Seal became obsessed with aircraft and took his first solo flight at the age of fifteen and was soon making a living towing advertising banners. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 106-108. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. | B'Man's Revolt, ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? WEINER Yes. In 1981, Seal set up shop at Mena. La.Your dad was in the office about 1962 Rambler policy.Clay Shaw address book: Lee Odom P.O.box 19106 Dallas Tx.Lee Harvey Oswald address book: citation ** 19106 (astericks).clay Shaw address book: Layton Martens box 544 USL .Lafayette La. Investigators are still trying to separate myth from reality. He was married three times throughout his life. Seal's lawyer wrote the U.S. "[32] Ironically, if such a scheme really was in place,>the federal government was in effect subsidizing the Contras through tax>deductions, in violation of its own laws. Polozola further stipulated that Seal could not carry a gun or hire armed bodyguards. Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Polozola on December 20, 1985, invoked the sentence handed down by the Florida judge and sentenced Seal to six months supervised probation, taking the occasion to say that people like Seal were the lowest, most despicable people I can think of. A condition of the sentence was that he had to spend every night, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at the Salvation Army halfway house on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge. >16. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola was bound by the Florida plea agreement and was furious at being powerless to put Seal away. Seal was also ordered to report address changes to the U.S. attorney,>and his right to travel outside the court's jurisdiction was restricted. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>584-585. New Orleans Times Picayune, 21 February 1986. The pot-bellied daredevil>once boasted that he could make $1.5 million in a matter of hours dealing with>Ochoa as long as he had his pocket pager, two payphones to call Colombia and>Miami, and fuel for The Fat Lady. Two other Colombians, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz>and Miguel Velez, shared Vasquez's room. His purpose there was to inform the commission and top United States officials of the methods and equipment used by drug smugglers.and (he) was scheduled to be a key witness in the governments case against Jorge Ochoa-Vasques, the head of one of the largest drug cartels in the world. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. >Although he spent most of his time out of state, Barry Seal maintained close>ties with friends and family in Louisiana. He was well aware of the drug-smuggling>activity and logically concluded it was creating a problem that only a money->laundering scheme of gargantuan proportions could ameliorate. [12] He first admitted this under oath before the President's>Commission on Organized Crime. Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. According to Seal, he and Arthur had>made "a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]" together over the years. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Sunday Telegraph, 9>October 1994. Seal's airplane, with a cargo of some>thirteen thousand pounds of C-4 explosives, was seized in Louisiana in 1972.>Ibid. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. [47] It may well be that the CIA>was hesitant to divulge Seal's activities on its behalf for fear that a leak>would jeopardize its effectiveness in aiding the Contras. At that point, if they hadn't known it before, the>government now knew who Seal was and would soon learn what he was about. Saturday, February 19, will mark the 25th anniversary of one of the most sensational high-profile killings to rock Baton Rouge since the 1935 assassination of U.S. Sen. Huey Long. That agenda would turn up in the sordid details of the Iran-Contra scandal. Barry Seal was an American-born Trans World Airlines pilot who . It prohibited the exportation of arms like>M-16s and kits, like the CARs used to convert semiautomatic weapons, without>congressional approval. In Baton Rouge, it was another story. Seal, who began flying at age of 15, flew weapons to Fidel Castro in 1958 when Castro was fighting to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. >Soon, IRS CID Special Agent William Duncan was asking questions; and Barry>Seal was perhaps the one man on earth who could answer those questions. White House restricts military gear NATO Jade Helm 15 Stockholm Syndrome 1984 sample explaining the purpose of war Rand Paul v. Patriot Act Corbett 9/11 a conspiracy theory Cruz and>Vasquez were in the Buick with Velez and were armed with 9 millimeter>automatic weapons. [27] I n the comments section of a story in Seal's howtown Baton Rouge Advocate about the film, one wrote: "I knew and dated Barry when I was a student at BRHS - about 1954/1955. MENA NOIR: Aircraft pilot Barry Seal, a Baton Rouge native who smuggled drugs into the U.S. for the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, used this airport in Me. