 1996 3:14 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT (fwd) *caveat lector*. This means, "reader beware." In other words, it is up to the reader to form her/his own judgements as to the following. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 96 12:59:59 EST From: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Subject: THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT Part II: The "Operation" The following are excerpts of an interview with William Bottoms, an associate and brother-in-law of the late drug smuggler Barry Seal: MR. LEE: When Barry Seal was released from a Honduran prison in 1980, you started working together. Can you tell some of the details? Which aircraft did you use, where were they based, and which landing strips did you use? MR. BOTTOMS: I was released from active duty in June 1980. In August of 1980, Barry Seal was released from prison after spending eight months in a Honduras jail. We began operating together. We were together until his murder in Baton Rouge. After we connected, Barry and I went on our first three air smuggling flights together. I performed the rest of the flights. Barry stayed in Baton Rouge maintaining periodic HF radio checks with me, and to receive and send on the cocaine when I arrived with it. It was in 1981, and the first three quarters of 1982, that most of the smuggling activity took place. We used a Beech 18, a Piper Seneca and very quickly upgraded to a new Seneca (used once), and just as quick to a Piper Panther Navajo. Barry purchased another Panther Navajo soon after. Initially we used various landing sites in Louisiana to off load the merchandise. These were a cane field near White Castle, Opelousas, Hanks Field, and New Roads. Soon we were exclusively using airdrops and once empty the plane would be returned to various places. A friend of Barry's set him up in early 1981 by allowing him to sell Quaaludes in Florida to a federal undercover agent named Beasley (Operation Screamer). Operation Screamer didn't turn over any indictments until early 1983. Between that time is when Barry brought all of his loads into Louisiana. Once the Operation Screamer indictments came out, Barry started moving his aircraft up to Mena, because Louisiana started heating up for him. Nothing of any real significance happened at Mena Airport. Barry spent most of 1983 and early 1984 with lawyers because of the Florida indictments. By mid 1984 he was working as a informant. He flew a Lockheed Lodestar to Colombia, a Cessna back as far as Nicaragua before an engine was damaged by anti-aircraft fire, the C123 "fat lady" to Nicaragua and back twice, each for the DEA. Barry orchestrated, and I flew the flight to Bolivia for the DEA that was started in late 1984 and netted Norman Saunders, Prime Minister of Turks and Caicos. Barry was busy with lawyers and trials after the Saunders case, until the time of his murder in Baton Rouge February 19, 1986. MR. LEE: The air strip in Nella, about 10 miles north of Mena, was registered in your name. What was the strip used for? MR. BOTTOMS: The strip was never registered in my name. Fred Hampton owned the property. During my many visits to Mena we became friends somewhat. We had similar outdoor interests and were close to the same age. He told me about Nella, how beautiful it was nestled in the Ozarks and took me there. It was unbelievably beautiful. The ideal retreat. I was strictly interested in the property as a personal getaway. We decided to become partners and we built the small landing strip on the property. Because of trees on one end, you would have to take off away from the trees and up the side of a mountain, and land towards them. The landing strip was not suitable for anything but a short field capable small airplane. I later purchased all of the property from Hampton, but he never got around to transferring the title to me. Barry knew nothing of this deal. Nella was never used for any clandestine activity by Barry or myself. MR. LEE: Did you ever meet Richard Brenneke, Donald Gregg, Dan Lasater, or Oliver North? MR. BOTTOMS: No. [Next week: The criminal investigation by Russell Welch led him to different conclusions about what took place at Mena and Nella.] Published in the Nov. 4, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) Date: Mon Nov 11, 1996 10:47 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT (fwd) *caveat lector*. This means, "reader beware." In other words, it is up to the reader to form her/his own judgements as to the following. