WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 2]

Mena, Arkansas, base of CIA drug importation.

NOTES: I made a few corrections to spellings and grammar.

If you missed previous parts to this part of the WORMSCAN series, you can find it here.

WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 1]

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[ Article crossposted from alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater ]
[ Author was John Q. Public ]
[ Posted on 16 Dec 1995 15:58:44 GMT ]
[ Original subject: Washington Weekly: Mena news from 12/11 issue ]

with permission; not to be used for commercial purposes

COUNTDOWN TO MENA TRIAL

ARKANSAS ATTORNEY GENERAL SUBPOENAED IN MENA CASE

The defense of Buddy Young in the Mena trial is handled by the Arkansas Attorney General's office. Criminal actions taken by the Attorney General Winston Bryant, however, have now made him a witness in the trial. "We have served a subpoena on Attorney General Winston Bryant who we have discovered was involved in obstruction of justice," says Robert Meloni, counsel to Terry Reed. "He had ordered the removal of all of the Mena files from his office in order to circumvent a FOIA request."

"There's an affidavit that we just got from Bill Duncan.... he was ordered to purge the Attorney General's office of all files. There was also a demand for those files by Terry Reed in this case in February 1992. And at that point we had moved to compel the Attorney General's office to produce them and their response at that point was, we don't have them," Meloni said.

"We have three people from the Arkansas State Police, in the criminal intelligence division, who we deposed this summer: Michelle Tudor, John Morrow, I forget the third one, who have testified that they were told to remove files and destroy files in the Mena case."

"So we are trying to subpoena him [Winston Bryant], because we caught him in a lie. They are moving files around, you know, it's like a shell game with these Mena files. We are trying to depose him, we are going to make him a witness in our case."

"Winston Bryant walked into a situation of obstruction and concealment, and he continued the pattern."

The Attorney General's office has filed a motion to quash the subpoena.

DEFENSE MOVES TO SUPPRESS CIA EVIDENCE

The defense in the Reed Mena trial has filed a motion to suppress CIA evidence. "This motion is saying that the judge should exclude all evidence concerning CIA activities at Mena because we have been unable to establish a link between Buddy Young and all of those activities, even if those activities were true," says Robert Meloni, counsel to Terry Reed. "Why the motion doesn't make any sense is because we never had to establish any link because we haven't had the trial yet. That's what you do at a trial. And we do have a link, but this is not the time and place to establish it."

"I think they are just doing it so they can get it in the paper," Meloni explains. "It appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette two days later. Nobody called me up to ask my opinion about it. They just put it in, I think just polluting the jury pool with this garbage."

"I am almost certain the judge is going to deny it," Meloni told the Washington Weekly.

Trial is scheduled for January 16, but Reed's legal team has moved for another continuance. "We are getting stonewalled by a few federal agencies, the FBI, the Department of Justice, they are moving to quash a number of subpoenas."

BARRY SEAL'S "FAT LADY" FOUND IN FLORIDA!

Barry Seal's C-123 cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus being the only survivor, right?

Wrong! It has long been suspected that Barry Seal had two identical C-123 cargo planes, and now Terry Reed has located the remaining one outside a museum near Titusville, Florida. "We have been able to trace the registration history directly back to Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame." Terry Reed told Chuck Harder of For the People Radio Network. "So we have good, solid linkage now between the Iran Contra scandal and Barry Seal's [gun running and drug smuggling] operation," Reed said.

Reed received a tip about the airplane after he had appeared on a talk radio program. A mechanic who had worked on the plane told Reed where he could find it and said that it was bearing Honduran registration.

"We subpoenaed the FAA's records out of Oklahoma City, showing the correspondence between the FAA and one of Richard Secord's executive officers through a company called Corporate Air Services," Reed said.

STARR SAYS HE WON'T TOUCH MENA

In a speech to the Century City Bar Association in Los Angeles Wednesday November 29, Kenneth Starr responded to a question whether Whitewater had anything to do with the airport at Mena, Arkansas.

"The answer is, the scope of our investigation, the subject matter of our investigation, does not run to any activity which has been reported in the press, or alleged activity reported in the press, with respect to possible illegal activities in various administrations at the now legendary Mena airport."

In the past year, questions asked by Starr's people of witnesses with knowledge of Mena have led these witnesses to conclude that Starr was interested in the affair.

Copyright (c) 1995 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)

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>> Spin control?

