'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; No convincing explanation was offered for this act of censorship. Browns break with Clinton came after Brown made what he says was his second flight from Mena to Central America. After a barrage of requests from different people and media outlets under the federal Freedom of Information Act, on Wednesday the FBI released more than 1,000 pages of its file on Seal: vault.fbi.gov/recently-added. Barry Seal's widow, Debbie Seal, and others have wondered why the government didn't do more to protect Seal, whether he wanted the protection or not. "The original information dates back to the activities of a pilot, Barry Seal (now deceased), who is purported to have flown guns to South America from Mena and drugs back into the United States," according to the memo. I first traveled to Mena in 1994, reporting for the Wall Street Journal editorial page. "The apparent reason was that the prosecution might have revealed national security information, even though all of the crimes which were the focus of the investigation occurred before Seal became a federal informant.". In another deposition in the case, John Bender, a mechanic, says he saw Clinton at Mena three times in the summer of 1985. When asked how, he replied, "Oh, Barry stole an airplane from me. The gunman hurried into a waiting Buick, which sped away. The irony is that he might have remained reluctant, but then the White House itself intervened. "The DEA agents who worked with Barry loved him," said director Doug Liman. No. "We're talking about one of the largest drug smugglers in America, and these agents loved him." One mission involved a C-123K cargo plane that was outfitted at the Mena airport. However, her real name is Debbie, not Lucy. Exclusive: Tom Cruise's portrayal of drug-smuggler-turned-government-informant Barry Seal is a fast-paced visit back to the Reagan era's shadowy world of the CIA, cocaine and secret wars . Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Yes. Three Colombians supposedly sent by the Ochoas, including Cruz and Velez, were later arrested at the airport. Owing to a case that Brown was then working on that could have implicated Tucker, Brown believes the demotion was illegal. Gov. It's certainly possible and it's what the movie proposes. Seal became a federal informant in March 1984. "The apparent reason was that the prosecution might have revealed national security information, even though all of the crimes which were the focus of the investigation occurred before Seal became a federal informant.". 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. Barry met Debbie while he was on his way to a hearing after he was caught in 1972 trying to smuggle military explosives out of the country. He also says he was mindful of the secrecy agreement he had signed with the CIA. Debbie, who was 21 at the time, met Barry, 33, while working as a cashier at a restaurant. Fact-checking American Made revealed that Monty Schafer is a fictional character created to represent Barry Seal's contacts at the CIA. During the past few years, the activity at the airstrip has aroused the interest of local law enforcement, who then attempted to conduct some investigations but were blocked by the U.S. I guess he also thought Colombians would stick out like a sore thumb in Louisiana and they wouldn't come here." Subsequently, the special prosecutor investigating Whitewater subpoenaed Brown to disclose what he knew about Clintons connections to David L. Hale. He didn't meet Pablo Escobar and the Ochoa brothers in person until 1984, after his arrest when he was working as an informant for the DEA on an undercover operation. Operative Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson) approaches Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) and tells him, "We need you to deliver stuff for us." Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. Election Law Update, Heavy Lifting Ne NYC Cleans Voter Rolls Thanks To Judicial Watch. He carries it around and begins spending it, which attracts the attention of the local authorities. Barry Seal's smuggling operation began in Louisiana, and like in the American Made movie, he sometimes pushed packed duffel bags full of drugs out of his plane and into the Atchafalaya basin, to be collected by associates on the ground. Bill Clintons favorite bodyguard, but also a close friend. I have re-typed two documents that were scrubbed off the internet. 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. Yes. Judicial Watch On Issue: The Battle for Election Integrity, Judicial Watch On Issue: Leading the Battle Against Illegal Immigration, Al Qaeda Plans Plane Attacks Using New Techniques and Tactics as Air Marshals Keep Getting Sent to Mexican Border, Biden staying at St. Croix villa of wealthy donors who got state dinner invite, Tom Fitton's Judicial Watch Weekly Update. She was an experienced writer and had prepared for the legal review. "Prior to his death, Seal admitted to smuggling large quantities of cocaine from South America (Columbia) to United States and testified before Senate investigative committee," according to the FBI memo, which referred to a telephone call between agents in Little Rock and Miami. . He relocated to a small regional airport in Mena, Arkansas, which had a population of only 5,000. "I've heard that stated by a lot of people.". Were suing the CIA for the full inspector general report and we want documents from other agencies as well. "He would tell me all these wild stories about the missions he had flown. "I resigned from the office in November of 1985, and my successor took over the investigation. "There are also allegations that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used the airport as a