document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What a tangled web! Barry Seal was a CIA agent and a very successful cocaine smuggler. He grew up three blocks from the Seal family, in the same>neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. >37. Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in San Jose The Mercury News in 1996. Your identity will never be revealed. Where necessary, the stories are specifically>referred to. Probation Office on 18 February 1986. Since May 1986, the law has flatly prohibited the transfer or possession>of automatic weapons not registered before the May 1986 cut-off date. The DEA, long aware of his>drug-smuggling activities, had finally caught up with him in Florida, where>federal prosecutors had a field day. no. Jim Garrison said: Real Lee Odom lives Irving Tx (Ruth Paine) Lee Odom p.o.box 174 (1968-9),however not the point ,the point Bustamonte was also associated with the Ochoa family of the infamous>Medellin drug cartel. 84-77-B, U.S. District>Court, Middle District of Louisiana, filed 21 January 1986. Crews, passengers, and>cargo apparently didn't have to go through Customs if the aircraft was landing>at Mena for retrofitting. Unglesby said the Medellin Cartel killed Seal to prevent the extradition of Medellin Cartel co-leader Jorge Ochoa from Spain, where he was hiding. 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 . During his teens, Barry would bicycle to Ryan's Field to watch airplanes in action. 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. 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. Wasnt he involved in contra affair with OLLIE and Felix ? Seal's exploits brought him into close contact with infamous figures like Medelln cartel kingpins Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa and Panama dictator Manuel Noriega and he was . Lee Odom said He met Clay Shaw Nov 1966. [41] All other automatic weapons are illegal. Whether known or not at the time by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, the use of the Mena airport by Seal and others would be used by detractors in efforts to tie Clinton to drug smuggling conspiracies, especially during his first four years as President. Mr. WOLF When were your meetings with Mr. Trafficante? Welch was an investigator for the Arkansas State>Police Criminal Investigations Division, taking part in Seal's prosecution in>federal court in Baton Rouge on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.>He attended one of Seal's depositions on 27 December 1985, and heard Seal make>these admissions.[9]. >13. 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 . U.S. authorities wanted to put him on trial for drug smuggling. In 1981, he was making daily deposits of $50,000 into an account at a bank in the Bahamas. A copy>of the letter is in the Court's record, in U.S. v. Seal. >26. (Arkansas State Criminal Investigator Russell Welch), to former drug pilots, that have testified that the CIA operation Barry Seal set up in Mena was used, and is still being used, to smuggle drugs with official sanction into the . He invited fellow drug smuggler Felix>Dixon Bates to join him. Seal was convicted on numerous charges.>Soon, federal prosecutors in Louisiana were breathing down his neck. >Now officially known as Confidential Informant No. This is the story that couldn't be suppressed. >41. . >The "plea bargain" and "probation" referred to the plea agreement Seal was>finally able to reach with federal prosecutors in Baton Rouge, in November>1984, just before the grand jury indictment was formally handed down. alternate landing: Dallas .Landing:327 Hours 5 30 Min. >But, in February 1984, Seal was convicted in federal court in south Florida>for possession with intent to distribute Quaaludes. is that Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald have the same post office According to Seal, he and Arthur had>made "a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]" together over the years. Even criminals have a love life and Barry Seal was no different. I n the comments section of a story in Seal's howtown Baton Rouge Advocate about the film, one wrote: "I knew and dated Barry when I was a student at BRHS - about 1954/1955. Some, like>Terry Reed, who claims to have been a CIA "asset" himself in the 1980s, have>gone much further.[31]. WOLF How do you know Mr. Yaras ?Mr. 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. >11. >47. [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. 85-165-Spellman, United States District Court, Southern District>of Florida, September 1985. (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. He'd had profitable dealings with Colombian drug lord Pablo>Escobar for a number of years. >While flying for TWA in the early 1970s, Seal did a little "moonlighting." In October, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Narcotics and Drug Interdiction of the Presidents Commission on Organized Crime, I had presided over a seminar at which Barry Seal had testified, Guste continued. Your contribution would help us immensely in meeting our growing expenses. [3] A former Green Beret, Seal became one of TWA's top>pilots. Insurance>companies with loss reserves could sell future claims to other companies,>"giving the first company immediate income from the purchase, and from the>unused claim money." 