The 70s. Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Terry Reed knew Oliver North / Feliz Rodruez. (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. U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . La.Your dad was in the office about 1962 Rambler policy.Clay Shaw address book: Lee Odom P.O.box 19106 Dallas Tx.Lee Harvey Oswald address book: citation ** 19106 (astericks).clay Shaw address book: Layton Martens box 544 USL .Lafayette La. >The reason the scheme was so complicated, according to Reed and Cummings, is>that the federal government couldn't legally fund the Contras without>congressional approval, as such actions were prohibited by the Boland>Amendment. He also helped launder that drug money in some of the Arkansas banks . >46. [27] >40. If he ultimately had to prosecute Seal, he wanted Albert J.>Winters, Jr., the supervisory trial attorney for the federal government's New>Orleans Organized Crime Strike Force, to testify against Seal. "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. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. 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. Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. 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. He flew to Washington and met with two members of Vice President George Bushs Task Force on Drugs. Ibid., 484-495.> 19. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana, filed 21 January 1986. At almost 300 pounds, Adler B. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." Have a suggestion for a story? 5, 1984) known as Mr. 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. In his cross-examination, in the trial of United States v. Norman Saunders,>et al., Cr. >Barry Seal and the Mena Connection > Wednesday, 19 February 1986, had been a typical winter day in south . [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. From the official record in United States of America v. Adler Berriman>Seal. During their conversation, it became obvious to Seal that Smith knew he>was a drug smuggler. 84-77-B, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana,>filed 30 December 1985 (emphasis added). The entire meeting was videotaped by DEA>agents in the next room. Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . 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. 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. >43. Pingback: Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press. See, also, "Government's>Response to Defendant's Rule 32 Motion to Correct Pre-Sentence Report," United>States of AMerica v. Adler Berriman Seal, Crim. (utube videos ) Oliver North interviews and Contra Affair. At the same>time, incredible amounts of cash were transported to and from Latin America,>representing payment for drugs, arms, and equipment. 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. Lee Harvey Oswald friend David/Anna Lewis meet CharleSt Thompson Restaurant.Anna said Marina came in look for LHO. Seal needed the protection, and Saunders and>his friends could use the money. >18. Reagan was ecstatic and went on national television shortly afterwards, waving the photograph given to him by Col. Oliver North and denouncing the Sandinistas as drug smugglers corrupting American youth.. Yes. >7. Your identity will never be revealed. no. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 16, 1939 to a typical American family. The C-123 was ultimately sold to a company with connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. It's not that the 5,475 residents of this mountain . "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. Bustamonte was also associated with the Ochoa family of the infamous>Medellin drug cartel. >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. Seal was murdered just before he was . He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. >47. Wow Barry Seal I think he is pretty Awesome loved movie about him. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. See, transcript of cross-examination of Adler Berriman Seal, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Using my iPhone, I shot this video of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport on July 22, 2016. regarding Seal's criminal>activities, telling the court that the charges in the indictment were based on>solid evidence. By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. does he talk about Terry Reed. Both learned to fly from the same Civil Air Patrol instructor>at the same private airport. The CIA was protecting its turf. Barry Seal was an American-born Trans World Airlines pilot who . 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. 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. no. Much of the factual information about Seal is based on the author's>personal knowledge. 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. >----->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. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. It proved to be the singular event that blew the Iran-Contra scandal wide open. BARRY SEAL: He imported drugs and laundered money while working for the federal government. But, they>also made him a marked man. That is not to say we do not have expenseslots of them. July 21, 1994. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. In 1972, he and eight others were convicted>in federal court in New Orleans of running guns and explosives to Mexico. Reeves, Ochoas New Orleans business manager, brought Seal into what in 1982 officially became the Medellin Cartel after Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar joined forces to form a 2,000-man army to destroy M-19, the Marxist revolutionary group that was causing problems for the Colombian drug barons. 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. While in the>islands, Seal was introduced to Aulden Smith and, at the DEA's behest, paid>Smith two thousand dollars to be introduced to Norman Saunders. 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. The brutal murder of Barry Seal, 46, at a Baton Rouge halfway house in 1986 would send shock waves up and down the political spectrum. 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 . Seal was convicted on numerous charges.>Soon, federal prosecutors in Louisiana were breathing down his neck. "Motion to Correct Sentence and to Enforce Plea Agreement," filed in U.S.>v. "[48] At the time, he was>in custody in Spain, fighting extradition to Florida. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born to Mary Lou Seal and Benjamin Curtis Seal (reportedly, a member of the Ku Klux Klan), a candy wholesaler, on July 16, 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 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. Was it Ochoa? Sad day for AmericansSad day for our children. He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. Barry, his two brothers, Benjy and Wendell, his mom, a homemaker, and his dad, a candy wholesaler, lived in a house on Lovers Lane. 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. Hasenfus said that was by sheer coincidence. Those six islands>contain a total of 193 square miles of land. Things became worse when a report in the Washington Times on July 17 . Just send an email to [email protected], LouisianaVoice does not accept advertising because we insist on an independent voice. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . At any rate, by 1986, Barry Seal found himself wearing three very>uncomfortable hats; those of key man, straw man, and scapegoat. I am working long hours right now, but I will go overthis article and point out the flaws in a week or so. Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. 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. [21], >The absence of Customs agents in Mena also meant illegal retrofitting could>take place with little or no concern for the repercussions normally associated>with unlawful activity. 85-165-Spellman, United States District Court, Southern District>of Florida, September 1985. [4]>The conviction was overturned on appeal, but he lost his job with TWA. >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. 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. These people will burn in hell, Like what you read here? ", >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. Reed claims the>meeting with Seal was arranged by Oliver North (aka John Cathey). Hold that thought. From official records of the death of Adler Berriman Seal, on file with the>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, City Police, 21 February 1986. >A C-123 is so large that vehicles can be driven into its fuselage for>transport. Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. The Crimes of Mena. 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. 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. . By Robert Morrow, The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? There was no word as to whether or not Meese ever responded to Gustes letter. 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. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. 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. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Barry Seal, at the time he died, may have been the . Required fields are marked *. 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. (benji/wendell become pilots) Story from John Odom ,fellow cap member claimed thatBarry Seal met Lee Harvey Oswald training exercise that barry enlisted july 1955 same time LHO and Barry Seal knew David Ferrie. No, it wasnt George W. Bush, nor was it was George Bush the elders personal phone number; it was the number to his office. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. 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. Polozola further stipulated that Seal could not carry a gun or hire armed bodyguards. 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. [44], >Seal's exploits as a soldier of fortune made him a very wealthy man. Seal's airplane, with a cargo of some>thirteen thousand pounds of C-4 explosives, was seized in Louisiana in 1972.>Ibid. . Seals wife was said to have found George Bushs private phone number in Seals wallet. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. 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. 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. However, it>was the final special condition that Seal's lawyers would object to most>strenuously, and for good reason. It was in 1973, the year that followed the end of his second marriage that Seal got married to Deborah DuBois and they . Adler Berriman Seal popularly known as Barry Seal was born on July 16, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 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. 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. 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. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 108. Thank you. But, Barry's first love was>flying. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. That was the year Seal was first convicted on major drug->trafficking charges in Florida. Two quick bursts hit Barry Seal's head and a third struck his body. As a result of that arrest, Barry Seal will "get with the program" and move his smuggling activities up to Mena Arkansas. (denied notes). Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Bush, as VP under Reagan, was put in charge of the Reagan administrations drug task force and Seal had contacted Bushs office in order to cooperate with the feds to avoid a prison sentence for drug smuggling in Florida. Rich Mnt Aviation Inc Star Route 9 box 6G Mena Arkansas.Seal coin operated phone booths 12688-13241 Perkins Rd.Barry Seal box 64801 baton Rouge.Seal Planes Piper Navajo ,Piper Seneca,Cessna,Piper Azteo, beech, beechcraft Kingair,etc!Seal 8216 Oakbrook Dr Baton Rouge.David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many . He had a small fleet of planes and helicopters, two ships, 60 employees, and a seemingly unlimited supply of cash. . 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. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986) murdered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. The narcotics runner, Barry Seal, allegedly . The life of the former TWA pilot, Barry Seal, inspired the film. >Hired by TWA, at age twenty-seven, Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was the>youngest pilot in U.S. history to fly a commercial airliner. 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. >When Seal returned to the Turks and Caicos in February, he initially met with>Smith. 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. A minute entry on that date reflected that Seal would "remain>at liberty under the terms of his original bond. He would work closely with the two agents in setting up a>sting operation involving the Medellin-based Ochoa cartel.[14]. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. >12. Barry Seal gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. 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. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office by Ran. (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. >23. And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. Minute entry, 8 January 1986, U.S. v. Seal. 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. 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]. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. In fact, there was a made-for-cable movie, Double Crossed, that starred Dennis Hopper as Seal. Weird Places, Odd Events, Bizarre News : >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. Matrisciana, Clinton Chronicles, 51. 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. The rich & powerful, including the political elite are free to do as they please without regard to consequences. Jack Ruby said Well the answer is the man in office now ___Thats all I have to say. Did Jack Ruby idolize you? . It worked, Unglesby said. 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 . 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. >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. >Operation Centaur Rose was the name of the CIA gun-running project Seal was>involved in, according to Reed and Cummings. Barry Seal. no. 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. >Who really hired Vasquez, Quintero-Cruz, and Velez to assassinate America's>number one drug informant? [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. Soon after that, Seal turned to drug smuggling and subsequently was arrested in Honduras with 40 kilos of cocaine worth a reported $25 million.
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