"[48] At the time, he was>in custody in Spain, fighting extradition to Florida. >However, another federal law, the Boland Amendment, came into play where the>Contras were concerned. The life of the former TWA pilot, Barry Seal, inspired the film. Seals wife was said to have found George Bushs private phone number in Seals wallet. They remained partners until>Camp's untimely death in a plane crash just north of Mena, Arkansas, on 20>February 1985. A great>deal of corporate naivete and ignorance on the part of state government was to>be expected in Bill Clinton's Arkansas, with respect to certain business>transactions where Barry Seal, Iver Johnson's, and Brodix were involved., as>long as the appropriate fees were paid to the right parties. Through a rather circuitous route, Seal turned>DEA informant under the threat of additional prosecution on drug-trafficking>and moneylaundering charges in the federal cases filed against him in Miami>and Baton Rouge. box number in their address books and this coded form ,the unpublished phone number of Jack Ruby in 1963.The Code by use the Telephone dial for conversion of letters and numbers explained the letters P.O.becomes the digit 13,only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-when Unscrambled,becomes 1-6901 by subtract 1300 from 1-6901,(garrison) he added,the result ,if 1-5601.Jack Ruby unpublished number Dallas texas in 1963 was WHITEHALL 1-5601.The code involvestransposition of digits accord to pattern then add -sub-of numbers ,familiar to Oswald ,that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 The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. He had a small fleet of planes and helicopters, two ships, 60 employees, and a seemingly unlimited supply of cash. ", >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. Terry Reed knew Oliver North / Feliz Rodruez. It was also the year certain authorities in>Arkansas began investigating the Mena operation. 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. Barry was murdered by the government and a couple of scumbag judges. In Seal's words, "You could easily drive a couple of jeeps and>bigger vehicles into [The Fat Lady] and be on your way." A drug shipment transfer in Nicaragua was in fact videotaped>with The Fat Lady's surveillance camera. Both Smith and Missick were interested in Seal's proposal and>were given cash advances on the spot out of what Seal called his "trafficker>fund" (money 'provided by the DEA for its informants' use) for "transportation>expenses" associated with a meeting arranged for Miami in March. >The Saunders case had enormous implications for the South American drug->trafficking trade. 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 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. This was in direct violation of a 1984 law banning such aid. He was also the>youngest pilot to be promoted to captain of the crew of a Boeing 707, and>later of a Boeing 747. The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. Bustamonte was also associated with the Ochoa family of the infamous>Medellin drug cartel. 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. In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. (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. ; see, also, New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986. [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. Rayburn House Office Building, Chairman James Leach (R-IA), Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and staffer . As a result of Seals cooperation, the judge in his Florida case praised Seal and reduced his sentence to six months probation. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. 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. strange coincidence :John Odom baton Rouge. Have a suggestion for a story? 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. According to Duncan and Welch, the bulk of the story centers around a drug-smuggler named Adler Berriman Seal, also known as Barry. 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. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. They agreed that $250,000 would be applied>to cover expenses, such as fuel, storage, and lease fees, and the balance>would be divided evenly among Saunders, Smith, Missick, and Bowe, based mainly>on their promise to prepare and sign documents and to look the other way at>certain crucial times. >Eventually, Barry joined the local Civil Air Patrol and learned to fly Piper>Cubs. Like The Wolf of Wall Street, American Made is based on the real-life exploits of a "lovable" rogue, Barry Seal. [3] A former Green Beret, Seal became one of TWA's top>pilots. >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. no. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. 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 also ordered to report address changes to the U.S. attorney,>and his right to travel outside the court's jurisdiction was restricted. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Late 1982 - Barry Seal makes deal with DEA and CIA and increases his smuggling operations at Mena. [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. 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. He was married three times throughout his life. File: Attachment Size; The pot-bellied daredevil>once boasted that he could make $1.5 million in a matter of hours dealing with>Ochoa as long as he had his pocket pager, two payphones to call Colombia and>Miami, and fuel for The Fat Lady. [44], >Seal's exploits as a soldier of fortune made him a very wealthy man. Thank you. >29. Waters] is recognized for 5 minutes. 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. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." 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. 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. 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. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." Also like TWWS, it gets us rooting for our hero despite his engaging in morally . When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. Mr. WEINER I met him at a club in Cuba. [5], >On the flight home from Honduras, Seal met Carlos Bustamonte, a Miami car>dealer. During his initial>conversation with Jura and Jacobson, and to insure against being double->crossed, Seal reiterated what he told White and Kennedy during the meeting in>Washington: he would be "willing to cooperate" with the DEA in exchange "for>their assistance in helping [him] out with [his] sentences in south Florida.>"[15] After being reassured by the two special agents, Seal went forward with>his plans to make the trip to Medellin. Wasnt he involved in contra affair with OLLIE and Felix ? (Arkansas State Criminal Investigator Russell Welch), to former drug pilots, that have testified that the CIA operation Barry Seal set up in Mena was used, and is still being used, to smuggle drugs with official sanction into the . >9. Barry Seal. . Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and began flying at the age of 15. Michel Mertz had been ex pelled from U.S. at Fort Worth or Dallas 48hours after JFK assassination.11-22-63. He died instantly. >Seal and Ochoa had been doing business for years. >43. Staff Report. The problem, for Seal anyway, was that,>during this entire period, government agents at various levels were working>independently of each other to hit the same target. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office The U.S. would conceal the transactions by selling the weapons first to Israel and then re-selling them at significant off the books markups to Irans Islamist government for use in its war with Iraq. 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. >12. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Seal also gave the DEA valuable additional>information on Medellin drug lord, Pablo Escobar.[16]. And, he admitted it during cross examination in the>Saunders trial in September 1984. The poster for the movie "American Made," to be released Friday, Sept. 29, shows a grinning, cocky . .Rouge Louisiana (next hwy73/North blvd).lovers lane White house Barry was the 1st son.Seal Entrepreneur.Texaco Service station .called B.C. 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. MichelRoux , a.k.a. Your identity will never be revealed. 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. Seal>kept his appointment with Jura and Jacobson five days after his meeting with>the task force. After a military hitch, he returned to Baton Rouge>and started flying again. 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. In 1972, he and eight others were convicted>in federal court in New Orleans of running guns and explosives to Mexico. During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. He later claimed to have made as much as $50 million running 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. It was only after Castro succeeded in overthrowing Batista in 1959 and declared himself a Marxist that other forces then began their efforts to overthrow Castro. [41] All other automatic weapons are illegal. Dirty politics, love for money is the root for all evil. Your email address will not be published. >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. Yes. 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. >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. Barry Seal murder in Baton Rouge 25 years ago helped expose Iran-Contra debacle, Podcast Recap: #208 Freeway Ricky Ross The Joe Rogan Experience Database, Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? 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. 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. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. No of Kids with Barry: Dean, Aaron, and Christina Seal. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. Barry Seal's early life and family background. 1983 - The CIA begin to smuggling drugs into Los Angeles. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in . >The "plea bargain" and "probation" referred to the plea agreement Seal was>finally able to reach with federal prosecutors in Baton Rouge, in November>1984, just before the grand jury indictment was formally handed down. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. 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. >31. About twelve thousand people live>in the islands, mainly in the capital of Grand Turk. In 1986, he got killed, but his name was not forgotten. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. A>secondary purpose was to avoid U.S. Customs scrutiny. Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in San Jose The Mercury News in 1996. 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 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. >The next day, Saunders drove up in a white Lincoln Continental Mark IV,>accompanied by two bodyguards and a third man dressed in a white seersucker>suit. Welch was an investigator for the Arkansas State>Police Criminal Investigations Division, taking part in Seal's prosecution in>federal court in Baton Rouge on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.>He attended one of Seal's depositions on 27 December 1985, and heard Seal make>these admissions.[9]. He became a key witness in the federalgovernment's war on the powerful Colombian cocaine cartel. >Despite the plea agreement, U.S. Attorney Stanford Bardwell had to prepare for>the worst. 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. 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]. >7. Because Reagan feared another communist regime in the Western Hemisphere, Seal was enlisted as an undercover informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). "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. 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. Seal told friends that the judge made me a clay pigeon.. "[38] The federal>Criminal Code prohibits the "transfer or possession of machineguns" unless>they were lawfully registered before 19 May 1986. Ibid. At the same>time, incredible amounts of cash were transported to and from Latin America,>representing payment for drugs, arms, and equipment. 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. no. From the opinion: On February 19, 1986, Adler B. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. Seal was murdered just before he was . 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. See, Title 26 U.S. Code, chapter 53, section 5845(b). However, when a drug shipment was seized by the DEA, the Medellin Cartel blamed Seal for the loss. 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. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. 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. >30. He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by the Medellns. 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. They immediately hopped back into the Buick and>sped away, nearly running over an eyewitness. Mr. WOLF How long have you known Paul Doffman?Mr. 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. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 16, 1939 to a typical American family. | B'Man's Revolt, ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? As he parked his car, he was approached by a man carrying an assault weapon. He also bought over a thousand acres of land across a>gravel road from the camp and had a large portion of it cleared of trees and>brush, leveled, and sodded with a carpet of thick Bermuda grass. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. Hotel in New Orleans.Lee Odom said.They met for lunch to discuss To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. 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