WORMSCAN: MENA1 [PART 6]
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.
Date: Mon Oct 28, 1996 8:28 pm CST
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THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT
Part I: Did Barry Seal Fall Victim To A Government Set-up?
William Bottoms is one of the few associates of the legendary drug smuggler Barry Seal that is still alive. He has now decided to come forward and tell his story. A story that goes back to 1962 when he first met Seal and Seal married his sister, and intensifies in the 1980s when he and Barry Seal went into "operation" together. Over the next several weeks, Bottoms is going to give his perspective of the Mena story, a perspective that in some instances leads him to different conclusions than the conclusions reached by others who have spoken out on Mena.
We start out this week with an intriguing question that remains unresolved to this day. Why did the U.S. government in 1972 intercept a load of plastic explosives destined for anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico, when a decade before it was the CIA that funded these Cuban exiles in their failed Bay of Pigs invasion?
Well, the pilot who was caught with the plastic explosives was Barry Seal, and William Bottoms offers an intriguing explanation. At the time, Seal was a pilot for TWA. He had joined the TWA at twenty-six, one of the youngest pilots in the history of the TWA. As an adventurer, however, he did covert operations on the side.
In 1972, Seal was arrested by Customs in New Orleans. His DC6 was loaded with seven tons of plastic explosives. "He was hired by Carlos Marcello," says Bottoms. Marcello was a renowned New Orleans Mob Boss who had been under official investigation in connection with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Bottoms claims that Seal was set up by the government: "Barry said it was because Castro had one of our hijacked airliners, the hijackers, and the ransom. So, the government set the whole thing up from beginning to end. It was a ploy to get Castro to think we were interdicting in his favor so he would give America the airliner back."
Seal was charged with conspiracy, but the judge threw out the case when the government wanted to protect the identity of its informant.
A law enforcement source familiar with the case confirms that it was Marcello's deal. "Charges were dropped because they couldn't go to court without burning their snitch."
Even though the case was dismissed, the publicity cost Seal his job with TWA. "Seal was bitter because he felt he was entrapped besides working for a worthy cause," says Bottoms. It was then Seal started full time on his clandestine work, officially using the title of "airline broker."
[Next Week: after Seal was released from Honduran prison where he served eight months on a minor weapons charge, he and William Bottoms, finishing six years of active duty as a Navy pilot, went into "operations" together.]
Published in the Oct. 28, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
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THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT
Part II: The "Operation"
The following are excerpts of an interview with William Bottoms, an associate and brother-in-law of the late drug smuggler Barry Seal:
MR. LEE: When Barry Seal was released from a Honduran prison in 1980, you started working together. Can you tell some of the details? Which aircraft did you use, where were they based, and which landing strips did you use?
MR. BOTTOMS: I was released from active duty in June 1980. In August of 1980, Barry Seal was released from prison after spending eight months in a Honduras jail. We began operating together. We were together until his murder in Baton Rouge.
After we connected, Barry and I went on our first three air smuggling flights together. I performed the rest of the flights. Barry stayed in Baton Rouge maintaining periodic HF radio checks with me, and to receive and send on the cocaine when I arrived with it.
It was in 1981, and the first three quarters of 1982, that most of the smuggling activity took place. We used a Beech 18, a Piper Seneca and very quickly upgraded to a new Seneca (used once), and just as quick to a Piper Panther Navajo. Barry purchased another Panther Navajo soon after. Initially we used various landing sites in Louisiana to off load the merchandise. These were a cane field near White Castle, Opelousas, Hanks Field, and New Roads.
Soon we were exclusively using airdrops and once empty the plane would be returned to various places.
A friend of Barry's set him up in early 1981 by allowing him to sell Quaaludes in Florida to a federal undercover agent named Beasley (Operation Screamer). Operation Screamer didn't turn over any indictments until early 1983. Between that time is when Barry brought all of his loads into Louisiana. Once the Operation Screamer indictments came out, Barry started moving his aircraft up to Mena, because Louisiana started heating up for him. Nothing of any real significance happened at Mena Airport. Barry spent most of 1983 and early 1984 with lawyers because of the Florida indictments.
By mid 1984 he was working as a informant. He flew a Lockheed Lodestar to Colombia, a Cessna back as far as Nicaragua before an engine was damaged by anti-aircraft fire, the C123 "fat lady" to Nicaragua and back twice, each for the DEA.
