Posted on 08/16/2019 11:54:37 AM PDT by bitt
Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA seeking the CIA Inspector General’s November 1996 report related to a drug-running, arms smuggling and intelligence operation involving Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport in Arkansas.
The airfield in Mena was alleged to have been used in the 1980s by the CIA during the Reagan administration to smuggle arms to rebels in Nicaragua. A central figure in the operation was Barry Seal, a pilot and drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel who became an undercover agent and informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
In November 1996, then-CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz absolved the CIA of involvement in the operation.
Hitz at the time said that “no evidence has been found to indicate that the CIA or anyone acting on its behalf participated in, or otherwise had knowledge of, any illegal or improper activities in Mena, Arkansas or the area north of Mena known as Nella, Arkansas.”
Judicial Watch sued the CIA in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after the agency failed to respond to a June 29, 2018, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:19-cv-00672)). Judicial Watch seeks:
The CIA Inspector General’s report issued in November 1996 relating to a drug-running, money laundering and intelligence gathering operation involving an airport in Mena, Arkansas.
(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...
If I recall correctly, the cocaine went to New Orleans to be turned into cash, and the cash went back to Mena to complete the triangle.
I bet Clinton didn’t just look the other way. He was paid. He had to wait a long time though to launder the money. That’s why he was oh so poor when entering the White Hut.
yeah,
So poor he felt a need to take the silverware when he left.
I recall he donated used under ware and took a deduction for the donation.
What slime those two are.
Arkansas hill billies are ashamed of them.
Imagine if Bush had not been rescued ocean by one of our Subs in the Pacific when his plane went down...
I was trying to remember Their Names the other day.
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