Barry Seal "'Fat Man' key to mystery" By Michael Haddigan THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE June 26, 1988 Allegations of cocaine smuggling and international intrigue swirled about the Mena Airport and Seal for years. I'm a multi-engine, instrument-rated commercial pilot," Cruise said in a Wired interview. The movie proposes that Barry Seal's first foray into smuggling drugs happened in 1980 after he was kidnapped while refueling his plane in Colombia. 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 . Starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Copyright 2023 HistoryvsHollywood.com, CTF Media, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. -Daily Mail Online, No. In the autumn of 1984, Brown found himself seated on a bench inside a cavernous C-123K cargo plane roaring over a Central American jungle. Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. He says that Clinton arrived in a Beech aircraft, and was still there when he left for the day. Mena is the small town in Arkansas where Barry Seal, who was born in Baton Rouge, conducted operations. Buddy Young that little beady-faced fellow, and said he was with Clinton at Mena. "Despite the availability of evidence sufficient for an indictment on money laundering charges, and over the strong protests of state and federal law enforcement officials, the cases were dropped," according to the report. At the rear of the plane, by the beaners, he says were palettes on casters. And for thirty years, every attempt to get to the bottom of events at Menafederal, state, judicial, journalistichas failed. That aspect of who he was has never been disputed. "There are also allegations that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used the airport as a base of operations to help train pilots and troops for the intervention in the Nicaraguan uprising by the Contras during the 1980s," according to the encyclopedia entry, which was written by Robert Sherwood of Georgia Military College. ABC was also told that brown had failed a psychological test. -Daily Mail Online, No. Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. Question: Was Barry Seal's C-123K aircraft (serial number 54-File: Attachment Size; DOC_0001289717.pdf: 37.21 KB: . In the film, his abductors take him to a secret airstrip in the Colombian jungle where three businessmen, including Pablo Escobar, make him an offer he can't pass up. But there were still questions regarding the Mena airport and people who worked there, according to the FBI memo. He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot's license at age 15 and pilot's license at 16. The name of another person under investigation was redacted. The pine and hardwood forests of the Ouachita Mountains surrounding it have long been an outlaws paradise, home to generations of moonshiners and red-dirt marijuana farmers. It was also just seventy miles south of the sprawling Fort Chaffee Army Base at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Suddenly, though, the Arkansas State Police were uncooperative. Brown still has books that Clinton gave him, one being a bar exam study book in which the politician had made some ironic under-linings. After Barry spoiler . "The apparent reason was that the prosecution might have revealed national security information, even though all of the crimes which were the focus of the investigation occurred before Seal became a federal informant.". I didnt make the connection then, but it seems significant now: if youre going to secretly run arms to controversial U.S. allies, youll likely want some military support. Seal, according to Brown, was familiar with the biographical information he had given the agency. Yet she pressed on with her writing and finished the book. "We're talking about one of the largest drug smugglers in America, and these agents loved him." "I initiated a grand jury investigation in relation to money laundering through the Mena airport in 1985," Hutchinson said Friday. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Fact-checking American Made revealed that Monty Schafer is a fictional character created to represent Barry Seal's contacts at the CIA. It must be noted now that Clintons efforts to distance himself from Mena have persisted for years. As author Del Hahn states in his book about Barry Seal's life, Smuggler's End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal, there is no evidence to support claims that Barry Seal worked for the CIA. Hadaway said an informant told him a "narcotic smuggling operation" was headquartered out of the Mena airport and that a man named Barry from Baton Rouge was in charge of it. The book was to be called, The Mena File: Barry Seals Ties to Drug Lords and U.S. Officials. Leveritt knew the story well and had researched it earlier, writing about Seals murder and other related events. Approximately 30 minutes later, Brown says, the C-123K landed in what he later learned what Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In Mena, meanwhile, things were getting stranger. Frankly, it will never