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 20:47:02 EST From: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Subject: THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT Part III. The Investigation By Russell Welch Barry Seal associate William Bottoms claimed in an interview published here last week that "Nothing of any real significance happened at Mena Airport," and that "Nella was never used for any clandestine activity by Barry or myself." Documents reveal, however, that there were activities that Bottoms appears to have been unaware of. Mena investigator Russell Welch of the Arkansas State Police has a secret FBI telex dated August 1987 that informs him that "a CIA or DEA operation is taking place at Mena airport." Welch further states that "There was a covert operation here at Mena. It did use the strip at Nella for a period of time. The operation that I'm referring to didn't start until around late 1986 or 1987. Although it took place at Nella there was no other connection to Barry's name, until Terry Reed came along." Barry Seal was killed in 1986. As for the amounts of cocaine smuggled into Arkansas by Seal, Welch found a period of time from April 12, 1982 to March 24, 1984 where Barry Seal was running his own smuggling operation, smuggling for himself and the people that were working for him. They were bringing a planeload of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel, 250 - 350 kilos of cocaine, into Arkansas approximately every other week. A declassified summary of the CIA inspector General investigation of Mena was released Friday. It, too, confirmed clandestine activities at Mena. One was a joint training operation at the airport between the CIA and another federal agency. In addition, the CIA contracted with businesses at the airport "to perform routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA." The summary also confirms that L.D. Brown was a candidate for CIA employment in 1984. It said the agency decided that December not to hire him. Brown has claimed that on two occasions, while a candidate for CIA employment, he flew guns and drugs with Barry Seal. Barry Seal was also involved in a top secret NSA operation based at Mena. Author R. Emmett Tyrrell has obtained documentary evidence of operation "RAPPORT" that used Seal and his C-123K "fat lady" to spy on the Sandinistas. The NSA installed nuclear radiation detectors in the "fat lady" that would allow detection of Soviet-made nuclear missiles in Nicaragua as Seal flew over the country. That gave Seal status as a CIA asset, and Customs and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed Seal to leave and enter the country without inspection. A July 1995 editorial in the Wall Street Journals reveals even more clandestine activities at Mena. Citing reliable sources in the intelligence community, the editorial says that an AWACs- Patriot system was tested there, CIA contract planes were repainted, and the area was included in a counterterror exercise run out of the nearby Fort Chafee. Published in the Nov. 11, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) Date: Mon Nov 11, 1996 10:48 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: SCOPE OF LEACH INVESTIGATION REVEALED (fwd) *caveat lector*. This means, "reader beware." In other words, it is up to the reader to form her/his own judgements as to the following. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 20:38:35 EST From: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Subject: SCOPE OF LEACH INVESTIGATION REVEALED SCOPE OF LEACH INVESTIGATION REVEALED A letter sent by House Banking Committee Chairman James Leach to NSA director John McConnell in July of last year shows the scope of the issues that Leach has been investigating vis a vis Mena and Systematics Inc. The internal NSA emails dealing with the questions raised by Leach have key passages blacked out and shed little light on the issues. There is no record of the briefing given by the NSA Inspector General to James Leach. So we have, as yet, no way of knowing the answers that Leach received to his questions. The letter by Leach is reproduced below: July 11, 1995 Vice Admiral John McConnell, USN Director National Security Agency FT. George Meade, MD 20755 Dear Admiral McConnell: I am writing to seek your agency's help in verifying or laying to rest various allegations of money laundering in Arkansas in the late 1980s. For that purpose, I would request a briefing from NSA's Inspector General on Friday, July 14 before 1:00 p.m.; if that is not possible, sometime on Monday, July 17, would also be convenient. The reports I have in mind have appeared in the general press and, sometimes in sensational form, in more narrow-gauged out- lets, including the Internet. They speak of secret foreign bank accounts held by prominent people in Arkansas, special software to monitor bank transfers, an Arkansas-centered network of banks formed to launder money, and similar tales. I would like to determine whether there is any substance at all to these stories. Specifically, I would like your Inspector General to tell me whether the Agency: (1) knows of any secret bank accounts held by U.S. citizens domiciled in Arkansas at any time between 1988 and now; (2) is aware, directly or indirectly, of any efforts by computer hackers, U.S.