WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 8]

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.

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 1]

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 2]

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 3]

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 4]

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 5]

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 6]

WORMSCAN: MENA0 [PART 7]

Date: Tue Oct 24, 1995 11:12 am CST
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Subj: MENA, FOSTE CRIMESRAP-UP
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CAN ANYONE ANSWER QUESTIONS ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE:
1. What is address and cost of the American Reporter and how often is it published?
2. What time on Saturday is Nationtalk radio show broadcast?
3. What other articles has Wayne Walker written?
4. When was Restore Integrity in Government Coalition organized and what does it do?
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PLEASE POST ANY ANSWERS TO ABOVE
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From the Bulletin Board of Politics
Message 20 10/11/95 20:19
To: alt perot
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Published in the American Reporter
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Do the ends justify the means (and the Menas)?
by Wayne G. Walker, Ph.D., J.D.
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Lancaster, CA — As detailed over 20 years ago in The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks (1974), the CIA culture promotes the questionable belief that the ends justify the means.

As more and more evidence and allegations surface about Mena, Arkansas, CIA drug running, the massive CIA money laundering in Arkansas under Clinton's direction, the secret Swiss Bank accounts of scores of national leaders (including Vince Foster), the sale of nuclear secrets by top officials through Foster, and the turf war for control of this power between the Bush and Clinton families (played out in the 92 election), one wonders whether corrupt means may swallow the democracy the CIA is supposed to serve.

Rep. Bob Dornan recently began shouting that "Bill Clinton is the most corrupt man to ever sit in the oval office!" If former CIA agent Terry Reed's recent book, Compromised (1994), is accurate, Dornan is only partly right. Reed's allegations imply that not only has Clinton been in the center of an immense web of corruption, George Bush may be similarly culpable.

The problem with allegations made by former CIA agents is the secrecy shrouding U.S. intelligence operations. Official denial and deception is the norm. As pointed out in The Cult of Intelligence, U.S. "secrecy and deception in intelligence operations are as much to keep the Congress and the public from learning what their government is doing as to shield these activities from the opposition. The intelligence establishment operates as it does to maintain freedom of action and avoid accountability."

Because of the seriousness of the allegations and observations made by Reed, and the consistency of his narrative with accounts from other sources, such as those cited in R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.'s article "The Arkansas Drug Shuttle," The American Spectator (August 1995) and Sally Denton and Roger Morris' article, "The Crimes of Mena," Penthouse Magazine (July 1995), the allegations merit not only careful consideration, but full investigation.

Subj: Mena, Fostergate crimes wrap-up 2/5

The following is a brief summary of Reed's very detailed account.

According to Reed, the CIA, with Bill Clinton's full support, managed a large covert operation in Mena, Arkansas during the early 80s to transport guns and munitions to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua, and train Nicaraguan pilots to fly the munitions air-drops. Reed, a machine tool company owner, helped train the pilots and manage the operation. The CIA also used Arkansas to launder its black money. According to Reed, Bill Clinton smoothed the way for all of this in exchange for 10% of the "profits." In 1985, the money laundering amounted to millions of dollars each week.

Reed claims all of this was directed by Oliver North in the CIA and George Bush, its former director, then Vice-President under Reagan. Reed says he was deeply involved in the move of the CIA operation to Mexico in 1986. Also, according to Reed, before the Mena operation was over, the Bush sons shipped a duffel bag of cocaine to Clinton associates in an effort to bring down the Clintons. This cocaine was distributed in part by Dan Lasater, Clinton's money laundering bond dealer, who served a little time in prison for Cocaine distribution along with Clinton's brother Roger, before both were pardoned by Governor Clinton.

In early 1986, Reed claims Bill Clinton attended a clandestine meeting at Camp Robinson, outside Little Rock, with himself, Oliver North, William P. Barr (Bush's attorney cum CIA spook and eventually U.S. Attorney General), to clean up the operational liabilities in Arkansas. Reed says that Barr informed Clinton that despite the huge Arkansas screw-ups, if Clinton would continue to cooperate, he was still on the CIA's short list for the position to which he would eventually aspire and take (ironically, or poetically, from Bush). Reed drew the conclusion that the CIA was actively engaged in manipulating the outcome of American presidential politics.

After Clinton left, Reed says North and Barr offered him responsibility for the new Mexico operation, which Reed himself had proposed, and initiated Reed into the higher echelons of deniable asset work for the CIA.

After talking everything over with his wife, Reed initially decided to decline the CIA opportunity, stay in Arkansas, build his growing machine tool business and get involved in local politics. Reed says the opportunity was still on his mind when Bill Clinton took Reed into his security van outside of a new Little Rock restaurant and strongly encouraged Reed to accept the new CIA post. Reed reconsidered and accepted.

While in Mexico, Reed set up a front company to replicate Mena's gun manufacturing and shipping operation. Before the operation was fully operational, the CIA lost a gun running C-123 over Nicaragua, causing a halt to the entire project.

Reed claims he later learned from a high level Israeli Mossad operative that Vice-President Bush had essentially conducted a silent coup to stop Reagan's anti-communist efforts in Nicaragua, and take control of the U.S. government. According to Reed, it was Bush's right-hand CIA operative who had killed the pilots and then staged the CIA crash in Nicaragua. Reed says he soon also discovered that the CIA in Mexico was using his company name and warehouse to ship TONS of Cocaine to the US.

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Date: Tue Oct 24, 1995 11:15 am CST
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Subj: Mena, Fostergate crimes wrap-up 3/5

Upon that discovery, and with the front company and the CIA operation falling apart in the wake of the Nicaragua crash, Reed, at great risk to himself, parted with the CIA and returned to the states with his young family. Reed and his family immediately began an evasive run around the country as it quickly became clear that elements in the CIA and the Clinton Administration in Arkansas were determined to silence Reed and his wife with long prison terms or worse.

After several months, the Reeds turned themselves in, faced criminal insurance fraud charges related to the CIA theft of Reed's own airplane, and after 2 and 1/2 years in the criminal system were declared completely innocent. They are now bringing a civil suit against Clinton's former chief of security, Buddy Young, and others for (1) creating the false computer profile of armed and dangerous drug runners which led to the Reeds' harrowing flight for survival and (2) bringing the false criminal charges. The case comes to trial next month in Little Rock.

Reed's charges are consistent with operational tactics and means recounted in The Cult of Intelligence, as well as in an earlier work, The Invisible Government by David Wise and Thomas Ross (1964), and they are cumulative.

When Reed's charges are combined with the ongoing testimony of Larry Nichols of Little Rock about the Arkansas Development Finance Agency (ADFA) money laundering (3/4 of a billion dollars over Clinton's signature) and the Foster death cover-ups (Secret Service documentation that Foster was found in his car), and the allegations of James Norman, formerly of Forbes Magazine, that over 200 secret Swiss (and other off shore) bank accounts held by leading American politicians were swept clean by the CIA of over $2 billion of illicit funds during the last couple of years, the possible full extent of the corruption of the CIA and leading politicians is almost incredible.

Yet, if only half of the above allegations are supported, the U.S. is facing monumental corruption. The accounts of Norman, Reed and Nichols are compelling. Together they are chilling. But are they accurate? Certainly, continued media silence will shed very little "direct" light on the truth of these charges. Yet, formidable obstacles block media and official investigation of these charges.

First are the secrecy laws and official "national security" reluctance to allow exposure of any details about intelligence organizations and operations. For example, according to Norman, after Forbes cancelled his Fostergate article at the last minute, he took the story to Insight Magazine. But a defense intelligence agent strongly advised the editor not to publish the article. (Media Bypass Magazine published Norman's Fostergate article in August).

Second, if Norman's sources are correct, numerous national leaders, Senators and Representatives are compromised. Indeed, the charges about secret Swiss bank accounts cast suspicion on political leaders from both major parties.

Subj: Mena, Fostergate crimes wrap-up 4/5

Third, Norman's sources claim the CIA has manipulated the flow of damaging information for years. They indicate that over 100 key news media executives, editors and reporters are employed or paid by the CIA to manipulate the flow of news and keep embarrassing stories out of the press. Rolling Stone Magazine reported in 1977 that the number is more like 200-400.

This allegation about the press, especially a press intimidated by the national security shield, may partly explain why the Norman story has not gotten any attention in the established media, much less further investigation, and why four credible journalists working on the Foster story, including Norman, were suddenly fired or threatened with firing or worse in the last couple of weeks.

