WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 3]

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]

WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 2]

From: snet@world.std.com
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Subject: (fwd) MENA: Letter to Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:10:32 -0500
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From: Duane Roberts; s.libertarian,talk.politics.misc
Subject: MENA: Letter to Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:49:04 -0800
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The following text is from a photocopy of a letter that was originally sent to Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh by Arkansas Attorney General Winston Bryant on May 30, 1991.

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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
200 Tower Building
WINSTON BRYANT
323 Center Street
ATTORNEY GENERAL
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201
(501) 682-2007

May 30, 1991

Mr. Lawrence Walsh
Office of Independent Council
Suite 701
555 13th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

Dear Mr. Walsh:

I am forwarding petitions to you bearing the signatures of more than 1,000 citizens, mostly Arkansans, who are calling for an investigation into the activities of the late Berriman "Barry" Seal in regards to an airport in Mena, Arkansas, which Seal and his associates allegedly used as a drug smuggling depot during the early to mid 1980's.

Their specific concern, as well as my own, is to learn why no one was prosecuted in Arkansas despite a mountain of evidence that Seal was using Arkansas as his principal staging area during the years 1982 through 1985.

Because your office touched on these matters during the Iran-Contra investigation, I, along with Congressman Bill Alexander of Arkansas and a number of my fellow Arkansans, ask that you direct your continuing investigation towards the events which occurred at the Mena, Arkansas airport.

The people of Arkansas need, and deserve, a final and full accounting of this matter, and it is our hope that the Office of Independent Council can provide one. My office, as well as Congressman Alexander's, stands ready to assist in any manner that we can.

Sincerely,

W I N S T O N B R Y A N T

WINSTON BRYANT
Attorney General

WB:djh

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From: snet@world.std.com
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Subject: (fwd) More Terry Reed Lawsuit Judicial Stonewalling
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:24:09 -0500
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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: More Terry Reed Lawsuit Judicial Stonewalling
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U.S. District Judge George Howard has in his latest (March 8th) ruling on the Terry Reed lawsuit stated that Terry may bring any and all evidence to the lawsuit *except* that which pertains to the charges Terry makes in the lawsuit (my interpretation). Text of the order follows:

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
WESTERN DIVISION

TERRY K. REED, ET AL. PLAINTIFFS

v. Civil No. LR-C-94-634

RAYMOND YOUNG, ET AL. DEFENDANTS

ORDER

Pending before the Court is defendants' [Raymond (Buddy) Young and Tommy L. Baker] December 4th motion in limine to exclude the following matters:...These general areas will be referred to as the "Mena" evidence or Documents.

......Even if the Court were to find that the complaint adequately states sufficient facts to make the allegations.....relevant to the alleged overt actions of these defendants, the probative value is substantially outweighed by the dangers of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, the potential for misleading of the jury and considerations of undue delay and waste of time. The following description will control: [may not be introduced into evidence or made part of the court record]

Any reference to the plaintiffs' [Terry and Janis Reed] participation in programs, operations or missions sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Central Intelligence Agency or any other agency of the United States government, covert or otherwise, as well as any organization sponsored by or aligned with the United States government specifically including, but not limited to, any programs, operations or missions conducted in southwest Arkansas regarding the training of Nicaraguan nationals, the funding and support for any factions involved in the Nicaraguan conflict and any contact or communications with operatives or officials of the above-named agencies or organizations. Any reference to President or Governor Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton and the Mena or Nella Airports. Any references to Barry Seal [sic] and any alleged drug smuggling operation or other references to the Mena and Nella Airports, or to a business relationship of Barry Seal [sic] and Dan Lasater, Lasater and Company and the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority (ADFA) and ADFA's former Director, Bob Nash.

.....IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 8TH day of March, 1996

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I think under the terms of this order even the text of Reed's lawsuit cannot not be introduced as evidence.

Judge Howard is also the judge for the Whitewater case that allowed President Clinton to testify on video tape.
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Subject: (fwd) Clinton Pal Dan Lasater & the Mena-Related Laundry
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From: Orlin Grabbe
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Subject: Clinton Pal Dan Lasater & the Mena-Related Laundry
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 00:07:01 -0500
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Clinton Pal Dan Lasater & the Mena-Related Laundry

[The following is the text of John Crudele's article in the NY Post, Friday, March 15, 1996.]

