Gary Webb & Barry Seal. >42. WEINER Since I was a little boy. >43. But, they>also made him a marked man. When the federal government declared 'war on drugs,' FBI agent Del Hahn, a former Marine of the Korean War era, joined the battle. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. 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. | 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. (Barry) Seal also talked big and did big things. Likewise, we do not charge a subscription fee for our blog. At the same>time, incredible amounts of cash were transported to and from Latin America,>representing payment for drugs, arms, and equipment. 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. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . The buyer, it turned out, was a federal agent. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. Minute entry, 8 January 1986, U.S. v. Seal. The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. Both learned to fly from the same Civil Air Patrol instructor>at the same private airport. 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. 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. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . 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. >For his part, Seal may not have known that a number of weapons-manufacturing>and sales firms were operating in Arkansas in the 1980s. Saunders>couldn't make the Miami meeting, but Seal was assured he would be part of any>deals the five men might strike. 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. . He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . The CIA or its>contractors would actually abscond with the items and convert them for use by>the Contras. .Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. 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 ? Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. 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. Two quick bursts hit Barry Seal's head and a third struck his body. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the United States from South America between 1977 and 1986. 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. They all claim that Barry Seal involved clandestine activities. >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. Mena is the small town in Arkansas where Barry Seal, who was born in Baton Rouge, conducted operations. WEINER I have known him all my life. Send a free subscription to a friend or subscribe for yourself. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. of three presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. box number in their address books and this coded form ,the unpublished phone number of Jack Ruby in 1963.The Code by use the Telephone dial for conversion of letters and numbers explained the letters P.O.becomes the digit 13,only exchange which numbers 13 converts to in Dallas -He added -Is WhiteHall -when Unscrambled,becomes 1-6901 by subtract 1300 from 1-6901,(garrison) he added,the result ,if 1-5601.Jack Ruby unpublished number Dallas texas in 1963 was WHITEHALL 1-5601.The code involvestransposition of digits accord to pattern then add -sub-of numbers ,familiar to Oswald ,that Jack Ruby unlisted phone number ,coded formhas been found ,notebooks by Lee harvey Oswald/Clay Shaw.Jim Garrison was once that figured out landlady Earlene Roberts is Bertha Cheeks sister which means that Lee Harvey Oswald knew Pingback: Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press. Qualified Americans could, until recently, apply for and receive a license>to sell automatic weapons and conversion kits. >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. None of this is surprising in 2017. He died instantly. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . Seal used both>frequently. [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. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. However, it>was the final special condition that Seal's lawyers would object to most>strenuously, and for good reason. At Arkansas, he ran sales and operations of fleets . 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. Seal was murdered just before he was . [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. Bustamonte was ultimately prosecuted by the U.S. attorney in Miami, along>with Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, Felix Dixon Bates, and Rodriguez Garcia.>See, Barry Seal's cross-examination in United States v. Norman Saunders, et>al., Cr. He died of three gunshot wounds. 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. 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. According to the>DEA, Ochoa was "the world's largest cocaine dealer. >17. Barry Seal's early life and family background. 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. 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. was the sister of Marguerite Oswald. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. Mr. WOLF Did you know Mr. Sam Giancana?.Mr. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What a tangled web! A federal judge had sentenced Seal to stay for several months in an unguarded Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. >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. 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]. Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. Simply click on the Donate button here and contribute whatever you feel appropriate. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. The life of the former TWA pilot, Barry Seal, inspired the film. That was what the white>supremacist cult, CSA, was doing in Arkansas in the early to-mid-1980s. Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. Arthur>lived on South Caicos, where he ran a smuggling-related business. He was married three times throughout his life. ; see, also, New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986. Barry Seal was a known name between the drug peddlers and crime cartels in the '80s. 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. Despite several such transactions, it would take years to obtain freedom for all the prisoners. Lots of strange Occurrences and Strange Coincidences and Benjamin /Mary Seal son Adler M 1940 census address 315 Lovers Lane Baton.Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. 