It may also explain why the Washington Post cancelled the Denton and Morris article mentioned above, "The Crimes of Mena," after eleven weeks of fact checking and legal review, indeed after the text was laid out in final type and contracts with the authors signed in January.

If Reed and Norman are right, the thinking that the end justifies the means may have led the CIA to attempt to control both the established U.S. media and presidential politics.

The extreme seriousness of these allegations, and the dangers to American democracy which they imply, are more than sufficient reason for the press and Congress to thoroughly investigate the charges, regardless of who, or which intelligence organizations, may be damaged.

Norman's sources from the intelligence community should be given complete immunity so all of their facts can come out, including the complete list of politicians and national leaders holding secret Swiss Bank accounts which were discovered and emptied by the CIA.

In addition, the bright light of full public disclosure should shine all over the Reagan, Bush and Clinton Administrations' covert CIA and NSA operations conducted on U.S. soil, including the control or manipulation of the press, and all covert drug operations. Complete reform of the intelligence establishment is long overdue. President Truman, who established the CIA, called for just that back in 1963.

Neither covert corruption, nor official coverups in the name of national security, can be tolerated. Indeed, the lingering policy question is whether the ends for which the Constitution, the Republic and American democracy stand can long survive, much less justify, such means.

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Subj: Mena, Fostergate crimes wrap-up 5/5

Wayne Walker is the host of Nationtalk, a radio talk show broadcast each Saturday over Satcom F1, Transponder 15, 7.56 Mhz. He is also the founder of the Restore Integrity in Government Coalition.

Website: http://www.rolnet.com/~wwalker/nt/nt.html
From: Wayne_Walker@rolnet.com (Nationtalk Director)
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Date: Mon Nov 06, 1995 11:31 pm CST
From: David J. Sussman
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Subject: British TV Exposes String of Murders Near Mena, Arkansas (fwd)

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Date: 5 NOV 1995 20:03:01 GMT
From: Washington Weekly
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Subject: British TV Exposes String of Murders Near Mena, Arkansas

From the November 6 issue of the Washington Weekly. For more information, see the Mena archive at http://www.federal.com/9471.html

BRITISH TV EXPOSES STRING OF MURDERS NEAR MENA, ARKANSAS

A British documentary TV team has spent months near Mena, Arkansas investigating a string of murders that leads to a gun running and drug smuggling operation there that apparently leads to the door of the White House.

The documentary by the prestigious 20/20 program leaves British TV viewers wondering about the state of the American justice system.

The investigation starts with the death in 1987 of two boys, Don Henry and Kevin Ives, on the railroad tracks near Mena. Their death was ruled an accident by the Clinton-appointed state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak. But Kevin's mother, Linda Ives, knew that the official report didn't add up. After fighting the Arkansas justice system for several years she won exhumation and re-autopsy. An out-of-state examiner said the cause of death was clear: murder by beating and stabbing before they were placed on the railroad tracks.

The murder case was assigned to police investigator John Brown: "When I first reviewed the case file, I found a lot of things missing...crime scene photographs were gone, the list of evidence was gone, interviews were cut short. From 1987 until 1993 no one ever went out and talked to the people who lived by the tracks. It was never intended for this case to be solved," John Brown told the British interviewer.

As the British narrator explains it: "What John Brown discovered was an extraordinary trail of evidence that led from the tracks to the Mena airport. From interviews with Mena pilots, he pieced together a very different story of what happened to the boys that night....They were hunting deer. They had no idea that the tracks were used by Mena pilots as a site for dropping off drugs and money, and that a drop had gone missing three nights previously, causing panic at Mena."

John Brown continues: "The concern wasn't the $400,000 in the [container]; it was the transmitter that was in the case that everyone was concerned with because it was trackable, and it would track them right back to Mena, Arkansas.... What these kids walked into was a group of law enforcement officials and drug dealers that were waiting to see who walked up onto their drop site.... They were chased down, and they were taken to another location. They were beaten and held. From that they were taken and then killed. They were taken back and their bodies were placed on the tracks in hopes that all evidence of the murder would be distorted by the train mangling the bodies."

Brown didn't get very far with his investigation. He was summoned to the sheriff, Judy Pridgen, and told "John, look, you're going to have to leave this alone. We're going to...shut it down. You will interview no one who tracks this case back to Mena."

John Brown resigned the next morning.