-government related or otherwise, to penetrate banks for the purpose of monitoring accounts and transactions; (3) knows of or has participated, directly of indirectly, in efforts to sell software--notably versions of a program in use at the Justice Department called PROMIS--or clandestinely produced devices to foreign banks for the purpose of collecting economic intelligence and information about illicit money transfers; (4) is cognizant of any attempts by Systematics Inc, an Arkansas- based electronic data processor that is now a division of All- tell, to monitor or engage in the laundering of drug money or proceeds of other illegal activities, notably those conducted through Mena, Arkansas; (5) can provide information about Charles Hayes, a businessman in Nancy, Kentucky, who claims to have been a CIA operative in Latin and Central America, among other places; (6) knew of or was involved in, directly or indirectly, any covert activities by the U.S. government or any private parties (the so-called "private benefactors") in or around Mena in the late 1980s; (7) had any contractual or other relationship with the late Adler Barriman "Barry" Seal in the 1980s or knew about his activities in connection with Mena. I would appreciate your help in shedding light on these matters. Sincerely, James A. Leach Chairman Published in the Nov. 11, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) Date: Wed Nov 13, 1996 4:42 pm CST From: Email Queries EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: Email-Queries@reference.com TO: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: Query Q002, 4 hits: FIND karst -------------------------------- For a user manual: User-Manual@Reference.COM For human help: User-Services@Reference.COM For further queries: Email-Queries@Reference.COM If you forgot your password: Forgot-Password@Reference.COM This query brought to you by InReference "NEW: Post to Usenet from Reference.COM; see our web site for details." http://www.reference.com/ 4 documents found (1991111 scanned) ##. Date Scr Subject Newsgroup/E-mail List Author 1. Nov-12 100 Jaf relcom.commerce.food "Igor" Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:33:59 -0800 Message-ID: Newsgroups: relcom.commerce.food Jaffa: , , , . "Tetra Pak" 1 . 1.45 . / (044) 430-73-02. ... end of message ... text also available at http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go? choice=message&table=11_1996&mid=1892041&hilit=KARST -------------------------------- Hit-Number: 2 Article-ID: 11_1996&1864198 Score: 100 Subject: regexp help From: Karl Storck Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:57:38 -0800 Message-ID: <32882DF2.43D6@ikp.liu.se> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help How does a regexp, identifying the beginning of a paragraph, look like. The beginning of a line is a "^" and the beginning of a buffer is a "\'", but what does the beginning of a paragraph look like? Thanks Karl ... end of message ... text also available at http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go? choice=message&table=11_1996&mid=1864198&hilit=KARST -------------------------------- Hit-Number: 3 Article-ID: 11_1996&1928989 Score: 97 Subject: Re: regexp help From: Karl Storck Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 04:19:59 -0800 Message-ID: <32886B6F.4601@ikp.liu.se> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Erik Naggum wrote: > > * Karl Storck > | How does a regexp, identifying the beginning of a paragraph, look like. > | The beginning of a line is a "^" and the beginning of a buffer is a "\'", > | but what does the beginning of a paragraph look like? > > the value of `paragraph-start' holds the regexp that matches paragraph > starts. similarly for `paragraph-separate'. since "paragraph" is a > higher-level concept than "line" or "buffer", there is no single regexp > code to match it. > > #\Erik > -- > Please address private replies to "erik". Mail to "nobody" is discarded. Thanks Karl ... end of message ... text also available at http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go? choice=message&table=11_1996&mid=1928989&hilit=KARST -------------------------------- Hit-Number: 4 Article-ID: 11_1996&1946069 Score: 83 Subject: Missouri: Lead Mines in National Forest Endanger Public Health From: "Devin M. Scherubel" <74747.2052@CompuServe.COM> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 09:21:31 -0800 Message-ID: <5652ur$1c5k@news.missouri.edu> Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive A Private New York Holding company plans to profit from the Increased Poisoning of Missouri's children Continuing revelations from the state health department show that a new lead mining proposal, which threatens the Lower Ozarks area of the Mark Twain National Forest, also threatens the lives of area children for generations to come. The fact that most of the nation's lead is mined in Missouri by the Doe Run company, based in St. Louis and owned by Renco Inc. of New York, gives us a particular opportunity to stop the poisoning. Opportunities to get involved exist for everyone as a groundswell of local citizen groups across the state organize to oppose the new mining. To find out more, call the Heartwood coalition coordinating group, Voices from the Forest, at (573) 443-6832. The state health department reported in August that 1/6 of randomly-selected children, age six months to six years, living in the Old Lead Belt in St. Francois County had high blood lead levels. In contrast, only 3% of the children living 70 miles away from the lead-mining area, in Salem, had high lead levels. A federal-state assessment revealed, according to a Post-Dispatch report, that: ... 