The following paragraph was printed on the front page of the Friday, November 24, 1995 issue of *The Wall Street Journal* in the Washington Wire column:

MENA PROBE: House Banking Chairman Leach sends colleagues a letter on plans to investigate allegations of drug smuggling and money laundering at the Mena, Ark., airport during the 1980s. Leach says he will also examine "whether past government reviews and investigations associated with Mena Airport were handled properly."

The following excerpt is from a newspaper article written by columnist Robert D. Novak that was published in the Sunday, December 3, 1995 issue of *The Chicago Sun-Times* on page 43:

House Banking Chairman James Leach, in a memo to his committee's members, has suggested that his low-key Whitewater investigation may lead to hearings on a high-profile issue: allegations of money laundering and drug smuggling at Mena Airport in southwestern Arkansas.

Leach disclosed that investigators are probing "whether businesses based at, or operating through, the Mena Airport engaged in systematic money laundering." They also are exploring, he said, whether the source of laundered money was convicted drug smuggler Barry Seal during the time he said he was working for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Published accounts for years have linked wrongdoing at Mena to the then-governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. But Leach's memo did not mention Clinton and asserted "the Mena-related allegations involve possible improper conduct spanning several federal administrations."

The following paragraph was published on the front page of the Friday, December 29, 1995 issue of *The Wall Street Journal* in the Washington Wire column:

The House is investigating alleged drug smuggling and money laundering at Mena Airport in Arkansas. Congressional investigators already have met with officials from the intelligence community, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. To date, they have turned up nothing to indicate Clinton was associated with any wrongdoing at the remote airport.

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HOUSE PANEL TAKES A LOOK AT MENA
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By Rowan Scarborough
(Washington Times National Weekly Edition, Jan. 22-28, 1996)

The House banking committee is investigating suspicions of criminal activities at Arkansas' Mena Airport, trying to separate fact from fiction in a list of accusations about drug dealing, gun running and government cover-ups during the 1980s.

The inquiry is a spinoff of the panel's extensive Whitewater probe, during which Arkansas sources repeatedly urged congressional staffers to explore dealings said to have occurred at the municipal airport while Bill Clinton was governor and Ronald Reagan was president.

Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa Republican and chairman of the committee, agreed in November. He issued a memo to committee members saying staffers would try to determine whether money from Barry Seal, a drug dealer, was laundered by businesses in and near the secluded airport in the Ouachita Mountains 130 miles southwest of Little Rock.

The memo outlining Mr. Leach's intentions was disclosed by Insight magazine in its Jan. 29 issue.

Mr. Leach's task is daunting, considering the breadth of the rumors buzzing around Seal, a convicted cocaine dealer and flamboyant aviator. Seal will be no help in sifting the truth. Columbian drug kings had him slain near his home in Baton Rouge, La., in 1986 after he became a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant.

"This is one of the most complex, tangled tales that we've come across ever," says a committee investigator and Whitewater watcher. "Our objective is to investigate this, and to either prove or disprove the allegations that are floating around Mena. The chairman sees as much virtue in laying these rumors to rest as in exposing a scandal."

It has been alleged that Seal used Mena as a base to ferry cocaine, launder money and supply the Nicaraguan Contras — all while working for the DEA, the Reagan White House and the CIA.

A banking committee staffer said Jan. 17 that at this point the panel's inquiry is confined to one issue. "This is a money-laundering investigation," the aide said. "It may lead into other things. We have no interest in replowing old Iran-Contra ground."

The laundering was uncovered by an Internal Revenue Service official, William Duncan, and an Arkansas state policeman, Russell Welch. They believe there is enough evidence to bring charges against Seal's associates but claim they were stymied by federal authorities who wanted to keep a lid on clandestine activities at Mena.

The House panel has requested documents from the IRS, the CIA and the DEA but has not yet chosen to subpoena witnesses, the aide said Jan. 17. Investigators have interviewed Mr. Duncan, Mr. Welch and Bill Alexander, a former Democratic congressman from Arkansas who has sought a federal inquiry for years, beginning when he was a member of the House.

"I feel that the people of Arkansas and the people of the nation deserve to know the facts about the illegal drug trafficking and blatant money laundering that took place at Mena, Ark., during the 1980s," said Mr. Alexander, who practices law now in McLean, Va. and in Jonesboro, Ark.

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CONTINUED INVESTIGATION OF SENIOR-LEVEL EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT AND MISMANAGEMENT AT THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE:
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Hearing before the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 24, 1991.
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The following excerpts are from pages 64-73, 85-86.

Congressman Doug Barnard, Jr. (D-Georgia) was Chairman of the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee in 1991.

