>Hired by TWA, at age twenty-seven, Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was the>youngest pilot in U.S. history to fly a commercial airliner. operative extraordinaire is hardly a familiar name in American politics. >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 was married three times throughout his life. The Mena, Arkansas Airport. After Seal pleaded guilty in February 1986, he was given an extremely light sentence of 100 hours of community service thanks to the intervention of the CIA and others and ordered to live . >43. At the same>time, incredible amounts of cash were transported to and from Latin America,>representing payment for drugs, arms, and equipment. It had been used for several months by Barbque co which he was onceassociated with. >11. In fact, there was a made-for-cable movie, Double Crossed, that starred Dennis Hopper as Seal. In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Barry Seal with his Wife Deborah DeBois and their kids. Plus, they knew a lot about Barry. 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. Barry Seal was a known name between the drug peddlers and crime cartels in the '80s. 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It isn't>every day that one of the top five drug smugglers in the country turns>informant. And his participation in Operation 40, the CIA's assassination squad, the blackest of black ops, as attested by the photo taken in Mexico . Reed claims the>meeting with Seal was arranged by Oliver North (aka John Cathey). total number on board :4 =Hidell Lambert Diaz / Color of aircraft : Red /W.David Ferrie plane found :Stinson Voyager 150 Nobleville.Indiana.Don Roberts shed next to eastside of his home next Nobleville Airport Promise Road Stinson Voyager Single Engine airplane manufactured 1946.David Ferrie sold stinson plane February 13,1967. It was in 1973, the year that followed the end of his second marriage that Seal got married to Deborah DuBois and they . Mr. WEINER I met him at a club in Cuba. >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. Two other Colombians, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz>and Miguel Velez, shared Vasquez's room. By Robert Morrow, Pingback: The choice, a dead journalist or a fake one? Most reports show that Barry Seal started his drug operation in 1981, and set up shop at the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport. 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]. There was no word as to whether or not Meese ever responded to Gustes letter. 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. Just send an email to louisianavoice@outlook.com, LouisianaVoice does not accept advertising because we insist on an independent voice. Seals offshore bank accounts disappeared and the IRS filed a multi-million dollar lien against his assets. >Operation Centaur Rose was the name of the CIA gun-running project Seal was>involved in, according to Reed and Cummings. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. 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. Barry Seal graduated highSchool 1957. 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. Obviously, Seal and Camp had a lot in common>and plenty of time to talk. Seals lifeand deathwould seem a perfect fit for Hollywood. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. >42. Terry Reed knew Oliver North / Feliz Rodruez. 506-508. The FBI and IRS were pulling up the rear, and at least one>special agent with the Arkansas State Police CID was scratching around for>information. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 108. Qualified Americans could, until recently, apply for and receive a license>to sell automatic weapons and conversion kits. by Ran. > According to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner, Dr. Hypolite>Landry, and the report of detectives with the Baton Rouge City Police, seven>rounds fired from an automatic weapon known as a Mac-10 struck Seal in the>head and upper body. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 16, 1939 to a typical American family. >Many individuals in Arkansas, and elsewhere, bought weapons and conversion>kits from those companies, sometimes in large quantities. Wasnt he involved in contra affair with OLLIE and Felix ? >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. Ibid., 521-531. >For some time before his problems surfaced in Florida, Seal had been making>cocaine and money laundering runs to rural Arkansas. Oliver North was working for the CIA in Oklahoma and Arkansas in the>1980s. A man with a machine gun approached his Cadillac. Another was through the little town of Mena, in western>Arkansas. Lee Harvey Oswald friend David/Anna Lewis meet CharleSt Thompson Restaurant.Anna said Marina came in look for LHO. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. 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. (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. Later Reed moved to Mexico setup company. 1983 - The CIA begin to smuggling drugs into Los Angeles. Barry Seal was an American-born Trans World Airlines pilot who . no. 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. His property, including his home and all his airplanes, were seized. > 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>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. Unglesby said the Medellin Cartel killed Seal to prevent the extradition of Medellin Cartel co-leader Jorge Ochoa from Spain, where he was hiding. July 21, 1994. MichelRoux , a.k.a. John Odom claim that Barry Seal knew LHO and David Ferrie. >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. Barry Seal in White cadillac -2-20-86 BatonRouge-Escobar and Ibid. meeting at camp robinson with other people too. But, they>also made him a marked man. 