111 lines left ... full text available at http://www.reference.com /cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=11_1996&mid=1946069&hilit=KARST ---------------------------------- Date: Wed Nov 13, 1996 4:54 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: American Lawyer Article on Paula Jones Case The article from the November 1996 issue of the American Lawyer magazine regarding the Paula Jones case is available online at http://www.counsel.com Brian Redman | bigred@shout.net | ftp.shout.net pub/users/bigred Editor-in-Chief | ---------------Phone: 217-356-4418---------------- Conspiracy Nation | "The perfect slave thinks he's free." Date: Wed Nov 13, 1996 5:38 pm CST From: Oracle Service Humor Archives EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: humour-list-request@synapse.net TO: Multiple Addresses Suppressed EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: Multiple Addresses Suppressed BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: HUM: Dave's Lines of the Week (11/04-11/07, 1996) (***) Dave's Lines of the Week (Letterman) Monday, November 4 - Thursday, November 7 "Good news and bad news for Bob Dole. Of course, the bad news for Bob Dole -- he lost the election...The good news is he's going to have a child with his nurse at the retirement home." "President Clinton, though, had 5,000 people at his victory party. Five thousand people! And that was just the catering staff." "We have no details now about the Inaugural Ball. For example, we don't know exactly where it will be, we don't know exactly what the entertainment will be and we don't know who Clinton will be taking as a date." "Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's the day after the Presidential election. How many of you watched the coverage last night on television? Talk about suspense! Honest to God, I was glued to the television set until, oh, 7:15-7:30." "I didn't get to see the rest of the coverage -- help me out here. Last night, did they every find the guy who voted for Dole?" "It was a quiet night at Dole headquarters. It was Dole and a few volunteers and the fat lady singing." "Earlier today, President Clinton left Arkansas -- you know he had been celebrating down in Arkansas -- and flew to Washington. It was an emergency. Yeah, it was an emergency -- Clinton had eaten everything in Arkansas." "Clinton's goal for the second term -- pretty much like every American. You know, watch his weight, try to stay out of jail." "You've got to give Clinton credit. He's not resting on his laurels. Earlier today, Clinton promised that in his second term, he will be named in twice as many lawsuits." "Both candidates are taking the last couple of days of the campaign very, very seriously. Dole, in the last 72 hours, has hardly slept and Clinton has hardly slept around." "At the O.J. Simpson civil trial, an 18-year-old court intern claims that O.J. Simpson was bothering her. Sexually harassing her, you know what I mean? And it's interesting, O.J. said that he was just flirting with the girl. He says he flirts with everybody and nobody has ever complained before. Oh sure, if you don't count those 911 tapes." "As you know over the weekend, they held the annual New York City Marathon and our congratulations to Giacomo Leone from Italy who won the race this year...He covered the distance of 26 miles in two hours and 19 minutes and won, for his efforts, $30,000. And, coincidentally, that's approximately what it would have cost him if he'd taken a cab." "This is the first time in 15 years I was unable to finish the Marathon. I'll tell you what happened -- I was watching it on television and I got up to get some more root beer and I twisted my ankle." "There's an article coming out of England that Michael Jackson has paid a woman to be artificially inseminated so that he can have a child. This man, this Michael Jackson is amazing. Think about this: he was married for two years, is now expecting a child, and he's still a virgin." OPENING REMARKS FROM THE "LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN's 'FRIDAY NIGHTS ON THE ROAD'" - Washington, D.C., November 8 "Before we kick off the big show tonight, let me just say one thing to President Clinton. Mr. Clinton, David Brinkley is the David who thinks you're boring. I'm the Dave who thinks you're fat." "You've got to give President Clinton a lot of credit. I mean, this man, wasting no time, today holding a press conference