base of operations to help train pilots and troops for the intervention in the Nicaraguan uprising by the Contras during the 1980s," according to the encyclopedia entry, which was written by Robert Sherwood of Georgia Military College. Reprints and media inquiries: [emailprotected]. Browns role, after all, was quite limited. While the filmmakers were shooting the movie in South America, a local pilot who was working with them said that he had met Barry. Seal was shot dead in 1986 at a safe house in Baton Rouge . Phone Number: (602) 256- KDYM +1 phone. In the movie, Lucy's brother JB (Caleb Landry Jones) steals money from Barry (Tom Cruise). His character is inspired by the stories we learned about Barry." Ochoa was arrested in Spain on a U.S. warrant, but due to pressure from the cartel was never extradited to the U.S. -Court Documents (STATE of Louisiana v. Miguel VELEZ, Bernardo Vasquez, and Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz), Yes. He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot's license at age 15 and pilot's license at 16. -Smuggler's End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal. "He would tell me, 'I'm going to such and such places,' and I wouldn't see him for days. In February 1986, Seal was killed in a hail of machine-gun fire outside a Baton Rouge Salvation Army halfway house. : Then the plane dropped to what Brown calls an altitude a hell of a lot lower than what youd think youd fly. He suspected Seal was trying to evade radar. People in Mena say the drugs never got there, that the drugs were jettisoned over drop zones in the Louisiana swamps before Seal's planes made it back to Mena. On Watch: CROSSFIRE HURRICANE Targeting of Trump from A to Z. Whatever the case, of all the Arkansas troopers who would later admit to knowledge of Clintons high life, Brown was the most hesitant to talk. "He put the airplane into a parabolic arc and pinned me against the ceiling, and right in that moment, I had this inspiration. Asa Hutchinson was U.S. attorney for Arkansas' Western District in the early 1980s. "The information indicates that Seal was an informant for DEA at the time but also working as an operative of the CIA. However, the U.S. needed a way to covertly get the funds and weapons to the rebels. Even before he graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1957, Seal had already earned his private pilot's wings. It is believed that the Colombians put a hit out on Barry after they learned he was going to help the feds with the extradition of Jorge Ochoa from Spain, one of the heads of the Medelln Cartel. Three early drafts of the essay contain interpolations in Clintons handwriting. In its review of the 2017 movie "American Made" -- about Seal -- the New York Times called it the Conspiratorial Industrial Complex. They were all sentenced to life in prison. An index was completed and the book was listed in the University of Arkansas Press catalog. He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. In his research for the book, the only confirmed connection Hahn could make between the CIA and Barry Seal was in 1984, after Seal had started working as an informant for the DEA. Jul 04, 2022 12:40 P.M. He was unaware that a Colombian assassin was hiding behind one of the donation drop boxes. The book was to be called, The Mena File: Barry Seals Ties to Drug Lords and U.S. Officials. Leveritt knew the story well and had researched it earlier, writing about Seals murder and other related events. Brown still has books that Clinton gave him, one being a bar exam study book in which the politician had made some ironic under-linings. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. "You know, we're not making a biopic," said director Doug Liman. Barry Seal was one of the most renowned American dealers that smuggled weapons and drugs in the USA Barry Seal became an aviator at only 16 years old, and as soon as he received his pilot licence, he started smuggling weapons He had strong relations with the Madelln Cartel, i.e. I understand that Fred Hitz or someone from his staff, along with other CIA officers will brief Congressman Leach on Friday 21 July in an attempt to address his concerns about these and other allegations. The poster for the movie "American Made," to be released Friday, Sept. 29, shows a grinning, cocky Tom. What is certain is that Barry Seal did work for Pablo Escobar and the Ochoas as a drug smuggler for the Medelln Cartel and single-handedly had one of the largest impacts on the cocaine epidemic in the U.S. in the early 1980s. But of the charges levelled at Brown by the White House, the most unintentionally revealing was that Brown had flunked a CIA examination in the mid-1980s. "It's my understanding that no drugs ever came to the airport," said Fred Ogden, the current airport manager. (Brown maintains that he never flunked the test; in fact, he was nominated four months after taking it for employment with the agency.). The book was killed at the last minute. Arcadia Inc Plant / Vernon. In fact, I still had a letter from the former director advising me, in case Id planned to make copies, that the file held some 3,000 pages.. 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. And the U.S. was covertly backing the Contras. Too many secrets have been kept for too long, she wrote, too much important history has been hidden, lost or destroyed. Other photos like the one below show Federico Vaughan (center, striped shirt), a man that Seal claimed was a top aide of Tomas Borge, the Sandinista Minister of the Interior. 