(3330 Louisiana ave )New Orleans La.Eladio Del Valle anti castro cuban died Miami Fla same day.Clay Shaw arrest conspiracy JFK on March 1, 1967.New Orleans conspiracy characters Guy Banister,Jack Martin, Thomas Beckham, Fred Lee Crisman ,Raymond Broshears!Womaack Ins Agent 222 W Thomas St Hammond La.March 24,1964 To Mr Clay Shaw 1313 Daughine St N.O. >38. [Posted 13 November 2002] Just before Labor Day 2002, I was on the road to Texas. >Soon, IRS CID Special Agent William Duncan was asking questions; and Barry>Seal was perhaps the one man on earth who could answer those questions. Rich Mnt Aviation Inc Star Route 9 box 6G Mena Arkansas.Seal coin operated phone booths 12688-13241 Perkins Rd.Barry Seal box 64801 baton Rouge.Seal Planes Piper Navajo ,Piper Seneca,Cessna,Piper Azteo, beech, beechcraft Kingair,etc!Seal 8216 Oakbrook Dr Baton Rouge.David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many . It had been used for several months by Barbque co which he was onceassociated with. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. Two quick bursts riddled Seals head and chest, killing him instantly. Bowe was a well-known lawyer and drug>smuggler in the region. Thank you. He was also the>youngest pilot to be promoted to captain of the crew of a Boeing 707, and>later of a Boeing 747. The series examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti . [12] He first admitted this under oath before the President's>Commission on Organized Crime. The facts and circumstances leading up to Seal's death appear in the record as follows: Barry Seal was a pilot and drug smuggler for the Medellin Cartel, a Colombian cocaine . He'd had profitable dealings with Colombian drug lord Pablo>Escobar for a number of years. Qualified Americans could, until recently, apply for and receive a license>to sell automatic weapons and conversion kits. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. His purpose there was to inform the commission and top United States officials of the methods and equipment used by drug smugglers.and (he) was scheduled to be a key witness in the governments case against Jorge Ochoa-Vasques, the head of one of the largest drug cartels in the world. >rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. The problem, for Seal anyway, was that,>during this entire period, government agents at various levels were working>independently of each other to hit the same target. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. After his>trip to Washington where he met with the Vice-Presidential Task Force, Seal>had become the DEA's prize informant. (barry Seal Friends James Poche-David Holmes-John Odom.) was the sister of Marguerite Oswald. Seal's lawyers immediately>protested by filing motions averring that, in an effort to fulfill the terms>of the plea bargain, Seal was engaged in activities which could place him in>serious danger if he were housed at a halfway house. It alleges, explicitly and implicitly, that an aircraft operated by a CIA front company in 1984 used the airfield at Mena, Arkansas, as a stating point for weapons supply flights to the Contras in Nicaragua; on the return flights from Honduras, the aircraft allegedly carried illegal narcotics to Mena. White House restricts military gear NATO Jade Helm 15 Stockholm Syndrome 1984 sample explaining the purpose of war Rand Paul v. Patriot Act Corbett 9/11 a conspiracy theory When he was a boy, he would frequently ride his bicycle to a local>private airport two miles from his house, where he would lean on the chain->link fence and watch small planes take off and land. He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by Pablo Escobar, head of . Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, in Mena. After death, his story was famous, and a lot of people were talking . (date 11-22-63- ferrie left his 2buddys )David Ferrie flight plan date 4-8-1963.flight plan vfr type craft cessna Name command: W Ferrieaddress command: N.O. [19], >On 3 March 1985, as scheduled, Seal met with Smith, Missick, Andre Fournier,>and Nigel Bowe at a Miami hotel. He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by the Medellns. Seal's lawyer wrote the U.S. Pingback: Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press. He owned a camp on the oak-studded>banks of the Amite River, in swampy Ascension Parish, near the village of>French Settlement. [34], >Although there are conflicting reports, it appears Seal was originally>recruited by the CIA as a "subcontractor" to fly arms and other contraband to>the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters, beginning sometime in 1983 after he allegedly>met with Terry Reed to discuss gun-smuggling activities. >It is well documented that Seal was one of the top five drug smugglers in the>United States. Marilyn Monroe July28,1962 weekend and the next weekend August 5, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home.Paul DAmato (born 1908- died Jun. The author's oldest brother knew Seal>in high school. [35]>According to Reed and Cummings, during this first meeting, Seal advised that>Iver Johnson's Arms, Inc., a New Jersey company that manufactured weapons and>weapons parts, had moved to Arkansas. Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. He died instantly. meeting at camp robinson with other people too. >Polozola's order also contained certain "special conditions." [30] However, it was commonly rumored (and with good>reason) in both Louisiana and Arkansas in the 1980s that Barry Seal was>engaged in the arms trade as well as being a cocaine trafficker. strange coincidence :John Odom baton Rouge. . According to a story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in the 9 October 1994,>issue of the London Sunday Telegraph, one interest-bearing account opened by>Seal in the Cayman Islands had a balance of over $1.6 billion at the time the>article was written. American Made is a fascinating biopic about Barry Seal, a commercial pilot who worked with the CIA to run drugs and guns in South America. Advertisement. Barry Seal. no. On March 27, a state grand jury in Baton Rouge indicted Miguel Velez, Bemardo Antonio Vasquez, Luis Quintero, and Jose Renteria-Campo for the murder. Barry Seal, at the time he died, may have been the . (born 1939/40) In Seal's words, "You could easily drive a couple of jeeps and>bigger vehicles into [The Fat Lady] and be on your way." [43] Seal is credited with having>made approximately three flights per week between 1983 and 1986, from Mena and>Nella (another Arkansas hamlet with an airstrip, a few miles from Mena) to>Central and South America. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. His>favorite mode of transportation for these flights was a modified military>C-123 aircraft he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady. Seal's arraignment proceeded as scheduled on>that date. The C-123 was ultimately sold to a company with connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. Between>his salary as a tenured pilot with TWA and the money he made as a gun runner,>Seal had gotten used to a rather high standard of living. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in . Seal flipped, becoming a valuable government informant. [39] What that means is the>only "machinegun" (automatic weapon) the average American citizen has been>allowed to own, by law, since May 1986 is one which was lawfully registered>before that time. American Made: Directed by Doug Liman. >45. [47] It may well be that the CIA>was hesitant to divulge Seal's activities on its behalf for fear that a leak>would jeopardize its effectiveness in aiding the Contras. [27], >At the time the order was signed, and in the weeks that followed, Seal>continued to work with the government as an informant, although his smuggling>activity had been substantially curtailed by judge Polozola's order. The agreement, Seal said, called for the cartel to give a cut of drug profits to the Sandinistas in exchange for use of an airfield in Managua as a trans-shipment point for narcotics. >Two days earlier, a Colombian national named Bernardo Antonio Vasquez had>rented a room at a motel near the halfway house. He was well aware of the drug-smuggling>activity and logically concluded it was creating a problem that only a money->laundering scheme of gargantuan proportions could ameliorate. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 16, 1939 to a typical American family. In return he is [sic] allowed to smuggle what he wanted back into the>United States. Arthur>had a very large airstrip and a clean spacious aircraft hangar on a tract of>land he leased from the Turks and Caicos government. The U.S. would conceal the transactions by selling the weapons first to Israel and then re-selling them at significant off the books markups to Irans Islamist government for use in its war with Iraq. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. (jack ruby lived near Paul Dorffman Irwin Weiner chicago il ) Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Dave Yaras .9 Two other Colombians, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz>and Miguel Velez, shared Vasquez's room. Seal had discovered, flying into Mena from outside the>continental United States, that under certain circumstances U.S. Customs>agents at the airport did not inspect aircraft. Director Doug Liman (Writing Studio, 9/1/17) describes American Made, his film about real-life drug dealer Barry Seal, as "a fun lie based on a true story."So it's not like he's holding himself to a high standard of historical accuracy. Send a free subscription to a friend or subscribe for yourself. Where necessary, the stories are specifically>referred to. In May of 1987, a jury found Vasquez, Velez, and Quintero guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced all three to life in prison without parole. MENA NOIR: Aircraft pilot Barry Seal, a Baton Rouge native who smuggled drugs into the U.S. for the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, used this airport in Me. Shortly before 6:00 P.M., the forty-six-year-old Seal wheeled the>yellow Cadillac into the parking lot of the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center in Baton Rouge. Hasenfus said that was by sheer coincidence. barry plane crash near 4560 Essen Lane 1960 He was in Hospital for a week . He had already been flying planes for nearly half his life, earning his student pilot . Oliver North said:I only shot at who shot at me. >During 1985, the Ochoa cartel became increasingly concerned about recent>seizures of their drugs by U.S. government agents and made major adjustments>in flight schedules, contacts, and drug-drop locations. He died of three gunshot wounds. >The financing scheme was essentially as follows. Transcript of Barry Seal's cross-examination in September 1985, in United>States v. Norman Saunders, et al., Cr. Simply click on the Donate button here and contribute whatever you feel appropriate. A great>deal of corporate naivete and ignorance on the part of state government was to>be expected in Bill Clinton's Arkansas, with respect to certain business>transactions where Barry Seal, Iver Johnson's, and Brodix were involved., as>long as the appropriate fees were paid to the right parties. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. >12. >To Seal, and others involved in weapons smuggling, what made the business>risky was that the registration law applied not only to the purchase and>transportation of automatic weapons, but also to the kits used to convert>semiautomatic into automatic weapons. A federal judge had sentenced Seal to stay for several months in an unguarded Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. That condition was as follows: >(6) The defendant [Seal] shall reside at the Salvation Army Community>Treatment Center, 7361 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for a period>of six (6) months. (denied notes). At the height of his career, he was under investigation by the DEA in Mena, Arkansas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in addition to being under the watchful eye of the FBI. Lee Odom said.p o box 19106 had never been in his name.but It prohibited the exportation of arms like>M-16s and kits, like the CARs used to convert semiautomatic weapons, without>congressional approval. In addition, the indictment will contain>one count of causing financial institutions not to file currency transaction>reports (CTRs). Should the grand jury return the indictment, the Government>agrees to allow the defendant to plead guilty to the two-count indictment. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . But, because>Winters was participating in a trial on 4 January, the arraignment date>initially set by the court, Bardwell sought and was given a continuance until>the next week, 8 January 1985. of three presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. MENA They called him the Fat Man. That agenda would turn up in the sordid details of the Iran-Contra scandal. About twelve thousand people live>in the islands, mainly in the capital of Grand Turk. Part of the $48 million paid by Iran to the U.S. for the Hawk and TOW missiles was in turn used to fund the Contras in their fight against the Marxist Sandinistas. . >Many individuals in Arkansas, and elsewhere, bought weapons and conversion>kits from those companies, sometimes in large quantities. It's>also what the Branch Davidians were doing at Mt. 85-165-Spellman, United States District Court, Southern District>of Florida, September 1985. As to count two (the tax-related charges), the court's>order placed Seal on probation for five years and fined him ten thousand>dollars. See, also, "Government's>Response to Defendant's Rule 32 Motion to Correct Pre-Sentence Report," United>States of AMerica v. Adler Berriman Seal, Crim. Reed and Cummings, Compromised, 106-108. >4. He grew up three blocks from the Seal family, in the same>neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana>State University for one year, but decided that he didn't need a college>degree to fly airplanes. Type in his/her email address in the square below and then click on Sign me up!, Got a news lead for LouisianaVoice to investigate? >For his part, Seal may not have known that a number of weapons-manufacturing>and sales firms were operating in Arkansas in the 1980s. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. He was murdered on February 19, 1986 by contract killers hired by the cartel. "[32] Ironically, if such a scheme really was in place,>the federal government was in effect subsidizing the Contras through tax>deductions, in violation of its own laws. [13] In early 1984, months before the actual>indictment was handed down in Baton Rouge, Seal had realized that it was only>a matter of time before the death knell sounded on his $25 million-a-year>drug-trafficking operation. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration was well aware>of the fact that the chances of obtaining congressional approval for such>covert CIA activities as arming military and paramilitary groups, like the>freedom fighters, were slim to none. [41] All other automatic weapons are illegal. But, they>also made him a marked man. Oliver North said:barry seal was double agent. At times, some of the big-ticket items obtained through the>insurance loss claim scam were also transported in The Fat Lady. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. Before long, Seal was importing up to a thousand pounds of cocaine a month. After a barrage of requests from media outlets, the FBI released more than 1,000 pages of its file on Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal on July 15th. On 1st July, 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of sending C4 explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. Seal became obsessed with aircraft and took his first solo flight at the age of fifteen and was soon making a living towing advertising banners. >Al Winters did in fact testify at the arraignment. The balcony of the motel gave>the second-floor occupants an unobstructed view of the lot where Seal>customarily parked his car. total number on board :4 =Hidell Lambert Diaz / Color of aircraft : Red /W.David Ferrie plane found :Stinson Voyager 150 Nobleville.Indiana.Don Roberts shed next to eastside of his home next Nobleville Airport Promise Road Stinson Voyager Single Engine airplane manufactured 1946.David Ferrie sold stinson plane February 13,1967. WEINER Yes. photo Escobar with Seal picture on television ?who sit duck at In 1986, he got killed, but his name was not forgotten. [10] Jorge Ochoa would>soon discover that Barry Seal, whom the cartel had long trusted, was playing a>significant role in the cartel's looming problems. Exclusive: Tom Cruise's portrayal of drug-smuggler-turned-government-informant Barry Seal is a fast-paced visit back to the Reagan era's shadowy world of the CIA, cocaine and secret wars . Seal soon purchased a hangar>and began to operate a new business, Rich Mountain Aviation, Inc. >According to Russell Welch, Seal admitted in late 1985 that aircraft were>being "retrofitted" with cargo doors, bladder tands and special plumbing, and>fuel and navigational system modifications in the Rich Mountain hangar between>1981 and 1985. | B'Man's Revolt, Pingback: ENGLISH Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986? The man who made Baton Rouge headlines in the mid-1980s for the machine-gun killing of drug informant Adler "Barry" Seal died in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Aug. 25, Louisiana . >A C-123 is so large that vehicles can be driven into its fuselage for>transport. At the same time, Seal was introduced to the>man in the white suit, Stafford Missick, minister of Commerce and Finance in>the islands. It proved to be the singular event that blew the Iran-Contra scandal wide open. 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