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. [Posted 13 November 2002] Just before Labor Day 2002, I was on the road to Texas. > According to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner, Dr. Hypolite>Landry, and the report of detectives with the Baton Rouge City Police, seven>rounds fired from an automatic weapon known as a Mac-10 struck Seal in the>head and upper body. Reagan and the CIA also understood the>threat posed by the existence of another Communist regime in Latin America, to>American interests in that area and to the interests of democracy in general. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot . Gary Webb & Barry Seal. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. It had been used for several months by Barbque co which he was onceassociated with. 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. Things became worse when a report in the Washington Times on July 17 . >2. 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. Fourth, Vince Foster worked for the Rose Law firm until he left to . If you want to catch the movie for yourself and don't want to know in advance about the movie's adherence to or deviation from the facts, stop here because I intend to go into more detail . 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. 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 . (3330 Louisiana ave )New Orleans La.Eladio Del Valle anti castro cuban died Miami Fla same day.Clay Shaw arrest conspiracy JFK on March 1, 1967.New Orleans conspiracy characters Guy Banister,Jack Martin, Thomas Beckham, Fred Lee Crisman ,Raymond Broshears!Womaack Ins Agent 222 W Thomas St Hammond La.March 24,1964 To Mr Clay Shaw 1313 Daughine St N.O. . >----->Barry Seal and the Mena Connection, > Wednesday, 19 February 1986, had been a typical winter day in south>Louisiana, overcast and cold, but not unbearable. Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. As a teenager, he was naturally gifted as a flier, as confirmed by his flight instructor. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . In his cross-examination, in the trial of United States v. Norman Saunders,>et al., Cr. A federal judge had sentenced Seal to stay for several months in an unguarded Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Sunday Telegraph, 9>October 1994. Barry Seal. It was in 1973, the year that followed the end of his second marriage that Seal got married to Deborah DuBois and they . His purpose there was to inform the commission and top United States officials of the methods and equipment used by drug smugglers.and (he) was scheduled to be a key witness in the governments case against Jorge Ochoa-Vasques, the head of one of the largest drug cartels in the world. Roger Craig claim he saw LHO (man look similar to him) get into a 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. >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. American Made is a fascinating biopic about Barry Seal, a commercial pilot who worked with the CIA to run drugs and guns in South America. In high school, while his classmates were riding buses to out-of-town>football games, Barry would often fly to the games in "barnstorming" fashion,>landing wherever he could find a smooth, flat surface. In December of 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana for flying a cargo of marijuana into the state. .Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. Barry Seal's early life and family background. [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. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 16, 1939 to a typical American family. Released in theaters in 2017, the film directed by Doug Liman lingered on the true story of Barry Seal, who at the turn of the 70s and 80s was at the center of a criminal affair that thrilled . 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]. Michel Mertz had been ex pelled from U.S. at Fort Worth or Dallas 48hours after JFK assassination.11-22-63. Bush and Oliver North. >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. >9. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. 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 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. At the time of their extradition and prosecution, billions>of dollars in drug money had already been laundered through banks affiliated>with and operated by BCCI (the Bank of Commerce and Credit International) in>the tiny Caribbean island chain known as the Turks and Caicos. Seal" is the owner of the airstrip. According to both Seal and Terry Reed, who claims to>have been a CIA "asset" in the 1980s and who flew with Seal in and out of Mena>on numerous occasions, The Fat Lady was equipped by the CIA with surveillance>cameras for a sting operation in Nicaragua involving the Sandinistas and the>Medellin cartel. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. Barry Seal. [41] All other automatic weapons are illegal. Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. At times, some of the big-ticket items obtained through the>insurance loss claim scam were also transported in The Fat Lady. Mention the CIA around Mena, Ark., and the response is likely to be an exasperated sigh and a pep talk about the local economy. Mena, Arkansas, as a staging point for weapons supply flights. He was murdered on February 19, 1986 by contract killers hired by the cartel. >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. SGI-84-0028, Seal told the>DEA about an upcoming smuggling trip in which he planned to haul "3000 kilos">of cocaine "from the Jorge Ochoa smuggling group." Welch was an investigator for the Arkansas State>Police Criminal Investigations Division, taking part in Seal's prosecution in>federal court in Baton Rouge on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.>He attended one of Seal's depositions on 27 December 1985, and heard Seal make>these admissions.[9]. Hahn is a longtime friend, and I knew Barry Seal. But, they>also made him a marked man. In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. > No one knows exactly why, but for some reason, after pulling the Cadillac>into its normal parking place, Seal, dressed in his customary olive-drab>flight suit, and wearing his amber Ray Ban aviator sunglasses, sat in the .>car that evening a lot longer than was his usual custom. 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. It proved to be the singular event that blew the Iran-Contra scandal wide open. >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. He met Clay Shaw through Andy Anderson manager Roosevelt Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . Later Reed moved to Mexico setup company. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." Salvation army halfway house 7361 Airline Highway, BatonRouge. 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. See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. In addition to flying the huge aircraft in and out of the Mena,>Arkansas, Intermountain Regional Airport, Seal used a private airport in Opa->Locka, Florida, from time to time, for the same basic reason that had>initially attracted him to Mena: no U.S. Customs agents were there to examine>crews, passengers, or cargo if the aircraft was landing for retrofitting. He grew up three blocks from the Seal family, in the same>neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 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. At any rate, by 1986, Barry Seal found himself wearing three very>uncomfortable hats; those of key man, straw man, and scapegoat. 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. He spent nine months in a Honduran prison and while there, met William Roger Reeves, a fellow prisoner who worked for the Ochoa family of Medellin, Colombia. This is the story that couldn't be suppressed. Both Smith and Missick were interested in Seal's proposal and>were given cash advances on the spot out of what Seal called his "trafficker>fund" (money 'provided by the DEA for its informants' use) for "transportation>expenses" associated with a meeting arranged for Miami in March. 39. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. >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. The DEA, long aware of his>drug-smuggling activities, had finally caught up with him in Florida, where>federal prosecutors had a field day. 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. 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. After death, his story was famous, and a lot of people were talking . The U.S. would conceal the transactions by selling the weapons first to Israel and then re-selling them at significant off the books markups to Irans Islamist government for use in its war with Iraq. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. I had to visit my employer's Houston office, and didn't want to fly because our government was looking for a reason to start an oil war against Iraq. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. (5m-6m) Clinton, Mena, Barry Seal - Mena (6m-7m) "fall to communism" argument for Vietnam, et al . Seal also gave the DEA valuable additional>information on Medellin drug lord, Pablo Escobar.[16]. The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . 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. 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. >The Ochoa family cartel, led at the time by Jorge Ochoa-Vasquez, the son of>Fabio Ochoa-Vasquez, a prominent Colombian cattle farmer, found Seal to be>such a reliable pilot that they paid him to make dozens of cocaine runs. by Ran. Beginnings The first rough airstrip was located south of the town on the McBride family's . It was at this time that he moved his operations from Baton Rouge to Mena, Arkansas. Witnessed Allen Dorfman `Hit June 05, 1996. When we mention CIA drug smuggling in Mena, Arkansas, the first name that comes to mind is Barry Seal. BARRY SEAL: He imported drugs and laundered money while working for the federal government. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. no. >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. Crews, passengers, and>cargo apparently didn't have to go through Customs if the aircraft was landing>at Mena for retrofitting. Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. As a result of Seals cooperation, the judge in his Florida case praised Seal and reduced his sentence to six months probation. At Arkansas, he ran sales and operations of fleets . He died instantly. 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