Barry orchestrated, and I flew the flight to Bolivia for the DEA that was started in late 1984 and netted Norman Saunders, Prime Minister of Turks and Caicos. Barry was busy with lawyers and trials after the Saunders case, until the time of his murder in Baton Rouge February 19, 1986.
MR. LEE: The air strip in Nella, about 10 miles north of Mena, was registered in your name. What was the strip used for?
MR. BOTTOMS: The strip was never registered in my name. Fred Hampton owned the property. During my many visits to Mena we became friends somewhat. We had similar outdoor interests and were close to the same age. He told me about Nella, how beautiful it was nestled in the Ozarks and took me there. It was unbelievably beautiful. The ideal retreat. I was strictly interested in the property as a personal getaway.
We decided to become partners and we built the small landing strip on the property. Because of trees on one end, you would have to take off away from the trees and up the side of a mountain, and land towards them. The landing strip was not suitable for anything but a short field capable small airplane.
I later purchased all of the property from Hampton, but he never got around to transferring the title to me. Barry knew nothing of this deal. Nella was never used for any clandestine activity by Barry or myself.
MR. LEE: Did you ever meet Richard Brenneke, Donald Gregg, Dan Lasater, or Oliver North?
MR. BOTTOMS: No.
[Next week: The criminal investigation by Russell Welch led him to different conclusions about what took place at Mena and Nella.]
Published in the Nov. 4, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
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Date: Mon Nov 11, 1996 10:47 pm CST
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THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT
Part III: The Investigation By Russell Welch
Barry Seal associate William Bottoms claimed in an interview published here last week that "Nothing of any real significance happened at Mena Airport," and that "Nella was never used for any clandestine activity by Barry or myself."
Documents reveal, however, that there were activities that Bottoms appears to have been unaware of.
Mena investigator Russell Welch of the Arkansas State Police has a secret FBI telex dated August 1987 that informs him that "a CIA or DEA operation is taking place at Mena airport." Welch further states that "There was a covert operation here at Mena. It did use the strip at Nella for a period of time. The operation that I'm referring to didn't start until around late 1986 or 1987. Although it took place at Nella there was no other connection to Barry's name, until Terry Reed came along." Barry Seal was killed in 1986.
As for the amounts of cocaine smuggled into Arkansas by Seal, Welch found a period of time from April 12, 1982 to March 24, 1984 where Barry Seal was running his own smuggling operation, smuggling for himself and the people that were working for him. They were bringing a planeload of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel, 250 - 350 kilos of cocaine, into Arkansas approximately every other week.
A declassified summary of the CIA inspector General investigation of Mena was released Friday. It, too, confirmed clandestine activities at Mena. One was a joint training operation at the airport between the CIA and another federal agency. In addition, the CIA contracted with businesses at the airport "to perform routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA."
The summary also confirms that L.D. Brown was a candidate for CIA employment in 1984. It said the agency decided that December not to hire him. Brown has claimed that on two occasions, while a candidate for CIA employment, he flew guns and drugs with Barry Seal.
Barry Seal was also involved in a top secret NSA operation based at Mena. Author R. Emmett Tyrrell has obtained documentary evidence of operation "RAPPORT" that used Seal and his C-123K "fat lady" to spy on the Sandinistas. The NSA installed nuclear radiation detectors in the "fat lady" that would allow detection of Soviet-made nuclear missiles in Nicaragua as Seal flew over the country. That gave Seal status as a CIA asset, and Customs and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed Seal to leave and enter the country without inspection.
A July 1995 editorial in the Wall Street Journal reveals even more clandestine activities at Mena. Citing reliable sources in the intelligence community, the editorial says that an AWACs-Patriot system was tested there, CIA contract planes were repainted, and the area was included in a counter-terror exercise run out of the nearby Fort Chafee.
Published in the Nov. 11, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
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Date: Mon Nov 11, 1996 10:48 pm CST
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SCOPE OF LEACH INVESTIGATION REVEALED
A letter sent by House Banking Committee Chairman James Leach to NSA director John McConnell in July of last year shows the scope of the issues that Leach has been investigating vis-à-vis Mena and Systematics Inc.
The internal NSA emails dealing with the questions raised by Leach have key passages blacked out and shed little light on the issues. There is no record of the briefing given by the NSA Inspector General to James Leach. So we have, as yet, no way of knowing the answers that Leach received to his questions.
