Rich Mnt Aviation Inc Star Route 9 box 6G Mena Arkansas.Seal coin operated phone booths 12688-13241 Perkins Rd.Barry Seal box 64801 baton Rouge.Seal Planes Piper Navajo ,Piper Seneca,Cessna,Piper Azteo, beech, beechcraft Kingair,etc!Seal 8216 Oakbrook Dr Baton Rouge.David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many . Early life. Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. 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. According to Duncan and Welch, the bulk of the story centers around a drug-smuggler named Adler Berriman Seal, also known as Barry. Fourth, Vince Foster worked for the Rose Law firm until he left to . He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by Pablo Escobar, head of . DPD Curry is on air force one that witnessed LBJ being sworn in JFK coffin looks on and Congressman Albert Thomas winks back at a quickly-smiling LBJ.Henry Wade former _ _ _ then District atty case Ruby.Jack ruby called Irwin Weiner Chicago bail bondsman Another was through the little town of Mena, in western>Arkansas. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. On March 24,>Vice-Presidential Aide Jim Howell met with Seal, as did DEA Special Agents>Frank White and Bill Kennedy. 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. In 1972, he and eight others were convicted>in federal court in New Orleans of running guns and explosives to Mexico. Two other Colombians, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz>and Miguel Velez, shared Vasquez's room. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. 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. Renteria-Campo was extradited to Miami to be tried on federal weapons charges. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office Ibid., 521-531. "[48] At the time, he was>in custody in Spain, fighting extradition to Florida. Evidence emerged suggesting that the CIA was operating in the area in the early 1980s; that a major cocaine and gun smuggler was based at the airfield; and that the U.S. military was somehow involved. >As Seal sat in his car in the parking lot of a Baton Rouge halfway house on>that cold overcast day in February 1986, he must've suspected he was in an>extremely vulnerable position. Weird Places, Odd Events, Bizarre News : >41. [45], >Former Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch has been quoted as>saying he believed Arkansas was a main thoroughfare into which most of the>flow of drugs from Central America entered the United States in the 1980s. >Many individuals in Arkansas, and elsewhere, bought weapons and conversion>kits from those companies, sometimes in large quantities. 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Just send an email to louisianavoice@outlook.com, LouisianaVoice does not accept advertising because we insist on an independent voice. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. Reed claims the>meeting with Seal was arranged by Oliver North (aka John Cathey). Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. WEINER Yes. A quarter-century later, Americas war on drugs continues at a cost of $52 billion per year, or $1600 for every second of every day. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. by Ran. >42. Seal>flew fifty cocaine-smuggling and money-laundering missions between 1981 and>1983 for the Medellin cartel. (barry Seal Friends James Poche-David Holmes-John Odom.) See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. "ABC News," in association with Kuhnhart Productions, put together a>documentary a few years ago entitled "The Informers," about federally>protected witnesses. The 70s. Sad day for AmericansSad day for our children. >31. The DEA was>doing the same. "[29] Unfortunately, the very>liberty Barry Seal sought, and for which he had posted a $250,000 unsecured>bond, made him an easy target for assassins. No of Kids with Barry: Dean, Aaron, and Christina Seal. Salvation army halfway house 7361 Airline Highway, BatonRouge. American Made: Directed by Doug Liman. 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 . who said he train pilots in mena arkansas. departure 13:00 route: Hammond La.1:00 K 7500 Direct Garland Texas. (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. Lee Odom said He met Clay Shaw Nov 1966. He was never able to testify against William Jefferson>Blythe Clinton either. >Gun smuggling, especially the brand the CIA and Seal were engaged in in>Arkansas and elsewhere in the 1980s, was risky business. By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. Advertisement. He was also the>youngest pilot to be promoted to captain of the crew of a Boeing 707, and>later of a Boeing 747. ", >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. >Although he spent most of his time out of state, Barry Seal maintained close>ties with friends and family in Louisiana. Seal admitted under oath smuggling at least fifteen hundred pounds of>cocaine during the six months between May and November of that year. By Robert Morrow, Pingback: The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? [43] Seal is credited with having>made approximately three flights per week between 1983 and 1986, from Mena and>Nella (another Arkansas hamlet with an airstrip, a few miles from Mena) to>Central and South America. