According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an investigative>reporter for a London newspaper, one interest-bearing account opened by Seal>at the Fuji Bank in the Caymans had a balance of $1.645 billion at the time>one of his articles was written in 1994. He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. It was at this time that he moved his operations from Baton Rouge to Mena, Arkansas. 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? 84-77-B, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana,>filed 30 December 1985 (emphasis added). [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. According to the indictment, Seal had made unlawful transfers in>the amount of $51,006.64 by purchasing a cashier's check in that amount with>$8,656.64 in cash and five cashier's checks in amounts of less than $10,000>each.[11]. Oliver North said:Seal offered witness protection . MichelRoux , a.k.a. The facts and circumstances leading up to Seal's death appear in the record as follows: Barry Seal was a pilot and drug smuggler for the Medellin Cartel, a Colombian cocaine . Obviously, Seal and Camp had a lot in common>and plenty of time to talk. >31. With Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. According to the>DEA, Ochoa was "the world's largest cocaine dealer. It's>also what the Branch Davidians were doing at Mt. He next admitted it under oath in DEA>intelligence reports. By Robert Morrow, The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. It's a matter of modifying the receiver and replacing>the internal parts in the carrier assembly. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. Gary Webb & Barry Seal. He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot . Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. In October, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Narcotics and Drug Interdiction of the Presidents Commission on Organized Crime, I had presided over a seminar at which Barry Seal had testified, Guste continued. He was fired by TWA after his 1972 arrest in New Orleans on charges of flying explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. Seal was convicted on numerous charges.>Soon, federal prosecutors in Louisiana were breathing down his neck. 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. Barry Seal. 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. That was what the white>supremacist cult, CSA, was doing in Arkansas in the early to-mid-1980s. The Boland Amendment was one of those federal laws the>CIA held in particular disdain. I am working long hours right now, but I will go overthis article and point out the flaws in a week or so. Seal soon purchased a hangar>and began to operate a new business, Rich Mountain Aviation, Inc. >According to Russell Welch, Seal admitted in late 1985 that aircraft were>being "retrofitted" with cargo doors, bladder tands and special plumbing, and>fuel and navigational system modifications in the Rich Mountain hangar between>1981 and 1985. (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. Most reports show that Barry Seal started his drug operation in 1981, and set up shop at the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport. See, also, "Government's>Response to Defendant's Rule 32 Motion to Correct Pre-Sentence Report," United>States of AMerica v. Adler Berriman Seal, Crim. MENA They called him the Fat Man. Hold that thought. The rich & powerful, including the political elite are free to do as they please without regard to consequences. ( david ferrie roomate and friend) GuyBanister 544 camp /531 Lafayette New Orleans La. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. He said the money had been brought back from Tegucigalpa. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. 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. Spoiler alert: It's 9:30 p.m. Friday and I just returned from watching American Made, the Tom Cruise movie about Baton Rouge drug smuggler Barry Seal.. A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. It was only after Castro succeeded in overthrowing Batista in 1959 and declared himself a Marxist that other forces then began their efforts to overthrow Castro. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. >Despite the plea agreement, U.S. Attorney Stanford Bardwell had to prepare for>the worst. 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. 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. >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. He was murdered on February 19, 1986 by contract killers hired by the cartel. The pot-bellied daredevil>once boasted that he could make $1.5 million in a matter of hours dealing with>Ochoa as long as he had his pocket pager, two payphones to call Colombia and>Miami, and fuel for The Fat Lady. Wasnt he involved in contra affair with OLLIE and Felix ? The DEA called the money>"trafficker funds." Some of the facts regarding the trial of Seal's>killers are from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times, in addition>to the New Orleans papers. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. The series examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti . For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. Seals wife was said to have found George Bushs private phone number in Seals wallet. Before long, Seal was importing up to a thousand pounds of cocaine a month. 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.. Weird Places, Odd Events, Bizarre News : [34], >Although there are conflicting reports, it appears Seal was originally>recruited by the CIA as a "subcontractor" to fly arms and other contraband to>the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters, beginning sometime in 1983 after he allegedly>met with Terry Reed to discuss gun-smuggling activities. >To Seal, and others involved in weapons smuggling, what made the business>risky was that the registration law applied not only to the purchase and>transportation of automatic weapons, but also to the kits used to convert>semiautomatic into automatic weapons. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. WEINER Yes. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. From official records of the death of Adler Berriman Seal, on file with the>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, City Police, 21 February 1986. North, meanwhile, was busy orchestrating a complicated arms deal with Iran in negotiations to obtain Irans help in freeing seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian terrorists in Lebanon. It would focus the glare of the media spotlight on not only the Colombian Medellin Cartel, but also on the FBI and CIA as well as such political icons as then-Vice President George H.W. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration was well aware>of the fact that the chances of obtaining congressional approval for such>covert CIA activities as arming military and paramilitary groups, like the>freedom fighters, were slim to none. When he was 16 years old, Seal gained his pilot certificate. Ibid., 484-495.