WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 3]
Mena, Arkansas, base of CIA drug importation.
NOTES: I made a few corrections to spellings and grammar.
I am no longer editing out the address of David P Beiter. It is an address of a place that doesn’t exist. As if his identity weren’t shrouded in mystery already.
If you missed previous parts to this part of the WORMSCAN series, you can find it here.
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I am moving this thread forward because for some reason it has been virtually ignored. Yet it is the most important piece of writing to appear in the national media and it sets forth just how precarious a hold the Clintons now have on the White House, dependent totally upon the willful dereliction of professional duty by all of the major news organizations in this country. The article that follows, posted yesterday by Edward Zehr, marks a turning point not only int he Whitewater-Foster-Mena scandal, but a no-turning-back point for Bob Tyrrell, its author, who is also the editor of The American Spectator. It appeared in yesterday's Washington Times. If you want to forward something to your favorite politician, media type, or independent counsel, consider this outstanding piece of commentary.
— Martin McPhillips
> ezehr@CapAccess.org (Edward W. Zehr) writes:
August 25, 1995
FURTIVE DRUG FLIGHTS
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Last month, a most amazing thing happened in American Journalism, demonstrating how easily intimidated and politically sensitive the supposedly bold American press is. A witness came forward and reported to me — and shortly thereafter in depositions — that the long-rumored American intelligence operation to resupply the Contras in the 1980s was carried out through flights out of Arkansas. On the return flights, drugs were brought into the state. Gov. Clinton knew about both legs of these flights. As president, he has lied about this activity repeatedly — and he has attempted to intimidate this witness. The Wall Street Journal, which has been following this story for several years, editorialized on the importance of this witness' revelations to me. Now for the amazing thing: No other major media source even reported the story. Today, I think I know why. There is more to the story.
The witness, a former narcotics investigator and erstwhile confidant of Mr. Clinton, has testified in legally binding deposition that in 1984 with the encouragement of his boss, then-Gov. Clinton, he traveled on two flights from Arkansas' Mena airport to Central America. On those flights, for which the Central Intelligence agency paid him $5,000, arms were dropped to the Contras. The witness, Arkansas state trooper L.D. Brown, discovered that on the return leg of these flights, the pilot, Barry Seal, was carrying large quantities of cocaine. Seal was a convicted drug trafficker who later was shot dead in Louisiana.
Three Columbians have been convicted of the crime. At the time of the flights, Seal was an operative with the Drug Enforcement Administration and a contract employee with the Central Intelligence Agency. After Mr. Brown's second flight with Seal, the pilot showed Mr. Brown both cocaine and money he had picked up in Central America. Alarmed and angered, Mr. Brown returned to the man who had gotten him onto these flights, Mr. Clinton, to warn him of the drug shipments. Mr. Clinton's blasé response was, "That's [Dan] Lasater's deal, that's Lasater's deal." Lasater, a Clinton supporter in Arkansas, was eventually convicted of drug distribution. He was a benefactor of another drug user, Bill Clinton's brother Roger.
There is more to this story, which perhaps explains the press's reluctance to report it. After Mr. Clinton said, "That's Lasater's deal," he went on to say "and your buddy Bush knows about it." Or it could have been "your hero Bush knows about it" — Mr. Brown is not certain about the precise wording. Mr. Brown had met then-Vice President Bush with Mr. Clinton a year before and admired him.
In the months before Mr. Brown's flights, Mr. Clinton reminded Mr. Brown that Mr. Bush had once headed the CIA. Mr. Clinton's mention of Mr. Bush's old position was made while he was helping Mr. Brown with his application for employment with the CIA. I have copies of the correspondence that took place at this time between Mr. Brown and the agency. More importantly, an essay Mr. Brown submitted to the CIA bears Mr. Clinton's handwritten interpolations. Mr. Brown's testimony that Mr. Clinton told him about Mr. Bush's knowledge of Mena is to be included in a corrected version of Mr. Brown's recent deposition. The deposition results from a false arrest and defamation suit against, among others, the former chief of security to then-Gov. Clinton. Similar testimony by Mr. Brown has been given to the independent counsel probing Whitewater, Kenneth Starr.
The L.D. Brown story is not going to go away.People in the press who believe they can or should protect a Republican or a Democratic president are kidding themselves. Indeed the story is spreading, and fast. I have legal depositions from witnesses refuting Mr. Clinton's claim that he had little knowledge of Mena airport. Now two more witnesses have come forward corroborating Mr. Brown's story that he flew to Central America and that he associated with Barry Seal. Both of these sources are going to be subpoenaed. In the Wall Street Journal's July 10 editorial the editors wrote, "Mena cries out for investigation. A congressional committee with resources, subpoena power, and the perseverance displayed by some past chairmen should look into this. If some chips fall on the Republican side, so be it. Important questions need to be answered."
Well, I have word that the important questions have multiplied since last month's revelations. Reliable sources have told me that the independent counsel has been informed of attempts by the White House to intimidate the witness, L.D. Brown, and to obstruct justice. Other equally reliable sources have told me that since Mr. Brown's story came out, Mr. Clinton told an Arkansas senator that he was having the Internal Revenue Service investigate Mr. Brown's tax returns. Moreover I am told that someone acting directly or indirectly on behalf of the president has gotten a copy of the 1971 death certificate of Joann Brown, Mr. Brown's mother who died in a gun accident. The last time Mr. Clinton tried to shut down a media investigation of Mr. Brown, his lawyer implied to ABC News that Mr. Brown played a sinister role in his mother's death.