Mr. BARNARD: Thank you very much. Our next panel consists of Mr. William C. Duncan, a former IRS senior Criminal Investigation employee, and Mr. N. Paul Whitmore, group manager of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. Gentlemen, we appreciate you again being with us today for this important hearing. We will include your entire testimony, without objection, in the record and would like for your statements, if possible, to be summarized. Thank you again for being with us.

We will first hear from Mr. DUNCAN: Incidentally, I want to congratulate you. I understand that you are now gainfully employed again.

Mr. DUNCAN: I finally got a job; yes, sir.

Mr. BARNARD: Chief investigator of the Arkansas attorney general's office. I am glad that you are now employed.

Mr. DUNCAN: Thank you, sir. Would it be better if I just responded to questions from the panel because it takes about 20 to 25 minutes for me to read this?

Mr. BARNARD: Could you just sort of summarize to begin with? We have some questions for you and Mr. Whitmore, but couldn't you just sort of summarize what your statement includes?

Mr. DUNCAN: This was my summary.

Mr. BARNARD: A 20-page summary.

STATEMENT OF WILLIAM C. DUNCAN, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR, OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF ARKANSAS

Mr. DUNCAN: No, sir. It is about 9 pages.

I can just say that Mr. Whitmore and I have testified truthfully about the events that occurred in connection with my testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime and m briefing process. We have provided documentation pertaining to our trips here. We have testified on several occasions, and we volunteered for and submitted to polygraph exams which we passed. And we also cooperated with Treasury IG in their extensive investigation. I don't know what more we can do.

Mr. BARNARD: Well, we have some questions that we will direct to you.

[The prepared statement of Mr. Duncan follows]

TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM C. DUNCAN BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER, AND MONETARY AFFAIRS HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
JULY 24, 1991

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Since my testimony before you on July 27, 1989, I have cooperated completely with investigators from the U. S. Treasury, Inspector General's Office and Government Accounting Office in an attempt to deal with the integrity problems and criminal acts of IRS Chief Counsel Attorneys. To my knowledge, not one of the IRS Attorneys has been punished, additional IRS Executives apparently have provided false, misleading or incomplete testimony to Treasury IG Investigators, and the conspiracy to cover up the illegal acts continues. The system now in place for investigating Senior Level IRS integrity problems has not worked.

My prior testimony before you related to instructions given to me by IRS Chief Counsel Attorneys concerning my testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime on February 26, 1988, about criminal investigations in which I participated while assigned as an IRS Special Agent to the Fayetteville, AR Post-of-Duty. These joint investigations were initiated because of information which we received during 1983 and 1984 concerning the Barry Seal smuggling organization's move from Louisiana to the Mena, AR Airport.

By the end of 1987, it was apparent that thousands of law enforcement man-hours and an enormous amount of evidence of drug smuggling, aiding and abetting drug smugglers, conspiracy, perjury, money laundering and illegal modifications to smuggling aircraft had gone to waste. Not only were no indictments ever returned on any of the individuals under investigation for their role in the Mena Operation, there was a complete breakdown in the judicial system. The United States Attorney, Western Judicial District of Arkansas, assured us that there were no national security or other issues involved which would impede investigation and prosecution of criminal violations in Arkansas, however, he refused to issue subpoenas for critical witnesses, interfered in the investigations, apparently mislead grand juries about evidence and availability of witnesses, refused to allow investigators to present evidence to the grand jury, and in general made a mockery of the entire investigative and judicial process. The Subcommittee on Crime, through media reports, became aware of public concern over lack of indictments and requested my testimony.

As you are aware from our testimony and statements made to your investigators by Hayden Gregory, Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on Crime, if I had followed the directives of [deleted] and [deleted], I would have completely mislead the Subcommittee about the problems which we encountered in the investigations, and ultimately would have perjured myself in connection with an allegation about a bribe from Barry Seal to a high ranking Department of Justice official. The intense IRS Disclosure Litigation process which we described was purely and simply designed to impede the Congress of the United States in their investigation of issues which impact on the very heart of our judicial system, and ultimately the security of this country.

Why did this happen? What could have been important enough for the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury to join hands in an effort which resulted in such interference? Perhaps there are answers. Evidence gathered during the last year and a half indicates that during the period 1984 through 1986, the Mena, AR Airport was an important hub/waypoint for transshipment of drugs, weapons and Central American "Contra" and Panamanian Defense Force personnel who were receiving covert training in a variety of specialties in the Nella Community, located ten miles north of the Mena, AR Airport. The evidence details a bizarre mixture of drug smuggling, gun running, money laundering and covert operations by Barry Seal, his associates, and both employees and contract operatives of the United States Intelligence Services. The testimony reveals a scheme whereby massive amounts of cocaine were smuggled into the State of Arkansas, and profits were partially used to fund covert operations. Two witnesses testified that one of the Western District of Arkansas Assistant U. S. Attorneys told them that the U. S. Attorney's Office received a call to shut down the investigations involving Seal and his associates.

