From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 1,  CLINTON/BUSH: Co-Conspirators in CIA Drug Smuggling
Followup-To:  alt.conspiracy
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords:  Clinton/Bush: Co-Conspirators in CIA Drug Smuggling
Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! 
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:48:38 GMT

    I didn't want to rain on Clinton's Inaugural parade, so I thought
    I'd wait just long enough for the confetti to settle.
    Now that he's ensconced in the Oval Office, it's all the more
    important that concerned people learn about Clinton's background 
    which the corporate mass media cleverly obscured from public  
    awareness with a silly sex scandal. Hence this reposting.


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From: jad@[site name deleted due to threat of punishment] (John DiNardo)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Establishment Prevents Talk of Bush's Drug-Running by Ordaining Clinton
Keywords: The way to shield a criminal is to run his accomplice against him.
Date: 31 Mar 92 19:34:12 GMT
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


  It is no accident that the Establishment, through its tool, the 
  mass media machine, has ordained Gov. Bill Clinton to run against Bush. 

  This ordination ensures that the people of the United States will continue
  to be steeped in ignorance and delusion about the ugly stench of
  criminality that permeates the entire rotten hierarchy of this pathetic
  American plutocracy. The voters will not hear a scandalous word about
  CIA Director/Vice President George Bush's Central America-to-U.S.A.
  narcotics smuggling industry -- not from co-conspirator Bill Clinton.

      John DiNardo, reposting the following article:

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From: stoesser@alderon.corp.sgi.com (Margaret Stoesser)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Skeletons in Clinton's Closet
Keywords: clinton contra arms drugs politics
Date: 25 Mar 92 00:11:51 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

        Clinton - the front running Democratic candidate for the 
        president of the United States -- appears  to have  been
        involved in the arms-for-drugs, contra supply effort via
        Oliver North.  The following  article presents some of  
        the details known about the Arkansas link.

        The following article appeared in the February 24, 1992 
        issue of The Nation magazine, by Alexander Cockburn.

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                Chapters in the Recent History of Arkansas

        By the mid-1980s, Arkansas was a crucial link in the 
        contra war against Nicaragua being masterminded from 
        Washington. One scheme for maintaining a cover-up for 
        Oliver North's network was, it appears, played out in 
        the Governor's mansion occupied by Bill Clinton.

        Among the occupants of that same mansion was Buddy Young, 
        a man then, as now, in charge of Clinton's security.
        According to court documents filed by Terry Reed, a 
        former C.l.A. asset involved in North's contra supply 
        effort, Young was a pivotal figure in a case designed 
        to land Reed in prison not long after Reed had walked 
        out of an arms-for-drugs operation in Guadalajara, Mexico, 
        where he had been working with C.I.A. man Felix Rodriguez.

        Arkansas's role in the contra war and in an arms-for-drugs
        supply network goes back to the early 1980s and the airport at
        Mena, Arkansas, discussed in this column two weeks ago. A federal
        investigation aided by the Arkansas State Police established
        that Barry Seal, a drug dealer working for the Medellin cartel
        as well as with the C.I.A. and the D.E.A., had his planes 
        retrofitted at Mena for drug drops, trained pilots there and 
        laundered his profits partly through financial institutions in
        Arkansas. Seal, at this time was in close contact with North,
        who acknowledged the relationship in his memoir. These were
        the years in which North was constructing his covert supply
        lines for the contras.
        
        Among those recruited by North was--so the man has sub-
        sequently asserted in court papers--Terry Reed, formerly with
        Air America in Thailand. Reed says he was working for North
        by 1983. North put Reed in touch with Seal and by 1984, Reed
        had established a base at Nella, ten miles north of Mena in
        the Ouachita National Forest. There Nicaraguan contras and
        other recruits from Latin America were trained in resupply
        missions, night landings, precision paradrops and similar 
        maneuvers. Reed, familiar with the commercial affairs of Mena,
        asserts that large sums of drug money were being laundered
        through leading Arkansas bond brokers, a pattern of investment 
        also being considered by a federal investigator just as his 
        researches were abruptly terminated.
        
