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Barry Seal person

also: Barry Seale, Barry Sill, Barry Steele, Barry Seals, Seale, Barry Still, Steele, trafficker, Adler Berryman Seale, Seal, Barry Sills, El Gordo, Thunder Thighs

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Barry Seal member_of CIA documented
“on the surface to be working for the U.S. government. A central figure related to Reed's dealing with the CIA was a CIA and DEA contract agent by the name of none other than Adler Berryman Seale. A former airline pilot, Seale moved in 1982 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:00
Barry Seal member_of CIA documented
“Personal records showed him to be a contract CIA operative both before and during his years of drug running in MENA in the 80s. Historian Roger Morris, a former National Security Staffer, Security Council Staffer, wrote in a 1996 book calle…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 8:29
Barry Seal provided testimony for Richard Gorge book_quoted
“would bury the Contra Support drug case linked the Nicaraguan Sandinistas to drug trafficking by bringing the first of two indictments against Leder and Escobar and a Sandinistan official. For this, he relied on the testimony and controvers…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 17:46
Barry Seal supplied_arms_to FDN documented
“that a Sandinista soldier blew out of the sky over Nicaragua in 1986 with a SAM-7 missile, breaking open the Iran-Contra scandal. The plane was based at MENA before SEAL sold it and it began flying weapons hauling missions for Oliver North …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 16:32
Richmond Harper indicted_with Barry Seal host_asserted
“who was indicted with drug smuggler Barry Sill and the Gambino Mafia family associate Murray Kessler in the sale of explosives to the CIA-trained Castro, anti-Castro Cubans, the Cuban exiles, the CIA. The loan was arranged by Ben Barnes, wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 22:08
Richmond Harper carried_out_attack Barry Seal book_quoted
“Barnes said it was Irwin who introduced him to Eagle Pass Rancher Richmond Harper. And Eagle Pass Rancher, remember, is where one of the landing strips was for the CIA. Richmond Harper was the same man that was caught in the 1972 explosive …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 2:20
Barry Seal assassinated Colombia documented
“On February 17, 1986, Steele was murdered in New Orleans by a quote-unquote Colombian hitman. Four months later, in June, North called the FBI and claimed that there was an active measures program being directed against him by the Sandinist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 7:29
Roger Morris exposed Barry Seal book_quoted
“that looked into the Contra's connections to Handu Karab in 1988 also poked around the MENA airport and concluded that associates of SEALs who operated aircraft services business at the MENA airport were also the targets of a grand jury pro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 8:56
Barry Seal member_of CIA documented
“at the Department of Justice's case against Gary, Terry Reed and Barry Seale, right? In both instances, you had a Department of Justice going into court and stating under oath, an affidavit, that number one, these guys, yes, they were CIA c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 1:22:55
Pablo Escobar ordered_assassination_of Barry Seal host_asserted
“Escobar was blamed by Colombian authorities for assassinating three of the five candidates running in the Colombian presidential campaign in 1989. The campaign spread to the U.S., where Escobar's hitmen were suspected of killing Barry Sill,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 38:34
Barry Seal trafficked Colombia host_asserted
“And kind of undermining the government's narrative that, yeah, Barry Steele was a CIA contractor. Yeah, we think we can prove that Barry Steele was trafficking drugs. But this had nothing to do with the CIA. We didn't know about the drug tr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 1:23:45
Barry Seal trafficked Medellin Cartel documented
“at the Intermountain Regional Airport, where he was running drugs up and weapons down. In the early 1980s, Barry Sill was one of the biggest cocaine and marijuana importers in the southern part of the United States. He flew loads directly f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:31
Barry Seal trafficked United States documented
“In 1986, explaining a $29 million lien that the IRS filed against Seale for back taxes. A letter that year from Louisiana's Attorney General to U.S. Attorney General Edward Meese said Seale smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion worth o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 2:31
Barry Seal member_of CIA host_asserted
“Jenkins later appears in a bankruptcy filing in a Louisiana helicopter company whose principals have close business and personal association with the mafia, Herman Beebe, and business partner of Michener's Allied Bank. He also has dealings …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 51:11
Barry Seal trafficked CIA documented
“own admissions in open criminal court, going in there, trying to prove beyond reasonable doubt that, number one, Terry Reid was up to no good. Barry Seale was obviously trafficking drugs. The plane was involved in all of this. And they had …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:21:25
