The Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty by Roger Stone & Saint John Hunt

Author:Roger Stone & Saint John Hunt [Stone, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

POPPY AND THE MURDER OF BARRY SEAL

I love my dad. I’d kill for him. I’d go to prison for him because, I love him so much.

—Jeb Bushxix

The Murder, Bush, and the CIA

Barry Seal was an ace pilot who had been flying since he was 15. In 1955 he joined the Civil Air Patrol and took part in joint training missions in New Orleans run by David Ferrie. According to Tosh Plumlee, another pilot and friend of Seal’s, Seal started working for military intelligence around 1956 at the age of 17. By 1958 he was flying weapons to Fidel Castro, who was fighting to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Mob- and CIA-backed Fulgencio Batista. (The CIA funded and supported both sides until Castro gained power and aligned himself with communism.) As we have noted, Seal was a member of Operation 40. Plumlee also adds that Seal worked closely with Ted Shackley in Laos and Vietnam. In 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of sending C-4 explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico. The plane Seal was using, a DC-4, was loaded with almost seven tons of the C-4, 7,000 feet of explosive primer cord, and 2,600 electric blasting caps. It took two years to bring Seal to trial. It was ruled a mistrial and Seal was let go. According to Deborah Seal, his wife, Seal became involved in drug smuggling in 1975. In 1979 Seal was arrested in Honduras after arriving from Ecuador with 40 kilos of cocaine. He spent nine months in prison.330

While in prison he met and became friends with Roger Reeves, who worked for the Ochoa family cartel of Medellin, Colombia. Upon release he worked for the Ochoas, now known as the Medellin Cartel. The CIA saw that the Medellin Cartel could be used to help fight the spread of leftist or communist ideology in Latin America. To that end, Felix Rodriguez persuaded the Medellin Cartel to donate $10 million to fund the Contras.331

By 1982, Seal had moved his base of operations from Louisiana to an obscure airport in Mena, Arkansas. This was the loading and unloading center for drugs and military hardware. With Governor Bill Clinton’s approval and his protection, the CIA set up an area, chain link fenced, including some large hangars. The flights went on 24 hours a day. Anyone who questioned the unusual activity was quickly told never to speak of it, ever.

It seems Barry Seal couldn’t stay out of trouble. In March 1984, Seal was indicted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for smuggling Quaaludes and laundering money. In December 1984, Seal was arrested again, this time in Louisiana after flying in a cargo of marijuana. He paid a $250,000 bond. Trying to avoid a 10-year sentence, Seal reached out to George H. W. Bush to make a deal. He appeared in a secret session of Bush’s Task Force on Drugs in Washington, DC, where he testified that the Sandinistas were directly involved in drug trafficking into the United States. He

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