Is this the reason why the IRS went to such great lengths to cause me to withhold information from Congress? I don't know. It is obvious that their interference had little to with 6103 or 6E information. There had to be another reason. Something so important, that it would cause IRS Attorneys to deny even the meeting during which the subornation of the perjury occurred.

I have been asked to comment on the Treasury Inspector General's Office Investigation into this matter. After reviewing unredacted portions of the investigative report, I can tell you that it contains many inaccuracies and it should be the subject of intense review by this subcommittee. The conclusions exhibited in the report allow criminal violations to go unpunished, and provide fertile ground for similar violations in the future....

When this subcommittee formally requested my testimony, the pressures from [deleted], and my immediate supervisor [deleted] increased dramatically. [deleted] told me not to even call the Little Rock, AR District Office to inquire as to the location of case files concerning the Mena Investigations. I was not allowed to either inquire about the files or return to Little Rock in time to review the files for information relating to my contacts with the Disclosure Litigation Attorneys....

It is ironic that the Internal Revenue Service promotes use of polygraph examinations in conduct of criminal investigations of American taxpayers because they, along with most other investigative and intelligence agencies, know that polygraph is an excellent investigative tool for determination of the truthfulness of witnesses. Paul Whitmore and I volunteered for, and submitted to, polygraph examinations administered by the United States Secret Service, because we were eager, as we told Commissioner Goldberg, to prove the truthfulness of our testimony. I again challenge [names deleted] and any other Internal Revenue Service personnel who dispute our testimony, to take a polygraph so that the truth can be displayed and this matter put finally to rest.

Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman, it is unlikely that any of the IRS executives and attorneys who were involved in this matter will ever take polygraph examinations, and they will probably never admit to their deception. They know full well that they do not have to submit to polygraph, and that they have protection within their powerful circle of co-conspirators who have distorted the truth so many times on behalf of this organization that they now comfortably perceive the truth to be whatever the Internal Revenue Service tells them it is. Loyalty is an important and valued asset. But never, ever, should loyalty be justification for perjury. History is filled with tragedies resulting from deception and crimes in the name of loyalty, patriotism and national security. It seems that most of America keeps their hands over their eyes, even when it comes to evidence of U.S. Government involvement in drug smuggling and IRS corruption that erodes voluntary taxpayer compliance, and ultimately, the very fiscal foundation of this country. With the exception of a few in depth articles by publications such as the Boston Phoenix, even the media has refused to demand answers. Please do not allow this matter to remain unresolved.

The personal cost? The loss of an unblemished federal law enforcement career and my retirement; emotional and financial trauma beyond description; my portrayal by IRS Management as someone who turned their back on their organization, in other words, a traitor; inability to obtain other federal law enforcement employment because of perceptions that I am a "whistleblower" and because the Internal Revenue Service withheld my closing evaluation for over eighteen months....

I am thankful for the Attorney General of the State of Arkansas who viewed my refusal to perjure myself as a quality which he wanted in his administration. Otherwise, I might still be unable to find employment as a criminal investigator. Unfortunately, reprisal against me for truthful testimony and cooperation with congress continues. The U. S. Attorney in Western, Arkansas has sent word on two occasions that his office will not handle any Medicaid Fraud cases for the State of Arkansas as long as I am on staff with the Medicaid Fraud Division. In other words, he is willing to allow Medicaid Fraud, which affects healthcare of the poor and elderly, to go unchecked in the entire western half of the State of Arkansas, in order to sabotage my first full-time employment in nineteen months. His actions have caused us to have to take all of our criminal cases to the Eastern Judicial District U. S. Attorney, placing an unfair workload on both he and his staff.

How is it that IRS and Department of Justice Attorneys continue this type of action with no perception of risk. Why are we powerless to stop it? The Attorney General of the United States should directly intervene with [deleted] to stop retaliation against me. Mr. Goldberg should take charge and begin to deal with integrity problems at the top of his organization. He should also, very quickly arrive at a solution in order to fully restore my Federal Law Enforcement career, with full benefits and compensation for the effects of IRS corruption on me and my family. He should gladly provide Mr. Whitmore and his family full compensation for any losses which they have incurred, and allow him to effectively continue to progress in his management career. People who cooperate with truthful testimony should be promoted, not demoted. We have fulfilled our responsibilities to the Internal Revenue Service and Congress under extreme duress. If the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Attorney General refuse to fulfill the responsibilities of their jobs, they should be replaced with someone who will.