announcing that he's already shaken up his administration for his second term. Today he announced that Christine Lahti, fine actress, will be replacing Hillary." "Here's what I did this afternoon. Since it was such a lovely day here in Washington, I went over to the Smithsonian Institute. I saw Lindbergh's plane, I saw the Apollo 8 spacecraft, I saw J.Edgar Hoover's strapless cocktail dress." "Then, I went over to the Lincoln Memorial, and sitting on Abe's lap was Dan Quayle. He was telling the President what he wanted for Christmas." "You know, I don't care how nice a city is. Every city has its drawbacks. For example, in New York City, your neighbor to the north, we have crime, we have violence and we have garbage. Here in Washington, D.C. -- Newt Gingrich." "The most exciting thing that's happened to me so far since I've been in Washington, D.C. -- last night I met President Clinton...Here's the best part -- it was not planned. It was a chance meeting. I'm staying at the Marriott and in the middle of the night, he accidentally knocks on my door!" 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The list is nonprofit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Wed Nov 13, 1996 6:04 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: The Mena Railroad Track Murders Corroborated (fwd) *caveat lector*. This means, "reader beware." In other words, it is up to the reader to form her/his own judgements as to the following. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 06:56:22 -0500 From: Geoffrey Stewart Nimmo Subject: The Mena Railroad Track Murders Corroborated Subject: ciadrugs] JEAN DUFFEY interviewed by Randall Terry Date: Saturday, November 09, 1996 6:15 PM JEAN DUFFEY interviewed by Randall Terry May 1, 1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean Duffey headed a drug task force for the law enforcement community in Arkansas. Duffey and three other law enforcement agents have come forward in a new video called "Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection." The video deals with the murders of two boys and their connection with drug money. All four law enforcement agents came from different agencies. All of them met with stonewalling and opposition from highly placed officials. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall Terry: As many as nine people who were potential witnesses in this case have been murdered already. If you could say anything you wanted for the next ten or fifteen minutes, what would you say? Jean Duffey: I would like for people to wake up and understand the massive amount of drugs that have been transported into the United States and that the war on drugs is a myth. That our government is very well aware, and in some cases is a participant in the drug smuggling. I believe that is incredible for people to understand as it would have been for me had I not been involved in it and [understood] how it happened and why it happened. I would like for people to buy our video, "Obstruction of Justice." Randall Terry: Why? Jean Duffey: It will begin to explain all of the connections of drug smuggling and how it affects people's lives. It will help people to understand how it is allowed to continue, and why it is allowed to continue. There will be a sequel to "Obstruction of Justice" that will go more in depth into the actual drug-smuggling operation. But our video explains very poignantly how it affected the life of an American family. Linda and Larry Ives, the parents of Kevin Ives, who was killed when he was 17-years-old because he stumbled upon a drug drop. [There was also the death of his friend, Don Henry]. As if their murders were not bad enough, they were murdered by law enforcement officers who were part of the drug-smuggling operation. Randall Terry: Let's just stop right here. Jean Duffey: All right. Randall Terry: I watched this video yesterday and when I was done, I took my entire staff up after yesterday's show and told them "you all have to watch this." They all went home late for dinner. I don't usually react to things this bad[ly]. The clear implication of the video is that Dan Harmon and other law enforcement agents murdered these boys. Jean Duffey: Well, that's absolutely correct. Randall Terry: You're not a crackpot - you're involved in law enforcement. There are other law enforcement [officers] in the film, all risking life and limb and future careers to say things against some very powerful people. You really believe that these boys were murdered by law enforcement agents? Jean Duffey: I don't think there's any doubt about it. And I believe the law enforcement agents were connected to some very high political people because they have never been brought to justice and I don't think they ever will be. I think they are protected to avoid exposing the connection. Randall Terry: To who? To higher-ups? Jean Duffey: Yes, absolutely to higher-ups. Randall Terry: How high? Jean Duffey: Well, I know that there were CIA people involved in