Ex-pol: Ark. airport was depot for dope and guns

A former Arkansas congressman is about to blow the lid off what some say was a Washington-sponsored gun-running operation that illegally provided weapons to the Contra rebels of Nicaragua.

Democrat Bill Alexander, defeated for his congressional seat in a 1993 primary after the House check-kiting scandal. today will release seven boxes of documents he says prove that an airport in Mena, Ark., was used to transport guns to the Contras and smuggle drugs back into the United States in the 1980s.

Some of these drugs, Alexander says, ended up in the hands of John Gotti's crime family in New York.

Others have made these same charges, and the Mena operation has become the subject of an investigation by the House Banking Committee.

Sources say the federal Drug Enforcement Administration is gathering information that will be turned over to that committee, headed by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa).

Alexander will give his Mena documents to the University of Arkansas at Jonesboro at noon today.

The Post obtained some of these documents, including a draft indictment — never presented to a grand jury — that could have brought the Mena matter to light nearly a decade ago.

"Mena was a U.S. government staging area to support the Contras in Central America. The planes that were contracted to ship the weapons brought drugs back to the U.S.," Alexander told The Post. "Absolutely no doubt about it. And I have evidence of it . . . The drugs came back to the U.S. and they went to various ports of entry, including Mena. Some of the drugs went to New York."

Alexander said one witness said the Gambino crime family — then headed by John Gotti — received some of the Mena drugs.

Alexander said then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was never implicated in the Mena operation. "So far, it doesn't touch Clinton. This is pre-Clinton," he said.

But others in Arkansas have alleged that Clinton benefited indirectly from what was going on in Mena.

And some sources place Clinton on the ground at Mena airport at the time of this alleged drug-and-gun-running operation.

Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr has begun looking into the actions of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, which was reformed in the mid-1980s by Clinton to spur economic development in his state.

Starr is not officially investigating Mena, although his probers have put out feelers for anyone who might want to volunteer information.

Some sources in Arkansas have alleged that ADFA eventually saw some of the Mena drug money flow into its coffers through the purchase of bonds.

Dan Lasater, a convicted drug dealer, friend of Clinton and owner of a brokerage company, is often mentioned as the one who made the bond buys.

Alexander investigated Mena in conjunction with the General Accounting Office when he was a member of the House Appropriations Committee.

The Probe centered around U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. He was also looking into the matter in his role as special assistant attorney general in Arkansas.

He said the probe ended when the National Security Council ordered all government agencies not to cooperate with either him or the GAO. Alexander said he has documentation that the Reagan administration quashed the investigation.

 Part of the cache of documents Alexander will make public today is a draft of a 24-count indictment that he says was written by the U.S. attorney in Arkansas at the time. It was drawn up with former IRS investigator Bill Duncan, who Alexander says is the top money-laundering expert in the country.

 The indictment was never presented to the grand jury for action.

The draft alleges that four people and an Arkansas corporation "would transport and cause to be transported quantities of United States currency to various financial institutions, and, there, used this currency to purchase numerous cashiers' checks all in amounts of less than $10,000, thus causing no currency transactions report to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service."

(Banks are required to report transactions of $10,000 or more to the IRS.)

In short, the transactions looked like a money-laundering operation. The proposed indictment covered only a "pattern of illegal activity involving transactions exceeding $100,000 in a 12-month period" starting Aug. 23, 1982.

The proposed indictment also said the late Barry Seal, the alleged ringleader in the Mena operation, modified "numerous aircraft" at the airport. Seal allegedly delivered drugs in his planes.

Alexander's stash of documents includes copies of a number of cashiers' checks that Seal made out to the Union Bank of Mena.

Most journalists have avoided the Mena tale because they're afraid of being considered part of the lunatic fringe. But the press at large will probably start to notice as more and more is revealed about the antics of Arkansans in the 1980s.

Alexander's trove could be a starter kit for the lazy and reluctant. ###

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Date: Sat, 06 Apr 96 20:46:32 GMT
From: carlolsen@dsmnet.com (Carl E. Olsen)
To: drctalk@drcnet.org
Cc: carlolsen@dsmnet.com
Subject: (Fwd) Mena documents via FTP — Was Re: Mena Evidence on Public Display
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On 2 Apr 1996, Michael Rivero wrote:

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> The Oral Deposition of Richard J. Brenneke
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> Joint Investigation by the Arkansas State Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Congress, June 21, 1991.
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This deposition, along with text files of all the letters, testimony, reports, and Congressional hearings pertaining to Mena, Arkansas that I have posted on the internet in various usenet newsgroups, are now available via FTP at "pencil.cs.missouri.edu" (or "128.206.100.207") in directory "/pub/mena".

