In Baton Rouge, it was another story. Where necessary, the stories are specifically>referred to. Jim Garrison said: Real Lee Odom lives Irving Tx (Ruth Paine) Lee Odom p.o.box 174 (1968-9),however not the point ,the point 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. Cruz and>Vasquez were in the Buick with Velez and were armed with 9 millimeter>automatic weapons. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. He grew up three blocks from the Seal family, in the same>neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. White House restricts military gear NATO Jade Helm 15 Stockholm Syndrome 1984 sample explaining the purpose of war Rand Paul v. Patriot Act Corbett 9/11 a conspiracy theory Required fields are marked *. That investment includes not only the cost of preventative measures, but also the cost of housing fully 20 percent of all federal and state prison inmates (more than 400,000) for drug-related offenses. Tom Aswell, Publisher. 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. A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . photo Escobar with Seal picture on television ?who sit duck at Drug king pin, Adler B. 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. Dirty politics, love for money is the root for all evil. Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. [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. Mr. WOLF How long have you known Paul Doffman?Mr. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. >7. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 108. Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. The DEA also allowed Seal to pay Emile Camp and other>pilots like Roger Reeves, out of the trafficker funds. WHY WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT WITNESS NOT GIVEN PROTECTIOIN WHETHER HE WANTED IT OR NOT? Guste asked, using all capital letters. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the . Barry Seal gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. Title 18, U.S.>Code, section 922(o). It's not that the 5,475 residents of this mountain . American Made stars Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, a real-life former airline pilot who embarked on a wildly successful cocaine smuggling operation between Colombia and a tiny airstrip in Mena, Arkansas, in the 1980s. Of the>thirty islands in the tiny chain, only six are inhabited. 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. Seal also gave the DEA valuable additional>information on Medellin drug lord, Pablo Escobar.[16]. [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. He agreed to use that connection for the>benefit of the new joint venture. He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. >Now officially known as Confidential Informant No. Mr. WEINER I know him, yes.Mr. 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. MichelRoux , a.k.a. Exclusive: Tom Cruise's portrayal of drug-smuggler-turned-government-informant Barry Seal is a fast-paced visit back to the Reagan era's shadowy world of the CIA, cocaine and secret wars . "Official Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of>Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Investiga-tion of Vernon Wayne Howell," also>known as "David Koresh," September 1993. >14. 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. >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. [45], >Former Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch has been quoted as>saying he believed Arkansas was a main thoroughfare into which most of the>flow of drugs from Central America entered the United States in the 1980s. It's a matter of modifying the receiver and replacing>the internal parts in the carrier assembly. Seal's lawyers immediately>protested by filing motions averring that, in an effort to fulfill the terms>of the plea bargain, Seal was engaged in activities which could place him in>serious danger if he were housed at a halfway house. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What a tangled web! Feb 3, 1986 - The Arkansas IRS assess Barry Seal's income taxes at $29,487,718.00 for smuggling 30,000 kilos . 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. 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. Gordon Novel lived before left (garrison trial) Louisiana 336 Exchange place. Early life. As the car came to a screeching halt, Cruz and Vasquez>sprang from the front and rear passenger-side seats, spraying the Cadillac>with bullets, gangland style. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) was an American airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medelln Cartel. Another company, Brodix Manufacturing,>had the machinery to cast the parts (lower receiver housings and carrier>assemblies) necessary to convert semiautomatic into automatic rifles,>especially M-16s. Send a free subscription to a friend or subscribe for yourself. 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.. In fact, there was a made-for-cable movie, Double Crossed, that starred Dennis Hopper as Seal. 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. [27] of three presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. As a teenager, he was naturally gifted as a flier, as confirmed by his flight instructor. Gary Webb & Barry Seal. WEINER Yes. He died of three gunshot wounds. Like The Wolf of Wall Street, American Made is based on the real-life exploits of a "lovable" rogue, Barry Seal. The mysteries of Mena revolve around a drug-smuggling pilot named Barry Seal. 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 . >41. 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. 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. 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]. 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. 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. was the sister of Marguerite Oswald. strange coincidence :John Odom baton Rouge. Seal then made a series of drug-smuggling>flights, all with DEA approval. By Robert Morrow, The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? Barry Seal knew them all. His>next DEA-related trip was to Panama. In 1986, he got killed, but his name was not forgotten. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. As part of his agreement with DEA, he rigged the C-123 with a hidden camera and was able to photograph Pablo Escobar helping Nicaraguan soldiers load 1,200 kilos of cocaine at the Managua airport. 5, 1984) known as Mr. Letter of 19 November 1985, prepared by U.S. Attorney Stanford 0.>Bardwell, on file of record in U.S. v. Seal, Crim. 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 . 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 . He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. 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. He died of three gunshot wounds. . when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . In his cross-examination, in the trial of United States v. Norman Saunders,>et al., Cr. Between>his salary as a tenured pilot with TWA and the money he made as a gun runner,>Seal had gotten used to a rather high standard of living. See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." The Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport near the city of Mena (Polk County) in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas is located approximately 160 miles west of Little Rock (Pulaski County). The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. Oliver North said:I only shot at who shot at me. The agreement, Seal said, called for the cartel to give a cut of drug profits to the Sandinistas in exchange for use of an airfield in Managua as a trans-shipment point for narcotics. A man with a machine gun approached his Cadillac. 