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. When he was a boy, he would frequently ride his bicycle to a local>private airport two miles from his house, where he would lean on the chain->link fence and watch small planes take off and land. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. But, Barry's first love was>flying. Was it Escobar? That was what the white>supremacist cult, CSA, was doing in Arkansas in the early to-mid-1980s. Using my iPhone, I shot this video of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport on July 22, 2016. 85-165-Spellman, United States District Court, Southern>District of Florida, in September 1985, Seal testified that the DEA allowed>him to make six hundred thousand dollars to seven hundred thousand dollars>from drug-smuggling while acting as an informant. Reeves, Ochoas New Orleans business manager, brought Seal into what in 1982 officially became the Medellin Cartel after Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar joined forces to form a 2,000-man army to destroy M-19, the Marxist revolutionary group that was causing problems for the Colombian drug barons. >Barry Seal had friends in the islands, one of whom was Eric Arthur. WHY WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT WITNESS NOT GIVEN PROTECTIOIN WHETHER HE WANTED IT OR NOT? Guste asked, using all capital letters. (lho kid lived 126 Exchange place) .Clay Shaw Hangout Dixies (KATS) 701 bourbon St(corner St peter).LHO lived with Murrets 757 French Street New Orleans Louisiana.Lillian Murret,(Charles murret) 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. As a result of Seals cooperation, the judge in his Florida case praised Seal and reduced his sentence to six months probation. In return he is [sic] allowed to smuggle what he wanted back into the>United States. While in the>islands, Seal was introduced to Aulden Smith and, at the DEA's behest, paid>Smith two thousand dollars to be introduced to Norman Saunders. Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. Between>his salary as a tenured pilot with TWA and the money he made as a gun runner,>Seal had gotten used to a rather high standard of living. >In light of the manner in which Seal was killed, what is perhaps most>incredible about the way his prosecution in federal courts in Florida and>Louisiana was handled, is that key DEA and CIA agents in both locales>apparently didn't know much about each others' activities, contacts, or plans;>unless, of course, Seal's assassination in February 1986 was advanced and>facilitated by the very agencies for which he'd agreed to furnish information.>That was certainly Seal's fear when he produced "Uncle Sam Wants You," and it>may have been well founded. Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. Tom Cruise will portray Baton Rouge drug-smuggler-turned-federal-informant Barry Seal (pictured) in the upcoming Universal Pictures feature film 'Mena.' (The Times-Picayune archive) >Seal was indicted by a federal grand jury in Baton Rouge on 20 December 1984.>He was charged with possession of 462 pounds of cocaine, a Schedule II>federally controlled narcotic dangerous substance, and for conspiring with>others to distribute that cocaine between 1 June 1982 and 1 January 1983.>Those were alleged violations of Title 21, Sections 841 and 846, of the United>States Code. Moreover, we would love to add a reporter to provide even better coverage of the underbelly of Louisiana politics. Rambler station wagon ,outside of TSBD building ,Craig saw LHO in the Police Station being interrogated ,Captain Fritz, Interrogation of Oswald, did not record the most crime of the century . He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the United States from South America between 1977 and 1986. Lee Harvey Oswald friend David/Anna Lewis meet CharleSt Thompson Restaurant.Anna said Marina came in look for LHO. >9. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born to Mary Lou Seal and Benjamin Curtis Seal (reportedly, a member of the Ku Klux Klan), a candy wholesaler, on July 16, 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (connection mob) With the TWA money>gone, he looked for other means of subsidizing his income. Beginnings The first rough airstrip was located south of the town on the McBride family's . [35]>According to Reed and Cummings, during this first meeting, Seal advised that>Iver Johnson's Arms, Inc., a New Jersey company that manufactured weapons and>weapons parts, had moved to Arkansas. It was at this time that he moved his operations from Baton Rouge to Mena, Arkansas. Oliver North said:Seal offered witness protection . 85-165-Spellman, U.S. District>Court, Southern District of Florida, p. 462. Atlantic City and Skinny, was the owner of the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey ( trump Hotel)..Sinatra Chauffer G.Jacobs and Buddy Greco Carmel, their compound>outside Waco, Texas, until early 1993.[37]. 