regarding Seal's criminal>activities, telling the court that the charges in the indictment were based on>solid evidence. As he parked his car, he was approached by a man carrying an assault weapon. departure 13:00 route: Hammond La.1:00 K 7500 Direct Garland Texas. The Crimes of Mena. 340, 341. Required fields are marked *. Mr. WOLF How long have you known Paul Doffman?Mr. 85-165-Spellman, U.S. District>Court, Southern District of Florida, pp. MichelRoux , a.k.a. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What a tangled web! Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. ", >Seal and his copilot, Emile Camp, who had also become a DEA informant in 1984>to avoid prosecution, flew to Grand Turk Island on 2 January 1985, in part to>arrange the sale of a Beechcraft 18 airplane to Leocadida Moreno. Although the economy is>officially based on the fishing industry and a few salt mines, the Turks and>Caicos boasted an exclusive Club Med resort in the eighties. And the rest, of course, is history. At almost 300 pounds, Adler B. >Despite the plea agreement, U.S. Attorney Stanford Bardwell had to prepare for>the worst. Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. It had been used for several months by Barbque co which he was onceassociated with. >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. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. That order, which for reasons discussed below>would ultimately become Seal's death warrant, reflected that he wouldn't do>any jail time for the cocaine charges, but instead would pay a fine of twenty->five thousand dollars. That agenda would turn up in the sordid details of the Iran-Contra scandal. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) was a Trans World Airlines (TWA) 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. The meeting ended, appropriately, with smiles,>handshakes, and hasta la vistas. Wow Barry Seal I think he is pretty Awesome loved movie about him. Hasenfus said that was by sheer coincidence. [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. Barry Seal in White cadillac -2-20-86 BatonRouge-Escobar and In addition, the indictment will contain>one count of causing financial institutions not to file currency transaction>reports (CTRs). Should the grand jury return the indictment, the Government>agrees to allow the defendant to plead guilty to the two-count indictment. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. >Soon, IRS CID Special Agent William Duncan was asking questions; and Barry>Seal was perhaps the one man on earth who could answer those questions. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. The Boland Amendment was one of those federal laws the>CIA held in particular disdain. After the details were discussed and "a division of>labor" was decided on, Seal promised that the islanders would divide at least>$1,250,000 annually. ( jack ruby called Lennie Patrick in chicago ) Shortly before 6:00 P.M., the forty-six-year-old Seal wheeled the>yellow Cadillac into the parking lot of the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center in Baton Rouge. Beginnings The first rough airstrip was located south of the town on the McBride family's . [Posted 13 November 2002] Just before Labor Day 2002, I was on the road to Texas. But Im writing incessantly and should stop. When Tom Cruise blasts his dazzling smile at the camera and narrates American Made as Barry Seal, you believe . A quarter-century later, Americas war on drugs continues at a cost of $52 billion per year, or $1600 for every second of every day. The CIA, DEA, and State Department have each been implicated in various drug trafficking enterprises that were used to fund illegal covert operations in nations all over the globe. 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.. . 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. David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many planes to fly.David Ferrie -1948 Stinson plane #108 2sn 108 1293.Stinson Franklin plane #12974 valued $3,ooo.David Ferrie last payment on car 6-26-19621959 (1960) Ford address 11 Prospect St Alexandria La. > 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. Like in the movie, the American Made true story reveals that Barry made a living as a commercial airline pilot for several years. (barry Seal Friends James Poche-David Holmes-John Odom.) [19], >On 3 March 1985, as scheduled, Seal met with Smith, Missick, Andre Fournier,>and Nigel Bowe at a Miami hotel. >23. [49] But, since 1984, Seal's luck had been>running out. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. 506-508. He would work closely with the two agents in setting up a>sting operation involving the Medellin-based Ochoa cartel.[14]. Using my iPhone, I shot this video of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport on July 22, 2016. Hold that thought. [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. Because Reagan feared another communist regime in the Western Hemisphere, Seal was enlisted as an undercover informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Seals wife was said to have found George Bushs private phone number in Seals wallet. Atlantic City and Skinny, was the owner of the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey ( trump Hotel)..Sinatra Chauffer G.Jacobs and Buddy Greco Ochoa wasnt extradited.. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the United States from South America between 1977 and 1986. Lots of strange Occurrences and Strange Coincidences and Obviously, Seal and Camp had a lot in common>and plenty of time to talk. Reed claims the>meeting with Seal was arranged by Oliver North (aka John Cathey). As a teenager, he was naturally gifted as a flier, as confirmed by his flight instructor. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. They played ball in the yard of the one-story white frame>house on Lover's Lane, a shady street in a quiet neighborhood. He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . But, Barry's first love was>flying. Irwin Weiner. 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 . On each trip Seal, and until his death in 1985,>Emile Camp would haul crates of weapons, CARs, miscellaneous weapons parts,>and ammunition to some prearranged location, usually in Nicaragua or Panama,>unload the armaments, and either pick up a load of drugs or head for Colombia>to do so. At the same time, Seal was introduced to the>man in the white suit, Stafford Missick, minister of Commerce and Finance in>the islands. (where anna lewis worked)Then they would go to 500 club free tab from carlos Marcello See Ruby,Ferrie etc. Seal's arraignment proceeded as scheduled on>that date. It prohibited the exportation of arms like>M-16s and kits, like the CARs used to convert semiautomatic weapons, without>congressional approval. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . They remained partners until>Camp's untimely death in a plane crash just north of Mena, Arkansas, on 20>February 1985. At the time he was also>under indictment in the same federal jurisdiction on thirteen counts of>possession with intent to distribute phenobarbitol, Demerol, and Quaaludes.>With the threat of a lengthy prison term looming ominously over his head, the>freespirited Seal decided to cooperate with authorities and become an>informant. At Arkansas, he ran sales and operations of fleets . Investigators are still trying to separate myth from reality. It proved to be the singular event that blew the Iran-Contra scandal wide open. Soon after that, Seal turned to drug smuggling and subsequently was arrested in Honduras with 40 kilos of cocaine worth a reported $25 million. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. At any rate, by 1986, Barry Seal found himself wearing three very>uncomfortable hats; those of key man, straw man, and scapegoat. Patrick Matrisciana, The Clinton Chronicles Book (Hemet, CA: Jeremiah>Books, 1994). Despite several such transactions, it would take years to obtain freedom for all the prisoners. >16. 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. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. Your contribution would help us immensely in meeting our growing expenses. >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. Before long, Seal was importing up to a thousand pounds of cocaine a month. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. 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. At times, some of the big-ticket items obtained through the>insurance loss claim scam were also transported in The Fat Lady. Seal made his>request all the more convincing by arranging to return to the islands in a>couple of weeks to look at a DC-3 he might want to buy with Smith's>assistance.[18]. 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. One traffic route was through Miami, often by way of Port-au-Prince, the>capital of Haiti. 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 Barry Seal - An American History (American Made in the original version) is a film that tells how the existence of a man can change from one moment to the next, and take a decidedly unexpected turn. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. does he talk about Terry Reed. Seal's exploits brought him into close contact with infamous figures like Medelln cartel kingpins Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa and Panama dictator Manuel Noriega and he was . . No of Kids with Barry: Dean, Aaron, and Christina Seal. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. >Edward Jay Epstein, writing in the Wall Street Journal in 1994, said the>increased level of activity at the Mena complex in 1984 led to its>investigation by certain individuals with the Arkansas State Police CID.>Special Agent Russell Welch was particularly interested in the increase in>cash transactions in local banks. Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. 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. The balcony of the motel gave>the second-floor occupants an unobstructed view of the lot where Seal>customarily parked his car. 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. He was murdered on February 19, 1986 by contract killers hired by the 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 . Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. 