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. Hadaway. The pine and hardwood forests of the Ouachita Mountains surrounding it have long been an outlaws paradise, home to generations of moonshiners and red-dirt marijuana farmers. It was also just seventy miles south of the sprawling Fort Chaffee Army Base at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Connor Hagan, a spokesman for the FBI in Little Rock, said the release of so much information into the FBI's public "vault" doesn't mean that the documents haven't previously been made public. This doesn't add up with the true story. Vincent G Mena, Age 54. Liman has referred to the film as "a fun lie based on a true story" (TIME). About 25 pages of that trove refer to Arkansas or Mena. An "extensive 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 to an internal FBI document released last week. Her character in the American Made movie is much more aware and suspicious of her husband's activities, stating that she flat out doesn't trust him, which is the opposite of Seal's real-life wife. "The estimated value of the narcotics smuggled through the facility is $3 [billion] to $5 billion. Tips: [emailprotected], Investigative Bulletin is published by Judicial Watch. Alexander said he has been meeting weekly with the GAO investigating team and has been in touch with the House and Senate subcommittees . Steal $20 Mil in U.S. COVID Relief Funds. The goal was to expose the involvement of the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime as a major supplier of cocaine from Colombia.". In the 1980s the smallairportin Arkansas known as Mena became part of the largest covert operation in history. Pablo Escobar and the Ochoas were going to be arrested at a celebration of Seal's successful cocaine transport. No. Brown recalls that on the morning of this particular flight, Seal had told him to drive to Mena Intermountain Regional Airport, a remote air strip near the Oklahoma border. He says that he wanted to go public with his revelations about Mena, but that he did not know whom to tell. No. Undercover cameras installed on Seal's plane captured photos on the tarmac of a Nicaraguan airport. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP . In a fruitless effort to curb irregular migration from Central America the Biden administration is sending the region hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian funding with From Breitbart: Also, view a news story about Barry Seal's death. "The original information dates back to the activities of a pilot, Barry Seal (now deceased), who is purported to have flown guns to South America from Mena and drugs back into the United States," according to the memo. CIA and DEA activities flowed out of Mena in the Clinton years. The goal was to expose the involvement of the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime as a major supplier of cocaine from Colombia.". Dwayne Brown says his brother seemed terribly upset, and that he immediately drove over to the Governors Mansion to meet him. Seal's mysterious activities have spawned books, movies and a cornucopia of conspiracy theories. No investigation was blocked. -Vulture.com, Yes. His cooperation led to many convictions, as well as indictments against Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, two of the founding members of the Medelln Cartel. Cocainea lot of itflowed in. Scared the s---- out of me just taking off. Brown says that when the plane took off, he was sitting on a bench behind the two pilots. "According to some reports, the [Mena] airport, from 1981 to 1985, was a major transit point for the entrance of cocaine and heroin into the United States," Sherwood wrote. "It's my understanding that no drugs ever came to the airport," said Fred Ogden, the current airport manager. This draws the attention of the CIA. And for thirty years, every attempt to get to the bottom of events at Menafederal, state, judicial, journalistichas failed. Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . Not all of Barry Seal's heirs were happy with the making of the movie. Back at Mena, Brown says, he told Seal he had thought they were going to fly in a plane similar to the ones he had been on with the Governor. When Wattenberg reported this, an angry Tucker retaliated against Brown by demoting him from white-collar investigations to highway patrol. He hands wads of cash to a kid on a bike, telling the boy, "You never saw me." 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. Money from the sale of weapons to Iran was used to help fund the rebels in Nicaragua. He says that Clinton arrived in a Beech aircraft, and was still there when he left for the day. During the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, the U.S. plotted to secretly help the rebels (Contras) overthrow Nicaragua's Communist Sandinista government. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. "At the time Seal started cooperating with DEA Miami, he had an established base at Rich Mountain Aviation and had frequent contact with subjects," according to the document. Seal, Brown says, talked knowledgeably about airplanes, and spoke of an operation he was planning. Lisa Seal Frigon, Barry's daughter from his first marriage, sued Universal, claiming that the studio should have purchased Barry's life rights from her, not his third wife Deborah who they paid $350,000. While at a bar one night, Barry is found by a man saying his name is Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson). Indeed, when Clinton was a law professor in Fayetteville, Brown was working on an off-campus magazine, the radical Grapevine. The August issue ofThe American Spectatortakes up the Mena story in a way that is likely to resonate on the Hill (see attached article). Mena is a good setting for a mystery, I wrote at the time. -Daily Mail Online, No. According to a 1988 Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, Seal's associates at the Mena airport