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Because Reagan feared another communist regime in the Western Hemisphere, Seal was enlisted as an undercover informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Ibid., 521; Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 221, 223. Ochoa wasnt extradited.. Seal's arraignment proceeded as scheduled on>that date. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the United States from South America between 1977 and 1986. Since the cat was out of the bag, Seal asked Smith what>could be done to better "protect" his airplanes that were being stored>periodically in the islands. Then both men got into the front seat of the car, and Seal reached back into the duffel bag, and pulled out a manila envelope with $2,500 in it. 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. >Because of the overwhelming evidence against him, Seal had been forced to>plead guilty in 1984 to drugtrafficking charges in an unrelated federal court>proceeding in south Florida. Seal then made a series of drug-smuggling>flights, all with DEA approval. >28. >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. One thing is for sure: Barry Seal was never able to testify>against any of them. Barry Seal. Have a suggestion for a story? Facing a 10-year prison sentence, he decided to flip but federal prosecutors were not interested in a deal so he simply went over their heads. . 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 . At any rate, by 1986, Barry Seal found himself wearing three very>uncomfortable hats; those of key man, straw man, and scapegoat. The CIA, DEA, and State Department have each been implicated in various drug trafficking enterprises that were used to fund illegal covert operations in nations all over the globe. >2. "Official Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of>Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Investiga-tion of Vernon Wayne Howell," also>known as "David Koresh," September 1993. >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. Eugene Hasenfus, who was on board the plane, survived the crash and told his captors that he thought the CIA was behind the operation to supply the Contras. Hasenfus said that was by sheer coincidence. It also appears that the DEA in Louisiana was not contacted by the DEA in>Florida, regarding Seal's status as an informant, until it was too late.>Moreover, state agencies, like the Arkansas State Police Criminal>Inviestigation Division, and federal agencies, including U.S. Customs, the>FBI, and the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the IRS, were>investigating Seal's operations in Arkansas and elsewhere, apparently>independent of each other for the most part. >Al Winters did in fact testify at the arraignment. 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. >Eventually, Barry joined the local Civil Air Patrol and learned to fly Piper>Cubs. >Seal and Ochoa had been doing business for years. He'd had profitable dealings with Colombian drug lord Pablo>Escobar for a number of years. Like The Wolf of Wall Street, American Made is based on the real-life exploits of a "lovable" rogue, Barry Seal. Not only did the>smuggler have to be careful in terms of how he dealt with those on the>receiving end of each shipment, he had to constantly look over his shoulder to>see what the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) was doing.>Converting a Colt AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic M-16 is a>relatively easy task. The failure to report and file the proper forms allegedly violated>Title 31, Section 1081 of the United State Code; Title 31, Section 103.22 of>the Code of Federal Regulations; and Title 18, Section 1001-2 of the United>States Code. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 108. Arthur>had a very large airstrip and a clean spacious aircraft hangar on a tract of>land he leased from the Turks and Caicos government. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana, filed 21 January 1986. But, because>Winters was participating in a trial on 4 January, the arraignment date>initially set by the court, Bardwell sought and was given a continuance until>the next week, 8 January 1985. In return he is [sic] allowed to smuggle what he wanted back into the>United States. And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. That agenda would turn up in the sordid details of the Iran-Contra scandal. Barry Seal knew them all. [4]>The conviction was overturned on appeal, but he lost his job with TWA. >Throughout 1984, Barry Seal continued to fly to Colombia', Nicaragua, Panama,>the Caymans, and the Turks and Caicos as a DEA informant doing business with>Jorge Ochoa, Pablo Escobar, and Carlos Lehder, all members of the Medellin>cartel. 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. 