84-77-B, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana,>filed 30 December 1985 (emphasis added). >Because of the overwhelming evidence against him, Seal had been forced to>plead guilty in 1984 to drugtrafficking charges in an unrelated federal court>proceeding in south Florida. "[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. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>584-585. On February the 19th, 1986, Barry Seal was returning to a Salvation Army halfway house at precisely 6:00 PM as part of his probation for a recent drug convictions. Adler Berriman Seal (July 16, 1939 - February 19, 1986), better known as Barry Seal, was a United States drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Medelln Cartel. Sam Giancana Mexico 1965 1975 .In A pril 1 97 2,Lucien Sarti was shot todeath in Mex ico City.Jean Souetre, a.k.a. New Orleans Times Picayune, 6 March 1986, reported that Seal's brother, Ben>(also known as "Benjy"), had commented that there was nothing Barry Seal>couldn't fly. Polozola on December 20, 1985, invoked the sentence handed down by the Florida judge and sentenced Seal to six months supervised probation, taking the occasion to say that people like Seal were the lowest, most despicable people I can think of. A condition of the sentence was that he had to spend every night, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at the Salvation Army halfway house on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge. . [40] That also means anyone attempting to purchase automatic>weapons before May 1986 could only do so lawfully by registering the weapons>with the federal government. The series examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti . Despite several such transactions, it would take years to obtain freedom for all the prisoners. That target was the>Medellin cartel. >22. >1. 85-165-Spellman, U.S. District>Court, Southern District of Florida, p. 462. Reagan and the CIA also understood the>threat posed by the existence of another Communist regime in Latin America, to>American interests in that area and to the interests of democracy in general. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. 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. In 1964, Seal went to work for TWA and became their youngest 707 captain and later their youngest 747 captain. The buyer, it turned out, was a federal agent. no. The>moonlighting, which involved smuggling operations, earned him a reputation as>a risktaking soldier of fortune. Since the cat was out of the bag, Seal asked Smith what>could be done to better "protect" his airplanes that were being stored>periodically in the islands. Most reports show that Barry Seal started his drug operation in 1981, and set up shop at the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport. The Saunders case was consolidated with>criminal actions against Stafford Missick, Aulden Smith, and Andre' Fournier,>and tried before judge John H. Moore, II, and a jury, in September 1985. Wow Barry Seal I think he is pretty Awesome loved movie about him. [24] At the time, Camp was an>investigative reporter for WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC affiliate. [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. 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. >This plea agreement is predicated upon the fact that the defendant cooperates>totally, including agreeing to submit to debriefing whenever and wherever>requested by Special Agents of the Government and Department of Justice>attorneys investigating criminal matters. Carmel, their compound>outside Waco, Texas, until early 1993.[37]. In the 2017 Doug Liman-directed movie "American Made," which was previously titled "Mena," Deborah DuBois, the third wife of Barry Seal, was portrayed by the character Lucy. no. [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. In secret testimony before the task force, Seal said the Medellin Cartel had cut a deal with the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Ibid., 521-531. He would work closely with the two agents in setting up a>sting operation involving the Medellin-based Ochoa cartel.[14]. Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, in Mena. Barry Seal. [26], >On 20 December 1984, the grand jury did in fact return an indictment, and U.S.>District judge Frank Polozola signed a Judgment and Probation/Commitment Order>in Seal's criminal proceeding. >31. DPD Curry is on air force one that witnessed LBJ being sworn in JFK coffin looks on and Congressman Albert Thomas winks back at a quickly-smiling LBJ.Henry Wade former _ _ _ then District atty case Ruby.Jack ruby called Irwin Weiner Chicago bail bondsman "Barry Seal, the charismatic narcotics air smuggler of the early 1980s, was daring and elusive. 