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 . Another was through the little town of Mena, in western>Arkansas. In December of 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana for flying a cargo of marijuana into the state. 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. I n the comments section of a story in Seal's howtown Baton Rouge Advocate about the film, one wrote: "I knew and dated Barry when I was a student at BRHS - about 1954/1955. That condition was as follows: >(6) The defendant [Seal] shall reside at the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center, 7361 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for a period>of six (6) months. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. >2. Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udh22kuLebgPlease support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- Noom: https://trynoom.com/lex- Allform: https://allform.com/lex to get 20% off- ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free- Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off- Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savingsGUEST BIO:Roger Reaves is one of the most prolific drug smugglers in history.PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcastApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIrSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41SOCIAL:- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman- Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman- Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman No,wonder why militias hate our govt. >Barry Seal had friends in the islands, one of whom was Eric Arthur. >The "plea bargain" and "probation" referred to the plea agreement Seal was>finally able to reach with federal prosecutors in Baton Rouge, in November>1984, just before the grand jury indictment was formally handed down. 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. That target was the>Medellin cartel. 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]. >Now officially known as Confidential Informant No. Of the>thirty islands in the tiny chain, only six are inhabited. [44], >Seal's exploits as a soldier of fortune made him a very wealthy man. According to the>DEA, Ochoa was "the world's largest cocaine dealer. >28. [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. Eugene Hasenfus, who was on board the plane, survived the crash and told his captors that he thought the CIA was behind the operation to supply the Contras. He died instantly.[2]. There is no information on Barry Seal's net worth, but it must have been substantial. [8] Micah Morrison,>writing in the 18 October 1994 edition of the Wall Street Journal, says Seal>actually began operating out of the Mena (Arkansas) Intermountain Regional>Airport in 1981. 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. >30. Mena, Arkansas, as a staging point for weapons supply flights. Gordon Novel lived before left (garrison trial) Louisiana 336 Exchange place. Salvation army halfway house 7361 Airline Highway, BatonRouge. Dirty politics, love for money is the root for all evil. Your identity will never be revealed. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. "ABC News," in association with Kuhnhart Productions, put together a>documentary a few years ago entitled "The Informers," about federally>protected witnesses. They had worked steadily together, as DEA informants from the>spring of 1984 till February 1985. During their conversation, it became obvious to Seal that Smith knew he>was a drug smuggler. Carmel, their compound>outside Waco, Texas, until early 1993.[37]. Pingback: Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press. They agreed that $250,000 would be applied>to cover expenses, such as fuel, storage, and lease fees, and the balance>would be divided evenly among Saunders, Smith, Missick, and Bowe, based mainly>on their promise to prepare and sign documents and to look the other way at>certain crucial times. Your email address will not be published. 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. >11. >Barry Seal and the Mena Connection > Wednesday, 19 February 1986, had been a typical winter day in south . This is the story that couldn't be suppressed. Seal was also charged with concealing material facts from the>Internal Revenue Service about the existence, source, or origin, of $51,006.64>and for failure to file currency transaction reports on amounts in excess of>$10,000. [27] Seven months after Guste delivered his letter to Meese, on October 5, 1986, a Sandinista patrol shot down a C-123 cargo plane that was supplying the Contras. According to Duncan and Welch, the bulk of the story centers around a drug-smuggler named Adler Berriman Seal, also known as Barry. It isn't>every day that one of the top five drug smugglers in the country turns>informant. 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. both claim that Sinatra got mad at Marilyn threw her out of his Joint. Between 1980 and 1986, Seal is>believed to have smuggled at least 36 metric tons of cocaine, 104 tons of>marijuana, and 3 tons of heroin into Arkansas alone. Adler Berriman Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986), better known as Barry Seal, was a United States drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Medelln Cartel. 