The letter by Leach is reproduced below:
July 11, 1995
Vice Admiral John McConnell, USN
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FT. George Meade, MD 20755
Dear Admiral McConnell:
I am writing to seek your agency's help in verifying or laying to rest various allegations of money laundering in Arkansas in the late 1980s. For that purpose, I would request a briefing from NSA's Inspector General on Friday, July 14 before 1:00 p.m.; if that is not possible, sometime on Monday, July 17, would also be convenient.
The reports I have in mind have appeared in the general press and, sometimes in sensational form, in more narrow-gauged outlets, including the Internet. They speak of secret foreign bank accounts held by prominent people in Arkansas, special software to monitor bank transfers, an Arkansas-centered network of banks formed to launder money, and similar tales. I would like to determine whether there is any substance at all to these stories.
Specifically, I would like your Inspector General to tell me whether the Agency:
(1) knows of any secret bank accounts held by U.S. citizens domiciled in Arkansas at any time between 1988 and now;
(2) is aware, directly or indirectly, of any efforts by computer hackers, U.S.-government related or otherwise, to penetrate banks for the purpose of monitoring accounts and transactions;
(3) knows of or has participated, directly or indirectly, in efforts to sell software — notably versions of a program in use at the Justice Department called PROMIS — or clandestinely produced devices to foreign banks for the purpose of collecting economic intelligence and information about illicit money transfers;
(4) is cognizant of any attempts by Systematics Inc, an Arkansas-based electronic data processor that is now a division of Alltell, to monitor or engage in the laundering of drug money or proceeds of other illegal activities, notably those conducted through Mena, Arkansas;
(5) can provide information about Charles Hayes, a businessman in Nancy, Kentucky, who claims to have been a CIA operative in Latin and Central America, among other places;
(6) knew of or was involved in, directly or indirectly, any covert activities by the U.S. government or any private parties (the so-called "private benefactors") in or around Mena in the late 1980s;
(7) had any contractual or other relationship with the late Adler Barriman "Barry" Seal in the 1980s or knew about his activities in connection with Mena.
I would appreciate your help in shedding light on these matters.
Sincerely,
James A. Leach
Chairman
Published in the Nov. 11, 1996 Issue of The Washington Weekly
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How does a regexp, identifying the beginning of a paragraph, look like. The beginning of a line is a "^" and the beginning of a buffer is a "\'", but what does the beginning of a paragraph look like?
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A Private New York Holding company plans to profit from the Increased Poisoning of Missouri's children
Continuing revelations from the state health department show that a new lead mining proposal, which threatens the Lower Ozarks area of the Mark Twain National Forest, also threatens the lives of area children for generations to come. The fact that most of the nation's lead is mined in Missouri by the Doe Run company, based in St. Louis and owned by Renco Inc. of New York, gives us a particular opportunity to stop the poisoning.
Opportunities to get involved exist for everyone as a groundswell of local citizen groups across the state organize to oppose the new mining. To find out more, call the Heartwood coalition coordinating group, Voices from the Forest, at (573) 443-6832.
The state health department reported in August that 1/6 of randomly-selected children, age six months to six years, living in the Old Lead Belt in St. Francois County had high blood lead levels. In contrast, only 3% of the children living 70 miles away from the lead-mining area, in Salem, had high lead levels.
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Dave's Lines of the Week (Letterman)
Monday, November 4 - Thursday, November 7
"Good news and bad news for Bob Dole. Of course, the bad news for Bob Dole — he lost the election...The good news is he's going to have a child with his nurse at the retirement home."
"President Clinton, though, had 5,000 people at his victory party. Five thousand people! And that was just the catering staff."
"We have no details now about the Inaugural Ball. For example, we don't know exactly where it will be, we don't know exactly what the entertainment will be and we don't know who Clinton will be taking as a date."
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's the day after the Presidential election. How many of you watched the coverage last night on television? Talk about suspense! Honest to God, I was glued to the television set until, oh, 7:15-7:30."
"I didn't get to see the rest of the coverage — help me out here. Last night, did they ever find the guy who voted for Dole?"
"It was a quiet night at Dole headquarters. It was Dole and a few volunteers and the fat lady singing."
"Earlier today, President Clinton left Arkansas — you know he had been celebrating down in Arkansas — and flew to Washington. It was an emergency. Yeah, it was an emergency — Clinton had eaten everything in Arkansas."