Sincerely,

Duane J. Roberts
duane@uci.edu

Undergraduate Student
Criminology, Law, and Society
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine

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Date: Sat Apr 06, 1996 11:36 pm CST
From: bigred
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Subject: Conspiracy Nation — Vol. 7 Num. 59

The following is brought to you thanks, in part, to the kind assistance of CyberNews and the fine folks at Cornell University.

Conspiracy Nation — Vol. 7 Num. 59

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ARKANSAS 101

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Barry Seal, a skilled pilot, drops duffel bags filled with cash at the Triple S Ranch near Hot Springs, Arkansas. An estimated $9 million per week falls out of the sky. The state of Arkansas gets 10 percent and also temporary use of the entire amount.

Finis Shellnut, son-in-law of Seth Ward, lives at the Triple S Ranch. Seth owns the ranch, but Finis is the go-for who retrieves the weekly cash bundles.

Finis works for Dan Lasater as a bondsman.

Roger Clinton, brother of Bill Clinton, also works for Dan Lasater.

Seth Ward, owner of the Triple S Ranch, has a daughter, Suzy, who is married to Webster Hubbell.

Webster ("Webb") Hubbell is a close friend of Bill Clinton. Webb Hubbell works at the Rose Law Firm.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's office is right next to Webb Hubbell's office at the Rose Law Firm.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is married to William Jefferson Clinton, Governor of Arkansas at the time.

The weekly $9 million falling out of the sky seems to have been put into ADFA, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Or else where *was* its money coming from? The state budget had no funds earmarked for ADFA and the State Constitution barred deficit financing.

ADFA was, in effect, a bank, making preferred loans. Because ADFA is a state agency, it is not legally required to publicly divulge its records.

ADFA paid more than $100,000 in legal fees to the Rose Law Firm.

Was any of the money "loaned" out by ADFA ever re-paid?

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 02:30:54 +0200
From: mario lap
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Subject: Interesting 2: IRT in de States...
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Sorry when this is old news

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:34:29 +0200
> From: dirk van der woude
> Organization: GG&GD Amsterdam
> To: mario lap
> Subject: Interesting 2: IRT in de States...

> Airport scandal set to crash into White House
> By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington

> UP TO now Bill Clinton has escaped scrutiny over the alleged drugs smuggling and gun running channel led through Mena Airport in Arkansas when he was the state's governor. But a federal lawsuit in Little Rock is beginning to unearth information that is extremely embarrassing for the White House.

> Larry Patterson, an Arkansas State Trooper, testified under oath this month that there were "large quantities of drugs being flown into the Mena Airport, large quantities of money, large quantities of guns". The subject was discussed repeatedly in Clinton's presence by State Troopers working on his security detail, he alleged. Patterson said the Governor "had very little comment to make; he was just listening to what was being said".

> Clinton has given conflicting answers when asked about the mysteries of Mena. At a campaign stop in April 1992 he lost his temper and dismissed the allegations as "fantasy". But last October, pale and uneasy at a White House press conference, he said that it was "primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction . . . we had nothing, zero, to do with it."

> Extensive police documents describe Mena Airport, in the remote Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas, as having been the headquarters of a high-volume cocaine operation in the 1980s. Sources at the Drug Enforcement Administration say major trafficking was still going on there as late as December 1994.

> Patterson's testimony has not been released to the press, but The Sunday Telegraph has been able to review a copy. It was one of three depositions taken in a lawsuit that is likely to rock the White House in coming months.

> The plaintiffs in the suit are Terry and Janis Reed, who claim that they were embroiled in a US covert operation to assist the Nicaraguan Contras between 1983 and 1986. They say that the mission was based in Arkansas, with the alleged active involvement of Governor Clinton.

> Targeted because they had become a threat to Clinton's political career

> The Reeds are suing Clinton's chief of security, Buddy Young, a former Arkansas State Police captain, alleging that he tried to frame them on trumped up theft and fraud charges and inserted a false profile of them in US criminal intelligence files listing them as "armed and dangerous" — a pretext to shoot on sight. They believe they were targeted because they had become a threat to Clinton's political career.