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 . > 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. During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. The man who made Baton Rouge headlines in the mid-1980s for the machine-gun killing of drug informant Adler "Barry" Seal died in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Aug. 25, Louisiana . >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. >22. >4. 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. John Odom claim that Barry Seal knew LHO and David Ferrie. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. >It is well documented that Seal was one of the top five drug smugglers in the>United States. The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. 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. 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. >16. After their release, Seal contacted Camp, and he>became Seal's partner, copilot, and best friend. Seal admitted under oath smuggling at least fifteen hundred pounds of>cocaine during the six months between May and November of that year. Saturday, February 19, will mark the 25th anniversary of one of the most sensational high-profile killings to rock Baton Rouge since the 1935 assassination of U.S. Sen. Huey Long. >28. Barry Seal. [Posted 13 November 2002] Just before Labor Day 2002, I was on the road to Texas. 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. ", >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. Ibid. >Barry Seal had friends in the islands, one of whom was Eric Arthur. From official records of the death of Adler Berriman Seal, on file with the>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, City Police, 21 February 1986. In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. On March 27, a state grand jury in Baton Rouge indicted Miguel Velez, Bemardo Antonio Vasquez, Luis Quintero, and Jose Renteria-Campo for the murder. He was well aware of the drug-smuggling>activity and logically concluded it was creating a problem that only a money->laundering scheme of gargantuan proportions could ameliorate. >26. >Many individuals in Arkansas, and elsewhere, bought weapons and conversion>kits from those companies, sometimes in large quantities. >Barry Seal, and his younger brothers, Benjy and Wendell, grew up in a typical>American household. Another was through the little town of Mena, in western>Arkansas. 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. The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . Was it Escobar? One thing is for sure: Barry Seal was never able to testify>against any of them. The balcony of the motel gave . It isn't>every day that one of the top five drug smugglers in the country turns>informant. 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. July 21, 1994. After a military hitch, he returned to Baton Rouge>and started flying again. 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. Jul 04, 2022 12:40 P.M. 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]. The criminal case against Seal was entitled, United States of America v.>Adler Berriman Seal, criminal docket number 84-77, section B, United States>District Court, Middle District of Louisiana. >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. . Terry Reed said while was Little Rock social circles. I am working long hours right now, but I will go overthis article and point out the flaws in a week or so. But, Barry's first love was>flying. See, transcript of>Seal's cross-examination, pp. no. no. Sad day for AmericansSad day for our children. >The Government and defense further agree that the defendant will receive a>concurrent sentence as to Count 1 not to exceed the ultimate sentence he>receives in a pending proceeding in the Southern District of Florida. Staff Report. In return he is [sic] allowed to smuggle what he wanted back into the>United States. 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. No, it wasnt George W. Bush, nor was it was George Bush the elders personal phone number; it was the number to his office. [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. MENA They called him the Fat Man. Some, like>Terry Reed, who claims to have been a CIA "asset" himself in the 1980s, have>gone much further.[31]. . 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. 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. See, transcript of Seal's cross-examination in U.S. v. Saunders, et al. 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. >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. who said he train pilots in mena arkansas. >48. "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. Barry Seal, at the time he died, may have been the . Type in his/her email address in the square below and then click on Sign me up!, Got a news lead for LouisianaVoice to investigate? Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. Much of the factual information about Seal is based on the author's>personal knowledge. Michel Mertz had been ex pelled from U.S. at Fort Worth or Dallas 48hours after JFK assassination.11-22-63. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. As long as the Agency got any monies it was>entided to, some CIA agents involved in Centaur Rose were apparently not>concerned about the other things Seal transported from Latin America,>including cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. Back at Mena, Brown says, he and Seal walked to Brown's car, a Datsun hatchback, and Seal put one of the duffel bags under the hatchback. Using my iPhone, I shot this video of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport on July 22, 2016. They also>souped up old cars in the garage behind the house. [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. The Saunders case was consolidated with>criminal actions against Stafford Missick, Aulden Smith, and Andre' Fournier,>and tried before judge John H. Moore, II, and a jury, in September 1985. Two quick bursts hit Barry Seal's head and a third struck his body. By this time, Seal had purchased a C-123. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. 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. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. Seal needed the protection, and Saunders and>his friends could use the money. Escobar Hitmen cross over border from Mexico and who leak The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. 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. And, because of judge Frank Polozola's gross negligence in>forcing Seal to adjust his lifestyle to fit into an orderly and completely>predictable routine, everyone knew exactly where Barry Seal would be after>5:00 P.m. each day. In 1981, he was making daily deposits of $50,000 into an account at a bank in the Bahamas. In his letter, Guste made a formal request for a complete investigation with respect to the governments relationship with and handling of Seal. 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. The Crimes of Mena. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . >43. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. both claim that Sinatra got mad at Marilyn threw her out of his Joint. "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. 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