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Perhaps as shocking as the allegation that Bill Clinton was involved in the
drug trade in Arkansas is the claim that George Bush was as well. It seems
at least as unlikely that Bush and Clinton would agree on something as it
does that they'd both be narcotics peddlers.

But now that 60 Minutes (a so-called "respected" news outlet) has finally
broken the story documenting that the CIA has long been a major player in
the cocaine market, perhaps claims like the one below will be taken a little
more seriously.

BeastNet does not make any claims as to the accuracy or veracity of the claims
made in the following article, but merely offers it as another itemm in a long
and growing list of evidence that would tend to suggest strange and horrible
goings-on in Arkansas during the Clinton dynasty.

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Taken from
THE SH@DOW
Anarchist monthly
Box 20298
NY, NY 10009


ARKANSAS GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
CIA DRUGS FOR GUNS CONNECTION

By

Paul DeRienzo


An independent group of researchers in Arkansas are charging that Governor
Bill clinton is covering up an airport used by the CIA and major cocaine
smugglers in a remote corner of the Ozark mountains.  According to Deborah
Robinson of In These Times, the Intermountain Regional Airport in Mena,
Arkansas continues to be the hub of operations for people like assassinated
cocaine kingpin Barry Seal as well as government intelligence operations
linked to arms and drug smuggling.

In the 1980's, the Mena airport became one of the world's largest aircraft
refurbishing centers, providing services to planes from many countries.
Researchers claim that the largest consumers of aircraft refurbishing services
are drug smugglers and intelligence agencies involved in covert activities.
In fact, residents of Mena, Arkansas, have told reporters that former marine
Lt. Colonel Oliver North was a frequent visitor during the 1980's.  Eugene
Hasenfus, a pilot who was shot down in a Contra supply plane over Nicaragua in
1986, was also seen in town renting cargo vehicles.

A federal Grand Jury looking into activities at the Mena airport refused to
hand down any indictment5 after drug running charges were made public.
Deborah Robinson says that Clinton had "ignored the situation" until he began
his presidential campaign."  Clinton then said he would provide money for a
state run investigation of the Mena airport.  But according to Robinson, the
promise of an investigation was never followed up by Clinton's staff.  In
fact, a local Arkansas state prosecutor blasted Clinton's promise of an
investigation, comparing it to "spitting on a forest fire."

Clinton's involvement in the drug and arms running goes even further than a
mere cover-up of the deplorable activities that went on, and are still going
on, at the airport in Mena.  A federal mail fraud case against an Arkansas
pilot-trainer who participated in illegal arms exports to Central America
relied on a key Clinton staffer as a chief witness.  The case was dismissed
for lack of evidence when the CIA refused to allow the discussion of top
secret information about the arms transfers.

Terry Reed, a former employee of te CIA's Air America operation in Laos
during the Indochina war, claims to have been recruited as a pilot trainer
into the Iran operation by Oliver North.  In an article written by David
Gallis and published last year by Covert Action Information Bulletin, Reed
said that in 1983 he had agreed to supply North's operatives with "certain
items."

In pursuit of the Reagan administration's contra war against the Sandinistas,
the CIA had planted mines in Nicaragua's harbors.  In 1984, Congress passed
the Boland Amendment, which cut off US aid to the Contras.  According to Reed,
it was during this period that North aided him to become involved in a covert
operation called "Project Donation".  Reed was told he would be reimbursed for
supplying the contras by insurance companies that were linked to North's
operation.,

Shortly afterwards, Reed reported the "theft" of Piper turbo-prop aircraft
and he filed a $33,000 claim on which he eventually collected almost $7,000.

In late 1985, Red received a phone call from an Air America buddy, William
Cooper, a pilot working with Southern Air Transport, another CIA front
company.  Cooper also was working with soon to be murdered drug kingpin Barry
Seal at the same time he was flying re-supply missions for the contras.  In
1986, he was shot down and killed over Nicaragua along with co-pilot Wallace
Sawyer.  The plane's cargo-kicker, Eugene Hasenfus, parachuted into the arms
of waiting Sandinista soldiers.  Video images of his capture spanned the world
and forced an airing of a tiny part of US covert operations.

Sandinistas who recovered the downed cargo plane searched Cooper's pockets and
found phone numbers linking the re-supply operation with Felix Rodriguez, an
associate of George Bush, best known for murdering Che Guevara after his
capture in Bolivia.  To this day, Rodriguez, who works for the CIA, wears
Che's watch as a trophy.

Reed says that Cooper told him that the stolen Piper would soon be returned
and that he should store it in a hanger at Mena until the Hasenfus mess blew
over.  "There was a lot of contra stuff going on in Arkansas." said Reed, "it
was the hub."

Meanwhile, Reed went into business in Mexico with the blessing of Rodriguez,
who was overseeing the contra air re-supply operation in El Salvador.  Reed's
company used Mexico to export arms to the contras, in violation of the Boland
Amendment.  Reed went down to Mexico and his operation continued for a year
after the Iran-Contra story broke.