Quite by accident a couple of weeks back I had the opportunity to ask Mr. Clinton for his response to Mr. Brown's claim that, as governor, Mr. Clinton had knowledge of Mena being a shipping point for illegal arms, drugs trafficking and money laundering. He called Mr. Brown a "pathological liar," though in no instance have any investigators been able to find Mr. Brown's lying. And the president's record in this department is well, spotty. The president's legendary anger then surged as he grumbled, "Lies, lies, lies." We have all heard of his tantrums. As I was the target of this one, I must say that I found his anger curious. He is a large man and in fact rugged looking, but his tantrum was strangely feckless, tinny and petulant. What came to mind was not the anger of a statesman but rather Tinkerbelle in a snit. Mr. Clinton's was anger without force. It really is time for the media to review Mr. Brown's original charges. And now there are new charges of the White House intimidating a witness and obstructing justice.
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More commentary: Bob Tyrrell (R. Emmett Tyrrell) is not a man given to hyperbole.
He is indeed a very conservative writer, but he is very natural about his conservatism. He is no neophyte. The American Spectator has followed the Whitewater/Clinton debacle from the beginning. The thing I like about this article is — and this may surprise you — is that it has the same rock hard serious tone that finally became a part of the New York Times coverage of Whitewater right after the last set of indictments.
Another thing I like about this article is that Tyrrell is opening a new front on the criminal — and I use the word criminal advisedly — negligence of the news media in failing to cover the real story. I am very close to wondering what it would take to file a class action suit against the major networks and the major national newspapers for failing to diligently investigate the extraordinary charges that people are now bringing forward against a sitting President of the United States.
I know the First Amendment does guarantee a free press, but one has to wonder whether or not the across-the-board failure of the major news media to cover these stories does not constitute some kind of fundamental breach of contract with the American people. The New York Times, for instance, carries the motto "All the news that's fit to print." Certainly one could make a good case that that represents a certain kind of warranty of product, and that whereas there are many stories about which there can be a debate over newsworthiness, but in the case of a criminal presidency, there can be no such debate.
Therefore, the New York Times is in breach of its warranty and contract with its readers by not aggressively providing the facts about who, what, when, where, why and how these scandals have come about.
And, of course, I continue to be astounded by the fact that Tyrrell, and, as he pointed out, the July 10 lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal have been ignored by other media interests. Imagine if the WSJ ran an editorial claiming that Newt's book deal had in fact been a back channel deal with Rupert Murdock; here is how Tom Brokaw would lead off the NBC Nightly News: "And now the embattled Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is being accused by a traditional ally of conservative Republicans, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. And it's that same book deal with Rupert Murdock that has the Speaker in trouble again. Brian Williams reports from New York." Then Williams would come on, and in a very solemn Watergate-like tone, read excerpts from the powerfully written editorial. Clinton could cut the paws off of a Panda bear at the zoo and it would be turned into a human interest story about the stresses of the Presidency.
This has gone too far, this gigantic silence on the part of journalists, even as they reposition themselves daily for the eventual end of the Clinton Presidency. I for one, and I have been a long-time critic of the big media, have never seen anything like this. I read a post over in AOL that said something like, if Watergate had been covered like this, there would not have been a Watergate. To which I responded, if the whole 1970s had been covered like this, there wouldn't have been any 1970s.
Now I am beginning to wonder whether or not the media could have kept the public from knowing about World Wars I and II if they had covered it the way they cover Clinton. So when this is all over the media will have not a shred of whatever morsel of credibility it ever had in my mind. It has just become one big awful sick joke.
So as we approach the next century, I advise all of my colleagues in this newsgroup to begin honing your skills as journalists. It is not a deep field; you can discover all of its principles in about one week (I mean the real principles of journalism not the politically correct biases of the mainstream press), and then you can master the techniques of news-gathering, reporting and writing in the span of a month or so. Any good basic journalism text will do. And then we will have the foundation of a national news service, the independent citizens news service, just like those that sprung up in Eastern Europe before the fall of communism.
The hell with these Ivy League pampered and perfumed sycophants. They are just a bunch of lying bastards with the ethics of a pack of stray dogs and the intellectual achievement of clerks at the motor vehicle departments across the land. They just buy their suits at Brooks Brothers and still comb their hair like they did when they were twelve years old.
The most disturbing thing about the mainstream press, however, is it's growing sophistication at making less-than-news into more-than-news. Take the OJ trial. To be sure it is one of the big stories of our times, of this century. But does it really require that Brokaw introduce two experts — Ira Reiner and Jack Ford — to analyze the day's events at a trial that has already gone on for over 220 days? Where were the legal experts to analyze what might be the next move of the Independent Counsel after the last huge round of indictments? Experts? NBC did not even give it the treatment of a 30-second story. They breezed over it with about six seconds of news around the nation time.
The President's business partners and his successor as governor of Arkansas are indicted in a scandal that has been before the national eye off and on for about two years and it is treated like a non-story. This is scandalous. It is beyond scandalous. When the truth comes out, when the instant histories of this period are written, the role the press has played in all of this may be even more of a scandal than a criminal presidency. It is just beyond belief that we have come to this.