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. no. Some, like>Terry Reed, who claims to have been a CIA "asset" himself in the 1980s, have>gone much further.[31]. 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. 39. 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) Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. In 1986, he got killed, but his name was not forgotten. He died instantly. 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. Send a free subscription to a friend or subscribe for yourself. U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. >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. >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. Hasenfus said that was by sheer coincidence. 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. >He started out smuggling marijuana, but he was apprehended and jailed in>Honduras in December 1979. For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . (denied notes). One traffic route was through Miami, often by way of Port-au-Prince, the>capital of Haiti. According to the>DEA, Ochoa was "the world's largest cocaine dealer. There is no information on Barry Seal's net worth, but it must have been substantial. Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and began flying at the age of 15. 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. >For his part, Seal may not have known that a number of weapons-manufacturing>and sales firms were operating in Arkansas in the 1980s. In>Welch's words, "Now we know that there were hundreds of millions of dollars>worth of cocaine coming into the small state of Arkansas [in the 1980s]."[46]. 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. [34], >Although there are conflicting reports, it appears Seal was originally>recruited by the CIA as a "subcontractor" to fly arms and other contraband to>the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters, beginning sometime in 1983 after he allegedly>met with Terry Reed to discuss gun-smuggling activities. As a result of Seals cooperation, the judge in his Florida case praised Seal and reduced his sentence to six months probation. A May 21, 1992, Arkansas Times article carried a front page story of the drug trafficking, including three pictures of CIA contract agent and drug pilot Barry Seal, drug trafficker Jorge Luis . >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. 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. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. Fournier had the most work to do, so he was to receive>$375,000 a year. [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. Seal, Crim. (5m-6m) Clinton, Mena, Barry Seal - Mena (6m-7m) "fall to communism" argument for Vietnam, et al . > No one knows exactly why, but for some reason, after pulling the Cadillac>into its normal parking place, Seal, dressed in his customary olive-drab>flight suit, and wearing his amber Ray Ban aviator sunglasses, sat in the .>car that evening a lot longer than was his usual custom. Ochoa wasnt extradited.. In his cross-examination, in the trial of United States v. Norman Saunders,>et al., Cr. [41] All other automatic weapons are illegal. At almost 300 pounds, Adler B. Seal>kept his appointment with Jura and Jacobson five days after his meeting with>the task force. 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.. >Gun smuggling, especially the brand the CIA and Seal were engaged in in>Arkansas and elsewhere in the 1980s, was risky business. 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. Atlantic City and Skinny, was the owner of the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey ( trump Hotel)..Sinatra Chauffer G.Jacobs and Buddy Greco >41. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. Johnson's could make everything but the special parts.>Brodix would take the greater risk and manufacture the conversion kits.[36]. 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. 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. photo Escobar with Seal picture on television ?who sit duck at Seal was murdered just before he was . Most of all, Seals murder would lay bare for all the world to see the seamy underbelly of Americas duplicitous war on drugs, and how drug smuggling was in fact sanctioned by powerful men in order to advance a hidden agenda. >17. Seal's arraignment proceeded as scheduled on>that date. Seal admitted under oath smuggling at least fifteen hundred pounds of>cocaine during the six months between May and November of that year. >rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. no. 5, 1984) known as Mr. [27] In Baton Rouge, it was another story. >2. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. He next admitted it under oath in DEA>intelligence reports. They also>souped up old cars in the garage behind the house. Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised (NY: S.P.I. >Now officially known as Confidential Informant No. 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. In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. President Reagan used some of the>footage on national television to reveal the involvement of the Sandinistas>and the Medellin cartel in drug trafficking and to demonstrate the need for>stronger drug enforcement.[22]. >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. Lee Odom said.p o box 19106 had never been in his name.but Bush and Oliver North. He agreed to use that connection for the>benefit of the new joint venture. But, Barry's first love was>flying. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." 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