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. The problem, for Seal anyway, was that,>during this entire period, government agents at various levels were working>independently of each other to hit the same target. Despite the fact that the parts of the Reed and Cummings book,>Compromised, which are obviously written by Reed, contain mostly flattering>autobiographical hyperbole, often about his exploits in Southeast Asia during>the Vietnam conflict (he carefully avoids references to Vietnam itself, never>having set foot on Vietnamese soil), a few of Reed's statements about Seal and>the CIA seem fairly accurate, if for no other reason than having been>confirmed by other, more reliable sources. >However, another federal law, the Boland Amendment, came into play where the>Contras were concerned. Barry, his two brothers, Benjy and Wendell, his mom, a homemaker, and his dad, a candy wholesaler, lived in a house on Lovers Lane. In>fact, in the federal proceedings in Baton Rouge, Seal's lawyers filed>pleadings containing the following language: >The defendant [Seal] has been restrained by Court order in Florida, and so has>the prosecutor here, from fully outlining to the Court the danger to the->defendant and the activities of the defendant on behalf of various Federal>agencies, including the D.E.A. That is not to say we do not have expenseslots of them. 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. Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. In 1986, he got killed, but his name was not forgotten. Then both men got into the front seat of the car, and Seal reached back into the duffel bag, and pulled out a manila envelope with $2,500 in it. Adler Berriman Seal popularly known as Barry Seal was born on July 16, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Unglesby said the Medellin Cartel killed Seal to prevent the extradition of Medellin Cartel co-leader Jorge Ochoa from Spain, where he was hiding. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. His>favorite mode of transportation for these flights was a modified military>C-123 aircraft he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady. During his initial>conversation with Jura and Jacobson, and to insure against being double->crossed, Seal reiterated what he told White and Kennedy during the meeting in>Washington: he would be "willing to cooperate" with the DEA in exchange "for>their assistance in helping [him] out with [his] sentences in south Florida.>"[15] After being reassured by the two special agents, Seal went forward with>his plans to make the trip to Medellin. >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. After their release, Seal contacted Camp, and he>became Seal's partner, copilot, and best friend. In fact, there was a made-for-cable movie, Double Crossed, that starred Dennis Hopper as Seal. 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. He attended Louisiana>State University for one year, but decided that he didn't need a college>degree to fly airplanes. Lewis McWillie: In a sort of way I would think so, yes.Lewis McWillie ran the Tropicana Casino in Havana.McWillie traveled by car from Miami to Lake Tahoe,Cal-Neva Lodge in Lake Tahoe owners Sam Giancana ,Paul D Amato , Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe forever tenants at the Cal Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe in cabin ? 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Smuggling drugs was>the most lucrative business Seal had heard of, and he owned his own airplanes,>so he offered his services as a contract pilot. In 1993, Colombian and U.S. authorities cornered Pablo Escobar at a house in Medellin and killed the drug kingpin in a shootout. Barry Seal. >It is well documented that Seal was one of the top five drug smugglers in the>United States. no. Seal>flew fifty cocaine-smuggling and money-laundering missions between 1981 and>1983 for the Medellin cartel. WEINER Since I was a little boy. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>584-585. Witnessed Allen Dorfman `Hit June 05, 1996. At that point, if they hadn't known it before, the>government now knew who Seal was and would soon learn what he was about. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. From the official record in United States of America v. Adler Berriman>Seal. Lee Harvey Oswald friend David/Anna Lewis meet CharleSt Thompson Restaurant.Anna said Marina came in look for LHO. who said he train pilots in mena arkansas. He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. The DEA was>doing the same. Thank you. Cruise will play Louisiana-born smuggler Adler B Seal, known as Barry, in the biopic Mena, set in the 1980s and directed by Doug Liman, who also directed the star in Edge of Tomorrow. As the light of day>began to fade, a gray Buick driven by Velez raced into the parking lot,>pulling within a few feet of Seal's vehicle, on the driver's side. Was it Noreiga? >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. 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