Your email address will not be published. Both learned to fly from the same Civil Air Patrol instructor>at the same private airport. Seal was also ordered to report address changes to the U.S. attorney,>and his right to travel outside the court's jurisdiction was restricted. [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. Where necessary, the stories are specifically>referred to. Feb 3, 1986 - The Arkansas IRS assess Barry Seal's income taxes at $29,487,718.00 for smuggling 30,000 kilos . 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.. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana, filed 21 January 1986. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. >When Seal returned to the Turks and Caicos in February, he initially met with>Smith. Barry Seal's early life and family background. [41] All other automatic weapons are illegal. 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." [27] (barry Seal Friends James Poche-David Holmes-John Odom.) 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. [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. > When he was cross-examined in the Saunders trial, Seal didnt deny that>he "had worked on CIA-sponsored activities in Nicaragua," and he admitted that>"the CIA installed the cameras in the C-123," which were used in the>Sandinista sting operation. The author's oldest brother knew Seal>in high school. 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. From official records of the death of Adler Berriman Seal, on file with the>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, City Police, 21 February 1986. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. 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. strange coincidence :John Odom baton Rouge. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. He normally received a commission for his work.>It wasn't unusual for him to transport up to $20 million in cash in exchange>for a commission of 5 percent of that amount.[7]. 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. 1983 - The CIA begin to smuggling drugs into Los Angeles. alternate landing: Dallas .Landing:327 Hours 5 30 Min. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. These required>Seal to carry a telephone paging device, file monthly financial reports, and>abstain from all contact with a co-defendant named Gary Seville. Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton Staff Report. >28. >According to Reed and his coauthor, John Cummings, retired U.S. Marine Lt.>Col. "The trial of the C4 Seven" One clue to Seal's status is that, after having been caught illegally exporting 7 tons of C4 explosives, no one was in any hurry to bring him to trial. Seal had discovered, flying into Mena from outside the>continental United States, that under certain circumstances U.S. Customs>agents at the airport did not inspect aircraft. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. Part of the $48 million paid by Iran to the U.S. for the Hawk and TOW missiles was in turn used to fund the Contras in their fight against the Marxist Sandinistas. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. Seal>kept his appointment with Jura and Jacobson five days after his meeting with>the task force. One thing is for sure: Barry Seal was never able to testify>against any of them. U.S. authorities wanted to put him on trial for drug smuggling. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. 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 . >9. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. WEINER Since I was a little boy. [30] However, it was commonly rumored (and with good>reason) in both Louisiana and Arkansas in the 1980s that Barry Seal was>engaged in the arms trade as well as being a cocaine trafficker. WEINER Yes. Gary Webb & Barry Seal. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What a tangled web! Seal used both>frequently. (date 11-22-63- ferrie left his 2buddys )David Ferrie flight plan date 4-8-1963.flight plan vfr type craft cessna Name command: W Ferrieaddress command: N.O. barry plane crash near 4560 Essen Lane 1960 He was in Hospital for a week . Barry Seal graduated highSchool 1957. Barry Seal wasn't concerned>about the weather anyway; the late model Cadillac Sedan deVille he was driving>had all of the creature comforts and amenities befitting a big-time drug>trafficker. I am working long hours right now, but I will go overthis article and point out the flaws in a week or so. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. Your contribution would help us immensely in meeting our growing expenses. Ochoa wasnt extradited.. Before he got involved in the criminal, he used to be an American aviator. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. A federal judge had sentenced Seal to stay for several months in an unguarded Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. >46. But, they>also made him a marked man. who said he train pilots in mena arkansas. In 1981, he was making daily deposits of $50,000 into an account at a bank in the Bahamas. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . Seal, Crim. Despite several such transactions, it would take years to obtain freedom for all the prisoners. >The reason the scheme was so complicated, according to Reed and Cummings, is>that the federal government couldn't legally fund the Contras without>congressional approval, as such actions were prohibited by the Boland>Amendment. 