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He normally received a commission for his work.>It wasn't unusual for him to transport up to $20 million in cash in exchange>for a commission of 5 percent of that amount.[7]. The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery. It's not that the 5,475 residents of this mountain . These people will burn in hell, Like what you read here? Obviously, Seal and Camp had a lot in common>and plenty of time to talk. >For his part, Seal may not have known that a number of weapons-manufacturing>and sales firms were operating in Arkansas in the 1980s. He stored,>bought, and sold aircraft used in smuggling, introduced smugglers to each>other, and helped them make connections. Barry Seal gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. [49] But, since 1984, Seal's luck had been>running out. No, it wasnt George W. Bush, nor was it was George Bush the elders personal phone number; it was the number to his office. 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. 15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Seals attorney, Lewis Unglesby, told Polozola his ruling amounted to a death sentence for his client. Tom Aswell, Publisher. Lee Odom said.p o box 19106 had never been in his name.but Seal>flew fifty cocaine-smuggling and money-laundering missions between 1981 and>1983 for the Medellin cartel. Jul 04, 2022 12:40 P.M. | 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? Thank you. Gary Webb & Barry Seal. To Tom Brister One of his flight Students.David Ferrie Died in his apt February 22,1967. WHY WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT WITNESS NOT GIVEN PROTECTIOIN WHETHER HE WANTED IT OR NOT? Guste asked, using all capital letters. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. A sign located at one end of the property, bearing the standard FAA>announcement that the field is an aircraft landing strip, and forbidding>trespassing or tampering with aircraft, remains to this day. (jack ruby called Yaras) According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an investigative>reporter for a London newspaper, one interest-bearing account opened by Seal>at the Fuji Bank in the Caymans had a balance of $1.645 billion at the time>one of his articles was written in 1994. >The Turks and Caicos Islands lie at the southeast end of the Bahamas. >Who really hired Vasquez, Quintero-Cruz, and Velez to assassinate America's>number one drug informant? Some of the facts regarding the trial of Seal's>killers are from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times, in addition>to the New Orleans papers. Agents White and Kennedy quickly arranged for Seal to>meet with DEA Special Agents Robert Jura and Ernest Jacobson in Miami. [33] Of course, there were other ways to fund the Freedom Fighters,>including the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, Gomez>International, Miller Communications, International Business Communications,>and Lake Resources, all organizations involved at one level or another in>receiving and redistributing money for Nicaragua. Somehow, the plane had fallen into the hands of Oliver North and his covert operation. Barry Seal. >Throughout 1984, Barry Seal continued to fly to Colombia', Nicaragua, Panama,>the Caymans, and the Turks and Caicos as a DEA informant doing business with>Jorge Ochoa, Pablo Escobar, and Carlos Lehder, all members of the Medellin>cartel. In March 1984,>frustrated by numerous vain attempts to talk personally with U.S. Attorney>Stanford Bardwell, who was prosecuting the case in Baton Rouge, the>nowdesperate Seal contacted the Vice-Presidential Task Force in Washington,>D.C., and made arrangements to meet with them a day or two later. 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. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. An investigative report into a scandal that haunts the reputations. The DEA was obviously delighted when Seal agreed>to become an informant. He was a known associate of the 'usual suspects': David Ferrie, Carlos Marcello, Guy Banister, and Grady Partin. With Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons. New Orleans Times Picayune, 21 February 1986. Reagan was ecstatic and went on national television shortly afterwards, waving the photograph given to him by Col. Oliver North and denouncing the Sandinistas as drug smugglers corrupting American youth.. When we mention CIA drug smuggling in Mena, Arkansas, the first name that comes to mind is Barry Seal. 1983 - The CIA begin to smuggling drugs into Los Angeles. The CIA was protecting its turf. In 1981, Seal set up shop at Mena. The larger transport plane, which he affectionately referred to as The Fat Lady, was needed to haul tons of cocaine for the cartel. The information gleaned during these trips led>to the eventual arrest and extradition arrest of Norman Saunders, Stafford>Missick, Aulden Smith, Andre Fournier, and, ultimately, the Panamanian>dictator, Gen. Manuel Noreiga. >Seal was ordered to report to the Salvation Army center on a future date to be>determined by the federal probation office. After death, his story was famous, and a lot of people were talking . Seal told friends that the judge made me a clay pigeon.. The life of the former TWA pilot, Barry Seal, inspired the film. That was what the white>supremacist cult, CSA, was doing in Arkansas in the early to-mid-1980s. Pingback: Film Review: American Made starring Tom Cruise go see it Palm Beach Free Press. Jack Ruby wanted Bertha Cheeks to go into business with him. Seal>kept his appointment with Jura and Jacobson five days after his meeting with>the task force. 