Jean Wheaton reported Barry Seal book_quoted
“Jean Wheaton, ended up in Mesa, Arkansas. You know where Barry Seale is. The aircraft arrived in MENA after Seale was murdered, according to Wheaton. Ransom's partner in the Australian C-130 attempted purchase was Max Parks. Park has also b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 6:35
CIA recruited Barry Seal book_quoted
“murdered drug smuggler, gun runner, DEA informant, and CIA asset used by the CIA on drug stings with the Sandinistas, flew resupply missions for the Contras, caught in 1972 in a guns for drugs operation with Cuban exiles in Mexico that incl…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 37:23
DEA recruited Barry Seal book_quoted
“murdered drug smuggler, gun runner, DEA informant, and CIA asset used by the CIA on drug stings with the Sandinistas, flew resupply missions for the Contras, caught in 1972 in a guns for drugs operation with Cuban exiles in Mexico that incl…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 37:23
Barry Seal supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted
“murdered drug smuggler, gun runner, DEA informant, and CIA asset used by the CIA on drug stings with the Sandinistas, flew resupply missions for the Contras, caught in 1972 in a guns for drugs operation with Cuban exiles in Mexico that incl…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 37:23
Bill Clinton assassinated Barry Seal caller_asserted
“operate within the side of the United States with covers with Mystic Ultra through the 50s and the 60s and the 70s as well. And then the CIA operations through Colonel Towner. I want you to elaborate on Bill Clinton and Barry Seale with the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 1:45:40
Barry Seal trafficked Arkansas speculative
“I don't know how you know that. I'm just saying there are options here. I saw Bill Clinton's brother on undercover because Barry Seale used to fly into Mena, Arkansas. I don't know what he was doing because we weren't there. That's the only…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie @ 2:00:36

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Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 36:57 He was a fundraiser for LBJ, Lloyd Benson, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and many others. OK, I think that was because we already know about Barry Seale. What it's what the author says about him is he was a.…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 37:23 murdered drug smuggler, gun runner, DEA informant, and CIA asset used by the CIA on drug stings with the Sandinistas, flew resupply missions for the Contras, caught in 1972 in a guns for drugs operation with Cuban exiles in Mexico that incl…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 37:54 And Herman Beebe, the mafia guy. So he had a lot of experience with all walks of life. He must have led a very interesting life. So that kind of sets the stage for the book. The first chapter, I'm not going to go into in any depth.…
HIGH ALERT! BONDI BEACH FALSE FLAG ATTACK AS POLICE STOOD DOWN FOR 20 MINUTES, STRATEGY OF TENSION
▶ 16:39 functions that they can then blame on the people that they want. And the best example and probably the most notorious that everybody remembers is Barry Sill flying the drugs into the United States and rolling the bell of cocaine out on the …
Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16
▶ 51:36 And I won't say extensively, but you can find it that the CIA and let me let me back up and just say this, since I already mentioned the Contras. The CIA purposely was taking Colombian cocaine, flying it into the United States and created t…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2
▶ 2:09:38 Barry Seale. And the shooting down of the Iran-Contra, what sparked the Iran-Contra revelation was the shooting down of the aircraft that exposed the drug running, all arranged by the CIA, the Cuban exiles. We have tracked the Cuban exile c…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2
▶ 2:10:33 ran an Operation Gladio-style paramilitary organization. They just co-named them Cuban exiles. They were exported all over Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, doing assassinations. They were used in New Orleans. They were used in Dallas. So the…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2
▶ 2:12:32 Right. E. Howard Hunt is another one. He shows up all over, and he was 100% CIA, and he was involved in so many areas of drug operations. Okay, so it's Barry Seale, and then you said William McCauley? No, McCloy. McCloy, okay. Yes, it's M-C…
Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2
▶ 1:45:40 operate within the side of the United States with covers with Mystic Ultra through the 50s and the 60s and the 70s as well. And then the CIA operations through Colonel Towner. I want you to elaborate on Bill Clinton and Barry Seale with the…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 1:29:07 Another mafia guy is a guy by the name of Herman K. Beebe, and he's out of La Costa, California, near my old hometown mafia organization. He's connected to Barry Seal. So that's Herman K. Beebe. All these guys were running SNLs in the same …
Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie
▶ 2:00:36 I don't know how you know that. I'm just saying there are options here. I saw Bill Clinton's brother on undercover because Barry Seale used to fly into Mena, Arkansas. I don't know what he was doing because we weren't there. That's the only…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 1:02:26 And it goes back to the part of this book in the earlier chapters that we were reading about how Barry Seale landed his plane throughout a bale of cocaine, took a picture in Nicaragua. And then everybody in the CIA controlled media ran with…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6
▶ 1:20:02 that the powers to be in the United States didn't know this entire operation was going on, while they're sinking billions of our dollars into Colombia to do this quote-unquote war on drugs, when in fact it was a war to build up a paramilita…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6
▶ 1:22:18 He implicates, you know, obviously Barry Seale gives him allegedly this list that implicates everybody from Bill Barr to Bill Clinton to Oliver North and all those guys. And he's actually in MENA, Arkansas, meeting, you know, with Clinton o…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6
▶ 1:23:16 You know, he does produce these documents from the 1980s showing, you know, from Guatemala, which he says, you know, show that he was, you know, flying these flights, you know, to the Contras. So it could be a little bit of additional corro…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6
▶ 1:23:45 And kind of undermining the government's narrative that, yeah, Barry Steele was a CIA contractor. Yeah, we think we can prove that Barry Steele was trafficking drugs. But this had nothing to do with the CIA. We didn't know about the drug tr…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 1:16:49 For the airline drug trafficking between South American drug trade in our South American. So there were people that did get prosecuted, but they were so far down the chain. And what happened was every time they I mean, you know, you could e…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3
▶ 1:18:49 containers opened and verified that there were drugs there. Now, if you're on a shuttle from Columbia to wherever the place was in Arizona or MENA Airport, do you know you're hauling drugs? Hell yeah, you do. Barry Seale, he knew he was hau…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5
▶ 38:34 Escobar was blamed by Colombian authorities for assassinating three of the five candidates running in the Colombian presidential campaign in 1989. The campaign spread to the U.S., where Escobar's hitmen were suspected of killing Barry Sill,…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12
▶ 1:31:38 will smuggle through underground networks, drugs through a particular country to be able to go back because they want to regime change that country anyway, like Nicaragua, where they land Barry Seals' plane on the tarmac, roll out a bunch o…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:27:45 including, I think it's called either lost history or secret history and secrecy and privilege about the Bush family. But he's got, he's got, you know, thousands of notes in the back of his books too, based on all kinds of journalism, based…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 1:02:43 Southern Air said in a statement that the planes were carrying drilling equipment, not drugs. The wrecked C-123, in which those flight logs were found, had a history of involvement in cocaine, the Medellin cartel, and the CIA. It was the sa…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 1:03:12 In that case, the CIA had taken Seale's plane, which he recently obtained through a aircraft swap with the cartel, to Rickenbacker Air Base in Ohio, outfitted it with hidden cameras. Then Seale, who was working as a DEA informant, because t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 1:40 That's interesting. They also said North wanted to take $1.5 million in drug profits from Barry Still that he had gotten from the Medellin cartel and give it to the Contras. When the DEA refused to do that, the DEA officials, not the DEA in…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 4:15 has North fingerprints all over it, columnist Jefferson Morley wrote in the LA Times. After Steele flew in his CIA and DEA mission, he never used the C-123K cargo plane again. It was parked in a Mena, Arkansas airport for a year. Then it wa…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18
▶ 6:20 Julio Blanton, the ex-slumlord, stored cocaine in his apartment. Gordon's affidavit was pure political dynamite. At the time, the Contras were the hottest story in the country. Less than three weeks earlier, drug smuggler Barry Seal and his…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:22:50 of all remaining Sandinista supporters. In 1991, Menendez's operation, in all likelihood, was simply another version of the 1984 DEA-CIA sting involving trafficker Barry Seale, which the Reagan administration had used to accuse the Sandinis…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 54:43 saw it in a box inside. Doyle McManus, the chief of the LA Times Washington Bureau, that explained it. In 1984, McManus had played a central role in spreading CIA's leaks about Barry Seale and the Sandinista dealing cocaine. Just in time fo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 1:00 on the surface to be working