What can be done to protect IRS Whistleblowers? The first thing you can do it make sure that whistleblowers are given the guidance and emotional support which they are going to need to get through some very tough times. We were totally unprepared for the emotional trauma of dealing with an enemy which we really didn't understand. How many IRS Employees know that IRS Attorneys are not there to protect them individually, but are there to protect the IRS Organization? There is no Attorney-Client relationship between an employee and an IRS Disclosure Litigation Attorney. The employee will not even be able to obtain the briefing records prepared by the attorney. Yet I was told repeatedly that I had to use the assigned Disclosure Litigation Attorney, that I had no choice.

Finally, you can insure, that complaints about retaliation are promptly addressed, and that action is taken to intercede, and provide immediate relief to the extent possible. People are not going to willingly expose themselves and their families to economic and emotional peril, without some assurance that there will be real support from Congress.

During a portion of the past three years I found myself filled with feelings of rage, disgust and helplessness as I discovered that I was powerless to deal with managers within IRS who perceived me as a troublemaker, and even a traitor, because I insisted on telling the truth. I believe that I exhibited the ultimate in loyalty to the Internal Revenue Service. I did not begin dealing with anyone outside my organization until I felt that I had exhausted all avenues within the organization. I sought guidance from each of my supervisors, who, until I became involved with this subcommittee, did nothing but encourage me to go back and go through the same horrifying process again. I feel now that I have done all that I can do. I despise the corruption that I have witnessed firsthand, but I have had to displace my anger toward the people who participated in it. I am in the process of trying to reconstruct some semblance of life and security for my family. It is my sincere hope that others within the Internal Revenue Service will read the transcripts of the hearings conducted by this subcommittee and learn from them.

Mr. BARNARD: As we begin our interrogation of these two gentlemen, I want to thank both of you for coming to the subcommittee to tell your story. I think that your testimony in the past has helped us mold an IRS of the future that will certainly not tolerate situations like the ones that you have experienced, and hopefully ill prevent any retaliation against whistleblowers in the future. Mr. Duncan, if IRS had given you more latitude in your Justice Department testimony in 1988, would you still be an IRS employee today?

Mr. DUNCAN: I am certain that I would.

Mr. BARNARD: Why do you believe that?

Mr. DUNCAN: I thought I had the greatest job in the Internal Revenue Service. I thoroughly enjoyed my work, and I enjoyed the coworkers.

Mr. BARNARD: Where do you think that your investigation would have led?

Mr. DUNCAN: Well at the time I testified before the Subcommittee on Crime, we had just touched the tip of the iceberg, in my opinion. Since then we have received additional testimony that there were a lot more things going on, there was a lot more money that was being laundered. All I wanted to do was to be able to respond truthfully and answer questions completely before the Subcommittee on Crime.

Mr. BARNARD: What has happened to that investigation since you left it?

Mr. DUNCAN: The IRS investigation? To my knowledge, it has been closed.

Mr. BARNARD: What about the Justice Department?

Mr. DUNCAN: The statutes of limitations have expired on the cases and, to my knowledge, nothing else will be done.

Mr. BARNARD: Mr. Duncan, do you believe that the information on the $350,000 bribe to a high-level Justice official was valid?

Mr. DUNCAN: That is not a determination for me to make. I can only communicate that the law enforcement officer who received that information told me on numerous occasions that the informant that provided the information had provided in the past nothing but good information.

Mr. BARNARD: Had he ever been tested, as far as a lie detector test is concerned?

Mr. DUNCAN: I am not aware of that.

Mr. BARNARD: Mr. Duncan, why do you believe that [deleted] and [deleted] requested that you not offer this information to the Justice Subcommittee?

Mr. DUNCAN: I have asked myself that question thousands of times. Based on the information we have received in the last year and a half it appears that things were going on at that airport that could have been related to the Contra resupply, I don't know. I perceive that they wanted to protect the Internal Revenue Service from anything controversial.

Mr. BARNARD: What has happened in that particular case since you left, to your knowledge?

Mr. DUNCAN: Information is still coming in, additional witnesses are testifying, and we are gathering information right now.

Mr. BARNARD: Are you associated with that case now as an investigator for the Arkansas attorney general?