were also being investigated. A C-123K cargo plane, like this one, was out tted at the Mena airport and ew with various cameras to obtain photographic evi- dence of the Sandinistas in the act of smuggling narcotics, according to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette file photo). Seal flipped, becoming a valuable government informant. Arthur, the chief council, investigated the CIA and questioned Col. Oliver North, who is depicted in American Made. He said, according to Brown, Thats Lasaters deal, thats Lasaters deal.. There were no local dignitaries present, Bender says, and Clinton did not seem to be taking part in any official function. Over a quarter of a century ago, George H.W. ", Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. "Prior to his death, Seal admitted to smuggling large quantities of cocaine from South America (Columbia) to United States and testified before Senate investigative committee," according to the FBI memo, which referred to a telephone call between agents in Little Rock and Miami. The arrests never happened since Seal's cover was blown. As Slate notes, Seal stuck a plea deal, where he testified in three major drug trials and got five years' probation and six months at a halfway house. Concurrently, they had to make sure not to raise the suspicions of the ruthless Colombian drug lords. The pilot of the plane was Barry Seal, a legendary drug trafficker. One mission involved a C-123K cargo plane that was outfitted at the Mena airport. Bill Duncan, an IRS investigator, told me that he had numerous reports of automatic weapons fire, men of Latin American appearance in the area, people in camouflage moving quietly through streams with automatic weapons, aircraft drops, twin-engine airplane traffic. Duncan, along with Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch, started digging into Seal and the Mena connection, suspecting a drug smuggling and money laundering operation. 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. Then, Brown says, Seal reached again into the duffel bag and pulled out a kilogram of cocaine. About 25 pages of that trove refer to Arkansas or Mena. Many of the more baroque allegations emerge from the fever swamps of conspiracy theorists, but certain facts are indisputable. He then was able to get a meeting with Vice President George H.W. Creating Epstein: Bill Barr Leslie Wexner & the CIA, Bonnie's Clyde: The True Story of Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell, Revisiting Mena, Bill Clinton, the CIA & Barry Seal. 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 . Then, he started the engines, and Brown remembers, ThisI mean just thunderous noise. -The Independent, Not likely. -The Independent, In the movie, Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) starts working for the Medelln Cartel after they abduct him while he is refueling his plane and then make him an offer he can't refuse. He decided to talk about Mena. In his book, he uses case documents and first-person accounts to dispel this idea and other half-truths about Seal. The cartel tells Barry that they'll deal with JB, a suggestion that Barry opposes. Yes, at least according to his wife and others who knew him. The respected Arkansas journalist Mara Leveritt recently outlined what appears to be a continuing effort to cover up the Mena affair. No, in real life he had five children and was married three times. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Lets hope that Cruises high-powered version of Seal prompts an equally high-powered demand for disclosure of all government records on him, especially after his move to Mena.. In the autumn of 1984, Brown found himself seated on a bench inside a cavernous C-123K cargo plane roaring over a Central American jungle. A month before that, the Southwest personnel representative for the CIA, Ken Cargile, in a letter to Brown, wrote that I am pleased to nominate you for employment with the Central Intelligence Agency. Another entry in Browns daybook indicates that he had met with another CIA representative only a few days before that. Bushs Attorney General was William Barr. The second is the article they reference. "In other words, the charges of drug smuggling and money laundering were not enough to warrant the release of information about the use of the airport in the Iran-Contra Affair," wrote Sherwood for the Arkansas encyclopedia. Though the Clinton machine feared him the most, he showed no intention of breaking his silence until a chain of random events made it inevitable. In another deposition in the Reed case, Russell Welch, an Arkansas state police investigator who has looked extensively at Mena, says that Young asked him in 1992 if Clintons name had ever come up in connection with Mena. That charge could only have come from the man then Governor Clinton who knew that his former bodyguard had dealings with the CIA ten years ago. Seal is purported to have flown guns to South America from Mena and drugs back into the United States, according to the memo. He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. Using pilots like Barry Seal was a means to an end. The real Barry Seal never had a brother-in-law who was killed by a car bomb. Yes. Seal, Brown says, had also prescribed the dress code, and insisted that no one carry identification, not even keys or jewelry. They also claimed that the pilot who died lacked the necessary experience for the flight. But there were still questions regarding the Mena airport and people who worked there, according to the FBI memo. Frankly, it will never be revealed. Barry also had a daughter and a son not shown in the movie, Lisa and Alder, with his first wife Barbara Bottoms. 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