"Clinton's goal for the second term — pretty much like every American. You know, watch his weight, try to stay out of jail."
"You've got to give Clinton credit. He's not resting on his laurels. Earlier today, Clinton promised that in his second term, he will be named in twice as many lawsuits."
"Both candidates are taking the last couple of days of the campaign very, very seriously. Dole, in the last 72 hours, has hardly slept and Clinton has hardly slept around."
"At the O.J. Simpson civil trial, an 18-year-old court intern claims that O.J. Simpson was bothering her. Sexually harassing her, you know what I mean? And it's interesting, O.J. said that he was just flirting with the girl. He says he flirts with everybody and nobody has ever complained before. Oh sure, if you don't count those 911 tapes."
"As you know over the weekend, they held the annual New York City Marathon and our congratulations to Giacomo Leone from Italy who won the race this year...He covered the distance of 26 miles in two hours and 19 minutes and won, for his efforts, $30,000. And, coincidentally, that's approximately what it would have cost him if he'd taken a cab."
"This is the first time in 15 years I was unable to finish the Marathon. I'll tell you what happened — I was watching it on television and I got up to get some more root beer and I twisted my ankle."
"There's an article coming out of England that Michael Jackson has paid a woman to be artificially inseminated so that he can have a child. This man, this Michael Jackson is amazing. Think about this: he was married for two years, is now expecting a child, and he's still a virgin."
OPENING REMARKS FROM THE "LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN's 'FRIDAY NIGHTS ON THE ROAD'" — Washington, D.C., November 8
"Before we kick off the big show tonight, let me just say one thing to President Clinton. Mr. Clinton, David Brinkley is the David who thinks you're boring. I'm the Dave who thinks you're fat."
"You've got to give President Clinton a lot of credit. I mean, this man, wasting no time, today holding a press conference announcing that he's already shaken up his administration for his second term. Today he announced that Christine Lahti, fine actress, will be replacing Hillary."
"Here's what I did this afternoon. Since it was such a lovely day here in Washington, I went over to the Smithsonian Institute. I saw Lindbergh's plane, I saw the Apollo 8 spacecraft, I saw J.Edgar Hoover's strapless cocktail dress."
"Then, I went over to the Lincoln Memorial, and sitting on Abe's lap was Dan Quayle. He was telling the President what he wanted for Christmas."
"You know, I don't care how nice a city is. Every city has its drawbacks. For example, in New York City, your neighbor to the north, we have crime, we have violence and we have garbage. Here in Washington, D.C. — Newt Gingrich."
"The most exciting thing that's happened to me so far since I've been in Washington, D.C. — last night I met President Clinton...Here's the best part — it was not planned. It was a chance meeting. I'm staying at the Marriott and in the middle of the night, he accidentally knocks on my door!"
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Subject: ciadrugs] JEAN DUFFEY interviewed by Randall Terry
Date: Saturday, November 09, 1996 6:15 PM
JEAN DUFFEY interviewed by Randall Terry
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Jean Duffey headed a drug task force for the law enforcement community in Arkansas. Duffey 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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Randall 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?
Jean Duffey: 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."
Randall Terry: Why?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: Let's just stop right here.
Jean Duffey: All right.
Randall 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.
Jean Duffey: Well, that's absolutely correct.
Randall 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?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: To who? To higher-ups?
Jean Duffey: Yes, absolutely to higher-ups.
Randall Terry: How high?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: This all sounds so fantastic. How unbelievable. I mean how the average American 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?
Jean Duffey: I don't think that there is any doubt that he was.
Randall Terry: Explain to the listeners who Dan Harmon was at the time and who he is now.
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall 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.
Jean Duffey: There have been several murders of potential witnesses. Anyone who could have solved this murder many years ago has been systematically eliminated.
Randall 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!
Jean Duffey: It really does. I've been called crazy before — that's for sure.
Randall 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.
Jean Duffey: 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 Duffey back in 1990."
Randall Terry: I am going to take a break and when we come back you can ask Jean Duffey why it was necessary that these two boys be murdered, and subsequently nine other witnesses were murdered....
Randall 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.
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: But, drug drops happen every day and there aren't 11 people murdered as a result.
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: Have you heard of Terry Reed's book, "Compromised?"
Jean Duffey: Yes, I have. I've read it.
Randall Terry: Do you think it's credible?
Jean Duffey: Ah — I think without really knowing...