Mr. DUNCAN: I receive information and pass it along to the attorney general, and also to Congressman Alexander.

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The following text is from a photocopy of a letter that was originally sent to Mark Swaney, then-President of the Arkansas Committee, a student organization that was investigating Mena, by Robert J. DeGostin, Jr., Office of the Governor, State of Arkansas, on August 12, 1991.
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STATE OF ARKANSAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Bill Clinton
State Capitol Governor
Little Rock 72201

August 12, 1991

Mr. Mark Swaney, President
Arkansas Committee
Arkansas Union Room 517
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701

Dear Mr. Swaney:

Thank you for your recent letter to Governor Clinton regarding your desire to have a state grand jury investigate possible criminal activity in the Mena, Arkansas area. The Governor has asked me to respond on his behalf.

It is my understanding that Attorney General Bryant and Rep. Bill Alexander have brought this matter to the attention of Lawrence Walsh's Office in Washington, D.C. It appears to me that a meeting with Attorney General Bryant, rather than Governor Clinton, would be more appropriate at this time.

The Governor appreciates your bringing this matter to his attention.

Sincerely,

R O B E R T J . D E G O S T I N , J R .

Robert J. DeGostin, Jr.
Senior Advisor on Criminal Justice

RJD: prn

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From: Duane Roberts; s.libertarian,talk.politics.misc
Subject: MENA: Letter to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (1/26/89)
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The following text is from a photocopy of a letter that was originally sent to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton by Arkansas Congressman William Alexander on January 26, 1989.
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BILL ALEXANDER, M.C. 233 CANNON HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
ARKANSAS WASHINGTON, DC 20515
(202) 225-4078

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

January 26, 1989

Gov. Bill Clinton
State Capitol
Little Rock, Arkansas

Dear Bill:

The investigation into alleged drugs and gun smuggling at Mena airport can be cleared up by a local grand jury that will require state funds. Deputy Prosecutor Charles Black of Mt. Ida, the state police and congressional investigators are interested in convening such a grand jury, which is probably the only way that the matter will be resolved and laid to rest once and for all.

Black estimates that about $25,000 will be required, because witnesses will have to be brought in from out of state. This figure cannot be paid for out of local resources. Black knows of witnesses who will testify that planes loaded with guns went to Central America and returned loaded with drugs.

Certain DEA agents have stated that the late convicted smuggler Barry Seal was flying weapons to Central America in violation of U.S. foreign policy and in return, the federal government secretly allowed Seal to smuggle drugs back into the United States. Congressman Bill Hughes' Subcommittee on Crime has learned independently that at the time Seal was working on the famous Nicaraguan "sting" operation for the DEA and the CIA in 1984, he was still running drugs. Sources in Mena indicate that smuggling activities at Mena continued after Seal's murder in 1986 and are still continuing.

My involvement in the case stems from two sources: I initiated a General Accounting Office investigation into drug trafficking from Latin America to the United States, and secondly, because of my position as the senior ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee that handles Justice Department funding.

Prosecutor Black, State Police Investigator Russell Welch, and others who have been involved in the investigation have done an exemplary job, but they have been frustrated by the failure of some federal officials to proceed with the case. The only way to get the matter cleared up is to convene the local grand jury. Otherwise it will continue to fester and be a thorn in the side of local, state and congressional resources. I hope you will grant Mr. Black's request for funding in this matter.

With kindest regards, I am.

Sincerely,

BILL ALEXANDER
Member of Congress

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Subject: CIA Cocaine: Sunday Telegraph 7/17/94
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This is a truly disgusting article. It alleges that Bill Clinton had a taste for marijuana, cocaine and young women.

One of the sources for this report comes from files kept by former Clinton security man, Luther Parks. Parks was gunned down in Little Rock. No one has ever been arrested for his 1993 murder.

Larry
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"Cocaine and toga parties: Clinton stands accused"
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (London)
July 17, 1994

(Copyright 1994 ) The Telegraph plc, London — When Bill Clinton was asked during the Presidential election campaign whether he had ever used drugs, he gave one of his carefully crafted, lawyerly answers. Yes, he had smoked two or three "joints" of marijuana at Oxford, but had never inhaled. And he insisted that he had never violated a drug law within the borders of the US.

Now new evidence is emerging that Mr. Clinton may have been more than a casual user of marijuana. A variety of witnesses interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph at the President's former Arkansas haunts claim his drug habit stretched well into his political career.

