Barry Seal's early life and family background. Obviously, Seal and Camp had a lot in common>and plenty of time to talk. Some of the facts related to Seal's death are>also based on the author's personal knowledge; the rest were gleaned from>articles in the New Orleans Times Picayune and States Item, published between>November 1985 and May 1986. | Dark Politics, Pingback: Pablo Escobar: The Many Faces Of The Narco [REVIEW] |, Pingback: Bingo Zone Baton Rouge Louisiana | I love You Zones, Pingback: The Clintons: A Timeline LVX Media, Pingback: Roots of Iran-Contra Crisis Found in Recording of Airport Attack Plan - UNICORN RIOT, Pingback: 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Too Dope Hip Hop, Pingback: 'American Made' Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen | Alt Left Press, Pingback: American Made Brings Real-Life Drug Smuggler Barry Seal to the Big Screen Thinking Port. 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 . Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. 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. 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. Two quick bursts hit Barry Seal's head and a third struck his body. The DEA called the money>"trafficker funds." [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. >The National Firearms Act establishes a fairly comprehensive tax and>registration system governing the manufacture, transfer, and possession of>certain firearms including, especially, "machineguns. Residents in Seal's hometown of Baton Rouge Louisiana might be expected to have standards slightly more exacting. 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. Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, in Mena. >22. Beginnings The first rough airstrip was located south of the town on the McBride family's . 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. In Seal's words, "You could easily drive a couple of jeeps and>bigger vehicles into [The Fat Lady] and be on your way." 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 . Seal needed the protection, and Saunders and>his friends could use the money. (denied notes). Seal then made a series of drug-smuggling>flights, all with DEA approval. Lee Odom said.p o box 19106 had never been in his name.but Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. It isn't>every day that one of the top five drug smugglers in the country turns>informant. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Sunday Telegraph, 9>October 1994. 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.. They all claim that Barry Seal involved clandestine activities. In practice, it meant they would be given a few tax breaks, in>addition to other incentives, for cooperating with people like Seal. At times, some of the big-ticket items obtained through the>insurance loss claim scam were also transported in The Fat Lady. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. 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. Seals wife was said to have found George Bushs private phone number in Seals wallet. In purchasing the future claims, the second company would>be provided with "instant tax write-offs through mandatory, tax-exempt cash>set aside requirements. Ibid., 484-495.> 19. "[29] Unfortunately, the very>liberty Barry Seal sought, and for which he had posted a $250,000 unsecured>bond, made him an easy target for assassins. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. It prohibited the exportation of arms like>M-16s and kits, like the CARs used to convert semiautomatic weapons, without>congressional approval. 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. Even criminals have a love life and Barry Seal was no different. 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 ? (across from post office) Clay Shaw 1024 St Peter N.O.La.Is next to camp -canal -near International trade mart.William Reilly Coffee Company and Crescent City Garage (LHO &JvB worked)G.wray Gil said He was with David Ferrie on 11-22-63 until 12:15.Ferrie said Marcello deportation trial 11-22-1963 party at hotel to celebrate. By this time, Seal had purchased a C-123. 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. SGI-84-0028, Seal told the>DEA about an upcoming smuggling trip in which he planned to haul "3000 kilos">of cocaine "from the Jorge Ochoa smuggling group." Matrisciana, Clinton Chronicles, 51. 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. Minute entry, 8 January 1986, U.S. v. Seal. He made more than $50 million smuggling drugs into the United States from South America between 1977 and 1986. Set in the early 1980s, to combat the spread of communism . That is not to say we do not have expenseslots of them. There was no word as to whether or not Meese ever responded to Gustes letter. WEINER Yes. >Who really hired Vasquez, Quintero-Cruz, and Velez to assassinate America's>number one drug informant? Not only did the>smuggler have to be careful in terms of how he dealt with those on the>receiving end of each shipment, he had to constantly look over his shoulder to>see what the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) was doing.>Converting a Colt AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic M-16 is a>relatively easy task. 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. WEINER Yes. Lots of strange Occurrences and Strange Coincidences and But, they>also made him a marked man. 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. 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 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]. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Carmel, their compound>outside Waco, Texas, until early 1993.[37]. >47. WEINER Since I was a little boy. 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The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. 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. >Eventually, Barry joined the local Civil Air Patrol and learned to fly Piper>Cubs. 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 . The C-123 was ultimately sold to a company with connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. >rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. An "extensive joint investigation" by the FBI, Arkansas State Police and IRS revealed that Barry Seal used the Mena airport for "smuggling activity" from late 1980 until March 1984, according to . 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 . After a military hitch, he returned to Baton Rouge>and started flying again. and C.I.A., and this has prevented frank>discussion regarding the plea bargain and terms of probation.[25]. A federal judge had sentenced Seal to stay for several months in an unguarded Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." 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. [40] That also means anyone attempting to purchase automatic>weapons before May 1986 could only do so lawfully by registering the weapons>with the federal government. He died of three gunshot wounds. . And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in . >11. He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. >29. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. In high school, while his classmates were riding buses to out-of-town>football games, Barry would often fly to the games in "barnstorming" fashion,>landing wherever he could find a smooth, flat surface. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. The information gleaned during these trips led>to the eventual arrest and extradition arrest of Norman Saunders, Stafford>Missick, Aulden Smith, Andre Fournier, and, ultimately, the Panamanian>dictator, Gen. Manuel Noreiga. 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]. "[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. 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. 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 >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. 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]. [35]>According to Reed and Cummings, during this first meeting, Seal advised that>Iver Johnson's Arms, Inc., a New Jersey company that manufactured weapons and>weapons parts, had moved to Arkansas. >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. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. 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. As a result of that arrest, Barry Seal will "get with the program" and move his smuggling activities up to Mena Arkansas. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. 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. >38. (jack ruby lived near Paul Dorffman Irwin Weiner chicago il ) Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Dave Yaras .9 For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and began flying at the age of 15. 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. It's>also what the Branch Davidians were doing at Mt. > 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. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. ", >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. In Baton Rouge, it was another story. Seal admitted under oath smuggling at least fifteen hundred pounds of>cocaine during the six months between May and November of that year. 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