> The Reeds were, in fact, acquitted of all wrongdoing in a federal court in 199O. The judge said that Captain Young had "displayed a reckless disregard for the truth".

> The Reed saga is so bizarre that the American press has refused to take it seriously. But in a book published last year, Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA, Terry Reed alleged that he was recruited by Oliver North to help train Contra pilots in aerial supply skills, and to put his machine tool expertise to use developing a clandestine network for the manufacture of untraceable weapons parts.

> Reed also claimed to have been present in an ammunition storage bunker outside Little Rock in 1986 when North and other Reagan Administration envoys allegedly met Clinton to discuss the covert operation — and to reprimand the Governor for members of his entourage skimming off money earmarked for national security purposes.

> Over the past year The Sunday Telegraph has been able to confirm most of Reed's claims in interviews with pilots, Central American sources, and senior officials from the US Defense Department, the CIA and the Reagan-Bush White House.

> The secret Contra scheme was devised in 1982 in order to circumvent an anticipated ban by Congress on hostile actions by the Reagan Administration against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. It skirted countless laws prohibiting covert activities on US soil.

> Large amounts of cocaine were flown into the US

> In order to maintain total "deniability" — and to avoid detection by the US Congress and the press — the operation was subcontracted to Barry Seal, a renowned drug trafficker from Louisiana. He established his nerve center at Mena Airport, where he maintained a fleet of modified aircraft with hi-tech equipment provided by the US Air Force.

> He continued smuggling, of course. That was his "cover". Large amounts of cocaine were flown into the US while the government looked the other way. Indeed, the Louisiana State Police were convinced that he was using his status of immunity to increase the volume of trafficking, supplying cocaine to the organized crime machine in Little Rock and Hot Springs — part of what is known as the Dixie Mafia.

> The government still denies that Seal worked in US covert operations. It will admit only that he was an informant for the DEA, agreeing to help penetrate Colombia's Medellin Cartel after being convicted of drug smuggling in 1984. Seal was assassinated by Colombian gunmen in 1986.

> But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that Seal was working for the Defense Intelligence Agency all along, answering to a top secret outfit in Fort Meade, Maryland, known as the US Army Operations Group.

> His recruitment was put into the Pentagon computer system through the highly classified RODCA Channel, a "source management system" used to prevent the exposure of secret assets. The last two numbers of his 10-digit "source code identifier" were 82, showing that he was recruited as an outside operative in 1982.

> None of this came out in the investigation by Lawrence Walsh, a special prosecutor who spent six years and almost $40 million looking into the Iran-Contra affair. That poses the question of whether members of Walsh's staff with a Left-liberal political bias suppressed information that would have exposed the involvement of Arkansas's Democratic governor.

> The Reeds said they spent three days in Washington in 1988 telling their story to Senate investigators. But Walsh asserts that he was never given a proper briefing on the Mena angle. "I'm glad you told me about this," he confessed, jokingly, to The Sunday Telegraph. "I keep learning new things all the time."

> There have been nine state and federal probes into Mena. None of them went anywhere. In several cases investigators say that they were thwarted by high-level obstruction. Trooper Patterson casts some light on this mystery. In his sworn deposition he claims to have been present when the Arkansas State Police commander told Governor Clinton that he, the commander, had been instructed to "stay out of Mena" by two Democrat Senators.

> His secret passcode was somehow cracked

> A second deposition suggests that measures are still being taken to cover up the Mena scandal. Bill Duncan, who conducted a probe for the Internal Revenue Service and the US Congress on drug trafficking and money-laundering linked to Mena, has testified that his computer files were broken into in January 1995 at his office within the Arkansas Attorney-General's office.

> His secret passcode was somehow cracked, allowing the intruder to tamper with his files. He noted that the codes of his highly sensitive 7,000-page Mena archive — the most comprehensive set of documents in existence — had been broken. He has not yet been able to assess the level of damage.

> The US press has made little of the "Colombianisation" of Arkansas by the Dixie Mafia during the 1980s, and it has ignored the fact that two of the biggest financial supporters of Clinton's political career in Arkansas were under investigation for narcotics trafficking by the DEA at the time they were making big contributions to his campaign.