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 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. However, when a drug shipment was seized by the DEA, the Medellin Cartel blamed Seal for the loss. 14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. As to count two (the tax-related charges), the court's>order placed Seal on probation for five years and fined him ten thousand>dollars. In brief: more plot holes than a meerkat colony. 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. (lho kid lived 126 Exchange place) .Clay Shaw Hangout Dixies (KATS) 701 bourbon St(corner St peter).LHO lived with Murrets 757 French Street New Orleans Louisiana.Lillian Murret,(Charles murret) 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. A minute entry on that date reflected that Seal would "remain>at liberty under the terms of his original bond. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana, filed 21 January 1986. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>517-520. Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. 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. 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]. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. 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. On March 3, 1986, only two weeks after Seal was murdered, Louisiana Attorney General William Guste hand-delivered a five-page letter to U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. 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. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . See, Title 26 U.S. Code, chapter 53, section 5845(b). 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. About twelve thousand people live>in the islands, mainly in the capital of Grand Turk. Books, 1994), 58. 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. It alleges, explicitly and implicitly, that an aircraft operated by a CIA front company in 1984 used the airfield at Mena, Arkansas, as a stating point for weapons supply flights to the Contras in Nicaragua; on the return flights from Honduras, the aircraft allegedly carried illegal narcotics to Mena. 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. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. The DEA was>doing the same. And the rest, of course, is history. "[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. Thank you. >18. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. 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. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. >However, another federal law, the Boland Amendment, came into play where the>Contras were concerned. 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 . The author's oldest brother knew Seal>in high school. >28. A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. 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 . >Seal testified in the Saunders trial that "Uncle Sam Wants You" was produced>to publicize his covert activities because he was afraid that if he continued>to work in the obscurity of the drug-trafficking trade, he might be killed by>the CIA or DEA, and those investigating his death might try to create the>illusion that thugs hired by some Medellin drug lord had assassinated him. In 1981, Seal set up shop at Mena. [27] He grew up three blocks from the Seal family, in the same>neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Title 18, U.S.>Code, section 922(o). >Barry Seal had friends in the islands, one of whom was Eric Arthur. Later Reed moved to Mexico setup company. During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. I am working long hours right now, but I will go overthis article and point out the flaws in a week or so. 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. Even>though his testimony was critical to the government's case against Ochoa, as>one writer has suggested, Seal knew far more about drug trafficking in>Arkansas, and "where the bodies were buried," than he knew about Colombia, and>he could have helped put a number of prominent American politicians and>officials behind bars.[50]. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 108. Roger Craig claim he saw LHO (man look similar to him) get into a Bowe was a well-known lawyer and drug>smuggler in the region. 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. >45. Much of the factual information about Seal is based on the author's>personal knowledge. (utube videos ) Oliver North interviews and Contra Affair. Marilyn Monroe July28,1962 weekend and the next weekend August 5, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home.Paul DAmato (born 1908- died Jun. (5m-6m) Clinton, Mena, Barry Seal - Mena (6m-7m) "fall to communism" argument for Vietnam, et al . The larger transport plane, which he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady, was needed to haul tons of cocaine for the cartel. In 1986, he got killed, but his name was not forgotten. Set in the early 1980s, to combat the spread of communism . In the 1980s, the Mena airport was the reported base of a drug-smuggling, money-laundering and arms-smuggling ring run by Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal, according to an Encyclopedia of Arkansas . no. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. (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. In May of 1987, a jury found Vasquez, Velez, and Quintero guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced all three to life in prison without parole. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. According to a story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in the 9 October 1994,>issue of the London Sunday Telegraph, one interest-bearing account opened by>Seal in the Cayman Islands had a balance of over $1.6 billion at the time the>article was written. He next admitted it under oath in DEA>intelligence reports. 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. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. 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. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. 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. Little did the islanders know that the>evidence elicited from the videotape of this meeting would ultimately lead to>the arrest, extradition, and conviction of three of the men present.[20]. The 70s. (born 1939/40) 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. 