The pattern alleged by these witnesses goes far beyond questions of inappropriate personal conduct. At the time Mr. Clinton was either Attorney-General or Governor of Arkansas. He was part of the law-enforcement machinery that gave stiff prison sentences to drug felons.

And if the President once had a major drug habit, when did it end? 1986? 1990? 1994?

Perhaps the most compelling allegations revolve around Roger Clinton — rock musician, perennial ne'er-do-well, and the President's younger brother.

In summer 1984 Roger spent two months as a non-paying guest at Vantage Point, an up-market apartment complex in Little Rock. At the time big-brother Bill was in his second term as Governor.

Roger's rooms were in the corporate suite, number B107, which was separated from the administrative offices by a thin partition. On the other side of the wall was Jane Parks, manager of the complex.

Until now Mrs. Parks, 41, had remained stubbornly silent about what she saw and heard while Roger was at Vantage Point.

But following the mysterious murder of her husband Jerry last year, and the failure of the Little Rock Police Department to solve the crime, she has decided to speak out. She is in the advanced stages of multiple sclerosis and she feels she no longer has anything to lose.

During the time she worked next to Roger's apartment, she could hear the conversations in B107 very clearly.

Governor Clinton was a frequent visitor. There was drug use at these gatherings, she claims, and she could clearly distinguish Bill's voice as he chatted with his brother about the quality of the marijuana they were smoking.

She said she could also hear them talking about the cocaine as they passed it back and forth.

When Roger finally moved out, Mrs. Parks found drug paraphernalia left in the kitchen drawer, and cocaine spilled on the furniture.

It was not uncommon during the brothers' alleged drug-taking sessions in the apartment for them to be joined by young women.

Apart from sharing the drugs, the women on occasion had sex with both the Clinton men, she alleges.

"What really concerned me were the young girls going in and out of there," Mrs. Parks said. Other tenants in the complex frequently complained to the management about the rowdy scenes in B107.

Mrs. Parks's testimony is backed up by another resident of Vantage Point, who wishes to remain anonymous. She told me that she saw the Governor enter the apartment on at least three occasions.

She also heard some of the activity going on inside while visiting Mrs. Parks's office, and backed up claims of drug parties.

"Bill had his girlfriends in there," she said. "You could hear them through the walls. Some of them looked like very young girls to me."

Mrs. Parks relayed her concerns to her husband, Jerry, a former police officer who was then branch manager of a private security firm in Little Rock. He also occasionally worked as a private detective.

Fearing difficulties for his wife in her capacity as the building manager, he decided to conduct his own discreet surveillance of Roger's apartment, writing down names, dates, and detailed accounts of who was coming and going.

He kept his handwritten notes in a file, which was stored in a dresser in their bedroom. After Roger Clinton moved out of the complex, Mr. Parks gave up his inquiries.

By a quirk of fate, in 1992 Mr. Parks, who by then had set up his own firm, was awarded the security contract for the Clinton-Gore Presidential campaign headquarters in Little Rock.

According to records at Mr. Parks's firm, American Contract Services, he was not paid immediately. In early 1993 he made repeated calls to the White House demanding payment.

The money finally came in July. Just a few days later the secret file was stolen from the Parks's dresser in a sophisticated burglary. The telephone wires were cut to disable the house's high-tech alarm system, and the file was the only item taken.

Shortly after the burglary, Mr Parks received two telephone calls which, Mrs. Parks said, left him in a state of paranoia. "He was popping my Valium. He took a pistol with him everywhere, even to collect the post from the end of the driveway," she said.

Two months later he was shot several times at short range at a suburban intersection outside Little Rock.

A police source in Arkansas said that Mr. Parks had made duplicates of the secret file and entrusted them to people in Little Rock. One set has been passed on to a federal law enforcement agency. The contents, he said, supported Mrs Parks's account.

Her allegations would be outlandish if it were not for her reputation for straightforwardness and Christian devoutness. Even diehard enemies of her husband say they have never known her fabricate stories.

Her description of Roger Clinton's lifestyle is also consistent with a police drug investigation in the mid-1980s in which Roger and his former boss, Dan Lasater, for whom he worked as a chauffeur and in his racehorse business, were both convicted on federal charges of distributing cocaine.

Several women testified in secret to a federal grand jury that they were offered free cocaine by Mr. Lasater as a way of seducing them. The youngest was only sixteen, a student at North Little Rock High School. She told me that she also met Governor Clinton several times at Mr. Lasater's parties.

Before his conviction in 1986, Mr. Lasater, who had a variety of business interests, was a close associate of Bill Clinton and a major contributor to his campaign funds.