> But the Reed lawsuit is beginning to open up this whole can of worms. Only three depositions have been taken so far. Another 107 witnesses are on the list for questioning under oath between now and the end of the broad "discovery" process in August. The trial date is set for September 27.

> Among the witnesses are a number of State Troopers who have told the Reeds' lawyers that they want to "go to confession", as well as Oliver North and a whole cast of characters involved in the weird co-mingling of covert operations and drug trafficking in Clinton's Arkansas.

> The next round of depositions is due to be taken in April. The process is moving inexorably forwards.

"As a butterfly lifts the cat"

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Date: Wed, 15 MAY 1996 04:56:39 -0400
From: Edward W. Zehr
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Subject: BILL CLINTON'S ARKANSAS: Jean Duffy's Story

JEAN DUFFY interviewed by Randall Terry
May 1, 1996

_________________________________________________________________

Jean Duffy headed a drug task force for the law enforcement community in Arkansas. Duffy and three other law enforcement agents have come forward in a new video called "Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection." The video deals with the murders of two boys and their connection with drug money. All four law enforcement agents came from different agencies. All of them met with stonewalling and opposition from highly placed officials.

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TERRY: As many as nine people who were potential witnesses in this case have been murdered already. If you could say anything you wanted for the next ten or fifteen minutes, what would you say?

DUFFY: I would like for people to wake up and understand the massive amount of drugs that have been transported into the United States and that the war on drugs is a myth. That our government is very well aware, and in some cases is a participant in the drug smuggling. I believe that is incredible for people to understand as it would have been for me had I not been involved in it and [understood] how it happened and why it happened. I would like for people to buy our video, "Obstruction of Justice."

TERRY: Why?

DUFFY: It will begin to explain all of the connections of drug smuggling and how it affects people's lives. It will help people to understand how it is allowed to continue, and why it is allowed to continue. There will be a sequel to "Obstruction of Justice" that will go more in depth into the actual drug-smuggling operation. But our video explains very poignantly how it affected the life of an American family. Linda and Larry Ives, the parents of Kevin Ives, who was killed when he was 17-years-old because he stumbled upon a drug drop. [There was also the death of his friend, Don Henry]. As if their murders were not bad enough, they were murdered by law enforcement officers who were part of the drug-smuggling operation.

TERRY: Let's just stop right here.

DUFFY: Alright.

TERRY: I watched this video yesterday and when I was done, I took my entire staff up after yesterday's show and told them "you all have to watch this." They all went home late for dinner. I don't usually react to things this bad[ly]. The clear implication of the video is that Dan Harmon and other law enforcement agents murdered these boys.

DUFFY: Well, that's absolutely correct.

TERRY: You're not a crackpot — you're involved in law enforcement. There are other law enforcement [officers] in the film, all risking life and limb and future careers to say things against some very powerful people. You really believe that these boys were murdered by law enforcement agents?

DUFFY: I don't think there's any doubt about it. And I believe the law enforcement agents were connected to some very high political people because they have never been brought to justice and I don't think they ever will be. I think they are protected to avoid exposing the connection.

TERRY: To who? To higher-ups?

DUFFY: Yes, absolutely to higher-ups.

TERRY: How high?

DUFFY: Well, I know that there were CIA people involved in this drug-smuggling operation, that's pretty much undisputed. I can't really say whether the CIA people were acting officially or whether they were rogue operators, acting outside their official capacity and taking advantage of an opportunity to make private profits off of this drug-smuggling operation. Obviously they were connected to very high-up people. The U.S attorney who first shut down a federal investigation was appointed by a Republican president — he was appointed by President Bush and I don't believe he had any direct connection with any of this, but he certainly took orders from someone to close down that investigation.

TERRY: This all sounds so fantastic. How unbelievable. I mean how the average America just cannot grasp that state officials in Arkansas, or federal officials were somehow even remotely connected with drug-smuggling, and then to say that some of the lower officials actually murdered these boys — I've got to stop myself. I'm a Christian and I'm a Calvinist and I believe in the wickedness of man's heart, so it should not surprise me that wicked men can do wicked things. Do you believe that Dan Harmon was involved with these murders?

DUFFY: I don't think that there is any doubt that he was.

TERRY: Explain to the listeners who Dan Harmon was at the time and who he is now.