for the U.S. government. A central figure related to Reed's dealing with the CIA was a CIA and DEA contract agent by the name of none other than Adler Berryman Seale. A former airline pilot, Seale moved in 1982 …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 1:31 at the Intermountain Regional Airport, where he was running drugs up and weapons down. In the early 1980s, Barry Sill was one of the biggest cocaine and marijuana importers in the southern part of the United States. He flew loads directly f…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 2:01 precise locations throughout Louisiana, Arkansas, and a few other southern states. Seal detailed his cocaine smuggling activities in 81, 82, and 83. He testified to this that he was involved in at least 50 trips during those three years. IR…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 2:31 In 1986, explaining a $29 million lien that the IRS filed against Seale for back taxes. A letter that year from Louisiana's Attorney General to U.S. Attorney General Edward Meese said Seale smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion worth o…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 3:00 That's an actual quote. Seals Farm in Baton Rouge, according to a 1983 U.S. Customs report, was allegedly used as a drop site for cocaine and marijuana flown into the country in a DC-4 aircraft that was labeled N-90201. That same plane subs…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 5:31 In 1985, records show Owen reported to Oliver North that a DC-6 owned by Mario Calero, quote, which is being used for runs out of New Orleans, is probably used for drug runs into the United States, unquote. During that time, he was dealing …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 6:00 In 1984, he participated in a joint CIA-DEA sting operation in an attempt to snare Sandinista government officials in drug smuggling because they desperately wanted to shift all of their drug smuggling onto the Contras, which somehow seems …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 7:29 On February 17, 1986, Steele was murdered in New Orleans by a quote-unquote Colombian hitman. Four months later, in June, North called the FBI and claimed that there was an active measures program being directed against him by the Sandinist…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 7:57 North expressed further concern that he may be targeted for elimination by organized crime due to his alleged involvement in gun running. It went on to say that North pointed to the murder on February 17, 1986, of a DEA agent, Steele, on th…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 8:29 Personal records showed him to be a contract CIA operative both before and during his years of drug running in MENA in the 80s. Historian Roger Morris, a former National Security Staffer, Security Council Staffer, wrote in a 1996 book calle…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 8:56 that looked into the Contra's connections to Handu Karab in 1988 also poked around the MENA airport and concluded that associates of SEALs who operated aircraft services business at the MENA airport were also the targets of a grand jury pro…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 9:23 and over the strong protests of state and federal law enforcement officials, the case was dropped. The apparent reason was that the prosecution would reveal national security information, courtesy of the CIA stamp. Clinton's critics have ch…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 9:54 Arkansas State Trooper L.D. Brown and Larry Patterson, both of whom had been critical of Clinton, insist he knew quite a bit about it, including the fact that cocaine was involved. Patterson was a member of Governor Clinton's security detai…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 10:23 large quantities of guns, and that there was an ongoing operation training foreign people in the area. It was a CIA operation. That was his statement. A mechanic at the MENA airport, John Bender, swore in a deposition that he saw Clinton th…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 10:54 That's a Lasseter's deal, unquote, referring to his close friend and campaign contributor, Little Rock bond broker Danny Ray Lasseter. In 1986, Lasseter was indicted by a federal grand jury in Little Rock on drug charges, and Clinton's brot…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 14:11 Unquote. Morris went on to write, quote, in sworn testimony, a former staff member of the Arkansas State Police Intelligence Unit would describe a shredding party in which she ordered to purge the state's MENA files of nearly a thousand doc…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 14:40 Reed claims that North, who was the National Security Council official overseeing the Contra project at the time, was his CIA contact for both the pilot training program and the machine tool company front. A Clinton spokesman called the rep…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 15:09 has denied anything about Terry Reed or what was going on at MENA. But something was certainly happening at the little airport, and it was far from routine. While denying that the CIA was involved in any illegal activities at MENA during th…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 16:03 according to a declassified summary of the report. So again, you are left with the fact that the CIA is running their drug operation, or the CIA is present while a drug operation is running that they don't know anything about. Coincidentall…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 16:32 that a Sandinista soldier blew out of the sky over Nicaragua in 1986 with a SAM-7 missile, breaking open the Iran-Contra scandal. The plane was based at MENA before SEAL sold it and it began flying weapons hauling missions for Oliver North …