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During this time, the Reagan Administration had set up a bizarre network of arms sales to Iran designed to win release of US hostages being held in Lebanon and raise money to fund the Nicaraguan, counter-revolutionary guerilla fighters, commonly referred to as the . He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot . The DEA also allowed Seal to pay Emile Camp and other>pilots like Roger Reeves, out of the trafficker funds. He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. Seal specifically>bought the property and made the improvements to accommodate The Fat Lady. But, Barry's first love was>flying. Seal was murdered just before he was . Wow Barry Seal I think he is pretty Awesome loved movie about him. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to Seal, he and Arthur had>made "a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]" together over the years. forgave the taxes on hundreds of millions in known drug and gun profits over the ensuing two-year period when Seal was officially admitted to be employed by the government. Seal Texaco.located corner Acadian Thruway andGoverment Street ,Baton Rouge La.Father Benjamin C Seal and the Sons Benjy Jr,Dean ,Jason ,Aaron, Curtis R,Wendell K, work the gas station and Barry Seal would work when he wasnt flying. In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. >Hired by TWA, at age twenty-seven, Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was the>youngest pilot in U.S. history to fly a commercial airliner. After exchanging pleasantries with Saunders, the Turks and Caicos>government's chief minister, Seal got to the point and asked Saunders if he>was interested in participating in Seal's drug-smuggling operation, for a>share of the profits, of course. Letter of 19 November 1985, prepared by U.S. Attorney Stanford 0.>Bardwell, on file of record in U.S. v. Seal, Crim. The meeting ended, appropriately, with smiles,>handshakes, and hasta la vistas. The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 106-108. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. [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. >Polozola's order also contained certain "special conditions." Using the code name John Cathey, North is said to have orchestrated a>complicated scheme by which the Nicaraguan Contra Rebels' freedom-fighting>activities could be financed, and by which they could be armed with fully>automatic M-16-type rifles. 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 "[38] The federal>Criminal Code prohibits the "transfer or possession of machineguns" unless>they were lawfully registered before 19 May 1986. He was married three times throughout his life. When the federal government declared 'war on drugs,' FBI agent Del Hahn, a former Marine of the Korean War era, joined the battle. See, transcript of Seal's cross-examination in U.S. v. Saunders, et al. In December of 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana for flying a cargo of marijuana into the state. Seal" is the owner of the airstrip. [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. Several clips from "Uncle Sam Wants You," were included>in the film, which has been aired on cable television networks in recent>years. Corey Plante. He agreed to use that connection for the>benefit of the new joint venture. Required fields are marked *. 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. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in . For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . From official records of the death of Adler Berriman Seal, on file with the>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, City Police, 21 February 1986. Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. It's a matter of modifying the receiver and replacing>the internal parts in the carrier assembly. Norman Saunders>and Stafford Missick were high-ranking public officials in the islands.>Saunders had been the government's chief minister, and Missick was the>minister of Commerce and Development. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . 14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. 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. He died instantly.[2]. In 1981, he was making daily deposits of $50,000 into an account at a bank in the Bahamas. Marilyn Monroe July28,1962 weekend and the next weekend August 5, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home.Paul DAmato (born 1908- died Jun. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. Staff Report. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. Yes. >12. Seal was a DEA informant/operative who was deeply involved in Iran-Contra and Gov. Crews, passengers, and>cargo apparently didn't have to go through Customs if the aircraft was landing>at Mena for retrofitting. When he was 16 years old, Seal gained his pilot certificate. Before he got involved in the criminal, he used to be an American aviator. He was a gunrunner to Cuba, and a veteran of the Bay of Pigs. >48. In the 2017 Doug Liman-directed movie "American Made," which was previously titled "Mena," Deborah DuBois, the third wife of Barry Seal, was portrayed by the character Lucy. >4. 