REDACTED: Rich Mountain & Fred Hampton
Larry-Jennie
Note the deletions in this sworn deposition about Mena cocaine
trafficking:
Excerpt from:
In December 1996, the Portland Free Press secured a copy of Richard
Brenneke's 21 June 1991 sworn deposition before Congressman William
Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, chief deputy attorney general of
Arkansas. Mr. Alexander did the direct questioning and Bushman Court
Reporting, Inc., did the recording.
Q. And when you landed at Mena, what would be the disposition of the
cargo?
A. On one or two occasions the cargo was taken off by people who were
not residents of the Mena area and put into other aircraft which
departed from there. However, the most frequent activity was that the
aircraft would be unloaded in front of [deleted]'s hangers and it would
be stored in the back of the hanger....
Q. And go back in your mind to the first trip you took and describe to
me the disposition of the cargo; that is, the cocaine, once it returned
to Arkansas, once it was delivered to Arkansas? And I am especially I
am particularly interested in the identification of persons other than
[deleted]. You've talked about [deleted]. You've identified him. Can
you identify other people who might have received this cocaine?
(He talks about Gotti and the New York Mob.)
***
Excerpt from:
"Truth on Mena, Seal shrouded in shady allegations
Drug smuggling rumors just won't die"
By Michael Arbanas
THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE
December 22, 1990
A similar tale, though in a broader setting, is told by Richard
Brenneke, a Portland, Ore., businessman who claims a history as a CIA
contractor and whose name has come up several times during the
Iran-Contra investigations.
Brenneke said in an August interview with Duncan, who is now
pursuing the investigation as a private citizen, that he flew as many
as six shipments into the Mena airport from Panama from 1983 to 1986
as part of a CIA-sponsored effort to supply the Contras.
He laundered money for the operation, Brenneke said, and ferried
Latin Americans, mostly Panamanian Defense Forces, to Mena for
training in the Ouachita National Forest.
Brenneke said he got his instructions from CIA contacts and
carried several groups of 10 to 40 Latin Americans for training,
dropping them off in their civilian clothes at Rich Mountain. He
said he had made three or four trips to the Nella airstrip.
He met Seal once at the airport, he said, but Seal was not part
of the same operation as far as he could tell. He also claimed to
have seen an associate of John Gotti, the reputed New York mobster,
at the airport, saying he knew the man from earlier money-laundering
operations.
Brenneke is not one of the Bush administration's favorite
people, and officials have loudly attacked his credibility. He has,
though, shown himself on occasion to know more about the
international arms trade than the average real estate property
manager.
He first drew media attention in November 1986, when The New
York Times reported that he had written a series of memos to the
United States government in late 1985 and early 1986 asking to get in
on a deal to sell arms to Iran. The story hit the newsstands just
days after Attorney General Edwin Meese said on national television
that only a few top administration figures and private consultants
knew about the deal.
This year, Brenneke was acquitted of five counts of perjury. He
was charged with lying in 1988 when he told a federal judge that he
had participated in 1980 meetings in Paris in which Reagan campaign
officials cut a deal with Iran to postpone the release of the 52
American hostages in the American Embassy in Tehran until after
Reagan won his election challenging President Jimmy Carter.
Paramilitary reports
Reed's and Brenneke's accounts don't seem too far-fetched to
Welch, who said state police and local sheriff's offices got regular
reports of automatic weapons fire, low-flying planes and small groups
of uniformed men crossing streams and roads in the National Forest.
"There was talk of paramilitary activity in the forest between
the Nella community and Lake Ouachita," Welch said. "We thought
maybe it was somebody like the CSA (the Covenant, the Sword, and the
Arm of the Lord, a white supremacist paramilitary group that operated
in Northern Arkansas during that era)."
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From: "Bear Bottoms" <bbot...@eatel.net>
To: "The ciadrugs mailing list" <ciad...@mars.galstar.com>
Cc: "cas list" <c...@majordomo.pobox.com>
Subject: ciadrugs] Re: Black Eagle?
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:41:00 -0500
I have a unredacted version. Implant Fred Hampton and Rich Mountain
aviation in the redacted area.
***
What National Security roles or secrets were being protected when
"Rich Mountain" and "Fred Hampton" were blacked out in the sworn
deposition?
Note how the deposition was released only this past December,
so the National Security redaction justification remained active.
Larry
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$$ The CIA cocaine smuggling on behalf of the Contras $$
$$ through Mena, Arkansas corrupted the Presidencies $$
$$ of Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ronald Reagan. $$
$$ For details, see: $$
$$ ftp://pencil.cs.missouri.edu/pub/mena/ $$
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j...@globaldialog.com
Larry-Jennie wrote:
>
>
> What National Security roles or secrets were being protected when
> "Rich Mountain" and "Fred Hampton" were blacked out in the sworn
> deposition?
Probably the DEA operations that used Barry Seal as an
informant and operative against the Medellin cartel
It continues to amaze me that Larry continues to post old
articles that contradict other old articles that he posts,
without comment, as if no critical discussion about
these matters had occurred on this newsgroup.
"Barry Seal was nothing but a cocaine mule for a group of
sleazy cocaine thugs. -- Russell Welch, 3/16/97
"Barry Seal wasn't running guns or working for the CIA."
-- Russell Welch, 3/16/97
"If Barry had been running guns out of the Mena Airport in
1983, 1984, or 1985, I would have caught him."
-- Russell Welch, 3/16/97
"Further research into Mena leads me to believe that Seal's drug
dealing might have been going on independent of and perhaps even
unknown to the CIA."
-- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Prologue to _Boy Clinton_.
Larry-Jennie
Bear,
You know Fred Hampton well. You have admitted that he was complicit
in modifying aircraft for drug smuggling operations.
Why did the U.S. government black out "Rich Mountain" and "Fred Hampton"
in a deposition describing cocaine smuggling at Mena airport?