this drug-smuggling operation, that's pretty much undisputed. I can't really say whether the CIA people were acting officially or whether they were rogue operators, acting outside their official capacity and taking advantage of an opportunity to make private profits off of this drug-smuggling operation. Obviously they were connected to very high-up people. The U.S attorney who first shut down a federal investigation was appointed by a Republican president - he was appointed by President Bush and I don't believe he had any direct connection with any of this, but he certainly took orders from someone to close down that investigation. Randall Terry: This all sounds so fantastic. How unbelievable. I mean how the average American just cannot grasp that state officials in Arkansas, or federal officials were somehow even remotely connected with drug-smuggling, and then to say that some of the lower officials actually murdered these boys - I've got to stop myself. I'm a Christian and I'm a Calvinist and I believe in the wickedness of man's heart, so it should not surprise me that wicked men can do wicked things. Do you believe that Dan Harmon was involved with these murders? Jean Duffey: I don't think that there is any doubt that he was. Randall Terry: Explain to the listeners who Dan Harmon was at the time and who he is now. Jean Duffey: At the time he was a person who was in and out of politics in Saline County. He had been a judge. He had been a prosecutor and, at the time the boys were murdered, he was in private practice. After they were murdered, he approached the parents of the two boys and [offered] his services to find out who had murdered the two boys. And he was subsequently appointed to be special prosecutor to head a county grand jury. Now for years the parents thought that Dan Harmon was trying to solve their murders, but later found out that he had very wisely put himself into a position of not only orchestrating the coverup, but being in the position of controlling the information that came in and the information that went out. Randall Terry: Well, it's worse than that. People who came forward and said that they had information on these murders ended up getting murdered, themselves. Jean Duffey: There have been several murders of potential witnesses. Anyone who could have solved this murder many years ago has been systematically eliminated. Randall Terry: What did these boys see that was so critical that they were murdered that night - that the third boy who was with them, and then escaped - who ran away, was tracked down and murdered a year later - what was so critical to this whole process that all these people had to be killed? It's just - it sounds crazy! Jean Duffey: It really does. I've been called crazy before - that's for sure. Randall Terry: Before you answer the question, I just want to say in your defense ... these people are just doing their duty as law enforcement agents and they stumbled into this black, bloodstained hole involving the murder of these two boys. So go ahead Jean, if you could answer my question. Jean Duffey: I will - what you said brought up a point I would like to make. When I was investigating this, I was crucified in the media by public officials who were involved in this, and I was labeled a whacko, a fruitcake, a nut case. In the U.S. attorney's office there were people who were supposed to be helping in this investigation who turned their backs on any of the information that my drug task force took in, because we had been so discredited. When this video came out, one of the people [who had been] in the U.S. Attorney's office back then saw the video, took it to work nd asked every person in the U.S. Attorney's office to sit down and watch [it]. He said, "this will change your mind about what we thought about Jean Duffey back in 1990." Randall Terry: I am going to take a break and when we come back you can ask Jean Duffey why it was necessary that these two boys be murdered, and subsequently nine other witnesses were murdered.... Randall Terry: Before we took the break, Jean, I asked what these boys saw that caused not only them, but several other potential witnesses to their murder to be murdered. Jean Duffey: Well, it's really quite simple. They stumbled upon a drug drop from an airplane that was part of the major drug-smuggling operation out on Mena, Arkansas. Randall Terry: But, drug drops happen every day and there aren't 11 people murdered as a result. Jean Duffey: This drug-smuggling operation had been set up in Mena by Barry Seal and was part of a CIA covert operation. To expose the murders would have exposed some very high[ly placed] political people - in fact I believe if it's ever solved completely it's going to expose a lot of Democrats and Republicans alike. And it's my personal opinion that's why it is not going to be investigated thoroughly by either party. Both parties stand to lose from exposure of this drug-smuggling operation. Randall Terry: Have you heard of Terry Reed's