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 Three can keep a secret if two are dead. Carlos Marcello, Pingback: Podcast Recap: #208 Freeway Ricky Ross The Joe Rogan Experience Database, Pingback: Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? no. These included>Nessard Gun Parts, an Illinois company dealing in semiautomatic weapons;>Sarco, Inc., a New Jersey company known mainly as a retailer, but which also>sold conversion kits in Arkansas in the 1980s; Olympic Arms, Inc., a>Washington retailer handling semiautomatics; Center Fire Systems, of Kentucky,>which continues to do business in Arkansas to this day; and Shooters>Equipment, a South Carolina manufacturer handling conversion kits in the>eighties. The Crimes of Mena. Hahn is a longtime friend, and I knew Barry Seal. The criminal case against Seal was entitled, United States of America v.>Adler Berriman Seal, criminal docket number 84-77, section B, United States>District Court, Middle District of Louisiana. Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, in Mena. Seal was killed in February 1986 during a hail of machine-gun fire outside a Baton Rouge Salvation Army halfway house after allegedly crossing Pablo Escobar and the Medelln drug cartel . An investigative report into a scandal that haunts the reputations. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. WEINER Yes. That's where Seal was shot to death while in his car.A movie titled \"Mena,\" starring Tom Cruise as Seal, is set to be released in early 2017. He flew to Washington and met with two members of Vice President George Bushs Task Force on Drugs. >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. [23] In fact, in November 1984, Seal released an>hour-long videotape publicizing his CIA and DEA-related smuggling activities.>The tape, entitled "Uncle Sam Wants You," was narrated by John Camp, who is>now an investigative reporter for CNN. Why>not the CIA? >Two days earlier, a Colombian national named Bernardo Antonio Vasquez had>rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. Individuals who wanted to>help the Contras would allow big-ticket items like boats, helicopters, small>planes, and sport/utility vehicles to mysteriously disappear. "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>584-585. WEINER I have known him all my life. Drug king pin, Adler B. [26], >On 20 December 1984, the grand jury did in fact return an indictment, and U.S.>District judge Frank Polozola signed a Judgment and Probation/Commitment Order>in Seal's criminal proceeding. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. At the same>time, incredible amounts of cash were transported to and from Latin America,>representing payment for drugs, arms, and equipment. As a result of that arrest, Barry Seal will "get with the program" and move his smuggling activities up to Mena Arkansas. Set in the early 1980s, to combat the spread of communism . He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . >37. 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. Daniel Hopsicker barry and seal book. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." >In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Medellin cartel (named after the city>in Colombia which was the center of activity for most of those associated with>the drug trade) supplied at least 75 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the>U.S. And the rest, of course, is history. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. Shortly before 6:00 P.M., the forty-six-year-old Seal wheeled the>yellow Cadillac into the parking lot of the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center in Baton Rouge. >The Saunders case had enormous implications for the South American drug->trafficking trade. Like in the movie, the American Made true story reveals that Barry made a living as a commercial airline pilot for several years. 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]. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Minute entry, 8 January 1986, U.S. v. Seal. 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. Saunders>couldn't make the Miami meeting, but Seal was assured he would be part of any>deals the five men might strike. Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. The C-123 was ultimately sold to a company with connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. A May 21, 1992, Arkansas Times article carried a front page story of the drug trafficking, including three pictures of CIA contract agent and drug pilot Barry Seal, drug trafficker Jorge Luis . Mention the CIA around Mena, Ark., and the response is likely to be an exasperated sigh and a pep talk about the local economy. Even>though his testimony was critical to the government's case against Ochoa, as>one writer has suggested, Seal knew far more about drug trafficking in>Arkansas, and "where the bodies were buried," than he knew about Colombia, and>he could have helped put a number of prominent American politicians and>officials behind bars.[50]. It alleges, explicitly and implicitly, that an aircraft operated by a CIA front company in 1984 used the airfield at Mena, Arkansas, as a stating point for weapons supply flights to the Contras in Nicaragua; on the return flights from Honduras, the aircraft allegedly carried illegal narcotics to Mena. 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