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7
▶ 17:46 would bury the Contra Support drug case linked the Nicaraguan Sandinistas to drug trafficking by bringing the first of two indictments against Leder and Escobar and a Sandinistan official. For this, he relied on the testimony and controvers…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16
▶ 6:35 Jean Wheaton, ended up in Mesa, Arkansas. You know where Barry Seale is. The aircraft arrived in MENA after Seale was murdered, according to Wheaton. Ransom's partner in the Australian C-130 attempted purchase was Max Parks. Park has also b…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 2:20 Barnes said it was Irwin who introduced him to Eagle Pass Rancher Richmond Harper. And Eagle Pass Rancher, remember, is where one of the landing strips was for the CIA. Richmond Harper was the same man that was caught in the 1972 explosive …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 40:54 out as loans and donating them to the CIA-directed contra program. Just want to make sure you got that. There was also Barry Seale in the C-4 explosives in a Shreveport warehouse destined for anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. Adler Berryman Bar…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 41:26 was from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, called the world's greatest pilot. He was at least the youngest ever to captain a Boeing 747 at the age of 26. But several years later, he turned to the dark side. He was caught dealing with mafia associates…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 42:21 exportation of weapons without permission of the U.S. State Department. Also involved in the plot and arrest that day were eight other individuals from Shreveport, Louisiana, New Orleans, and Eagle Pass, Texas. A DC-4 that SEAL had recently…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 43:54 You could blow up the entire island of Cuba with that. This shit was going other places. Arrested in New Orleans along with Seal was a man from Brooklyn, New York named Murray Morris Kessler. Kessler was a key middleman in the deal. He was …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 49:18 In a written statement after the trial, Seal said that Flores, one of the defendants, contacted Richmond Harper, who contacted Mafia Connections in New York, who then called the Mafia in New Orleans, and they contacted Barry Seal for the co…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 50:22 money laundering, from Surety Savings in Houston, where Bebe was doing business and brokering deposits. See what I said? You deposit the money, you say where it goes. And three, one of the principals of the helicopter company that Bebe fina…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 50:55 The trial seemed to be proceeding in a normal fashion until the fifth day when Seals' attorney requested a mistrial and the judge granted it. It seems that the government prosecutors couldn't produce two key witnesses against the defendants…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 51:55 The second witness, Francisco Peco Flores, was a defendant, but federal agents couldn't find him. The judge declared a mistrial and the charges were later dismissed by an appeals court. End of story. Or was it? After the trial, Seale wrote …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 52:26 tells a fantastic story about how the whole scheme was a government sting operation set up to ingratiate our government with Fidel Castro so that he would sign an anti-hijacking agreement. In the proposed agreement, Castro would let America…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 53:28 with Jamie Fernandez. But earlier stories indicated that Diosdado had either started the ball rolling or picked it up and ran with it, even traveling to New York to show Kessler some letters of credit to buy the explosives. Later, 10 years …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 53:58 After he had turned informant, he testified that the explosives were for CIA-trained Cuban exiles. And, of course, they were deployed all over the world. Several law enforcement, and he said that under a sworn testimony, several law enforce…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 54:29 The agency did so because some of the key participants and witnesses were working for the CIA and they didn't want to compromise their assets. The entire thing was a CIA operation. Russell Welch, an officer with the Arkansas State Police wh…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 55:27 in a recent interview in 1972 incident gave an indication that Seale might have been involved in a government operation at the time. He was. He was working for the CIA. After the charges were dismissed, Seale, who had been fired by TWA, beg…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 55:56 