be revealed. There is no real-life Monty. In 1981, Seal set up shop at Mena. The movie's title was changed to put less emphasis on the Arkansas connection, including the possibility that Bill Clinton was aware of what was going on. Miguel Velez was the man driving the getaway car. At a press conference in October 1994, for instance, he was asked a rambling question about the remote air strip, and gave an equally rambling answer. Just prior to the movie's release, news broke that the family of deceased stunt pilot Alan Purwin was suing American Made's producers for wrongful death. Barry Seal's smuggling operation began in Louisiana, and like in the American Made movie, he sometimes pushed packed duffel bags full of drugs out of his plane and into the Atchafalaya basin, to be collected by associates on the ground. The Ochoa Family, along with Pablo Escobar and others, were the founders of the Medelln Cartel. A C-123K cargo plane, like this one, was out tted at the Mena airport and ew with various cameras to obtain photographic evi- dence of the Sandinistas in the act of smuggling narcotics, according to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette file photo). He says he feared he was being set up made a conspirator in an operation he despised. No, in real life he had five children and was married three times. var sc_click_stat=1; Yet, some believe that Seal was working for the CIA in the 1980s to fly guns and money to Nicaraguan rebels, a detail that the movie embraces. Counterrevolutionaries, known as Contras, were battling the Sandinistas. There were no local dignitaries present, Bender says, and Clinton did not seem to be taking part in any official function. The story took on a new life when Bill Clinton ran for president. "I resigned from the office in November of 1985, and my successor took over the investigation. Last March, in a legally binding deposition, trooper Larry Patterson also said that Clinton knew about Mena. "You know, we're not making a biopic," said director Doug Liman. Owing to a case that Brown was then working on that could have implicated Tucker, Brown believes the demotion was illegal. "Allegations later surfaced that many of the gun shipments sent to Nicaragua as part of the Iran-Contra Affair were sent from the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport. During the past few years, the activity at the airstrip has aroused the interest of local law enforcement, who then attempted to conduct some investigations but were blocked by the U.S. A C-123K cargo plane, like this one, was out tted at the Mena airport and ew with various cameras to obtain photographic evi- dence of the Sandinistas in the act of smuggling narcotics, according to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette file photo). Hagan said he didn't know how many pages of material on Seal have yet to be made public by the FBI. In an effort to reduce or altogether avoid his 10-year prison sentence, Seal first tried to make a deal with a U.S. attorney, volunteering to give up information on the Ochoa family, but the deal was rejected. Also, view a news story about Barry Seal's death. He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. "At the time Seal started cooperating with DEA Miami, he had an established base at Rich Mountain Aviation and had frequent contact with subjects," according to the document. 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 an internal FBI document released last week. All were wearing jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; When he returned to Little Rock, he called his brother Dwayne. No. The other troopers called him Clintons Fair-haired boy. Some facts, however, are indisputable. And the U.S. was covertly backing the Contras. Approved for Release Date:September 28, 2009. Though the Clinton machine feared him the most, he showed no intention of breaking his silence until a chain of random events made it inevitable. Yet, it's also certainly possible that Seal had no involvement with the CIA in the early 1980s at all, given there is nothing to support the claim but rumors. Two duffel bags were put on board the plane at Tegucigalpa. The mysteries of Mena revolve around a drug-smuggling pilot named Barry Seal. Corporate Office Arcadia Inc. 2301 East Vernon Ave. Vernon, CA 90058. And ABC producer told me at the time that Brown is telling the truth. No convincing explanation was offered for this act of censorship. All rights reserved. In the years that followed his split from Clinton, Brown investigated white-collar crime for the Arkansas State Police. Still unknown at the time, the cartel would go on to make hundreds of millions from the explosion of cocaine use in the U.S. Barry Seal, who became known as "El Gordo" (The Fat Man), ended up being an integral part of that success. A flamboyant businessman who continued to deal in aircraft, Seal lost several planes among assets seized in Louisiana and Arkansas in a jeopardy assessment by the Internal Revenue Service in a $29,487,718 tax lien placed against his property. While at a small airport in rural Mena, Arkansas, the notorious smuggler Barry Seal was given protection by Governor Bill Clinton to continue his drug-smuggling, gun-running, money laundering operation but now as a DEA informant and a CIA contract pilot, also set up by Bush. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. In court documents, the family alleged that "lapses in planning, coordinating, scheduling, and flight safety" contributed to the fatal crash in the mountains of Colombia. "The information indicates that Seal was an informant for DEA at the time but also working as an operative of the CIA. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP . He relocated to a small regional airport in Mena, Arkansas, which had a population of only 5,000. Bill Clintons favorite bodyguard, but also a close friend. People in Mena say the drugs never got there, that the drugs were jettisoned over drop zones in the Louisiana swamps before Seal's planes made it back to Mena. Even before he graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1957, Seal had already earned his private pilot's wings. "It's my understanding that no drugs ever came to the airport," said Fred Ogden, the current airport manager. Brown has identified him as Dan Magruder, and says that he spoke admiringly of Clinton. var _gaq = _gaq || []; An interesting fact we learned while researching the true story was that while training for the Civil Air Patrol in Baton Rouge, Barry Seal met President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Brown says Clinton told him not to worry. A July 17, 1984 front-page Washington Times article by Edmund Jacoby described a link between Nicaragua's Sandinista government and the Medelln drug cartel. Current Address: ZGFJ N 18th St, Phoenix, AZ. The real Barry Seal never had a brother-in-law who was killed by a car bomb. Things became worse when a report in the Washington Times on July 17 . attorney.". Author Del Hahn, a former FBI agent who wrote the book about Seal titled Smuggler's End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal, told Vice, "Seal thought he was smarter and cleverer than the Ochoas," who are one of the founding families of the Medelln Cartel. In 1996, House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach pressed the CIA for answers about its role at Mena. The first is a CIA internal memo on an article written about Mena in 1995. "According to some reports, the [Mena] airport, from 1981 to 1985, was a major transit point for the entrance of cocaine and heroin into the United States," Sherwood wrote. The photos quickly leaked, boosting Washingtons anti-Sandinista effort but likely putting a target on Seals back: to his drug-running friends in South America, there could be no question where the photos came from. . Reply HELP for help, STOP to end. Many of the more baroque allegations emerge from the fever swamps of conspiracy theorists, but certain facts are indisputable. "He would tell me all these wild stories about the missions he had flown. So last month, we filed a lawsuit seeking a long-hidden report by the CIA inspector general into events at Mena. But twenty-three years later, Judicial Watch says it is time for answers. Arkansas State Trooper L.D. JB is fictional. Over a quarter of a century ago, George H.W. Scared the s---- out of me just taking off. Brown says that when the plane took off, he was sitting on a bench behind the two pilots. White Kendall, approached ABC, As Time reported, Kendall was working very, very hard to keep Whitewater out of the headlines. Meanwhile, Betsey Wright, a Clinton political fixer, told ABC that Brown was a pathological liar, even though his personnel file in Arkansas abounded with recommendations some from Clinton, and even one from Dr. Joycelyn Elders. "One day Barry came in and said there was a contract on him - half a million dead, a million alive," says widow Debbie Seal. He said parts of it could have been provided to people under previous information requests. The mysteries of Mena revolve around a drug-smuggling pilot named Barry Seal. He spent his spare time hanging around the old Downtown Airport, now Independence Park, working odd jobs in exchange for flight time. Phone Number . According to a 1988 Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, Seal's associates at the Mena airport were also being investigated. While the filmmakers were shooting the movie in South America, a local pilot who was working with them said that he had met Barry. It may also never be known whether CIA officials approved or knew of Seals activities, or whether he was operating on his own. Seal was shot dead in 1986 at a safe house in Baton Rouge . Judicial Watch Sues Air Force Academy for Records about Critical Race Theor DOJ & FBI Target Biden Political Opponents, Judicial Watch Warns: Critical Race Theory Rising. He says that he wanted to go public with his revelations about Mena, but that he did not know whom to tell. Leveritt had in-depth knowledge of the travails of investigators Duncan and Welch, and state and federal officials, in attempting to get