(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 . 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. Some of the facts regarding the trial of Seal's>killers are from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times, in addition>to the New Orleans papers. "Motion to Correct Sentence and to Enforce Plea Agreement," filed in U.S.>v. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. At the time he was also>under indictment in the same federal jurisdiction on thirteen counts of>possession with intent to distribute phenobarbitol, Demerol, and Quaaludes.>With the threat of a lengthy prison term looming ominously over his head, the>freespirited Seal decided to cooperate with authorities and become an>informant. Tom Aswell, Publisher. Your email address will not be published. (across from post office) Clay Shaw 1024 St Peter N.O.La.Is next to camp -canal -near International trade mart.William Reilly Coffee Company and Crescent City Garage (LHO &JvB worked)G.wray Gil said He was with David Ferrie on 11-22-63 until 12:15.Ferrie said Marcello deportation trial 11-22-1963 party at hotel to celebrate. However, when a drug shipment was seized by the DEA, the Medellin Cartel blamed Seal for the loss. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. >Eventually, Barry joined the local Civil Air Patrol and learned to fly Piper>Cubs. does he talk about Terry Reed. On each trip Seal, and until his death in 1985,>Emile Camp would haul crates of weapons, CARs, miscellaneous weapons parts,>and ammunition to some prearranged location, usually in Nicaragua or Panama,>unload the armaments, and either pick up a load of drugs or head for Colombia>to do so. [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. They immediately hopped back into the Buick and>sped away, nearly running over an eyewitness. Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. The C-123 that had been shot down was The Fat Lady, Seals beloved cargo plane. However, as fate would have it, Seal was placed in>the same jail cell as Emile Camp, a pilot from Slidell, Louisiana, who had>also been arrested for smuggling. >18. 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. Obviously, Seal and Camp had a lot in common>and plenty of time to talk. Staff Report. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. They played ball in the yard of the one-story white frame>house on Lover's Lane, a shady street in a quiet neighborhood. | 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? . American Made is a fascinating biopic about Barry Seal, a commercial pilot who worked with the CIA to run drugs and guns in South America. no. Mena, Arkansas, as a staging point for weapons supply flights. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. >Things went smoothly in Medellin, as Seal and Bates met with Jorge Ochoa.>After the two returned, Seal gave a full debriefing to Jura and Jacobson. According to Duncan and Welch, the bulk of the story centers around a drug-smuggler named Adler Berriman Seal, also known as Barry. 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) The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola was bound by the Florida plea agreement and was furious at being powerless to put Seal away. >48. Likewise, the DEA in>Florida may have been concerned about losing its key informant if information>about Seal's DEA-related activities was conveyed to anyone else. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. When Arthur was killed in 1984, Seal began paying the lease on the>property, under the pretext of helping Arthur's widow, who was still liable>for lease payments. Corey Plante. He met Clay Shaw through Andy Anderson manager Roosevelt He died of three gunshot wounds. [21], >The absence of Customs agents in Mena also meant illegal retrofitting could>take place with little or no concern for the repercussions normally associated>with unlawful activity. The U.S. would conceal the transactions by selling the weapons first to Israel and then re-selling them at significant off the books markups to Irans Islamist government for use in its war with Iraq. (Barry) Seal also talked big and did big things. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. Welch was an investigator for the Arkansas State>Police Criminal Investigations Division, taking part in Seal's prosecution in>federal court in Baton Rouge on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.>He attended one of Seal's depositions on 27 December 1985, and heard Seal make>these admissions.[9]. Simply click on the Donate button here and contribute whatever you feel appropriate. In May of 1987, a jury found Vasquez, Velez, and Quintero guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced all three to life in prison without parole. Reagan and the CIA also understood the>threat posed by the existence of another Communist regime in Latin America, to>American interests in that area and to the interests of democracy in general. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udh22kuLebgPlease support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- Noom: https://trynoom. He also bought over a thousand acres of land across a>gravel road from the camp and had a large portion of it cleared of trees and>brush, leveled, and sodded with a carpet of thick Bermuda grass. Seal's arraignment proceeded as scheduled on>that date. Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. Through a prearranged agreement, the insured property owner would>file a loss claim, be paid by his insurance carrier (so his only loss was of>the item, not its value), and the insurance carrier would then get the benefit>of certain "tax breaks" which allegedly increased the "net income for the>losing insurance company" due to increased underwriting losses. "[38] The federal>Criminal Code prohibits the "transfer or possession of machineguns" unless>they were lawfully registered before 19 May 1986. Set in the early 1980s, to combat the spread of communism . >1. Roger Craig claim he saw LHO (man look similar to him) get into a Bustamonte was ultimately prosecuted by the U.S. attorney in Miami, along>with Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, Felix Dixon Bates, and Rodriguez Garcia.>See, Barry Seal's cross-examination in United States v. Norman Saunders, et>al., Cr. In>fact, in the federal proceedings in Baton Rouge, Seal's lawyers filed>pleadings containing the following language: >The defendant [Seal] has been restrained by Court order in Florida, and so has>the prosecutor here, from fully outlining to the Court the danger to the->defendant and the activities of the defendant on behalf of various Federal>agencies, including the D.E.A. Seal admitted under oath smuggling at least fifteen hundred pounds of>cocaine during the six months between May and November of that year. On 1st July, 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of sending C4 explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. That investment includes not only the cost of preventative measures, but also the cost of housing fully 20 percent of all federal and state prison inmates (more than 400,000) for drug-related offenses. U.S. authorities wanted to put him on trial for drug smuggling. [27], >At the time the order was signed, and in the weeks that followed, Seal>continued to work with the government as an informant, although his smuggling>activity had been substantially curtailed by judge Polozola's order. Ibid., 484-495.> 19. The FBI and IRS were pulling up the rear, and at least one>special agent with the Arkansas State Police CID was scratching around for>information. He died instantly. ", >In his cross-examination in the Saunders trial, Seal stopped short of>admitting culpability for anything more than smuggling explosives into Mexico>in the early 1970s. According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an investigative>reporter for a London newspaper, one interest-bearing account opened by Seal>at the Fuji Bank in the Caymans had a balance of $1.645 billion at the time>one of his articles was written in 1994. He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. Seal was also charged with concealing material facts from the>Internal Revenue Service about the existence, source, or origin, of $51,006.64>and for failure to file currency transaction reports on amounts in excess of>$10,000. According to Seal, he and Arthur had>made "a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]" together over the years. It would focus the glare of the media spotlight on not only the Colombian Medellin Cartel, but also on the FBI and CIA as well as such political icons as then-Vice President George H.W. WEINER Yes. As a result of Seals cooperation, the judge in his Florida case praised Seal and reduced his sentence to six months probation. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. Seals wife was said to have found George Bushs private phone number in Seals wallet. The Infamous.Barry Seal. Barry Seal. He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . With the TWA money>gone, he looked for other means of subsidizing his income. He died of three gunshot wounds. Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. Two other Colombians, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz>and Miguel Velez, shared Vasquez's room. He'd had profitable dealings with Colombian drug lord Pablo>Escobar for a number of years. In high school, while his classmates were riding buses to out-of-town>football games, Barry would often fly to the games in "barnstorming" fashion,>landing wherever he could find a smooth, flat surface. I had to visit my employer's Houston office, and didn't want to fly because our government was looking for a reason to start an oil war against Iraq. Early life. ; see, also, New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986. 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. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. On February the 19th, 1986, Barry Seal was returning to a Salvation Army halfway house at precisely 6:00 PM as part of his probation for a recent drug convictions. And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. An investigative report into a scandal that haunts the reputations. Shortly before 6:00 P.M., the forty-six-year-old Seal wheeled the>yellow Cadillac into the parking lot of the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center in Baton Rouge. [33] Of course, there were other ways to fund the Freedom Fighters,>including the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, Gomez>International, Miller Communications, International Business Communications,>and Lake Resources, all organizations involved at one level or another in>receiving and redistributing money for Nicaragua. box number in their address books and this coded form ,the unpublished phone number of Jack Ruby in 1963.The Code by use the Telephone dial for conversion of letters and numbers explained the letters P.O.becomes the digit 13,only exchange which numbers 13 converts to in Dallas -He added -Is WhiteHall -when Unscrambled,becomes 1-6901 by subtract 1300 from 1-6901,(garrison) he added,the result ,if 1-5601.Jack Ruby unpublished number Dallas texas in 1963 was WHITEHALL 1-5601.The code involvestransposition of digits accord to pattern then add -sub-of numbers ,familiar to Oswald ,that Jack Ruby unlisted phone number ,coded formhas been found ,notebooks by Lee harvey Oswald/Clay Shaw.Jim Garrison was once that figured out landlady Earlene Roberts is Bertha Cheeks sister which means that Lee Harvey Oswald knew >31. 