-Refinery29, Yes. Jeffrey Epstein: Predator, Spy plus FULL access to all newsletters. In 1986, Colombian hitmen caught up with Seal in Baton Rouge, shooting him to death in his white Cadillac. Follow him on Twitter @micah_morrison. The Sandinistas overthrew Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending 46 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family. Yet, it's also certainly possible that Seal had no involvement with the CIA in the early 1980s at all, given there is nothing to support the claim but rumors. var _gaq = _gaq || []; These are the equivalent of Barry Seal in the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell covert operation. In the American Made movie, Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) crash lands a plane in a suburban neighborhood in an effort to escape the DEA who ordered him to land. He is married to Lucy (Sarah Wright) and has two children with her, with a third on the way. But there were still questions regarding the Mena airport and people who worked there, according to the FBI memo. Barry Seal "'Fat Man' key to mystery" By Michael Haddigan THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE June 26, 1988 Allegations of cocaine smuggling and international intrigue swirled about the Mena Airport and Seal for years. "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.". 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. 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. By 1983, his earnings totaled $60 million, making him one of the wealthiest people in America. "I initiated a grand jury investigation in relation to money laundering through the Mena airport in 1985," Hutchinson said Friday. Hahn was part of the task force that pursued Seal in the 1980s. While at a small airport in rural Mena, Arkansas, the notorious smuggler Barry Seal was given protection by Governor Bill Clinton to continue his drug-smuggling, gun-running, money laundering operation but now as a DEA informant and a CIA contract pilot, also set up by Bush. The assassination happened on February 19, 1986 in the parking lot in front of the Salvation Army building on Airline Highway (U.S. 61) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They could locate no files on Seal. Tom Cruise got his pilot's license in 1994. The book was killed at the last minute. In fact, even the Wikipedia links Ive included in this paragraph are mostly lies. Asa Hutchinson was U.S. attorney for Arkansas' Western District in the early 1980s. They shared an interest in books, ideas, and night life. Trooper Bobby Walker has told me that sometime in the mid-1980s he was at Mena with Clinton. Barry Seal was fired from TWA in 1974 for falsely citing medical leave when he was actually off trafficking weapons. Tom Cruise is set to play murdered DEA informant Barry Seal in Doug Liman's film Mena. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Gov. It was dark almost black, and had only the minimal tail markings necessary for civilian operation. Hahn told Vice that Barry was likable but "not as smart and clever as he thought he was. Brown says Clinton told him not to worry. Indeed, Clinton had taken an active role in helping Brown. Mena is the small town in Arkansas where Barry Seal, who was born in Baton Rouge, conducted operations. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. In the years that followed his split from Clinton, Brown investigated white-collar crime for the Arkansas State Police. The CIA does not talk about these things, and so Browns exact relationship with the agency may never be known. In February 1986, Seal was killed in a hail of machine-gun fire outside a Baton Rouge Salvation Army halfway house after allegedly crossing Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel. ", Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. As part of his reduced sentence, the judge had ordered Barry to spend his nights, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at a Salvation Army halfway house for six months. Vincent G Mena, Age 54. By providing your phone number, you are consenting to receive calls and recurring SMS/MMS messages, including autodialed and automated calls and texts, to that number from the Judicial Watch. I started it and pursued it but was unable to complete it because I left the office. Its now referred to as theIran-Contrascandal. -Court DocumentsThe 2016 Bryan Cranston movie The Infiltrator also depicts Barry Seal's assassination, but it is historically inaccurate. Conspiracy theorists have gone as far as suggesting that the government ordered the hit on Seal, not the cartel, a suggestion that has never been supported by any proof. I dont want to be getting any more reports from Brown is the statement by Tucker that Colonel Tommy Goodwin, the recently retired head of the Arkansas state police, quoted in explaining the demotion to me in an interview. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. He had expected to find, he says, a Baron or King Air, the kind of plane in which he sometimes accompanied the Governor, and in which he had some training as a pilot. The mysterious events surrounding Mena Airfield in remote western Arkansas during the gubernatorial reign of Bill Clinton have teased the popular imagination for more than three decades. Subsequently, the special prosecutor investigating Whitewater subpoenaed Brown to disclose what he knew about Clintons connections to David L. Hale. The mysteries of Mena revolve around a drug-smuggling pilot named Barry Seal. The lawsuit claims that the pilots were overworked and that the crash happened after a 12-hour workday. When he returned to Little Rock, he called his brother Dwayne. Leveritt has written convincing book-length studies of the Memphis Three case and the deaths of teenagers Don Henry and Kevin Ives, the Arkansas boys on the tracks. In Whos Afraid of Barry Seal?, in the Arkansas Times, Leveritt wrote that secrets are still being carefully kept, especially in Arkansas. In advance of the recent Tom Cruise movie about Seal, American Made, an official associated with the Arkansas Studies Institute, an affiliate of the University of Arkansas and the Central Arkansas Libraryboth state institutionsconvinced Leveritt to write a book about Mena, as a tie-in to the movie. Patterson said he had overheard conversations about large quantities of drugs being flow into Mena airport, large quantities of guns, that there was an ongoing operation training foreign people in the area. When asked, Were any of these conversations in the presence of Gov. No. Debbie became Barry's third wife. 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. More than 1.2 million registrants have been removed from the voter rolls in Los Angeles County, California, since 2022 as part of a settlement agreement with Judici Al Qaeda Plans Plane Attacks Using New Techniques and Tactics as Air Mars Hackers Tied to Chinas Govt. The real Barry Seal never had a brother-in-law who was killed by a car bomb. She says that she thought he was an airplane broker and also that he rented out old anti-aircraft lighting for various promotional events. Eight months later, Seals C-123 was shot down over Nicaragua with a load of ammunition and supplies for the anti-Sandinista Contra rebels. No other name is perhaps more associated with the Iran-Contra affair than Oliver North, but his involvement in exposing Barry Seal's mission and blowing his cover is unknown and entirely speculation. The goal was to expose the involvement of the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime as a major supplier of cocaine from Colombia.". In essence, not only was the airport used to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States, but it was also a departure point for weapons used to arm the Contras in Nicaragua.". "Tom did all his own flying in the movie," says director Doug Liman, who is a pilot himself (Vulture.com). -Smuggler's End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal. I knew the agency had an extensive file on Seal, Leveritt wrote, because Id read it decades earlier, shortly after Seals murder. 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. Over a quarter of a century ago, George H.W. And the U.S. was covertly backing the Contras. The pilot of the plane was Barry Seal, a legendary drug trafficker. In its review of the 2017 movie "American Made" -- about Seal -- the New York Times called it the Conspiratorial Industrial Complex. When Wattenberg reported this, an angry Tucker retaliated against Brown by demoting him from white-collar investigations to highway patrol. As early as 1982, his firm had been censured by the Arkansas security commissioner for cheating customers. He said the money had been brought back from Tegucigalpa. Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. Brown, a narcotics cop, got upset. -Daily Mail Online, No. Barr opposed the independent counsels investigation of wrongdoing in the White House and facilitated Bushs famous1992 Christmas Eve pardonsof six of the co-conspirators of Iran-Contra. Brown? 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. FBI agents in Miami wanted to know what Seal might have told people at Rich Mountain Aviation regarding his smuggling activities, according to the document. Subsequently, Brown says, Seal called him at home, and set up a meeting at Cajuns Wharf, a popular Little Rock watering hole. In February 1986, Seal was killed in a hail of machine-gun fire outside a Baton Rouge Salvation Army halfway house after allegedly crossing Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel. -Daily Mail Online, The movie proposes that Barry Seal's first foray into smuggling drugs happened in 1980 after he was kidnapped while refueling his plane in Colombia. Suddenly, though, the Arkansas State Police were uncooperative. He suspected a CIA involvement, although his brother did not confirm it. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. As Barry opened the driver's side door to get out of the car, the gunman rushed from behind the drop box and fired a .45 caliber Mac-10 machine gun, hitting Barry in the head and body several times. Clinton had been asking him a similar question for months, ever since, with Clintons encouragement, he had applied for a job with the CIA. However, when a drug shipment was seized by the DEA, the Medellin Cartel blamed Seal for the loss. Past Addresses: See available information. He also says he told Seal he wanted no part of what was happening; then he left. Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton.Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. Like Clinton, Brown passed through a radical stage when he attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Jacoby mentioned Seal's mission as evidence, which effectively outed Seal as a government agent. However, some still allege the opposite, that the government turned a blind eye to Seal's drug running in order to use him to deliver weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels. I never saw drugs, that's for sure." "The information indicates that Seal was an informant for DEA at the time but also working as an operative of the CIA. Steal $20 Mil in U.S. COVID Relief Funds. Debbie, who was 21 at the time, met Barry, 33, while working as a cashier at a restaurant. Two duffel bags were put on board the plane at Tegucigalpa. The other troopers called him Clintons Fair-haired boy. Hagan said he didn't know how many pages of material on Seal have yet to be made public by the FBI. 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. . Many names in the documents have been redacted. The Sandinistas overthrew Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending 46 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family. Barry emerges from the plane covered in cocaine. Then Brown says, Seal and the kickers returned, carrying four duffel bags. On Watch: The #COVID19 Crisis on our Southern Border the Media ISN'T Coveri On Watch: Marxism & the Current Insurrection in America. 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. No. "The DEA agents who worked with Barry loved him," said director Doug Liman. Contributions are received from 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). 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. Dan Lasater, of course, was the celebrated Little Rock bond daddy. "He would tell me all these wild stories about the missions he had flown. var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); She is a brunette, not a blond like Sarah Wright's character in the movie. Yet she pressed on with her writing and finished the book. Clinton, Brown believed, was the CIA. When asked who his source was, Jacoby implied that it was "an aide in the White House" and that Oliver North had the most motivation to release the information. As soon as those searches are complete, we hope to have a crisp statement that distances us from the allegations if the Agencys IGs look into them does not constrain us from doing so. 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. No, in real life he had five children and was married three times. Eventually, Brown recalls, Seal startled him by yelling, Well, you all hang on. Liman has referred to the film as "a fun lie based on a true story" (TIME). Inside the plane, according to Brown, were another pilot and two beaners common laborers who looked like Central American Indians. Reply HELP for help, STOP to end. Still unknown at the time, the cartel would go on to make hundreds of millions from the explosion of cocaine use in the U.S. Barry Seal, who became known as "El Gordo" (The Fat Man), ended up being an integral part of that success. The movie's loose interpretation of the true story is echoed in the trailer when a voice-over by Tom Cruise as Barry Seal tells us that only "some of this sh*t really happened." Wouldn't it be fun if they were fooling around in a plane and the plane went into the same kind of parabolic arc and they got pinned against the ceiling?" While at a bar one night, Barry is found by a man saying his name is Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson). There is no real-life Monty. 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 entry on the airport. Browns role, after all, was quite limited. the Colombian drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar Biography He also says he was mindful of the secrecy agreement he had signed with the CIA. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. 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 . I'm a multi-engine, instrument-rated commercial pilot," Cruise said in a Wired interview. Later Seal confirmed Browns suspicions: the palettes contained M-16s for the Contras. Last March, in a legally binding deposition, trooper Larry Patterson also said that Clinton knew about Mena. Barry Seal, courtesy of the Baton Rouge Advocate. For a portion of this time, the alleged ringleader of the drug smuggling, Seal, appeared to have been working with the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Just prior to the movie's release, news broke that the family of deceased stunt pilot Alan Purwin was suing American Made's producers for wrongful death. The first is a CIA internal memo on an article written about Mena in 1995. "The information indicates that Seal was an informant for DEA at the time but also working as an operative of the CIA. The second is the article they reference. Brown and the co-pilot, who never exchanged any more than a few words, remained on board. "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. Reprints and media inquiries: [emailprotected]. 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. 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. He had previously been married to Barbara Bottoms (m. 1963-1971) and Lynn Ross (m. 1971-1972). He carried out his smuggling operation under the nose of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Then, Brown says, Seal reached again into the duffel bag and pulled out a kilogram of cocaine. He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. "I've heard that stated by a lot of people.". I was young and it was impressive." The man said that despite the incident, he was still very fond of Barry. Many names in the documents have been redacted. . 