A military subcontractor, another witness interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph who wished to remain anonymous, alleges that he watched Bill Clinton smoking a marijuana joint at a party given by Mr. Lasater in 1984. The subcontractor says cocaine use was rampant at the party, although he did not see Bill Clinton partake. "I was smoking a cigar and every time I tried to find an ashtray the damn thing was full of cocaine," he said. "I was afraid to breathe."

A former friend of Bill Clinton's has also told The Sunday Telegraph that on one occasion he produced a bag of cocaine in her living room and prepared a "line" on the table.

This accusation is made by Sally Perdue, a former radio talk-show hostess in Little Rock, who told The Sunday Telegraph exclusively earlier this year that she had had an affair with Bill Clinton when he was Governor. Referring to the cocaine incident, she said: "He had all the equipment laid out, like a real pro."

Ms. Perdue alleges that he came to her house about a dozen times in late 1983, a claim that is broadly confirmed by Arkansas State Trooper L. D. Brown.

He smoked marijuana regularly, she claimed, pulling joints ready-made out of a cigarette case. Typically, he would smoke two or three in the course of a three-hour stay, she said, and he always inhaled. There was no indication that it greatly affected his judgment or behavior.

These claims suggest marijuana use may have been a feature of his life throughout his twenties and thirties.

A one-time reporter for student newspaper The Daily Texan — he is now a prominent national journalist — says that he saw Mr. Clinton smoking a joint in Austin in 1972 at the headquarters of George McGovern's Texas campaign.

"Nobody thought anything of it at the time. We were all doing it," he said.

Drug use within Clinton's political circle in Arkansas was blatant during his first Governorship from 1978 to 1980. "I can remember going into the Governor's conference room once and it reeked of marijuana," said Democratic State Representative Jack McCoy, a Clinton supporter.

As late as 1986 Clinton was still smoking marijuana, according to Terry Reed, a former intelligence operative based in Arkansas who recently published a book about Mr Clinton's involvement in efforts to resupply the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s.

Finally there is Sharlene Wilson. The 39-year-old Ms. Wilson was interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph at the women's prison in Tucker, Arkansas. Her testimony must be treated with caution as she is serving a 31-year sentence for minor drug dealing.

Despite it being her first drug conviction, Ms. Wilson received a long sentence for selling half an ounce of marijuana and $60-worth of methamphetamine.

She now claims she was set up to discredit testimony that might prove damaging to Bill Clinton and senior Arkansas officials. The FBI is investigating the possibility that she is the victim of an abuse of judicial power.

Ms. Wilson says she came to know the Governor when she was a friend of his brother in the late 1970s. For a time she was a bartender at Le Bistro nightclub in Little Rock, where Roger used to play with his band Dealers' Choice, and was known as the "lady with the white snow".

The Governor would come by frequently to listen to the band and would often snort cocaine, she alleges. On one occasion in 1979, she says, she sold two grams of cocaine to Roger, who immediately gave some to his elder brother.

Ms. Wilson also claimed to have attended toga parties at the Coachman's Inn outside Little Rock where she saw Governor Clinton using cocaine. Guests at these parties would wear sheets and share sexual partners.

Ms. Wilson tried to break away from drugs in the late 1980s and began helping federal and state agencies. Gary Martin, an officer with the Drug Enforcement Agency in Little Rock, said she proved very reliable: "I have no reason to doubt her word."

In December 1990 she testified as a star witness to a federal grand jury, held in secret, about her knowledge of cocaine use by Bill Clinton and others. This testimony, for a task force investigating drug involvement by Arkansas public officials, will remain secret forever.

According to Jean Duffey, who headed the drug task force, within days the investigation was in effect closed down. Ms. Wilson was subsequently entrapped.

"Sharlene was my best informant," says Jean Duffey, who says she herself was hounded out of her job for being too diligent. She now lives at a secret location in Texas. "They couldn't silence her so they locked her up in jail and threw away the key. That's Arkansas for you."

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These sites are filled with facts about CIA covert operations how they work against the best interests of the citizens of the United States.

David Feustel's great archive on CIA cocaine smuggling: http://www.mixi.net/~feustel/

Lisa Pease's Real History Archives: http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/

Bob Parry's The Consortium is filled with important investigative reporting that the mainstream media won't touch: http://www.delve.com/consort.html

Whitewater & Vince Foster site: http://www.cris.com/~dwheeler/n/whitewater/whitewater-index.html

Covert Action Quarterly home page: http://www.worldmedia.com/caq/

Federation of American Scientists' library of U.S. intelligence documents http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/
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