> 19. He met Clay Shaw through Andy Anderson manager Roosevelt By Robert Morrow, Pingback: The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? Ibid. At the same time, Seal was introduced to the>man in the white suit, Stafford Missick, minister of Commerce and Finance in>the islands. Seal had known of him for "many, many years." After their release, Seal contacted Camp, and he>became Seal's partner, copilot, and best friend. Mention the CIA around Mena, Ark., and the response is likely to be an exasperated sigh and a pep talk about the local economy. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born to Mary Lou Seal and Benjamin Curtis Seal (reportedly, a member of the Ku Klux Klan), a candy wholesaler, on July 16, 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 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. The life of the former TWA pilot, Barry Seal, inspired the film. Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton 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. "[32] Ironically, if such a scheme really was in place,>the federal government was in effect subsidizing the Contras through tax>deductions, in violation of its own laws. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Seal needed the protection, and Saunders and>his friends could use the money. A great>deal of corporate naivete and ignorance on the part of state government was to>be expected in Bill Clinton's Arkansas, with respect to certain business>transactions where Barry Seal, Iver Johnson's, and Brodix were involved., as>long as the appropriate fees were paid to the right parties. 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. Saunders>couldn't make the Miami meeting, but Seal was assured he would be part of any>deals the five men might strike. The DEA, long aware of his>drug-smuggling activities, had finally caught up with him in Florida, where>federal prosecutors had a field day. Ibid., 521-531. 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. Rambler station wagon ,outside of TSBD building ,Craig saw LHO in the Police Station being interrogated ,Captain Fritz, Interrogation of Oswald, did not record the most crime of the century . He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. >The next day, Saunders drove up in a white Lincoln Continental Mark IV,>accompanied by two bodyguards and a third man dressed in a white seersucker>suit. By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. In March 1984,>frustrated by numerous vain attempts to talk personally with U.S. Attorney>Stanford Bardwell, who was prosecuting the case in Baton Rouge, the>nowdesperate Seal contacted the Vice-Presidential Task Force in Washington,>D.C., and made arrangements to meet with them a day or two later. >41. | Dark Politics, Pablo Escobar: The Many Faces Of The Narco [REVIEW] |, Bingo Zone Baton Rouge Louisiana | I love You Zones, Roots of Iran-Contra Crisis Found in Recording of Airport Attack Plan - UNICORN RIOT, 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Too Dope Hip Hop, 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen | Alt Left Press, American Made Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Thinking Port, Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Technology Commercialization Credit and Jobs Program, Veteran Initiative and Mentor-Protege Tax Credit. > 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. They remained partners until>Camp's untimely death in a plane crash just north of Mena, Arkansas, on 20>February 1985. The DEA also allowed Seal to pay Emile Camp and other>pilots like Roger Reeves, out of the trafficker funds. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. [47] It may well be that the CIA>was hesitant to divulge Seal's activities on its behalf for fear that a leak>would jeopardize its effectiveness in aiding the Contras. Roger Craig claim he saw LHO (man look similar to him) get into a departure 13:00 route: Hammond La.1:00 K 7500 Direct Garland Texas. "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . 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. 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 . Before he got involved in the criminal, he used to be an American aviator. Likewise, we do not charge a subscription fee for our blog. "Motion to Correct Sentence and to Enforce Plea Agreement," filed in U.S.>v. New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986, reported that Seal's brother, Ben>(also known as "Benjy"), had commented that there was nothing Barry Seal>couldn't fly. Hasenfus said that was by sheer coincidence. As a result of Seals cooperation, the judge in his Florida case praised Seal and reduced his sentence to six months probation. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. >Special drug prosecutors Bradley C. Myers and Albert J. Winters, Jr., with the>New Orleans office of the U.S. Attorney's Organized Crime Strike Force, knew>all of that and had been breathing down Seal's neck for months. Your email address will not be published. At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. >Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported in the 9 October 1994 London Sunday Telegraph>that the diary of former Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch>contained the following entry on 4 June 1985: "[An agent from the DEA]>informed me in strictest confidence that it was believed, within his>department, that Barry Seal is [sic] flying weapons to Central and South>America. The type of conversion kit, or CAR, that>has been most widely used for the Colt AR-15 rifle is the M-16 E-2 .42 Various>parts for such kits were being manufactured at several small plants and>machine shops in Arkansas in the early-to-mid-1980s, including Iver Johnson's>and Brodix, all of which was perfectly legal at the time. >Operation Centaur Rose was the name of the CIA gun-running project Seal was>involved in, according to Reed and Cummings. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana. John Odom claim that Barry Seal knew LHO and David Ferrie. The Infamous.Barry Seal. At any rate, by 1986, Barry Seal found himself wearing three very>uncomfortable hats; those of key man, straw man, and scapegoat. But, the obvious>difference between Nessard, Sarco, and the others and Iver Johnson's and>Brodix was that the physical plants of the last two were located in Arkansas.>In theory, that meant the state of Arkansas was able to exact tax revenues>from them. 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. 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 . He was married three times throughout his life. Tom Aswell, Publisher. He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola was bound by the Florida plea agreement and was furious at being powerless to put Seal away. There is no information on Barry Seal's net worth, but it must have been substantial. Barry Seal, at the time he died, may have been the . 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