So in addition to urging you all to learn the rudimentary arts and craft of journalism, I urge you all to get on the phone tonight and read Tyrrell's column to ten friends, and then ask them to each tell ten friends and then fax the column to ten friends and then take the column and make a hundred Xerox copies of it and hand it out at your church or synagogue or at the local diner or on the corner. This shit has just gone too far. The goddamn Nazis couldn't have done a better job than the Brokaws, Rathers, Jennings, Woodruffs, Doles, and their masters. The Nazis were not this good at hiding the truth. I have friends and relatives who still have no grasp at all of just how serious are the charges against the clown in the Oval O. "Well it's not being covered out here. We haven't heard a thing about it." This, my friends, is the ultimate poison created by the fact, which has been casually repeated over and over again for the last decade and a half, that most Americans get most of their news from television. Well here is the fruit of that great transformation. An America of 250,000,000 people who are unaware, for the most part, that the President of the United States, and his lovely wife, is a career criminal. And a press that diverts attention by talking up how "partisan" DC politics has become, and how Whitewater is just another example of that. In other words, par for the course!
— Martin McPhillips
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chauptma@netcom.com (Charles Hauppman) wrote:
> Strange indeed that Larry all of a sudden has cleared the Republicans of any connection to Mena. I find that Terry Reeds book is more credible than some of Larry's comments have been in the past, but still Larry is on the ground and SHOULD know what happened in the past.
Well, it's not really so strange if you have followed Nichols' comments for the past six months or so. He stated his reasons openly in his August 24 interview with Mike Reagan:
NICHOLS: Oh absolutely - once, I believe, the Republicans lose the fear that they're gonna get themselves in trouble, then I think you'll see the gates open. You know, that's been one of the major drawbacks to the Republicans - they've been afraid to go after ADFA, because to get to ADFA, you've got to have a source of money. The source of money was Mena. And then if they opened up Mena, they were afraid that they would be getting a whole bunch of Republicans.
Nichols believes that the Republicans' fear of uncovering something at Mena that would incriminate some of their own has inhibited them from pursuing the Clinton scandals - from money laundering by ADFA to the death of Vince Foster. Given their timidity in this summer's hearings, he may have a point. Apparently he believes the article to which he referred will support Oliver North's contention that all illicit drug activity in the Contra operation had been reported to the DEA. He hopes that this will remove whatever inhibitions the GOP may have about going after Clinton.
Oliver North raises an interesting point about the drug-running allegations in his book *Under Fire*:
Very little in my life has angered me as much as the allegations that I or anyone else involved with the resistance had a drug connection. I hate to put it in these terms, but since December 1986, the office of the special prosecutor [Lawrence Walsh] has spent tens of millions of dollars investigating us - and me in particular. If there was even a grain of truth to these stories, it surely would have come out.
On the face of it, North would seem to have a point - unless Walsh was reluctant to open that can of worms. Part of the problem is that Mena is not the only place illicit drugs are alleged to have been brought into the country in connection with a covert CIA operation. (See, for example, Sally Denton's book *The Bluegrass Conspiracy* that deals with such a scandal in Kentucky during the 1980s).
The deeper one digs into the Mena story and its implications, the broader they appear to be. What, for example, did Ross Perot have against George Bush that made him so antagonistic as to run against him in 1992? Perot is enough of a realist to understand that he had no chance to win - but had a definite opportunity to deny Bush a second term. But why did he do it? It was monstrously expensive, both in terms of money and lost prestige for Perot, who was generally well thought of before he entered the presidential race.
To understand this, one must recall that Perot supported Reagan in 1980, and after the election Reagan gave Perot a broad mandate to investigate rumors that American POWs had been abandoned when the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. Perot was frustrated at every turn by the entrenched bureaucracy.
I quote from the book *Kiss the Boys Goodbye*, written by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson and published in 1990:
Relations between Bush and Perot had gone downhill ever since the Vice President had asked Ross Perot how his POW/MIA investigations were going.
"Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners," said Perot, "but I spend all my time discovering the government has been moving drugs around the world and is involved in illegal arms deals... I can't get at the prisoners because of the corruption among our own covert people."
This ended Perot's official access to the highly classified files as a one-man presidential investigator. "I have been ordered to cease and desist," he had informed the families of missing men early in 1987.
Of course, this book treats Perot in a favorable light. The quotation obviously came from Perot and was no doubt "remembered" in such a way as to place him at an advantage. Nevertheless, this excerpt suggests the extent to which widespread corruption within the government has poisoned every aspect of its operation and tainted those who chose as their career a life of "public service."
Through continuous neglect by all concerned this wound has been allowed to fester until gangrene set in. We have now reached the stage that no thoughtful person is able to believe the lies and cover stories told by government officials who appear desperate to cover their tracks. Unfortunately, many knowledgeable persons within the government and the establishment media (which have become little more than a branch of the government) still pretend to believe the lies. If this situation is not corrected soon, it will destroy the legitimacy of the government.
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> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 05:47:29 -0400
> From: joyce1@ix.netcom.COM (Joyce Rosenwald )
> (by way of Charles Zeps )
> Subject: US soldier refuses UN uniform!
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 13:17:02 -0400
> Subject: US soldier refuses UN uniform!
More on soldier's woes...
Specialist Michael New, medic with the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany, has indicated his refusal to wear a blue beret or blue helmet in October when his unit is deployed to Macedonia (Yugoslavia) to conduct a UN "peacekeeping mission" there.
New says, "I took an oath to the Constitution of the United States, and I can find no reference to the United Nations in it anywhere."
The Army says, "You took an oath to obey legal orders and you WILL comply, or you will face possible court martial, possible imprisonment, and certainly a less-than-honorable discharge."
New says, "It is not clear to me why I have to change my uniform in order to represent my country."
The Army says, "You are not there to represent your country. You are there to represent the U.N."
New says, "By what authority can you transfer my loyalty without my permission?"
Etc., etc. On Monday, 28 August, New will meet with a JAG lawyer (military) and discuss his options. His future looks bleak unless there is an outcry of anger from constituents to Congressmen over this issue.
