The following witnesses and documentation are the starting point for discovering the truth behind cocaine smuggling protected from prosecution under the guise of protecting National Security in resupplying the Contras. WITNESSES * William Duncan -- IRS investigator who spent eighteen months gathering evidence of drug running, arms smuggling and money laundering centered in Mena. A good deal of that documentation sits in William Alexander's Archives * L.D. Brown -- former Arkansas State Trooper whom the Governor Clinton helped the CIA. Brown made two flights with CIA/DIA/DEA cocaine smuggler Barry Seal. He got out of the operation when he discovered Seal was smuggling cocaine. He claims Clinton was knowledgeable about the Mena cocaine trafficking. * Russell Welch -- Arkansas state police investigator spent over a decade trying to bring the cocaine traffickers of Mena to justice. * William Alexander -- former Congressman from Arkansas spent many years seeking a full investigation of Mena. * Celerino Castillo III-- the Drug Enforcement Administration's main agent in El Salvador, where, he uncovered a huge drug and gun smuggling operation that was run out of the Ilopango military airport by Oliver North's network. * Charles Black -- Polk County (Mena) prosecutor who asked for assistance from Governor Clinton to help prosecute drug running and money laundering in his district. * Terry Capehart -- Polk County deputy sheriff investigator. * Dennis Patrick -- had tens of millions of dollars churned through his account, without his knowledge and which was not his money, at Lasater & Co., the firm headed by Dan Lasater, that allegedly laundered drug money. * Larry Nichols -- worked at the Arkansas Development Finance Authority while providing assistance to the Contras * Dan Lasater -- sold Arkansas state bonds and allegedly laundered drug money. * Patsy Thomasson -- ran Lasater & Co. When Dan Lasater was in jail for cocaine distribution. * Raymond "Buddy" Young -- why did Clinton's head of security file false charges against Terry and Janis Reed? ARCHIVES * William Alexander Archives -- the former Congressman donated his papers to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro including information dealing with drug trafficking at the Intermountain Regional Airport in Mena, Arkansas. * Arkansas Committee Archives -- has some Arkansas Development Finance Authority documents released under FOIA. ADFA was allegedly the means to launder the drug money. CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS CONTINUED INVESTIGATION OF SENIOR-LEVEL EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT AND MISMANAGEMENT AT THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Hearing before the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 24, 1991,GOV DOC # Y 4.G 74/7:Em 7/16 House probe into why IRS investigator William Duncan faced a career crisis for documenting the money-laundering through Arkansas in the 1980s. DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1990. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session. September 13, 1989. Washington : U.S. G.P.O. GO V DOC. # Y 4.Ap 6/1:C 73/2/990/pt.9 Transcript of Congressman William V. Alexander (D-Arkansas) formally requesting U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to investigate drug smuggling and gun running at the Intermountain Regional Airport in Mena, Arkansas (while Bush Drug Czar William J. Bennett sits next to him). DRUGS, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN POLICY, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 1989, S. Prt. 100-165 Chaired by Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the subcommittee heard abundant testimony by drug dealers and pilots about CIA connections to cocaine smuggling. The report concluded that the United States allowed foreign policy objectives to interfere with the War on Drugs. ENFORCEMENT OF NARCOTICS, FIREARMS, AND MONEY LAUNDERING LAWS, Oversight Hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, July 28, September 23, 29, and October5, 1988, GOV DOC # Y 4.J 89/1:100/138 Investigates connections between cocaine smuggler Barry Seal and his role as a "confidential informant" for the Drug Enforcement Administration, including the "sting" operation that attempted to link the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua with the drug trade. Testimony by several high-ranking DEA officials, as well as information from the U.S. Justice Department in the appendixes, linked Lt. Col. Oliver North, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Reagan's National Security Council directly to Seal while he was working out of the Intermountain Regional Airport in Mena, Arkansas as a "confidential informant" for the DEA. IRS SENIOR EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT PROBLEMS, Hearings before the Commerce Consumer and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, July 25, 26 and 27, 1989, GOV DOC # Y 4.G 74/7:Em 7/11 Congressional hearings discover that IRS employee problems are due to employees investigating money-laundering of cocaine through Arkansas. MISCONDUCT BY SENIOR MANAGERS IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE: TWENTIETH REPORT, by Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, October 4, 1990, GOV DOC # Y 1.1/8:101-800. Report prepared for the Speaker of the House of Representatives containing a section exploring the reasons why IRS investigator William C. Duncan and others were blocked from investigating the money-laundering activities of the international narcotics smuggling organization operated by Adler Berriman `Barry' Seal" in Mena, Arkansas from 1982 to 1986. Larry ===================================================================== These sites are filled with facts about CIA covert operations and how they work against the best interests of the citizens of the United States. The Alliance to Expose Government Corruption and Corporate Crime Archive on Mena, the Octopus, Inslaw, Wackenhut, BCCI and much more. http://www.pfcc.com David Feustel's great archive on CIA cocaine smuggling: http://www.mixi.net/~feustel/ Duane Roberts' Mena documents are archived at: ftp://pencil.cs.missouri.edu/pub/mena/ Lisa Pease's Real History Archives: http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/ Bob Parry's The Consortium is filled with important investigative reporting that the mainstream media won't touch: http://www.delve.com/consort.html Covert Action Quarterly home page: http://www.worldmedia.com/caq/ Federation of American Scientists' library of U.S. intelligence documents http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/ =====================================================================