DUFFY: At the time he was a person who was in and out of politics in Saline County. He had been a judge. He had been a prosecutor and, at the time the boys were murdered, he was in private practice. After they were murdered, he approached the parents of the two boys and [offered] his services to find out who had murdered the two boys. And he was subsequently appointed to be special prosecutor to head a county grand jury. Now for years the parents thought that Dan Harmon was trying to solve their murders, but later found out that he had very wisely put himself into a position of not only orchestrating the cover-up, but being in the position of controlling the information that came in and the information that went out.

TERRY: Well, it's worse than that. People who came forward and said that they had information on these murders ended up getting murdered, themselves.

DUFFY: There have been several murders of potential witnesses. Anyone who could have solved this murder many years ago has been systematically eliminated.

TERRY: What did these boys see that was so critical that they were murdered that night — that the third boy who was with them, and then escaped — who ran away, was tracked down and murdered a year later — what was so critical to this whole process that all these people had to be killed? It's just — it sounds crazy!

DUFFY: It really does. I've been called crazy before — that's for sure.

TERRY: Before you answer the question, I just want to say in your defense ... these people are just doing their duty as law enforcement agents and they stumbled into this black, bloodstained hole involving the murder of these two boys. So go ahead Jean, if you could answer my question.

DUFFY: I will — what you said brought up a point I would like to make. When I was investigating this, I was crucified in the media by public officials who were involved in this, and I was labeled a whacko, a fruitcake, a nut case. In the U.S. attorney's office there were people who were supposed to be helping in this investigation who turned their backs on any of the information that my drug task force took in, because we had been so discredited. When this video came out, one of the people [who had been] in the U.S. Attorney's office back then saw the video, took it to work and asked every person in the U.S. Attorney's office to sit down and watch [it]. He said, "this will change your mind about what we thought about Jean Duffy back in 1990."

TERRY: I am going to take a break and when we come back you can ask Jean Duffy why it was necessary that these two boys be murdered, and subsequently nine other witnesses were murdered.

[Break for commercials]

TERRY: Before we took the break, Jean, I asked what these boys saw that caused not only them, but several other potential witnesses to their murder to be murdered.

DUFFY: Well, it's really quite simple. They stumbled upon a drug drop from an airplane that was part of the major drug-smuggling operation out on Mena, Arkansas.

TERRY: But, drug drops happen every day and there aren't 11 people murdered as a result.

DUFFY: This drug-smuggling operation had been set up in Mena by Barry Seal and was part of a CIA covert operation. To expose the murders would have exposed some very high[ly placed] political people — in fact I believe if it's ever solved completely it's going to expose a lot of Democrats and Republicans alike. And it's my personal opinion that's why it is not going to be investigated thoroughly by either party. Both parties stand to lose from exposure of this drug-smuggling operation.

TERRY: Have you heard of Terry Reed's book, "Compromised?"

DUFFY: Yes, I have. I've read it.

TERRY: Do you think it's credible?

DUFFY: Ah — I think without really knowing...

TERRY: Terry was a co-pilot with Barry Seal, and Barry Seal was the one who was gunned down — he was murdered a little more than 10 years ago. The book "Compromised" basically says the same thing you guys are saying, only that Terry Reed was an insider.

DUFFY: Yes, absolutely. I try not to report anything that I don't really know firsthand. But reading his book certainly helped me to understand how the Mena operation was set up. And nothing in his book is inconsistent with what I know first-hand from what my task force developed.

TERRY: Tell us some of the things. You had several informants working for you. Tell us some of the things your informants uncovered.

DUFFY: They immediately linked drug traffic at the local level to local political people — local public officials. And because of that we routed-out information to a federal U.S. Assistant Attorney, who was a good guy.

TERRY: You say you found local political figures involved. And your informants were credible? They had concrete evidence?

DUFFY: Oh yeah. When one informant tells you something independently of one or two or three other informants, and they're all giving exactly the same information...

TERRY: Do they know that the other informants exist?

DUFFY: No.

TERRY: These are all separate?

DUFFY: They would be independent. It would be foolish to just listen to one informant and try to build a case based on what that one informant said. But the informants we used had been tested and proven. Also we had informants and witnesses who passed polygraph tests. So there are several different ways to determine the credibility of an informant or a witness and one is corroborating testimony.

TERRY: So you gave this testimony to federal law enforcement agents and thought that you were going to get justice at that point. And you were told by the federal prosecutor that they were going to indict some of these local political figures?