85-165-Spellman, United States District Court, Southern District>of Florida, September 1985. Barry, his two brothers, Benjy and Wendell, his mom, a homemaker, and his dad, a candy wholesaler, lived in a house on Lovers Lane. File: Attachment Size; . Yes. >12. Seal was convicted on numerous charges.>Soon, federal prosecutors in Louisiana were breathing down his neck. He agreed to use that connection for the>benefit of the new joint venture. By this time, Seal had purchased a C-123. >46. No, it wasnt George W. Bush, nor was it was George Bush the elders personal phone number; it was the number to his office. Seal's lawyers immediately>protested by filing motions averring that, in an effort to fulfill the terms>of the plea bargain, Seal was engaged in activities which could place him in>serious danger if he were housed at a halfway house. It proved to be the singular event that blew the Iran-Contra scandal wide open. Seal, who began flying at age of 15, flew weapons to Fidel Castro in 1958 when Castro was fighting to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. .Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the . >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." The meeting ended, appropriately, with smiles,>handshakes, and hasta la vistas. None of this is surprising in 2017. 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." He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by the Medellns. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. Hahn is a longtime friend, and I knew Barry Seal. The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . Barry Seal gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. 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. >5. (connection mob) "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. He had been ordered by a federal judge to>spend his nights there as part of his sentence after pleading guilty to money->laundering and cocaine-trafficking charges, in connection with a $168 million>drug deal.[1]. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Sad day for AmericansSad day for our children. >Polozola's order also contained certain "special conditions." >This plea agreement is predicated upon the fact that the defendant cooperates>totally, including agreeing to submit to debriefing whenever and wherever>requested by Special Agents of the Government and Department of Justice>attorneys investigating criminal matters. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. WOLF When were your meetings with Mr. Trafficante? | B'Man's Revolt, Pingback: ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? In the 1980s, the Mena airport was the reported base of a drug-smuggling, money-laundering and arms-smuggling ring run by Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal, according to an Encyclopedia of Arkansas . when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . >43. In 1981, Seal set up shop at Mena. The buyer, it turned out, was a federal agent. The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. Reagan was ecstatic and went on national television shortly afterwards, waving the photograph given to him by Col. Oliver North and denouncing the Sandinistas as drug smugglers corrupting American youth.. Seal was murdered just before he was . In return he is [sic] allowed to smuggle what he wanted back into the>United States. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in . The man who made Baton Rouge headlines in the mid-1980s for the machine-gun killing of drug informant Adler "Barry" Seal died in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Aug. 25, Louisiana . >The Government and defense further agree that the defendant will receive a>concurrent sentence as to Count 1 not to exceed the ultimate sentence he>receives in a pending proceeding in the Southern District of Florida. But, they>also made him a marked man. It worked, Unglesby said. The larger transport plane, which he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady, was needed to haul tons of cocaine for the cartel. Seal used both>frequently. It was in 1973, the year that followed the end of his second marriage that Seal got married to Deborah DuBois and they . The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. Michel Mertz had been ex pelled from U.S. at Fort Worth or Dallas 48hours after JFK assassination.11-22-63. He died instantly.[2]. A joint investigation by the FBI, Arkansas State Police and IRS revealed that Barry Seal used the Mena airport for "smuggling activity" from late 1980 until March, 1984, according . Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) was an American commercial airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medelln Cartel.When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Gordon Novel lived before left (garrison trial) Louisiana 336 Exchange place. Soon after that, Seal turned to drug smuggling and subsequently was arrested in Honduras with 40 kilos of cocaine worth a reported $25 million. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal.
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