Please ask your Congressman to take a public stand on this issue — and to explain by what CONSTITUTIONAL authority can an American citizen and soldier be forced to serve in the UN or any other foreign army?
Is Presidential Decision Directive #25 behind all this? How can we know? President Clinton has classified it. Yet it is supposed to the best rules of deployment of American soldiers under UN auspices.
This is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, or the Soviet Union, where men are told to forget their consciences and to obey any and all orders without regard for their previous oaths.
Privately, many officers and non-coms agree with Michael New. Publicly, they all have careers and retirement to consider.
Please write to your Congressman, or to your favorite candidate for President and ask him to take a stand on this issue, not for Spec. Michael New's sake, but for the sake of freedom and American sovereignty — an old fashioned idea which has come back — at least to one American soldier!
.. The concept of national sovereignty is becoming obsolete.
.. — Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton
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Date: Tue Aug 29, 1995 9:17 am CST
From: Carolyn Rubright
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Subject: Reporting from Arkansas
FROM: MAXINE ALEXANDER (NKYF03A) Prodigy
From Arkansas Democrat-Gazette — August 26, 1995
BRITISH TV JOURNALIST FINISHED FILMING MENA AIRPORT 'SECRETS'
Reporter calls tale of drugs, arms for Contras "fascinating"
by Rodney Bowers
Democrat-Gazette State Reporter
MENA — A British journalist said Friday that he found the "secrets and allegations" of drugs and arms smuggling at the Mena airport "fascinating."
"It's a fascinating story that we think will interest British viewers," said David Baxter, an associate producer for the independent film company 20-20. "If that sort of thing happened in the United Kingdom, it would be amazing" and warrant extensive national media reporting, which he said "strangely" has not occurred here.
Baxter's London-based film crew spent three weeks in Arkansas this month investigating allegations that convicted drug smuggler Barry Seal shipped "hundreds of pounds" of cocaine into the state through the Mena airport in the early 1980s. They also investigated allegations that Seal flew illegal firearms out of the airport to the Nicaraguan Contras during Bill Clinton's tenure as governor. The film crew also looked into allegations that Seal funneled his drug money through Clinton associates and state agencies.
Seal, who cooperated as a federal Drug Enforcement Administration witness, died in a hail of gunfire in February 1986 as he returned to a halfway house in Baton Rouge, La., where he was serving a sentence in a federal drug case. Authorities later arrested and convicted a group of Columbians in the assassination. It also was the October 1986 crash of one of Seal's cargo airplanes — a C-123K based for a time at Mena — that led to the unraveling of a covert U.S. operation to arm Contra rebels against the communist government in Nicaragua.
Baxter said he expects the report to air Sept. 7 or 14 as part of "The Big Story," a "60 Minutes" type program on the British television network ITV.
Baxter said he found the account of a former Clinton security guard particularly interesting, adding, "We're very pleased with our interview with L. D. Brown." Brown has claimed he left the governor's security force in 1984 to work for the CIA and that he participated in Seal's drugs flights at Mena.
"Obviously, if L. D. Brown is to be believed — and he certainly comes across to me as honest - Clinton knew about what was going on," Baxter said. "I'm certainly startled by that."
Clinton, however, has disputed Brown's story, calling him a "pathological liar."
During the course of the group's investigation, Baxter said, "We spoke to people who claimed they were interviewed by (Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth) Starr ... concerning the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority" and the possibility that Seal and others laundered drug money through that organization.
Others interviewed by the British crew for their television report included:
*Terry Reed, a former Little Rock businessman who recently claimed that Iran-Contra figure Oliver North recruited him to train Contra pilots at Mena and that Clinton knew of the drugs and arms smuggling at the airport.
*Bill Dunca, a former IRS agent who investigated Seal's admitted money-laundering at Mena.
*Russell Welch, a state police investigator who looked into Seal's smuggling activities at the airport.
*John Brown,a former Saline County sheriff's Deputy who investigated the 1987 deaths of Bryant teenagers Don G. Henry and Larry K. Ives and thought them to be linked to the Mena operation.
A federal grand jury meeting in the late 1980s in western Arkansas did not return any indictments in its Mena investigation. Several people associated with the investigation have claimed the U.S. attorney's office withheld information from the grand jury.
J. Michael Fitzhugh, the former U.S. attorney who oversaw the investigation, has denied the allegation.
Baxter said he and the film crew had several unusual experiences while in Arkansas, including seeing an Air Force helicopter land at the Mena airport for "no apparent reason". Also while in Mena, he said, city police twice pulled over members of the film crew and asked for identification and their reason for being there. Baxter said that did not bother him as much, however, as an incident at Little Rock.
"I found a man in my motel room in the middle of the night," he said. Baxter said the man explained that he had been sleepwalking and theorized he entered Baxter's unlocked door. (And elephants fly, too — Mine mma) While it "turned out to be quite innocent and amusing," Baxter said, "a certain percentage of me still thinks that it may have been something more."
Likewise, Baxter said he believes there might be more to the Mena story. "I would very much like to come back and have a more thorough investigation," he said.
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The "sleepwalking" man makes me feel he learned his answers at the knees of WW hearings. Thought this was interesting and all of you (instead of ya'll) would enjoy it.
Regards, Maxine 8:10 PM CST
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Date: Wed Aug 30, 1995 2:25 pm CST
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Subject: Sara McClendon: "U.S. government death squads"
I heard Sara McClendon interviewed on the Michael Savage talk show yesterday afternoon (KSFO, 560 AM, San Francisco).