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. Thank you. "[38] The federal>Criminal Code prohibits the "transfer or possession of machineguns" unless>they were lawfully registered before 19 May 1986. "Barry" Seal was shot to death with machine gun fire in the parking lot of a Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. Seal>flew fifty cocaine-smuggling and money-laundering missions between 1981 and>1983 for the Medellin cartel. 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 said the money had been brought back from Tegucigalpa. 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 . Seal and the others were arrested for alleged violations of the Mutual>Security Act of 1954, a federal law barring the exportation of explosives>without prior State Department approval. >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. They immediately hopped back into the Buick and>sped away, nearly running over an eyewitness. >In February 1986, Barry Seal was preparing to be the government's chief>witness in the pending trial of Colombian drug-lord Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez,>head of the notorious Ochoa family of the Medellin cartel. 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 . Through a rather circuitous route, Seal turned>DEA informant under the threat of additional prosecution on drug-trafficking>and moneylaundering charges in the federal cases filed against him in Miami>and Baton Rouge. The Fairchild C-123K "provider" 54-0663 (20112) Radiocall:"40663" was a part of one of the biggest scandals in the mid 1980's. 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 . [39] What that means is the>only "machinegun" (automatic weapon) the average American citizen has been>allowed to own, by law, since May 1986 is one which was lawfully registered>before that time. Before long, Seal was importing up to a thousand pounds of cocaine a month. 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. Bustamonte was also associated with the Ochoa family of the infamous>Medellin drug cartel. >23. Lots of strange Occurrences and Strange Coincidences and Waters] is recognized for 5 minutes. Saunders>couldn't make the Miami meeting, but Seal was assured he would be part of any>deals the five men might strike. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. By Robert Morrow, Pingback: The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? (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 . 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. At the same time, Seal was introduced to the>man in the white suit, Stafford Missick, minister of Commerce and Finance in>the islands. ", >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. The DEA was>doing the same. Barry Seal gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. Seal also gave the DEA valuable additional>information on Medellin drug lord, Pablo Escobar.[16]. 340, 341. >40. >11. Lee Odom said He met Clay Shaw Nov 1966. Barry Seal. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. >Seal and Ochoa had been doing business for years. [10] Jorge Ochoa would>soon discover that Barry Seal, whom the cartel had long trusted, was playing a>significant role in the cartel's looming problems. Tax records show that, having assessed Seal posthumously for some $86 million in back taxes on his earnings from Mena and elsewhere between 1981 and 1983, even the l.R.S. No of Kids with Barry: Dean, Aaron, and Christina Seal. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. Johnson's could make everything but the special parts.>Brodix would take the greater risk and manufacture the conversion kits.[36]. After their release, Seal contacted Camp, and he>became Seal's partner, copilot, and best friend. If the US is a democracy, then the voters themselves are responsible for the horrible state of affairs this country finds itself in. Witnessed Allen Dorfman `Hit June 05, 1996. Sam Giancana Mexico 1965 1975 .In A pril 1 97 2,Lucien Sarti was shot todeath in Mex ico City.Jean Souetre, a.k.a. [40] That also means anyone attempting to purchase automatic>weapons before May 1986 could only do so lawfully by registering the weapons>with the federal government. A man with a machine gun approached his Cadillac. Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. total number on board :4 =Hidell Lambert Diaz / Color of aircraft : Red /W.David Ferrie plane found :Stinson Voyager 150 Nobleville.Indiana.Don Roberts shed next to eastside of his home next Nobleville Airport Promise Road Stinson Voyager Single Engine airplane manufactured 1946.David Ferrie sold stinson plane February 13,1967. (denied notes). That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. Lee Odom of clay shaw trial.Lee Odom wife Mary Francis had foreknowledge11-22-63 her address:211 W French Place SanAntonio.Tx.Lee Odom P.O.Box Dallas Texas. The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. Ibid., 484-495.> 19. Seal admitted under oath smuggling at least fifteen hundred pounds of>cocaine during the six months between May and November of that year. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola was bound by the Florida plea agreement and was furious at being powerless to put Seal away. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. Things became worse when a report in the Washington Times on July 17 . 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 . 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