        One of Reed's contacts in North's network was William Cooper, 
        another Air America veteran then working for Southern Air 
        Transport. Cooper was at the controls of the C-123, once 
        owned by Seal, that was shot down by a Sandinista soldier 
        on October 5,1986, thus--since it was loaded with arms and 
        documentation linking the crew to a chain stretching back
        to the office of Vice President George Bush--helping to fuel
        the Iran/contra scandal then bursting upon the world. That
        plane had been serviced at Mena. Cooper died in the crash.
        His crewman, Eugene Hasenfus, survived.
        
        Back in 1985, Cooper had suggested to Reed that he go to 
        Mexico and set up an operation expanding the supply network. 
        Reed agreed, traveled to Veracruz for discussions with Felix 
        Rodriguez and, in July of 1986, set up a front company,
        Machinery International, in Guadalajara.
        
        Three months later Cooper was dead and Hasenfus was being
        paraded by the Sandinistas before the Managua press corps.
        Reed says that Machinery International's business, "trans-
        shipping items" in "support of our foreign policies," was put
        on hold until January 1987, this at a time when the cover-up
        was pressing forward in Washington. Seven months later, Reed
        says, he became aware that drugs were part of the shuttle 
        passing through Machinery International's premises in 
        Guadalajara and that he himself presented a likely candidate 
        as fall guy if things came unglued.
        
        Reed says he confronted Rodriguez and told him he was quitting. 
        By early September 1987 he had returned to the United States. 
        A month later Buddy Young was activating--from Bill Clinton's 
        mansion--a sequence of events designed to land the potentially 
        troublesome Reed in prison.
        
        The instrument at hand was a plane owned by Reed.
        
        On March 24, 1983, Reed's plane had been stolen from a repair 
        shop in Joplin, Missouri (Reed's home state). Prior to this, 
        Reed says, Oliver North had asked him to contribute this same 
        plane to Project Donation, a scheme by which individuals would 
        allow their fully insured planes and boats to "disappear" for 
        the sake of counterrevolution in Nicaragua. Reed claims he had 
        refused. At all events, the plane was removed while Reed was 
        out of town. Reed duly reported the theft to his insurance 
        company and received compensation. He says that in 1985 North's 
        people contacted him in Mena, told him that his plane was being 
        returned after having been in Central America for two years and 
        asked that he not report its return because they might need to 
        "borrow" it again. Reed consented. He left the plane at his 
        hangar in the North Little Rock Airport and left for Guadalajara 
        soon thereafter.
        
        On October 8, 1987, Tommy Baker, a former Arkansas State Police 
        officer and longtime friend of Buddy Young, says he happened 
        to be passing Reed's hangar when a powerful gust of wind blew 
        the door open, revealing a plane. Baker says he thought the 
        plane looked "suspicious" and so called his pal Young at the 
        Governor's mansion. Young later claimed in testimony that he 
        called the registration number on the plane into the National 
        Crime Information Center to see if a plane with that number 
        had been stolen, found no record of this and so instructed 
        Baker to check if the plane's markings had been changed, a 
        common practice of plane thieves (also a routine practice at 
        Mena and in North's Project Donation). Baker established that 
        they had been, and by October 21 the two had turned the case 
        over to the F.B.I.
        
        Under scrutiny, that sequence, as set out by Baker and Young,
        did not stand up. On October 5, three days before that 
        fortuitous gust blew open the hangar door, Young was phoning
        Reed's parents masquerading as an old friend of their son,
        according to legal papers filed by Reed. Young had called in
        the plane's correct registration number to the N.C.I.C.--so
        the center's records show--on October 7, before Baker had,
        by his account, even set eyes on the plane (and before Young
        had called in with the doctored number). That same evening
        Young had called Joplin to inquire about the plane's original
        disappearance. In June of 1988, Reed was indicted on mail
        fraud charges in connection with his 1983 insurance claim on
        the plane.
                        (to be continued)
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   If you feel that the American People have been denied information
   about the man whom our plutocratic rulers have given us to choose
   as our president, please post this article to computer bulletin
   boards and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus.

        John DiNardo