Now someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Sara McClendon qualifies as SOMEONE with respect to her journalistic credentials. I believe that she as regarded as the "dean" of the Washington press corps, and was one of the biggest name writers for the Associated Press. I understand that it was a long standing tradition that McClendon would always wear a red dress to Presidential press conferences, sit in the front row, and have the privilege of asking the first question. To repeat, in the world of journalism, Sara McClendon was SOMEBODY.
I cannot recap everything that was said in the interview on KSFO, but the most remarkable things that I remember are the following:
1.) The U.S. government has "death squads": the CIA probably has two or three, the FBI probably has one, the Justice department probably has one.
2.) Vince Fosters death should be investigated as a murder. Foster had learned some very alarming things, had become disillusioned/disgusted, and was going to meet with the President on Wednesday, without Web Hubbel, and spill the beans. But on the Tuesday before the meeting, Foster's life ended or was ended. (Can anyone shed some light on this? Does anyone know if there is any evidence or testimony that Foster and Clinton were scheduled to meet on Wednesday?)
3.) I can't recall the nuances, but McClendon appeared to distance herself or be non-committal on the Jim Norman "Fostergate" story. I think her response was "I haven't looked into that and can't say anything about it." (McClendon appeared to be very defensive, though, when a caller raised the question about whether the FBI or other agencies had used Mossad to facilitate/perpetrate "suicides" of various people in the U.S. Without answering the question, she simply responded that after WWII the U.S. had brought former Nazis into the government in the U.S.)
4.) When a caller made reference to the circulating reports (on the internet) of 25 or 35 people associated with the Clinton's in Arkansas now being deceased under mysterious or untimely circumstances, McClendon indicated that there were perhaps 67 people who's deaths could be linked to the government. The only specific case I recall her mentioning was that of a Marine Corps Colonel who had learned of Marine Corps planes bringing illegal drugs into the country and who was killed to silence him.
5.) McClendon said that the reason that the drug traffic is so large and that the war against drugs has been such a failure is that government officials and politicians receive a lot of money from it.
G. Holford
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Date: Wed Aug 30, 1995 9:12 pm CST
From: Gerhard Holford
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Subject: Re: Sara McClendon: "U.S. government death squads"
On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Daniel J. Mangan wrote:
> I'll correct you: I believe you are confusing McClendon with Helen Thomas, who is considered the dean of the White House Correspondents, and who works at UPI, not the AP. Thomas, I think, wears red dresses to presidential press conferences, and, I know, sits in the first row asks the first question, and says "Thank you Mr. President," at the end the session. Helen Thomas is indeed 'SOMEBODY.' Now who McClendon is is a different story. Some view her as a crank, others as a refreshing alternative to the generally kowtowing White House corps. From what I know of her she's run her own news service for years — which she had to do since no newspaper would hire her because of her sex — and that Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler treated her with disdain at times. For a good account of McClendon, Thomas, and other White House reporters, check out "The Boys on The Bus," by Tim Crouse, who was Hunter S. Thompson's fellow '72 campaign reporter for Rolling Stone. The book is, rightly so, considered a classic.
Yes, I believe I have confused Sara McClendon and Helen Thomas. All those geriatric female reporters look alike to me.
Thanks for the correction.
Regards,
G. Holford
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Date: Fri Sep 01, 1995 12:47 pm CST
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Subject: U.S. Death Squads [Part 2 of 2]
[continuation of Part 1]
[...commercial break...]
O.K. We are back, live. My guest is Gene Wheaton. He is an investigator. He has had many, many years of experience, and plenty of credentials to do what he does.
And you actually got recruited by military buddies of yours when you were *out* of the military. And [you] started lookin', back in the days of Iran-Contra.
WHEATON: That's correct.
VALENTINE: I remember the last time you were on. You said something about helping "The Opponents for Ollie North". Well Ollie North got beat. Can you take any credit?
WHEATON: I certainly sit back here very pleased that he got beat. I... The man is part of that "lunatic fringe". I equate him to corporal Adolph Hitler, before the German government was taken over. They really want a secret police state! He and his little fringe group that he runs with. And I, I did what I could. They started a disinformation program about 30 days before the election, to try to get the national media to stop talking to me. But I was in there working, to the last day.
TOM VALENTINE: Well I understand that.
Now, when you began investigating the Iran-Contra affair, then you ran into Ollie North right off the bat.
GENE WHEATON: That's right. In the actual beginning, '85, you know I didn't have any objection to covert operations, as long as they were in the interest of national security and were legal and congressionally approved and conformed to the Constitution. But within several months, the folks I mentioned who asked me to help 'em started feeding me information about renegade operations, about the theft of billions of dollars worth of taxpayer paid-for weapons out of U.S. military stockpiles and NATO stockpiles being sold, and the money being stashed in off-shore bank accounts: the weapons going to both our friends and our enemies, just to keep turmoil going in the world; and laundered drug money being used for covert operations.
In the beginning, I thought the contractor pilots were cheating on the National Security Council and Ollie North's people, and I briefed CIA director Bill Casey and Ollie North's staff and the Pentagon people, in early '86.
VALENTINE: I'll bet they were really surprised that somebody was tellin' 'em what they were doin'!
WHEATON: Yeah! [laughs] I was a little naive. They said, "Oh, really?" And then they all denied being involved. And thinking that I was only one guy out there, they told me if I thought I could expose it, to go ahead. So [they] sorta "threw down the gauntlet". But it wasn't just me. It was a large group of patriotic people that were helping me, and we...
VALENTINE: A lot of those folks ended up in jail, did they not?