to the truth about Mena. The poster for the movie "American Made," to be released Friday, Sept. 29, shows a grinning, cocky Tom. You can trust him, but the network apparently yielded to White House pressure. Asa Hutchinson was U.S. attorney for Arkansas' Western District in the early 1980s. A 1983 document in the recently released trove referred to a telephone conversation between the FBI and Polk County Sheriff A.L. attorney.". After it left Mena, the plane made a refueling stop Nobody got off, Brown says and then resumed flight. Seal, Brown says, had also prescribed the dress code, and insisted that no one carry identification, not even keys or jewelry. He also says he was mindful of the secrecy agreement he had signed with the CIA. All rights reserved. Meanwhile, others are now coming forward to confirm a Clinton connection to Mena. Tom Cruise is set to play murdered DEA informant Barry Seal in Doug Liman's film Mena. Whatever the case, of all the Arkansas troopers who would later admit to knowledge of Clintons high life, Brown was the most hesitant to talk. "Allegations later surfaced that many of the gun shipments sent to Nicaragua as part of the Iran-Contra Affair were sent from the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport. Hadaway. Weinberger faced charges of lying to Congress about his knowledge of the arms and drug smuggling that President George W. Bush had endorsed. The scene was actually inspired by something that happened while director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise were training for the movie. For a portion of this time, the alleged ringleader of the drug smuggling, Seal, appeared to have been working with the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The CIA stonewalled the release of information now sought by Judicial Watch on the Mena Airport controversy, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. 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 entry on the airport. As Slate notes, Seal stuck a plea deal, where he testified in three major drug trials and got five years' probation and six months at a halfway house. According to author Del Hahn, who wrote the book Smuggler's End, next to Barry's yearbook photo was the description, "Full of fun, full of folly" (TIME). Seal, Brown says, talked knowledgeably about airplanes, and spoke of an operation he was planning. -The Independent, Not likely. I guess he also thought Colombians would stick out like a sore thumb in Louisiana and they wouldn't come here." Barry also had a daughter and a son not shown in the movie, Lisa and Alder, with his first wife Barbara Bottoms. Advertisement. The goal was to expose the involvement of the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime as a major supplier of cocaine from Colombia.". Executing secret missions for the government in the movie might add a sort of patriotism and redeeming quality to his character, but in real life Barry Seal was a drug smuggler first and foremost. He is married to Lucy (Sarah Wright) and has two children with her, with a third on the way. Using pilots like Barry Seal was a means to an end. View Alex Mena results in Phoenix, AZ including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. -Court DocumentsThe 2016 Bryan Cranston movie The Infiltrator also depicts Barry Seal's assassination, but it is historically inaccurate. While there, he had a chance meeting with Jorge Ochoa's New Orleans business manager. I was young and it was impressive." The New York Times and "West 57th," a CBS television news show, were working on stories about CIA activities at the Mena airport, according to a 1987 FBI memo released last week. I have re-typed two documents that were scrubbed off the internet. Three Colombians eventually were arrested and convicted of the murder. In 1986, Colombian hitmen caught up with Seal in Baton Rouge, shooting him to death in his white Cadillac. Doug Liman had previously modeled Chris Cooper's villain in The Bourne Identity after North, which reveals Liman's feelings about the controversial figure North. No investigation was blocked. He carried out his smuggling operation under the nose of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. 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. Magruder, Brown says, asked him if he would be interested in paramilitary, counterintelligence and narcotics. Brown, who had worked in narcotics enforcement as a police officer, said he was interested. Concurrently, they had to make sure not to raise the suspicions of the ruthless Colombian drug lords. He had been arrested in 1972 by the U.S. Customs Service for trying to fly 1,350 pounds of plastic explosives to anti-Castro Cubans via Mexico. "The aircraft flew with various cameras used to obtain photographic evidence of the Sandinistas in the act of smuggling narcotics," Sherwood wrote. In 1961, he joined the Louisiana Army National Guard and served with the 20th Special Forces Group for six years. 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. 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