85-165-Spellman, U.S. District>Court, Southern District of Florida, pp. Mr. WOLF Do you know Mr. Lennie Patrick ?.Mr. Adler Berriman Seal popularly known as Barry Seal was born on July 16, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. [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. Seal's lawyer wrote the U.S. >25. Minute entry, 8 January 1986, U.S. v. Seal. 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. The Fat Lady was>camouflaged. Why>not the CIA? (where anna lewis worked)Then they would go to 500 club free tab from carlos Marcello See Ruby,Ferrie etc. 1983 - 1995 - Federal investigations are covered up and shut down. Bustamonte later explained to Seal that Nicaragua was an>excellent place to engage in dope smuggling because the Communist Sandinistas>provided the cartel with a safe harbor for the transfer of Colombian cocaine>from one airplane to another when the final destination was the United>States.[6]. Much of the factual information about Seal is based on the author's>personal knowledge. On 1st July, 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of sending C4 explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. Mr. WOLF Did you know Mr. Sam Giancana?.Mr. >Barry Seal and the Mena Connection > Wednesday, 19 February 1986, had been a typical winter day in south . He helped facilitate the exchange of drugs for arms in support of the Contras in Nicaragua. A drug shipment transfer in Nicaragua was in fact videotaped>with The Fat Lady's surveillance camera. They all claim that Barry Seal involved clandestine activities. Our war on drugs is expensive, ineffective and amoral. A quarter-century later, Americas war on drugs continues at a cost of $52 billion per year, or $1600 for every second of every day. The cleared>area is over a mile long and is between five hundred and seven hundred feet>wide. >However, another federal law, the Boland Amendment, came into play where the>Contras were concerned. I had to visit my employer's Houston office, and didn't want to fly because our government was looking for a reason to start an oil war against Iraq. The Real Story Behind 'American Made' Is Much Darker Than the Movie. >According to Reed and his coauthor, John Cummings, retired U.S. Marine Lt.>Col. no. Some of the facts related to Seal's death are>also based on the author's personal knowledge; the rest were gleaned from>articles in the New Orleans Times Picayune and States Item, published between>November 1985 and May 1986. [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. According to Duncan and Welch, the bulk of the story centers around a drug-smuggler named Adler Berriman Seal, also known as Barry. Jack Ruby said Well the answer is the man in office now ___Thats all I have to say. Did Jack Ruby idolize you? When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. The author's oldest brother knew Seal>in high school. >18. The C-123 was ultimately sold to a company with connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. "He never had a lesson on a helicopter, he just took one up one>day after watching a few times.". For one thing, Seal (portrayed by Tom Cruise) did not meet Colombian druglords Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, whose psychopathic hijinks provide much . 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. "[38] The federal>Criminal Code prohibits the "transfer or possession of machineguns" unless>they were lawfully registered before 19 May 1986. Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. 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. Cruz and>Vasquez were in the Buick with Velez and were armed with 9 millimeter>automatic weapons. By 1982, Seal was making regular runs on behalf of the Medellin Cartel, bringing tons of cocaine into the U.S. Seal had known of him for "many, many years." Staff Report. As the car came to a screeching halt, Cruz and Vasquez>sprang from the front and rear passenger-side seats, spraying the Cadillac>with bullets, gangland style. when he was cut down by machine gun fire outside the Salvation Army halfway house on . 