WHEATON: Well... The wrong, not many of the *right* people ended up in jail! There was...
VALENTINE: Well I thought some of these guys who blew the whistle and ended up in jail were pretty much on the right side.
WHEATON: There were some people who ended up dead; some ended up in jail. But the ones who *should* have been in jail are the ones walkin' free today. [CN — i.e., many of Wheaton's informants, the "whistleblowers", were either murdered or imprisoned. But the actual guilty parties avoided justice.]
VALENTINE: Isn't that how it works.
No, I was thinking of... There was a fellow, named Martin, who called me from jail in the south side. There's a Customs agent named "Ayers(sp?)" who went to jail trying to put the figure of the drug operations and the drugs and guns operations of the Iran-Contra...
WHEATON: He was a former special forces officer who was working under the south Florida "task force" of narcotics. That's Brad Ayers.
VALENTINE: Yes! Brad Ayers, yeah!
WHEATON: His credibility was destroyed by disinformation, much like they tried to do mine. The only thing [that] saved me is my strong family background, my friends, and my military and police reputation. But Brad really had a rough time, and is *still* having a rough time.
VALENTINE: Yes. In fact, I've known about Brad for many years, and we were neighbors up in St. Paul, Minnesota. And I will be... I've never brought him on as a guest! One of these days I may let him tell his whole story. It's a hair-raiser.
WHEATON: It certainly is. He's got a major, major... He had to fight through the legal system in a lawsuit to try to obtain records out of the CIA and Customs and U.S. Marshalls Office about bad stories that were spread about him. He's got the documentation now. I think he's taking some legal action.
VALENTINE: Yes, he's tryin'. That's why I'm sayin' I'd like to get him back on the show.
Now we had a character that came on this show; his wife came on this show many times. He is said to be still in prison, over in Austria, but *I* believe he's sittin' there, countin' his money — and that is Gunther Russbacher(sp?).
WHEATON: Yes... I've avoided getting involved in that thing because I know very little about him. Plus, I don't... The problem with Gunther Russbacher that I see — he's called me 2 or 3 times, while he was in jail, but I've never met him...
VALENTINE: Uh-huh [understands].
WHEATON: ...and I would try to pin him down on things. But like a *lot* of guys involved in the covert operations community, these guys, as part of their trade, are pathological liars, and they will intermix the truth with fiction. When the truth would help 'em, they will still tell you a lie. And he had so many conflicting stories that he was saying to me that I couldn't determine whether he was real or a phony. So I...
VALENTINE: It drove ya nuts, didn't it!?
Yeah, he even... Uh, Ross Perot tried to get some facts out of him and couldn't do it.
WHEATON: I understand that. Yes.
VALENTINE: Yeah. O.K. Now. I'm gonna ask your opinion on one of 'em. I believe that Inslaw, [the] theft of that software, is one of the biggest crimes in the history of American government. Right up there... Iran-Contra are all part of it. And I'm just wondering if you've had any, run across anything of that Inslaw case.
WHEATON: Well, I have. Early on, Bill Hamilton contacted me. And I've had several meetings with him, back in Washington, and gave him a little advice. It's a very convoluted thing, but it was one of the biggest rip-offs by the U.S. Justice Department and the intelligence community [that] I have ever seen in my life. Every time a judge ruled in his favor, that judge lost his job.
I know the people who actually sold his software overseas. And I've given that information to him (I don't want to discuss it over the air). But...
VALENTINE: Yes. I understand.
I'm still following the Inslaw case. And of course, I've had another one, just like Gunther Russbacher, in Michael Riconosciuto!
WHEATON: Some of them, I think, may be covert operators that just can't distinguish the truth from fiction. And some of 'em are "ringers" that they send in on you just as confusion people, so that you don't know which way to go.
VALENTINE: Aren't they good at that.
All right. My guest is Gene Wheaton. Subject: investigating the kind of corruption that goes on in our government. If you'd like to join us, 1-800-878-8255. I'm Tom Valentine. This is *Radio Free America*.
[...commercial break...]
All right, we are back, live. My guest is Gene Wheaton.
You know, Gene, I'm sitting here as a journalist and a co-author for many, many people; I'm saying, "Have you arranged for your book yet?"
WHEATON: [laughs] No. I'd have to write it as fiction. Nobody'd believe it as the truth!
VALENTINE: I think maybe you and I'd better talk. Because I have worked with people before on this kind of book, and *yes*, we should talk. You're *not* fiction. And I think people who listen can tell there's credibility here.
Fred. Picayune, Mississippi. You're on with Gene Wheaton.
FRED: Hello, Tom! Nice to talk with ya. And good afternoon... Colonel, Colonel Wheaton, is it?
WHEATON: Chief warrant officer.
VALENTINE: Chief warrant officer.
FRED: O.K. I helped pull a whole bunch of marines [unclear] the 10th Corps on the beach at [unclear] back in December of 1950, and so consider myself a friend of the armed forces, since I was a member of the United States Navy.
But a question I have for you is, I happened to read a piece in the Louisville *Courier-Journal*, on the front page, about — I guess it was the third week of January, 1987 — in which a pilot who had been caught hauling weapons down to, I think it was... uh, Honduras — I think it was Honduras — and was bringing back loads of drugs!! He said it happened every trip! And he said that he would normally land on some deserted strip in Florida, in the middle of the night — which he was on his way to doing, and he got word to go to Opalanca(?) [CN — apparently a military airbase of some sort]. And he said, "Opalanca! You know what I'm carrying?!" And they said, "Don't worry. It's all taken care of."