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. Basically, Seal would fly over the guns and smuggle back drugs on his return trip. "I fly airplanes. var sc_invisible=1; Embracing his entrepreneurial spirit, as a teenager he started a small business flying ads from his airplane. Documents and a surviving crew member tied the shipment to the CIA and the White House, dragging a Seal connection into the Iran-Contra affair. Three Colombians supposedly sent by the Ochoas, including Cruz and Velez, were later arrested at the airport. The arrests never happened since Seal's cover was blown. Brown says he never saw the bags again. I didnt make the connection then, but it seems significant now: if youre going to secretly run arms to controversial U.S. allies, youll likely want some military support. Yet, some believe that Seal was working for the CIA in the 1980s to fly guns and money to Nicaraguan rebels, a detail that the movie embraces. 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. Weinberger faced charges of lying to Congress about his knowledge of the arms and drug smuggling that President George W. Bush had endorsed. 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: -Daily Mail Online, "Mena" refers to the small town in Arkansas where Barry Seal moved his operation, smuggling in drugs to a clandestine airfield under the nose of then-Governor Bill Clinton. When he was deposed, Bender was shown a photograph of Buddy Young. Yes. Brown has identified him as Dan Magruder, and says that he spoke admiringly of Clinton. Dr. Faucis "SHADY" Gain of Function Research! 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. In real life, his first encounter with the Medelln Cartel happened less dramatically. In her suit, Lisa, who is not depicted in the movie, also claimed that there were factual inaccuracies in the script, including the fact that Barry had five children, not three, and that the movie falsely suggests he was an alcoholic and a reckless pilot. Purwin was a passenger in a plane that went down, killing both Purwin and Venezuelan pilot Carlos Berl. At a press conference in October 1994, for instance, he was asked a rambling question about the remote air strip, and gave an equally rambling answer. Seal's mysterious activities have spawned books, movies and a cornucopia of conspiracy theories. Instead, he says, he found this huge military plane that was not actually a military plane. He says that Clinton arrived in a Beech aircraft, and was still there when he left for the day. Gov. Asa Hutchinson was U.S. attorney for Arkansas' Western District in the early 1980s. Approximately 30 minutes later, Brown says, the C-123K landed in what he later learned what Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "He thought we had more time. No. When asked how, he replied, "Oh, Barry stole an airplane from me. "He stopped in there and, just like that, he asked me out," says Debbie. He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. Thats when he said, You having any fun yet.. In 1996, House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach pressed the CIA for answers about its role at Mena. 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. 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. All rights reserved. When Brown returned to the Governors mansion, he recalls, Clinton greeted him jovially, You having any fun yet? he asked. Seemingly panicked, the White House mistakenly presumed that Brown was talking to ABC News about his involvement with Mena when he was actually discussing Whitewater. No. An index was completed and the book was listed in the University of Arkansas Press catalog. Barry Seal, courtesy of the Baton Rouge Advocate. "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. The CIA stonewalled the release of information now sought by Judicial Watch on the Mena Airport controversy, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. No. Dwayne Brown says he knew his brother had made some unexplained trips out of the country. "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. The Louisiana attorney general would tell the Justice Department that Seal had "smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion in drugs into the U.S." At this juncture, no one, including Brown, can say precisely what Clinton was doing at Mena. Past Addresses: See available information. 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.. "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. 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. Patterson was being deposed in a legal suit filed against Buddy Young, the former head of Clintons security detail, and another man by Terry reed, who says he trained Contra pilots, under Seals supervision, at Nella, Arkansas. 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Indeed, when Clinton was a law professor in Fayetteville, Brown was working on an off-campus magazine, the radical Grapevine. Judicial Watch Sues Air Force Academy for Records about Critical Race Theor DOJ & FBI Target Biden Political Opponents, Judicial Watch Warns: Critical Race Theory Rising. 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. Then both men got into the front set of the car, and Seal reached into the duffel bag, and pulled out a manila envelope with $2,500 in it. Seal, Brown says, had also prescribed the dress code, and insisted that no one carry identification, not even keys or jewelry. At the time Seals flights took place, Lasater was contributing to Clintons political campaigns. barry seal mena house address. 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