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. >23. . . The DEA was>doing the same. >By 1984, Barry Seal found himself in a "catch-22." >38. Investigators are still trying to separate myth from reality. "[48] At the time, he was>in custody in Spain, fighting extradition to Florida. "Official Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of>Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Investiga-tion of Vernon Wayne Howell," also>known as "David Koresh," September 1993. Michel Mertz had been ex pelled from U.S. at Fort Worth or Dallas 48hours after JFK assassination.11-22-63. Roger Craig claim he saw LHO (man look similar to him) get into a Polozola further stipulated that Seal could not carry a gun or hire armed bodyguards. They had worked steadily together, as DEA informants from the>spring of 1984 till February 1985. of three presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. The main purpose of the modifications was to facilitate long->distance nonstop flights to Central and South America from Arkansas. Using the code name John Cathey, North is said to have orchestrated a>complicated scheme by which the Nicaraguan Contra Rebels' freedom-fighting>activities could be financed, and by which they could be armed with fully>automatic M-16-type rifles. From transcript of Seal's cross-examination, U.S. v. Saunders, et al., pp.>517-520. July 21, 1994. According to the indictment, Seal had made unlawful transfers in>the amount of $51,006.64 by purchasing a cashier's check in that amount with>$8,656.64 in cash and five cashier's checks in amounts of less than $10,000>each.[11]. The FBI and IRS were pulling up the rear, and at least one>special agent with the Arkansas State Police CID was scratching around for>information. (Barry) Seal was a key player at Mena. He died of three gunshot wounds. And the rest, of course, is history. It is an airport that focuses on private aircraft and does not have scheduled commercial air service. >Hired by TWA, at age twenty-seven, Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was the>youngest pilot in U.S. history to fly a commercial airliner. Smith pointed him in Norman Saunders' direction>and helped arrange a meeting with Saunders at Arthur's hangar. He next admitted it under oath in DEA>intelligence reports. Most of all, Seals murder would lay bare for all the world to see the seamy underbelly of Americas duplicitous war on drugs, and how drug smuggling was in fact sanctioned by powerful men in order to advance a hidden agenda. Set in the early 1980s, to combat the spread of communism . U.S.>Attorney Stanford Bardwell prepared a letter on 19 November 1984. >Barry Seal had friends in the islands, one of whom was Eric Arthur. was the sister of Marguerite Oswald. Despite the fact that the parts of the Reed and Cummings book,>Compromised, which are obviously written by Reed, contain mostly flattering>autobiographical hyperbole, often about his exploits in Southeast Asia during>the Vietnam conflict (he carefully avoids references to Vietnam itself, never>having set foot on Vietnamese soil), a few of Reed's statements about Seal and>the CIA seem fairly accurate, if for no other reason than having been>confirmed by other, more reliable sources. While in the>islands, Seal was introduced to Aulden Smith and, at the DEA's behest, paid>Smith two thousand dollars to be introduced to Norman Saunders. In the 1980s, the Mena airport was the reported base of a drug-smuggling, money-laundering and arms-smuggling ring run by Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal, according to an Encyclopedia of Arkansas . In December of 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana for flying a cargo of marijuana into the state. Seal Texaco.located corner Acadian Thruway andGoverment Street ,Baton Rouge La.Father Benjamin C Seal and the Sons Benjy Jr,Dean ,Jason ,Aaron, Curtis R,Wendell K, work the gas . In 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on charges of smuggling Quaaludes and money laundering. 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. None of this is surprising in 2017. >In February 1986, Barry Seal was preparing to be the government's chief>witness in the pending trial of Colombian drug-lord Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez,>head of the notorious Ochoa family of the Medellin cartel. From the opinion: On February 19, 1986, Adler B. David Ferrie took everyone up in his Stinson planesbut David Ferrie rented many planes to fly.David Ferrie -1948 Stinson plane #108 2sn 108 1293.Stinson Franklin plane #12974 valued $3,ooo.David Ferrie last payment on car 6-26-19621959 (1960) Ford address 11 Prospect St Alexandria La. The C-123 that had been shot down was The Fat Lady, Seals beloved cargo plane. forgave the taxes on hundreds of millions in known drug and gun profits over the ensuing two-year period when Seal was officially admitted to be employed by the government. The CAR kit includes a complete upper rear and barrel assembly, buttstock,>recoil spring and buffer, M-16 hammer, trigger, disconnector, selector, M-16>auto sear, pins, springs, trigger guard, magazine release, and bolt holdopen.>See, "Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of Alcohol,>Tobacco, and Firearms Investigation of Vernon Wayne Howell," September 1993. 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