And this was brought up during Oliver North's appearance, shortly after in, I forget... February, when he first appeared. There were a group who came into the hearing room with a huge banner. They unrolled this thing mentioning the drugs, so that the congressmen could see it. And they were dragged out of the building right away!
Do you know anything... I was wonderin', could you tell us anything about that or...
WHEATON: I was in Washington, D.C. when that banner was disclosed. It was flown, in the room there.
VALENTINE: Yeah. *Unfurled* it, huh? [chuckles]
FRED: ...I saw it [unclear]. I was watching the hearings. It was the House hearings and they, these people walked in. And all of a sudden you've got this banner stretched out across the room...
VALENTINE: Well Gene saw it! Go ahead, Gene. Tell us what happened.
FRED: ... and I will hang up and listen.
WHEATON: Well, there was a... This is just one of several. We have several pilots, who are former covert operations pilots, that are coming forward *now* because of the Sabo case and because of the 32 C-130s. Some of them flew those C-130s. They're just now hearing about our investigation and it's starting to come out of the closet.
These guys *were* *patriots*, former military and Air America, CIA pilots, who were *told* that flying weapons down was covert operations, and flying drugs back would be "DEA stings". But they flew many, many missions and no sting operations ever happened. And then many of them became whistle blowers. Some of them were put in prison... uh, falsely, with evidence withheld at their trial, to shut them up.
But we do have, we do have a few of 'em that have come out of the woodwork.
That particular incident that your caller was talking about was a DC-6 load of 27,000 pounds of marijuana that was vectored in with the, by the covert operators, getting the, getting the squawk signals on the radio to land at Homestead Air Force Base, in Florida. The pilot of that plane was a guy by the name of Michael Tolliver(sp?). Mike Tolliver later flew a twin-engine plane up with a load of narcotics and wrecked the plane when he ran out of fuel just off of one of the islands in the Caribbean. He was put in prison, but later was called into federal court in Wichita, Kansas, under Judge Kelley's court, because of the lawsuit between the owners of the plane and the insurance company's claiming it was being used for criminal activities. Tolliver claimed that the plane he wrecked — not the one at Homestead, but the one he wrecked in the Caribbean — was furnished to him by the U.S. government and he was hauling narcotics into the United States for *them*. Now Judge Kelley(sp?) called him up from prison and put him in front of his court in Kansas, with the opposition of the U.S. Attorney's office and the Marshalls. And Tolliver made a sworn statement to the judge, to that effect. The U.S. government continued to deny any involvement, but a year or two later, the U.S. government *quietly* paid for that airplane.
Now that's the typical type of thing that... Laundered drug money is being used for covert operations all over the world, and it is *not*, I repeat, for national security reasons. It's to keep the covert operators in business and to keep the international weapons business viable. And that's the kind of guys that you're running into.
TOM VALENTINE: All right. We have another caller, "J.R.", Johnson City, Illinois. You're on with Gene Wheaton.
J.R.: O.K. Thanks a lot, Tom. What I wanted to ask Mr. Wheaton was, is, you know everybody knows what Clinton's up to and his "leftist" views and everything. And what I'd really like to know is, in the top echelon of the military, if they try this "national emergency" or try to bring FEMA in to take over everything (as a lot of the word is now on talk radio), do you think that there's enough of the top brass in the military that'll put a squash to this? I'll hang up and listen for the answer.
VALENTINE: All right. Gene, I don't know if you would understand the question. I don't know if it's in your area. But it may be, 'cause you *do* get around with our military. But there's a lot of Americans who are concerned that our government has a, in place, "Emergency Manipulation Agency", that could take over in a crisis and conduct martial law. And we're wondering if there are people in the military who simply wouldn't stand for it.
WHEATON: Well I would certainly hope so.
VALENTINE: Yeah, me too!
WHEATON: The... 90, 95 percent of the military are extremely patriotic, loyal American people. The problem is that, in the old days, when you and I knew what our real military was, the line officers, the combat arms officers — infantry generals, tank generals, artillery generals — were the key men in the Pentagon. They now, through this infiltration, have moved civilians into the Department of Defense who are former covert operators in CIA. And have moved their protégés, who are military men but have actually worked on CIA covert operations most of their careers, into many of the very senior, key positions in the Pentagon. And these guys answer to their mentors, outside of the chain of command, rather than up through the chain of command to the commanding general. And they send orders out to the field, and people have to obey those orders or be court-martialed for disobeying them.
Now there's gonna be a... There *is* a plan, that came out during the Iran-Contra hearings, by Jack Brooks of Texas, that...
VALENTINE: Yeah, but Jack is now out!
WHEATON: Yes. But he brought it up, but he was shut down when he tried to elaborate on it during the Iran-Contra. A plan, that Ollie North drafted, for FEMA to be standing by, and martial law — when it was implemented, they would go out and scarf up maybe 300,000 of the more, more vocal opponents of their plans, and put 'em in twelve detention camps [a.k.a. concentration camps] around the United States.
VALENTINE: All right. We'll come back to that, if you don't mind, Gene. My last break of the day. My guest is Gene Wheaton. I'm Tom Valentine, this is *Radio Free America*.
[...commercial break...]
All right, we are back, live. My guest is Gene Wheaton, a veteran police investigator whose credibility is unchallenged, or unchallengeable. And he's one of the real Americans. I love to have him come on this show.
Gene, you were talkin' about Ollie North and FEMA when we had to take that break.
