Article 19886 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 3, CLINTON/BUSH: Co-Conspirators in CIA Drug Smuggling Message-ID: <1993Jan29.223408.10220@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: CLINTON/BUSH: Co-Conspirators in CIA Drug Smuggling Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 22:34:08 GMT Lines: 185 GEORGE WASHINGTON: Gee, Ben, how come WE never thought of selling narcotics to the American People and weapons to America's enemies? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Because in our day, George, they used to hang men for treason, NOT elect them president !! PREVAILING WINDS RESEARCH ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) PAUL DeRIENZO: Buddy Young -- let's keep his name in mind because I want to come back to him. Let's jump now to the sight in Arkansas that was used as the landing sight, the airport in Arkansas in the town of Mena, Arkansas that was the terminus of a lot of these Iran-Contra resupply flights. MARK SWANEY: Yes, in fact, Terry Reed has stated in that same article, that you have, that it was the HUB of the Contra resupply effort. Many people are not aware that Arkansas was very heavily and very deeply involved in the Iran-Contra affair all during the time that Governor Clinton was the Governor of the state. And there were numerous stories written about it in the press. Well, the story about Mena is that Mena is a very small town in the middle of the Washita Mountains in Southwestern Arkansas and, not coincidentally, it happens to be in Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt's district, the Third Congressional District. John Paul Hammerschmidt just happens to be one of George Bush's very closest friends. He was George Bush's Presidential campaign manager for Bush's campaign in `76 and again in 1980. The two people are very close. Anyway, Mena has an airport and it looks, from the outside, like an ordinary, normal airport. The thing that separates Mena's airport from any other is the fact that there are row upon row of hangars --buildings which house aircraft refitting facilities. Now aircraft refitting is an industry that is in demand by two principal paying customers. One of them is the CIA, and the other one are drug smugglers. And the reason is because if you're a CIA guy and you're going to do covert actions overseas, they're almost entirely relying on air transport of some kind -- particularly if you're going to covertly resupply an army that's over a thousand miles away. PAUL DeRIENZO: Eugene Hasenfus's plane, the plane that was shot down, was based in Mena, Arkansas. MARK SWANEY: That plane was based there formally before Barry Seal was murdered, just a few months before it was shot down. That was Barry Seal's own personal airplane. But anyway, what you need to do, if you're a CIA or a drug smuggler, is you need an airplane that can do things that normally airplanes of the civilian variety are not allowed to do -- things like: have cargo doors that open to the inside of the airplane so that you can make in-flight drops -- so that you can drop things out of the airplane while it's flying, which is illegal on a commercial or civilian type of aircraft. You need to do things like install advanced navigational equipment. Sometimes even, you need things like roller mats to put down on the floor so that you can roll the crates forward in the fuselage of the airplane to kick them out. You need to be able to modify a civilian aircraft that is not legally allowed to have such capability so that it does have those capabilities. PAUL DeRIENZO: And this was done in Mena, a small town airport. MARK SWANEY: Right. Now Mena has the second or third largest ... I don't know which, but one of the largest aircraft refitting facilities in the United States. And as such, it was (long before the Nicaraguan episode happened), a base of CIA covert operations. And it remains, to this very minute, a base of CIA covert operations. PAUL DeRIENZO: Let's jump to another name that comes up in this -- a fellow by the name of Larry Nichols, former employee of the State of Arkansas. He was an employee of the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority. Now I have an Associated Press article that came out just a couple of days ago [stating] that Larry Nichols has dropped a lawsuit that he had instituted in 1990 against Governor Clinton that came after his 1988 dismissal from that state job for misuse of agency telephones. Can you tell us who Larry Nichols was? MARK SWANEY: Yeah. This is probably the most interesting part of the story. You see, Larry Nichols is the source of all these rumors, and the Jennifer Flowers thing, and the Governor's sex life. The story that the press has not yet picked up on is the fact that Larry Nichols was a big-time Contra supporter. He has close connections to Mario Colero, Adolfo Colero and Jack Singlaub. In fact, he served with General Singlaub in Vietnam. He spent the first half of the decade working for the Contras in connection with an organization that General Singlaub had. He spent time with the Contras on the ground in Honduras. His job was to collect military information. Now I've met with Larry Nichols. This information that I'm about to give you he has told me directly. And we have checked out a great deal of what he's told us, and everything that he has told us has checked out totally accurate. PAUL DeRIENZO: So what we're seeing here is a connection between the mistress sex scandal and the Iran-Contra and the Governor of Arkansas. There's a connection. MARK SWANEY: Well, what you find out here in a minute is that the sex scandals really have nothing to do with it. I saw his lawsuit several months ago, when I was in Little Rock, and it was of no interest to me. I didn't even bother to make a copy of it. But Larry Nichols, the man, and his relationship to the Governor is extremely interesting. You see, what it is is that his job was to make military analysis of the situation in Honduras with the Contras. And to take that information back to the United States and package it and present it to Congressmen who are in favor of Contra aid, with a view toward convincing them that the Contras were an effective military fighting force --that they could win militarily against the Sandinistas. At some point around `85, I believe, this job for Larry ran out, and he didn't have any money, and he approached Governor Clinton. Now according to Larry, he and Governor Clinton are close friends, have known each other for a long time, in fact, before the Governor was the Governor. He asked Governor Clinton: "Hey, I'm broke. I need a job." Well it's not too usual that somebody could just call up the Governor and say, "I want a job," and the Governor says, "Sure we'll make you Marketing Director for ADFA." That's the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, which figures centrally in Bill Clinton's relationship to the Contra resupply network that the state of Arkansas was so heavily involved in. In any case, he was there working at ADFA and someone at ADFA, a fellow employee, had found out about this guy that was working with them who was this romantic jungle fighter type of character. And eventually she began to talk to some friends about it, and word reached the ears of a reporter and the reporter began to investigate Larry Nichols, wondering what this big Contra supporter was doing working for ADFA. Everyone who holds a top position at ADFA is directly appointed by Bill Clinton. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is one of countless stories unveiling the subverted, corrupt and fascistic state of our theoretically democratic Government. This story makes it disgustingly obvious that true patriotism is not the waving of flags, the tying of yellow ribbons and the mindless supporting of our Government, just because it happens to be ours. You don't support cancer just because you happen to have it. True patriotism is telling the truth to the people of our country in order that they may unite to conquer this anti-democratic cancer that is gradually destroying ours and our children's freedom. So please post the installments of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. That would be a truly patriotic deed. John DiNardo The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the site: red.css.itd.umich.edu Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address as the password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system the user is on. On a UNIX machine, at the command prompt, type the following: ftp red.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems. Archivist: Paul Southworth, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu