I recall Ollie North and the arms smuggling decades ago (I see his character listed here) but know absolutely nothing about the city of Mena, Arkansas and its' ties to smuggling with strong links to the Bush and Clinton families, as someone alluded to in another thread here.
I'd be very excited to read up on it.
If you are interested in the Bush/Clinton crime family then Victor Thorn's "Hillary (and Bill): The Drugs Volume" is also pretty good.
shareThe first I heard of 'Mena' as a film project, Ron Howard was supposedly going to direct. I may have been misinformed but considering the dangers could certainly understand why he would pass.
Ex-intelligence operative Robert Morrow has blogged extensively on everything related to the shadow government, BFEE, Clintoons, et al.
Check this:
http://barrysealmurder1986jebbusholivernorth.blogspot.nl/2013/03/ghw-bush-was-primed-to-murder-ross.html
Pilot Phillip Marshall, a fellow Louisianian, had worked for Barry Seal as a contract pilot. Which you can read about in his book "The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror".
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Bamboozle-11-War-Terror-ebook/dp/B007NZRLO8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1438416307&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Big+Bamboozle+phillip+marshall
After announcing his plan for a 2nd book to include more info re: Mena, Barry Seal & their boss Ollie North, Marshall -along with his 2 teenaged kids- was professionally 'suicided'.
I suppose we can guess why "Mena' is not slated for release until after the 2016 POTUS election. 😉
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It doesn't even have to be a book, just plug in key words and you get nice little articles like this...
http://ezinearticles.com/?Drugs%2C-CIA%2C-And-USA---Mena%2C-Arkansas-Coverup&id=513418
My heart will always break for the mothers of the teens who died on the railroad tracks. Just at the wrong place, wrong time.
"Star Trekkin' across the universe, boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse!"
Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed and John Cummings. A first hand account of arms and drug trafficking through Mena. See http://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Clinton-Bush-Terry-Reed/dp/1561712493
shareI recall the first time I learned about the murder of Kevin Ives and Don Henry was watching an early episode of Unsolved Mysteries back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I found the mystery surrounding their deaths quite haunting, and it resonated heavily on my psyche, especially seeing the classroom snapshot of these two young men capturing a moment suspended in time in their all-too-brief lives. I recall later reading a magazine article (which I think I still have in my collection so might dig it up) in the mid-1990s associating their deaths with the "Clinton Body Count." Then I came across the documentary Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection, which, I think, was produced by Linda Ives and related her suspicions about who was involved in robbing her of her son. Another TV show I watched only just last year on the unsolved murder was Phenomenon: The Lost Archives with Dean Stockwell. The episode was "American Midnight." I'm sure these are available to watch online (e.g. YouTube).
I believe Henry had been stabbed in the back and Ives's skull had been crushed prior to them being placed on the railroad tracks. Doing my own research over the years I've found intriguing references to similar deaths at the time that may be connected to the Mena drug syndicate, including the "accidental" deaths of Billy Don Hainline and Dennis Decker in Oklahoma in 1985, which was also eerily similar to the manner of Ives' and Henry's murder; and even Norman Ladner's "suicide" in Mississippi in 1989. It wouldn't surprise me if drug cartels were operating heavily at the time in the neighboring states of OK, AR, MS. I'm sure these kind of covert illicit operations are still ongoing and have gone global, especially after some articles I read on the Australian connection soon after watching Kill the Messenger...
Here's a couple links for anyone interested:
1) Linda Ives' theory on the deaths of Kevin Ives & Don Henry www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=179063
2)Unsolved Mysteries article on the case:
http://unsolved.com/archives/don-henry-kevin-ives
I suggest "Smuggler's End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal" published in June,2016 by Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, LA. Available on Amazon and B&N. I'm the author. It is non-fiction based on facts and my experience as the FBI agent assigned to the Louisiana drug task force that investigated and convicted Barry Seal. exfeebee
shareThanks for the recommendation, exfbi.
Pelican Press is a good publisher and Louisiana was the swamp infested by creepy critters doing dastardly deeds.
Hope the white hats at your former employer win their honorable crusade to rescue the reputation and integrity of America's great FBI.
If the FBI sink to the level of certain other agencies then our nation goes total plutocracy.
God help us to get that DC swamp drained. 😀