85-165-Spellman, U.S. District>Court, Southern District of Florida, p. 462. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 106-108. [23] In fact, in November 1984, Seal released an>hour-long videotape publicizing his CIA and DEA-related smuggling activities.>The tape, entitled "Uncle Sam Wants You," was narrated by John Camp, who is>now an investigative reporter for CNN. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office No of Kids with Barry: Dean, Aaron, and Christina Seal. It is also documented>that at the time of his death in February 1986, Seal had several sizeable>accounts in BCCI-affiliated banks, including a branch of the Fuji Bank in the>Cayman Islands. Witnessed Allen Dorfman `Hit June 05, 1996. 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 . 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. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. >7. 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. Ibid., 521; Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 221, 223. In 1983, the DEA arrested him on drug smuggling charges. 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. >14. Hold that thought. 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. >37. Jul 04, 2022 12:40 P.M. >Barry Seal, and his younger brothers, Benjy and Wendell, grew up in a typical>American household. Ibid., 521-531. ( david ferrie roomate and friend) GuyBanister 544 camp /531 Lafayette New Orleans La. The DEA, long aware of his>drug-smuggling activities, had finally caught up with him in Florida, where>federal prosecutors had a field day. Drug king pin, Adler B. (jack ruby called Yaras) Of the>thirty islands in the tiny chain, only six are inhabited. He attended Louisiana>State University for one year, but decided that he didn't need a college>degree to fly airplanes. He met Clay Shaw through Andy Anderson manager Roosevelt He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by the Medellns. 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. | B'Man's Revolt, Pingback: ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? [12] He first admitted this under oath before the President's>Commission on Organized Crime. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. >In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Medellin cartel (named after the city>in Colombia which was the center of activity for most of those associated with>the drug trade) supplied at least 75 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the>U.S. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. >Who really hired Vasquez, Quintero-Cruz, and Velez to assassinate America's>number one drug informant? Barry Seal in White cadillac -2-20-86 BatonRouge-Escobar and Mr. WOLF How long have you known Paul Doffman?Mr. Barry was one of three brothers, including Benjy and Wendell. who said he train pilots in mena arkansas. Gordon Novel lived before left (garrison trial) Louisiana 336 Exchange place. Corey Plante. >48. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. barry plane crash near 4560 Essen Lane 1960 He was in Hospital for a week . 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 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. It had been used for several months by Barbque co which he was onceassociated with. Those six islands>contain a total of 193 square miles of land. After a barrage of requests from media outlets, the FBI released more than 1,000 pages of its file on Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal on July 15th. They played ball in the yard of the one-story white frame>house on Lover's Lane, a shady street in a quiet neighborhood. Early life. Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in San Jose The Mercury News in 1996. Barry Seal. When Arthur was killed in 1984, Seal began paying the lease on the>property, under the pretext of helping Arthur's widow, who was still liable>for lease payments. Ibid. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. See, transcript of Seal's cross-examination in U.S. v. Saunders, et al. "Motion to Correct Sentence and to Enforce Plea Agreement," filed in U.S.>v. 84-77-B, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana,>filed 30 December 1985 (emphasis added). >50. and C.I.A., and this has prevented frank>discussion regarding the plea bargain and terms of probation.[25]. Waters] is recognized for 5 minutes. 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. Investigators are still trying to separate myth from reality. 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. 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. By Robert Morrow, The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? 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 Mena, Arkansas, as his hub, according to several investigative reporters.Seal ultimately became a federal informant and was assassinated by Colombian hitman in 1986. Tom Cruise will portray Baton Rouge drug-smuggler-turned-federal-informant Barry Seal (pictured) in the upcoming Universal Pictures feature film 'Mena.' (The Times-Picayune archive) departure 13:00 route: Hammond La.1:00 K 7500 Direct Garland Texas. Through a prearranged agreement, the insured property owner would>file a loss claim, be paid by his insurance carrier (so his only loss was of>the item, not its value), and the insurance carrier would then get the benefit>of certain "tax breaks" which allegedly increased the "net income for the>losing insurance company" due to increased underwriting losses. 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. By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. 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 fact that Seal had cut a deal with the DEA in exchange for DEA assistance>in his federal prosecution in Louisiana, was apparently never conveyed to the>CIA. It's>also what the Branch Davidians were doing at Mt. 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. "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. 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. , to combat the spread of communism recently, apply for and a., and staffer Amendment, came into play where the > moonlighting, which smuggling. Motion to Correct Sentence and to Enforce Plea Agreement, '' filed in U.S. v..... And Velez to assassinate America 's > number one drug informant, where he ran sales operations! 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