WHEATON: That's right. And they set up this program to, they were planning on some Central American invasions. And if too many American people opposed it they were going to declare martial law and take these old military bases that they had designated, around the United States, as detention camps — much like they did the Nissei(sp?) Japanese-Americans during World War II — and scarf 'em up and put 'em...
VALENTINE: Well they have not abandoned that plan! They may have abandoned Ollie, but they haven't abandoned that plan!
WHEATON: Well the plan is still there, on the books.
VALENTINE: Yep.
WHEATON: Jack Brooks was talked down and told he had to go into "executive session" [i.e. away from public scrutiny] when he brought it up during the Iran-Contra hearings. But it was still there.
And there is a new Army field manual on civilian affairs/civilian operations that's "floating around" right now calling, outlining this very same program.
VALENTINE: All right. Now we've had a major political change in this country. And I've tried to point out [that] we're not saved by it at all. But it's a step in the right direction.
Jack Brooks is typical of the Democrats that were defeated, and he himself was defeated in this election. But do you think that there's enough stuff in Jack Brook's head, if he were ever to tell everything he's learned, it would be pretty heavy?
WHEATON: Yes. He was the head of the House Judiciary Committee. And the sub-committee on crime of the House Judiciary Committee was the committee that held our hearings on the Gandor crash. And he is... And I also briefed him, his staff, on the covert operations at Mena, Arkansas.
And incidentally, I know it's not the time to go into it, but we've tracked the operations of the 32 missing C-130s *through* Mena, Arkansas. And the same people are running those that were running these things now. And it's a continuation of Iran-Contra! Everybody thinks Iran-Contra *quit* with Ollie North and Secord being exposed. But it actually got bigger because the media stopped looking at it at that time.
VALENTINE: All right. Now. We *are* getting out of time. But you will be back, I am sure. The, the last thing I want to ask you is... [sighs] I was listening to you and I've lost my train of thought, but I will get it back.
Essentially, you read the book by Terry Reed, I presume?
WHEATON: Yes. I know Terry Reed.
VALENTINE: *Compromised*. And Terry Reed is pretty valid, is he not?
WHEATON: His book is, concerning events at Mena, Arkansas, is extremely accurate. I can't vouch for the other things about his stolen airplane and the covert operations in Mexico that he talks about.
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[CN — Regarding the credibility of Reed's book, I have recently heard its credibility questioned as follows: (1) I called a radio program which featured a reporter from the *Arkansas-Gazette*. In the process of challenging him (he was defending Clinton), I mentioned Reed's book. His retort was along the lines of "I can't really see Reed smoking a joint with Bill Casey." (2) A similar disparagement was heard by me shortly thereafter on a different radio show, where the disparagement went along the lines of "I can't really see Reed smoking a joint with Ollie North."
From the book, *Compromised*, by Terry Reed & John Cummings [excerpts only]:
The governor's invitation had come as a surprise to Terry. He would be even more surprised by what he was about to see and hear.
"Bobby says you've got a problem about going to Mexico because of the deal with Barry Seal," the glassy-eyed governor began. By this time, the smell of marijuana was unmistakable.
Clinton paused for a moment as if trying to sort out his thoughts. "I can see your concern. I understand Seal was a friend of yours. His death does appear suspicious... Seal got just too damn big for his britches and that scum basically deserved to die, in my opinion..." {CN — Further note that LaRouche et al. have heaped *great* *praise* on Reed and his book. This makes me wonder, how does LaRouche's newspaper *New Federalist* reconcile this paragraph with their unbridled praise for Reed's book? After all, LaRouche and friends keep *defending* Clinton — isn't there a contradiction here in that they *both* defend Clinton *and* endorse Reed's book? What does LaRouche say about "...that scum basically deserved to die", a statement attributed to Clinton in a book which has received strong endorsement from the LaRouche organization?}
With that, Clinton got up from his chair and went to the back of the van, returning with a half-smoked joint. He reseated himself. He took a long, deep drag. After holding it in until his cheeks bulged, he then exhaled slowly and deliberately.
He extended his arm and offered the joint to Reed. Terry shook his head and gestured, no thanks.
I have been unable to locate any section in which Reed is smoking marijuana with either Bill Casey or Oliver North. If anyone knows of such a section, please send the relevant page number and/or chapter. In the meantime I will keep searching through Reed's book for the alleged section.]
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VALENTINE: All right, the very last thing: is anything *ever* gonna come of the Gandor investigation?
WHEATON: Well the Gandor investigation is the biggest scandal that is being concealed in the entire 20th century, as far as I'm concerned. We got 248 soldiers from the 101st Airborne murdered, and 8 crew members. And Ollie North and Dick Secord and "Buck" Ravell(sp?) of the FBI, and the administration, *covered* *that* *up*. We have just come across *new* information, that we may have to talk about later, that shows that there was some back- pack nuclear devices on that airplane and there was a *nuclear* *accident* at Gandor that they didn't want the world to know about because they were illegally moving nuclear devices through countries that weren't authorizing this to take place.
VALENTINE: You will be back, on *Radio Free America*, Gene Wheaton. I sure thank you for your time today.
WHEATON: O.K., Tom.
VALENTINE: And we *will* be talking. All right. Thank you very much.
Gene Wheaton is the guest and, as you heard, there's a *lot* goin' on out there, and it's not... It's skullduggery. More skullduggery than we care to even contemplate. It's time it gets cleaned up, folks. And Americans like Gene Wheaton are gonna help us.
All right! We'll be back! In the next hour. See you right after the alleged "news".
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Interesting read. The corruption is just unreal. Im glad you are dragging it all into the light. People need to see this for themselves. I did vote for Ross Perot hoping for a miracle.