Mena, Arkansas

Tons of cocaine were flown into the airport in Mena, Arkansas by Barry Seal, a CIA operative, and possibly others. Barry was immune to prosectution due to his connections in the George Bush White House and the CIA. Meanwhile, the governor of the state of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, rose from relative obscurity to become President of the United States. We'll probably never know the full story of what happened in Mena, but what we do know is incredible.

	Mena: Deposition of Richard J. Brenneke	by Richard J. Brenneke
	I'll state further for the record, that the nature of this inquiry is confidential. And that it is - the evidence is intended to be used to produce for the benefit of the Special Prosecutor in the Iran-Contra case now pending in Washington and for other purposes.
	Mena: Obstruction of Justice (Preview)
	On August 23, 1987, seventeen-year-old Kevin Ives and sixteen-year-old Don Henry, were murdered in a rural community just south of Little Rock. Their bodies were placed on railroad tracks and run over by a passing train
	Ollie North and the C-123 Story	by Bear Bottoms
	Barry Seal made a decision to try and work off his legal problems. He started trying to get someone to work with him. He was having difficulty finding someone. Finally, in March of 1984 he flew his Lear Jet to Washington and received an audience with Vice President Bush's Anti-Drug Task Force...
	Operation Red Rock	by Stew Webb
	The "Contragate" years teem with well documented accounts of illicit wholesale gun running and dope smuggling. The expose series published in Autumn 1996 by the San Jose Mercury Post, entitled the "Dark Alliance," openly finger-points at the CIA and the Reagan administration for turning a blind-eye to massive Cocaine smuggling. Moreover, the series of articles claim that the explosion of "crack Cocaine" in Los Angeles resulted entirely from the Contra leaders-cum-dope peddlers who made vast personal fortunes from their activities. Today, the official argument remains that the Contra's were "freelancing" without the knowledge or consent of their CIA "handlers" or North's so called "Enterprise."
	Radio Interview with Mark Swaney
	WBAI radio interview with Mark Swaney from "Faithful Arkansas" a citizens group, speaking of Bill Clinton's and George Bush's connection with the CIA covert drug smuggling operation in Mena Arkansas in support of the Contras.
	South Central CIA Transcript	by Charles Overbeck
	The following is a transcript of a Town Hall meeting between residents of South Central and other areas of Los Angeles and CIA Director John Deutch. The intense question-and-answer session was hosted by Rep. Juanita M. McDonald (D-California, 37th District) on the evening of Friday, November 15, 1996, at Locke High School in Los Angeles. The first part of McDonald's opening remarks was omitted for brevity, but otherwise, this transcript is a continuous verbatim record of the event. Transcription by Charles Overbeck, [email protected], for ParaScope, http://www.parascope.com/
	The Crimes of Mena	by Sally Denton and Roger Morris
	Barry Seal - gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. operative extraordinaire - is hardly a familiar name in American politics. But nine years after he was murdered in a hail of bullets by Medellin cartel hit men outside a Salvation Army shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he has come back to haunt the reputations of three American presidents.
	The Mena Airport: Why Arkansas's Biggest Mystery Won't Die	by Mara Leveritt
	First there was the investigation, the expectation of indictments-- and, to the amazement of many, the inaction. The plot thickened in 1986, when discovery of the Iran-Contra affair also revealed shadowy connections between Oliver North's gun-running operation to the Nicaraguan Contras and what appeared to be government-protected drug activity taking place at Mena.