DUFFY: Oh, I was absolutely assured that there would be indictments and prosecutions of key public officials and in fact the same public officials who were conducting the media smear campaign against me at the time. This had been going on for several months, but the U.S. Attorney that was in charge of the federal grand jury investigation said "just hang on, because any day now..." I heard this week after week, and the weeks turned into months. Then he said I'm ready to have the grand jury indict and I'm ready to prosecute these same people, and as soon as that happens then everyone will understand the smear campaign and why they tried to discredit me professionally.

TERRY: We have about a minute left. You can say anything you want. This is Jean Duffy who headed up a drug task force. How many investigators did you have working for you?

DUFFY: I had seven undercover officers.

TERRY: And five of them resigned in protest over the way you were treated.

DUFFY: They did.

TERRY: That's unbelievable. You have the last minute to tell the listeners anything you want.

DUFFY: [Encourages listeners to order the video "Obstruction of Justice" which will be used to fund a civil action].

TERRY: I want to commend you again for putting your life on the line by stepping forward like this. Obviously some very powerful people have already murdered nearly a dozen people in connection with the drug smuggling there, starting with the two young boys. Certainly other law enforcement officials have been threatened. Were you threatened at all?

DUFFY: There was a $50,000 price on my head back in 1990, when I left the jurisdiction, and I was actually in hiding for nine months.

TERRY: They put a $50,000 hit fee on you?

DUFFY: That was the information my parents were given, and they were certainly very fearful. But once I left the jurisdiction and stopped doing the investigation they left me alone. They stopped the smear campaign. I didn't feel like anyone was looking for me. What they wanted me to do was just shut up and go away. When I did that they didn't have a problem. When I got involved again in 1994, at the request of the FBI, the FBI agent I was working with got the information that Harmon was looking to have my body laid out on the railroad track and run over. The agent was pretty fearful that that was a direct threat, but I was really not very intimidated by that.

TERRY: Ben Harmon, folks, is the fellow who eye-witnesses said was seen with the boys on the tracks the night they were murdered. And he is a prosecutor there.

DUFFY: He is the prosecuting attorney there and has been since 1991.

TERRY: If the allegations that our friend Jean Duffy has been telling us are true, then he is a monster. Jean, thank you very much for taking the time, and we applaud your courage...We hope that justice is done for these boys, and that all of the political power players who are involved in this cover-up are exposed.

DUFFY: Thank you very much for your concern.

[End of interview]

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THE BARRY SEAL — BILL CLINTON CONNECTION II
Editorial

An editorial in this space recently explored the connection between the late drug smuggler Barry Seal and the current President Bill Clinton. The editorial pointed out that they had shared the same legal counsel, Richard Ben-Veniste, and the same press lackey, pseudo-journalist John Camp.

But the connection goes beyond that. Consider the following: Barry Seal was prosecuted and convicted in Florida for possession with intent to distribute drugs. His sentence was reduced after he turned informant. Barry Seal was also prosecuted and convicted on drug charges in Louisiana. His sentence was reduced considering his work for the federal government.

But Barry Seal was never indicted in Arkansas despite the fact that he had been flying thousands of pounds of cocaine through Mena, Arkansas. The lack of indictment was certainly not due to lack of evidence. Mena criminal investigator Russell Welch had followed Seal for years and gathered a voluminous file on his drug smuggling activities.

But the Governor was well aware of what Seal was doing. "That's Lasater's deal," he told State Trooper L.D. Brown. Terry Reed has explained what Lasater's deal was: He was using his bond business to launder drug money for Barry Seal. The Arkansas Democrat Machine saw to it that state investigations into the matter went nowhere. A memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal explains the attorney general's "wish to sever any ties to the Mena matter — because of the implication that the AG might be investigating the governor's connection." The name of the governor was Bill Clinton, and the name of the attorney general was Winston Bryant, who last week came in first in the Arkansas Democratic Primaries for U.S. Senator. With Bill Clinton now President, the Arkansas Democrat Machine is still in control in Arkansas. Winston Bryant is currently in charge of obstructing the Mena lawsuit by Terry Reed to make sure that the Barry Seal -Bill Clinton connection never sees the light of day.

[Published in the May 27, 1995 issue of the Washington Weekly]
Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)

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