book, "Compromised?" Jean Duffey: Yes, I have. I've read it. Randall Terry: Do you think it's credible? Jean Duffey: Ah - I think without really knowing... Randall Terry: Terry was a co-pilot with Barry Seal, and Barry Seal was the one who was gunned down - he was murdered a little more than 10 years ago. The book "Compromised" basically says the same thing you guys are saying, only that Terry Reed was an insider. Jean Duffey: Yes, absolutely. I try not to report anything that I don't really know first hand. But reading his book certainly helped me to understand how the Mena operation was set up. And nothing in his book is inconsistent with what I know first-hand from what my task force developed. Randall Terry: Tell us some of the things. You had several informants working for you. Tell us some of the things your informants uncovered. Jean Duffey: They immediately linked drug traffic at the local level to local political people - local public officials. And because of that we routed-out information to a federal U.S. Assistant Attorney, who was a good guy. Randall Terry: You say you found local political figures involved. And your informants were credible? They had concrete evidence? Jean Duffey: Oh yeah. When one informant tells you something independently of one or two or three other informants, and they're all giving exactly the same information... Randall Terry: Do they know that the other informants exist? Jean Duffey: No. Randall Terry: These are all separate? Jean Duffey: They would be independent. It would be foolish to just listen to one informant and try to build a case based on what that one informant said. But the informants we used had been tested and proven. Also we had informants and witnesses who passed polygraph tests. So there are several different ways to determine the credibility of an informant or a witness and one is corroborating testimony. Randall Terry: So you gave this testimony to federal law enforcement agents and thought that you were going to get justice at that point.And you were told by the federal prosecutor that they were going to indict some of these local political figures? Jean Duffey: Oh, I was absolutely assured that there would be indictments and prosecutions of key public officials and in fact the same public officials who were conducting the media smear campaign against me at the time. This had been going on for several months, but the U.S. Attorney that was in charge of the federal grand jury investigation said "just hang on, because any day now..." I heard this week after week, and the weeks turned into months. Then he said I'm ready to have the grand jury indict and I'm ready to prosecute these same people, and as soon as that happens then everyone will understand the smear campaign and why they tried to discredit me professionally. Randall Terry: We have about a minute left. You can say anything you want. This is Jean Duffey who headed up a drug task force. How many investigators did you have working for you? Jean Duffey: I had seven undercover officers. Randall Terry: And five of them resigned in protest over the way you were treated. Jean Duffey: They did. Randall Terry: That's unbelievable. You have the last minute to tell the listeners anything you want. Jean Duffey: [Encourages listeners to order the video "Obstruction of Justice" which will be used to fund a civil action]. Randall Terry: I want to commend you again for putting your life on the line by stepping forward like this. Obviously some very powerful people have already murdered nearly a dozen people in connection with the drug smuggling there, starting with the two young boys. Certainly other law enforcement officials have been threatened. Were you threatened at all? Jean Duffey: There was a $50,000 price on my head back in 1990, when I left the jurisdiction, and I was actually in hiding for nine months. Randall Terry: They put a $50,000 hit fee on you? Jean Duffey: That was the information my parents were given, and they were certainly very fearful. But once I left the jurisdiction and stopped doing the investigation they left me alone. They stopped the smear campaign. I didn't feel like anyone was looking for me. What they wanted me to do was just shut up and go away. When I did that they didn't have a problem. When I got involved again in 1994, at the request of the FBI, the FBI agent I was working with got the information that Harmon was looking to have my body laid out on the railroad track and run over. The agent was pretty fearful that that was a direct threat, but I was really not very intimidated by that. Randall Terry: Ben Harmon, folks, is the fellow who eyewitnesses said was seen with the boys on the tracks the night they were murdered. And he is a prosecutor there. Jean Duffey: He is the prosecuting attorney there and has been since 1991. Randall Terry: If the allegations that our friend Jean Duffey has been telling us are true, then he is a monster. Jean, thank you very much for taking the time,and we