Randall 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.
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: Tell us some of the things. You had several informants working for you. Tell us some of the things your informants uncovered.
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: You say you found local political figures involved. And your informants were credible? They had concrete evidence?
Jean Duffey: 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...
Randall Terry: Do they know that the other informants exist?
Jean Duffey: No.
Randall Terry: These are all separate?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall 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?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: We have about a minute left. You can say anything you want. This is Jean Duffey who headed up a drug task force. How many investigators did you have working for you?
Jean Duffey: I had seven undercover officers.
Randall Terry: And five of them resigned in protest over the way you were treated.
Jean Duffey: They did.
Randall Terry: That's unbelievable. You have the last minute to tell the listeners anything you want.
Jean Duffey: [Encourages listeners to order the video "Obstruction of Justice" which will be used to fund a civil action].
Randall 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?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: They put a $50,000 hit fee on you?
Jean Duffey: 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.
Randall Terry: Ben Harmon, folks, is the fellow who eyewitnesses said was seen with the boys on the tracks the night they were murdered. And he is a prosecutor there.
Jean Duffey: He is the prosecuting attorney there and has been since 1991.
Randall Terry: If the allegations that our friend Jean Duffey 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 coverup are exposed.
Jean Duffey: Thank you very much for your concern.
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CN: The video, "Obstruction of Justice," is available from Citizens for Honest Government, 1-800-251-8089. *caveat emptor*
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S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 133, November 15, 1996
CIA ADMITS 2-WEEK TRAINING EXERCISE AT MENA
by Kathy Kiely (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Writer)
WASHINGTON — In a report certain to rev up an already-active rumor mill, the CIA acknowledged Friday that it has conducted operations at Arkansas' Mena Airport.
The small airport in Polk County at the far western edge of the state has long been the subject of speculation that it was a center of money laundering, drug smuggling and gunrunning — and that government officials knew about it.
Former State Trooper L.D. Brown has said that while he was under review for possible employment with the CIA in 1984, he took two airplane rides from Mena to Honduras. There, Brown said, M-16 rifles were distributed to members of the Nicaraguan Contras — anti-communist guerrillas the Reagan administration was supporting — in exchange for cocaine.
In a declassified summary of a report commissioned by House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach, R-Iowa, the CIA inspector general's office insisted it has come up with no evidence that the agency was involved in "money laundering, narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling or other illegal activities at or around Mena."
But the report, which involved a review of about 40,000 pages of materials and interviews with more than 40 people, acknowledged that the CIA did run "a joint training operation with another federal agency at Mena Intermountain Airport."
The report described it only as a "two week exercise" and said that the agency's involvement had been classified and never publicly disclosed.
One source familiar with various Mena investigations remarked that at the very least, the inspector general's report tends to lend credence to the suspicion that the airport was used as a center for clandestine operations to supply the Contras.
The inspector general's office also acknowledged that the CIA used Mena for "routine aviation-related services" on equipment the agency owned. The report said that the companies and employees who did the work did not know their client was the CIA.
A spokesman for the agency said he could not elaborate on the report's revelations.
The report confirms that Brown was a candidate for CIA employment in 1984. It said the agency decided that December not to hire him.
CIA personnel also had "limited contact" with Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal, a drug-trafficker and federal informant who Brown said took him along on the rides to Honduras. According to the inspector general's report, the contact came during a federal Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation in which Seal flew the airplane.
The report said the CIA provided "technical support" in the form of cameras mounted into Seal's plane. Agents discussed with Seal where to place the cameras and how to operate them, but that was the extent of the CIA's contact with the drug runner, later shot dead in Baton Rouge, La., the inspector general's office concluded.
The report added there is "no evidence" that the CIA knew Seal's "true identity" at the time of the operation. A source close to the CIA's internal investigation said the agency did not even know his name when its personnel were dealing with him on the drug sting.
Although the report is clearly meant to quell rumors of a conspiracy among members of the Reagan administration and then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton to cover up a Mena-based guns-for-drugs operation, it seems likely to add more fuel to the fire.
Leach, who requested the CIA's report, refused to comment on it. But in a statement, the congressman said his committee is continuing its own investigation of what happened at the Arkansas airport. Leach hopes to issue a report by the end of the year.
This article was published on Saturday, November 9, 1996
Copyright 1996, Little Rock Newspapers, Inc. All rights reserved.
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