allegedly by an associate of the Colombian Medellin drug cartel, have been well reported by Kitsney, Bowers, John Cummings, John Camp, and Jerry Bonin, who revealed that after the explosive case was dismissed, Seale began working full-time …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 56:57 Even though there was not one shred of evidence. One of the first tasks after he began serving as a DEA informant was to catch the Sandinistas in the act. Now, let me tell you what really happened. They went to Barry Seale and said, hey, we…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 57:31 That's the real story. So he took his C-123 cargo aircraft to the CIA, which installed a hidden camera, still flew the plane to Nicaragua, took some pictures. And we know that he basically put the bail on the Nicaraguan tarmac and then took…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 59:03 the Sandinista government for drug trafficking to pay for the Contra operation so they could use their drug money elsewhere. So, Seal, in the meantime, was busy training Contras at his new base of operations in Mena, Arkansas. At least seve…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 59:35 Reed said that North wanted him to turn over a light plane he owned to North's Enterprise and then reported the stolen and collect the insurance. Reed declined to do so, but the aircraft was later stolen anyway, and Reed collected on his in…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 59:59 After Reed began talking about Seal North and the Contras and subpoenaed North for his trial, the government, after going after Reed with everything it had, dropped the case against him. But not before requiring the local prosecutor to get …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 1:00:27 who was investigating the flow of drug money through Barry Seale's operation. When Duncan was called to testify before the House Subcommittee on Crime regarding the federal interference in Arkansas and Louisiana police investigation of Seal…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 1:01:20 The House subcommittee cut his travel funds and once again, he resigned in frustration. It does not pay to be an actual whistleblower about what the government's doing because the government will ensure that it persecutes you. Another inves…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 1:01:51 Wheaton said he tracked SEAL's 123 cargo aircraft flying from MENA to William Blackmore's Iron Mountain Ranch in West Texas. There is also an Iron Mountain in Arkansas near SEAL's Contra trading grounds. Blackmore said he had no knowledge o…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 1:02:22 after its Batman was murdered. This was the C-123 that was shot down by the Sandinistas in 1986 while it was making a resupply run to the Contras. The resulting crash blew the lid off the White House secret support of the Contras as the pla…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 1:02:47 While Wheaton was tracking SEAL and other CIA assets, he ran into a helicopter company that was based in Lafayette, Louisiana, called Commercial Helicopters. The president and majority owner was a timber man named Charles Haynes Jr. The oth…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 43:22 One of Jenkins' first assignments with the CIA was in the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Jenkins and his helicopter company in Guatemala were also customers of commercial helicopters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This company got most of its financin…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 51:11 Jenkins later appears in a bankruptcy filing in a Louisiana helicopter company whose principals have close business and personal association with the mafia, Herman Beebe, and business partner of Michener's Allied Bank. He also has dealings …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 54:15 And the vague plans for this land later vanish. Some say because they were disrupted by the October 1986 downing of Barry Sills' old C-123 with the survivor, Eugene Hassenfuss. One of Corson's former employees said that their office went in…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 1:17:35 Well, I mean, with Oliver North, you know, that gets you to Barry Seale and, you know, the drug running in Iran-Contra. Yep. So, yeah, it's, I don't think Pete Bruton, like, Pete Bruton did a terrific job of all the link analysis, which was…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10
▶ 1:22:55 at the Department of Justice's case against Gary, Terry Reed and Barry Seale, right? In both instances, you had a Department of Justice going into court and stating under oath, an affidavit, that number one, these guys, yes, they were CIA c…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)
▶ 1:14:37 And I think it would be really neat to get, you know, a Colonel Towner or a war hamster up there to kind of discuss, you know, what's going on with Les Wexner and the whole situation with Barry Seal and, you know, Terry Reed. You got multip…
The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7
▶ 22:08 who was indicted with drug smuggler Barry Sill and the Gambino Mafia family associate Murray Kessler in the sale of explosives to the CIA-trained Castro, anti-Castro Cubans, the Cuban exiles, the CIA. The loan was arranged by Ben Barnes, wh…