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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 07
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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 07
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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THE CRIMES OF MENA
Investigative report by Sally Denton and Roger Morris
[*Penthouse*, July 1995]

Yes, this is the article, originally scheduled to run earlier 
this year in the *Washington Post*, that was yanked at the last 
possible moment. "At the very last minute... the *Post* killed 
the piece -- and refused to give a satisfactory answer for its 
action."

The authors, Denton and Morris, obtained what they refer to as 
"the Seal archives" after more than a year of digging into the 
story. Named for reputed drug smuggler *extraordinaire* Adler 
Berriman Seal, the archives seem to have been primarily gathered 
in via the efforts of Denton (author, by the way, of a good book 
on drugs and political corruption in Kentucky, *The Bluegrass 
Conspiracy*), who "scoured her considerable law-enforcement and 
underworld sources throughout the nation."

"By late summer 1994, what we called the Seal archive was mostly 
gathered -- more than 2,000 documents, from the smallest receipt 
to whole volumes of investigation..."

For those of you tuning in late, here is what the Mena story is 
all about, based on the testimony of scores of witnesses, 
investigators, experts, insiders, and researchers. Mena is a 
small town in Western Arkansas. During the 1980s, huge C-130 
cargo planes, laden with weapons, would take off from there and 
fly down to Central America. The weapons would be unloaded and 
given to the *Contras*. (Some say that the weapons were being 
distributed to *both* *sides*.) The cargo planes did not fly back 
empty; weapons sales were financed, at least partly, by cocaine 
and marijuana; the cargo planes flew back to Arkansas filled with 
illegal drugs. The sales of these illegal drugs caused many 
Arkansas banks to be, as Sherman Skolnick puts it, "awash with 
cash."

The genesis of the Mena affair was the attempt (illegal) by 
some/all of the Reagan/Bush White House to circumvent the Boland 
amendment which had cut off Congressional funding for the 
*Contras* in Nicaragua. They are supposed to have paid off then- 
Governor Clinton and some/all of the Arkansas government in 
return that they look the other way and pretend not to notice 
anything unusual going on at places like Mena, Arkansas.

So, if the many witnesses are to be believed (and I think they 
are telling the truth), Arkansas was a beehive of drug/gun 
smuggling and money laundering activity during the 1980s. And the 
real kicker is that some/most highly-placed persons within the 
U.S. government were involved in all this! So that we had (and, 
some say, still have) a "war on drugs" in this country in which 
the forces of "law and order" were not only combatting drug 
smuggling but were also, themselves, smuggling in the drugs!!

So now it is like, as if we didn't have enough proof of this 
already, here comes Denton and Morris with even *more* proof. We 
don't need more proof! The proof is already there! It is like, as 
if "Well maybe the 'massa' don't see it our way because we ain't 
done put it down double-spaced and with 1-inch margins." The 
"massa" don't see it 'cuz the "massa" don't *want* to see it! 
It's not that the "massa" just don't have enough proof! The 
"massa" ain't never gonna have enough proof because this story, 
if it *were* to come out in the "official" media would make the 
"massa" look bad! So the "massa" ain't gonna see it and it's not 
that he just needs more proof or that the report must be double- 
spaced or any of that crap.

But, anyway, here is more proof, good proof, in the July 1995 
*Penthouse*. What good is it going to do? Will Tom Brokaw 
suddenly sit up and take notice? ("Gosh, all I needed was more 
proof! I'll get right on it!") Is this factual account of grand 
commisars and high potentates of the U.S. government dealing 
drugs -- and even banking the profits -- finally going to push 
the O.J. Simpson trial off the tube? Don't bet on it.

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