applaud your courage...We hope that justice is done for these boys, and that all of the political power players who are involved in this coverup are exposed. Jean Duffey: Thank you very much for your concern. ================================= CN: The video, "Obstruction of Justice," is available from Citizens for Honest Government, 1-800-251-8089. *caveat emptor* Date: Thu Nov 14, 1996 4:56 pm CST From: bigred EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: bigred@duracef.shout.net TO: Conspiracy Nation EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: CN-L@cornell.edu BCC: * David Beiter / MCI ID: 635-1762 Subject: SAFAN NO. 133. CIA admits 2-week training 'exercise' at Mena (fwd) *caveat lector*. This means, "reader beware." In other words, it is up to the reader to form her/his own judgements as to the following. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:31:05 -0500 From: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx To: SafanNews@aol.com Subject: SAFAN NO. 133. CIA admits 2-week training 'exercise' at Mena (fwd) STOP ALL FEDERAL ABUSES NOW! S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 133, November 15, 1996 CIA ADMITS 2-WEEK TRAINING EXERCISE AT MENA by Kathy Kiely (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Writer) WASHINGTON -- In a report certain to rev up an already-active rumor mill, the CIA acknowledged Friday that it has conducted operations at Arkansas' Mena Airport. The small airport in Polk County at the far western edge of the state has long been the subject of speculation that it was a center of money laundering, drug smuggling and gunrunning --and that government officials knew about it. Former State Trooper L.D. Brown has said that while he was under review for possible employment with the CIA in 1984, he took two airplane rides from Mena to Honduras. There, Brown said, M-16 rifles were distributed to members of the Nicaraguan Contras -- anti- communist guerrillas the Reagan administration was supporting -- in exchange for cocaine. In a declassified summary of a report commissioned by House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach, R-Iowa, the CIA inspector general's office insisted it has come up with no evidence that the agency was involved in "money laundering, narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling or other illegal activities at or around Mena." But the report, which involved a review of about 40,000 pages of materials and interviews with more than 40 people, acknowledged that the CIA did run "a joint training operation with another federal agency at Mena Intermountain Airport." The report described it only as a "two week exercise" and said that the agency's involvement had been classified and never publicly disclosed. One source familiar with various Mena investigations remarked that at the very least, the inspector general's report tends to lend credence to the suspicion that the airport was used as a center for clandestine operations to supply the Contras. The inspector general's office also acknowledged that the CIA used Mena for "routine aviation-related services" on equipment the agency owned. The report said that the companies and employees who did the work did not know their client was the CIA. A spokesman for the agency said he could not elaborate on the report's revelations. The report confirms that Brown was a candidate for CIA employment in 1984. It said the agency decided that December not to hire him. CIA personnel also had "limited contact" with Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal, a drug-trafficker and federal informant who Brown said took him along on the rides to Honduras. According to the inspector general's report, the contact came during a federal Drug Enforce- ment Administration sting operation in which Seal flew the airplane. The report said the CIA provided "technical support" in the form of cameras mounted into Seal's plane. Agents discussed with Seal where to place the cameras and how to operate them, but that was the extent of the CIA's contact with the drug runner, later shot dead in Baton Rouge, La., the inspector general's office concluded. The report added there is "no evidence" that the CIA knew Seal's "true identity" at the time of the operation. A source close to the CIA's internal investigation said the agency did not even know his name when its personnel were dealing with him on the drug sting. Although the report is clearly meant to quell rumors of a conspiracy among members of the Reagan administration and then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton to cover up a Mena-based guns-for-drugs operation, it seems likely to add more fuel to the fire. Leach, who requested the CIA's report, refused to comment on it. But in a statement, the congressman said his committee is continuing its own investigation of what happened at the Arkansas airport. Leach hopes to issue a report by the end of the year. 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