5, 1984) known as Mr. Whether known or not at the time by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, the use of the Mena airport by Seal and others would be used by detractors in efforts to tie Clinton to drug smuggling conspiracies, especially during his first four years as President. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. That is not to say we do not have expenseslots of them. ", >Seal and his copilot, Emile Camp, who had also become a DEA informant in 1984>to avoid prosecution, flew to Grand Turk Island on 2 January 1985, in part to>arrange the sale of a Beechcraft 18 airplane to Leocadida Moreno. The C-123 that had been shot down was The Fat Lady, Seals beloved cargo plane. The 70s. Roger Craig claim he saw LHO (man look similar to him) get into a On March 24,>Vice-Presidential Aide Jim Howell met with Seal, as did DEA Special Agents>Frank White and Bill Kennedy. However, when a drug shipment was seized by the DEA, the Medellin Cartel blamed Seal for the loss. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. A>secondary purpose was to avoid U.S. Customs scrutiny. He was murdered on February 19, 1986 by contract killers hired by the cartel. A sign located at one end of the property, bearing the standard FAA>announcement that the field is an aircraft landing strip, and forbidding>trespassing or tampering with aircraft, remains to this day. WEINER Yes. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. Waters] is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. WOLF How long have you known Paul Doffman?Mr. In brief: more plot holes than a meerkat colony. The mysteries of Mena revolve around a drug-smuggling pilot named Barry Seal. Thank you. Insurance>companies with loss reserves could sell future claims to other companies,>"giving the first company immediate income from the purchase, and from the>unused claim money." Seal flipped, becoming a valuable government informant. (Arkansas State Criminal Investigator Russell Welch), to former drug pilots, that have testified that the CIA operation Barry Seal set up in Mena was used, and is still being used, to smuggle drugs with official sanction into the . >25. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and began flying at the age of 15. Just send an email to louisianavoice@outlook.com, LouisianaVoice does not accept advertising because we insist on an independent voice. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. Books, 1994), 58. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the . He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." The DEA also allowed Seal to pay Emile Camp and other>pilots like Roger Reeves, out of the trafficker funds. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. No, it wasnt George W. Bush, nor was it was George Bush the elders personal phone number; it was the number to his office. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. In>response to a complaint by his federal probation officer, Lionell Jardell,>that Seal wasn't cooperating enough in the pre-sentencing investigation, one>of Seal's lawyers, Lewis Unglesby, reminded Jardell that Seal was working>constantly "under government supervision in dangerous and difficult>situations."[28]. His>next DEA-related trip was to Panama. WEINER Since I was a little boy. See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. Barry Seal in White cadillac -2-20-86 BatonRouge-Escobar and They played ball in the yard of the one-story white frame>house on Lover's Lane, a shady street in a quiet neighborhood. It was in 1973, the year that followed the end of his second marriage that Seal got married to Deborah DuBois and they . Another was through the little town of Mena, in western>Arkansas. After Seal pleaded guilty in February 1986, he was given an extremely light sentence of 100 hours of community service thanks to the intervention of the CIA and others and ordered to live . both claim that Sinatra got mad at Marilyn threw her out of his Joint. That order, which for reasons discussed below>would ultimately become Seal's death warrant, reflected that he wouldn't do>any jail time for the cocaine charges, but instead would pay a fine of twenty->five thousand dollars. Seal Texaco.located corner Acadian Thruway andGoverment Street ,Baton Rouge La.Father Benjamin C Seal and the Sons Benjy Jr,Dean ,Jason ,Aaron, Curtis R,Wendell K, work the gas . A DC-4 was seized at the Shreveport Regional Airport loaded with almost seven tons of plastic C-4 explosives, 7,000 feet of explosive primer cord and 2,600 electric blasting caps. He died instantly.[2]. >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. The Crimes of Mena. See, also, "Government's>Response to Defendant's Rule 32 Motion to Correct Pre-Sentence Report," United>States of AMerica v. Adler Berriman Seal, Crim. Back at Mena, Brown says, he and Seal walked to Brown's car, a Datsun hatchback, and Seal put one of the duffel bags under the hatchback. This was in direct violation of a 1984 law banning such aid. no. 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