According to Arkansas Committee researcher Mark Swaney, in the summer of 1987,
even as the ContraGate hearings were going on in Congress, Terry Reed began to
suspect they were using his front company for something other than snuggling
weapons.  One day, he was looking for a lathe in one of his warehouses near
the airport in Guadalajara and he opened up one of the very large air freight
shipping containers (they are about 28' long, about 7' high and about 8'
wide), and he found it packed full of cocaine.

Swaney reports that Reed realized he was in a very precarious situation
because he was the only person on paper who had anything to do with the
company set up to run guns to the Contras in Nicaragua out of Mexico and there
was nobody to say that he did not know anything about what was going on.  Reed
decided he wasn't going to play the part of a patsy.

Swaney says that Reed's contact man for the CIA in Mexico was Felix Rodriguez,
whom Reed confronted.  Reed said that he hadn't bargained for getting into
narcotics smuggling and that he was dropping out all together.  Soon
afterward, his legal problems began.

In a series of mysterious events, Reed was charged with mail fraud for
claiming insurance for an aircraft that was used by North's network under
Operation Donation.  Reed, who was eventually acquitted of the charges, was
picked up by the FBI after the missing plane was discovered in the Mena hanger
where Reed had put the plane at Cooper's suggestion.  The discovery was made
by Clinton's security chief Buddy Young.  Young testified that his discovery
of the stolen plane was coincidental, an assertion federal Judge Frank Thiel
said was unsupported by the facts.

Reed was charged with mail fraud for collecting insurance on the plane, but
the CIA prevented prosecutors from releasing information they called "top, top
secret," about the Rodriguez-North, Southern Air Transport connection.  In
November 1990, the prosecution admitted they couldn't prosecute Reed without
the secret documents and Judge Thiel ordered Reed acquitted on all of the
charges.

Allegations of Governor Bill Clinton's extra-marital sexual exploits
originated with a 1990 lawsuit by Larry Nichols, a former Arkansas state
employee.  Nichols was fired by Clinton in 1988 after reporters discovered
Nichols had been lobbying on behalf of the Contras from his office as head of
the Arkansas Development Finance Authority.

The suit claimed that Clinton had lied when he said Nichols was fired because
he was phoning the Contras directly from his state office.  Nichols claimed he
only called Washington to lobby on behalf of the Contras.  In the suit,
Nichols also revealed the affair between Clinton and office secretary Gennifer
Flowers.

The suit was dropped by Nichols on January 25, 1992, after Gennifer Flowers
went public with her story of the affair.  Nichols told reporters that he
decided to drop the suit after meeting with Clinton security chief Buddy
Young- the same man who found Terry Reed's missing Piper aircraft at the Mena
airport.

According to Arkansas Committee researcher Mark Swaney, Nichols said that
Young had told him he was a "dead man." prompting Nichols to drop the suit.
In public, Nichols says he dropped the suit because "the media have made a
circus out of this thing and it's gone way too far."

I court documents recently released by Manhattan District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau, it has been revealed that Jackson Stephens, a billionaire banker
in Little Rock, Arkansas, and one of presidential candidate Bill Clinton's
main supporters, may have played a key role in setting up the illegal purchase
by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) of two American banks.

Both First American National Bank, the largest bank in Washington DC, and
Georgia National Bank, were purchased by BCCI front man and Stephens business
associate Gaith Pharon.  Stephens' family bank, the Worthern National Bank,
recently extended a two million dollar loan to the Clinton campaign.

Stephens, who is an avid golfer and chairman of the prestigious Masters
Tournament Committee, is named in the court records as having brought Pharon
together with Stephens' close friend Bert Lance.  Lance was a former cabinet
official under President Jimmy Carter who was forced to resign due to a
banking scandal.

According to newspaper reports, BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi was introduced
to Lance by Stephens.  Stephens, Lance, and First American Bank director and
longtime Democratic party power broker Clark Clifford all maintain that they
did not know the group of Pakinstani and Saudi investors headed by Pharon,
which they were dealing with, were actually fronting for BCCI.  Clinton's
staff has refused to comment.

Bill Clinton's environmental record has been as dismal as his record in the
Iran-Contra scandal.  He has supported the incineration of extremely toxic
chemicals at a site in the city of Jacksonville, 20 miles from Little Rock,
that is reputed to be the most polluted spot in the United States.
Jacksonville was the site of Hercules Inc., a company that produced the two
components of Agent Orange, 2,4 D, which is still used in agriculture and
2,4,5,T, which was banned by the federal government in 1983 as a carcinogen.
Agent Orange was used to defoliate Vietnamese forests during the Indochina war
and its production yields the by-product dioxin, the most toxic chemical known
on earth.

Hercules sold the operation in 1976 to Vertac Inc., which closed the plant in
1987, leaving behind 20,000 barrels of the chemicals.  Gov. Bill Clinton
supports a plan to incinerate the waste, a plan that is being vigorously
opposed by the residents of Jacksonville.

In These Times reporter Deborah Robinson says that Clinton has allowed
Arkansas to become a dumping ground.  "Arkansas" she says, "is still kind of a
backwoods state and there's a lot of room for someone to set up whatever they
want to set up and Arkansas has been exploited by people who have things they
want to do that they might no get away with somewhere else."  Robinson adds,
"there are a lot of questions about what Somebody like Clinton would do for a
country when he couldn't do anything for his own state."


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