Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 01

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OLLIE NORTH UNDER SCRUTINY AGAIN FOR DRUG RUNNING

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>From *The New Federalist*, Feb. 13, 1995

By Edward Spannaus

 

Feb. 7 (EIRNS) -- Oliver North's deep involvement in illegal 

drug-smuggling and gun-running -- which was highlighted during 

last fall's election campaign -- is again drawing attention. 

Ollie claimed during the Virginia Senatorial campaign that he was 

the "most investigated man on this planet." So far, he hasn't 

been, not by a long shot, but it could still happen, if some 

people get their way.

 

It is widely known that a major exposure of the 1980s Mena, Ark. 

gun-running and drug-running operation is in the works {1}, an 

exposure which will hit Ollie North very hard. The story was, 

until recently, scheduled to run in the Washington Post, and was 

reportedly killed {2} after many weeks of review by that 

newspaper's editors, but informed sources in Washington expect 

that it will soon be published in another location.

 

While many want to portray the Mena story as a piece of the 

Whitewater scandals being run against President Clinton, the 

truth is that Clinton has little to do with it." {3}.

 

The real scandal of Mena centers around Ollie North and George 

Bush. The Mena airfield in western Arkansas was one of many 

locations used for drug-running operations which involved Ollie 

North's Contra networks in Central America. North's supervision 

of a massive drug-smuggling operation run by Contra operatives 

was exposed during last fall's election campaign by former Drug 

Enforcement Administration agent Celerino Castillo {4} and 

others; Castillo showed, for example, that all of North's pilots 

flying out of the Ilopango military airfield in El Salvador were 

documented to be drug-traffickers.

 

One of the key operatives in Arkansas for Ollie North's Contra 

apparatus was Larry Nichols {5}, who is now going around the 

country threatening President Clinton {6} and peddling Whitewater 

stories. {7}. It was because Nichols was spending state time and 

money working with Oliver North and the Contras, that Clinton 

fired him from an Arkansas state job in 1988. {8}. Nichols was in 

regular contact with Nicaraguan Contra leaders such as Mario and 

Adolpho Calero in New Orleans, and with Gen. Richard Secord, who 

ran the Contra re-supply operation for North and George Bush.

 

Yes, George Bush. Contrary to the myths about "Iran-Contra" being 

run by a lone Lt. Colonel out of the National Security Council, 

the truth is that these and many other, less well-publicized, 

dirty and illegal covert operations were run out of the office of 

Vice President George Bush while Ronald Reagan was President; the 

"Contra" operation, for example, including especially guns and 

drugs, was directed from the Vice President's office and was 

supervised by Bush's national security adviser and former CIA 

colleague, Donald Gregg.

 

                  -+- Ollie's Drug Depot -+-

 

The controversial Mena article which the Washington Post has 

refused to run, was co-authored by former National Security 

Council official Roger Morris and investigative reporter Sally 

Denton, and is based on more than 2,000 documents concerning 

Barry Seal, a major drug-runner and DEA/CIA informant who was 

shot to death in 1986.

 

Seal operated out of the Mena airfield in western Arkansas from 

1981 to 1986, flying guns out and drugs in. The documents 

utilized by Morris and Denton in their article include Seal's 

bank records, telephone records, and personal correspondence and 

diaries, as well as extensive law-enforcement records.

 

The Seal records confirm what is already well-known: that Mena 

was being used to fly weapons into Central America, and that 

drugs were brought back on the return flights. All of the 

numerous efforts to investigate the Mena operation during the 

Reagan and Bush administrations were blocked on "national 

security" grounds.

 

These dirty operations were run out of Bush's office under the 

nominal authority of National Security Decision Directives Nos. 2 

and 3, issued early in the Reagan administration. Out of these 

came the Special Situation Group (SSG), headed by the Vice 

President; and then came the Crisis Pre-Planning Group, an inter- 

agency coordinating body whose staff coordinator was Oliver 

North. Under NSDD-2 and NSDD-3, George Bush was in charge of the 

entire "secret government" apparatus -- which not only ran covert 

operations overseas, but also against U.S. citizens at home.

 

This was the true story of "Iran-Contra," which was never 

investigated either by Congress or by Special Prosecutor Lawrence 

Walsh. Now, with new evidence about Mena circulating, and in the 

aftermath of North's failed Senate campaign, there is a climate 

building which could finally result in the first full 

investigation of the crimes of George Bush and his flunky, Oliver 

North. {9}.

 

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{1} "It is widely known that a major exposure of the 1980s Mena, 

Ark. gun-running and drug-running operation is in the works..." 

See, for example, *The Spotlight*, Feb. 20, 1995, p. 11:

 

  Skolnick said the Clintons are on a collision course with 

  their "upcoming downfall," and cited numerous reasons for it, 

  including the "singing" of Webster Hubbell, prosecutors 

  wanting to open a Vince Foster case and testimony from 

  Chicago about a "missing $47 million" that once belonged to 

  the Resolution Trust Corporation.

 

{2} "...scheduled to run in the Washington Post, and was 

reportedly killed..." See, for example, *The London Sunday 

Telegraph*, Jan. 29, 1995, "Arkansas Drug Expose Misses the 

Post".

 

{3} "...the truth is that Clinton has little to do with it." 

*Relatively* little would be more accurate. Clinton and the gang 

profited enormously, according to Sherman Skolnick and others. 

For a good look at Clinton's Arkansas, see "The Name of Rose" by 

L.J. Davis, *The New Republic*, April 4, 1994.

 

{4} Expose of drug-smuggling run by Contra operatives. See, for 

example, Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 2, Num. 53, and Vol. 2, Nums. 

63-67.

 

{5} Regarding the *New Federalist* allegations on Larry Nichols: 

unsubstantiated. If *New Federalist* has evidence, let's see 

and/or hear it.

 

{6} Regarding the *New Federalist* allegations that Nichols is 

going around the country threatening President Clinton: that is 

ridiculous. It is against the law to threaten the President (or 

anyone). If Nichols were doing what *New Federalist* is saying, 

he would have long since been visited by the Secret Service.

 

{7} Regarding the *New Federalist* allegations that Nichols is 

"peddling Whitewater stories": Nichols has stated time and again 

that he makes no profit from his "Whitewater stories". Also, 

LaRouche, if you're out there and if the Vatican will let you 

respond, are the following persons *also* "peddling Whitewater 

stories"?

 

  a) Pat Matrisciana, Citizens for Honest Government;

  b) Judge Jim Johnson: "My God, Larry Nichols was right.";

  c) Mrs. Jerry Parks: "What Jerry had in those files could 

     have unseated this President.";

  d) Gary Parks: "I have no doubt that Clinton himself, or 

     people behind Clinton, had my father murdered.";

  e) Officer John Brown, retired police officer involved in 

     investigating the Henry/Ives death case.;

  f) Scott Wheeler, reporter and talk show host;

  g) Authors Terry Reed and John Cummings;

  h) *Many* others.

 

{8} Regarding *New Federalist's* claim that Clinton fired Nichols 

for working with North and the Contras: *that* is ridiculous. 

Nichols, in fact, was threatening to blow the whistle on Clinton 

and the gang. For further details on the whole rotten mess, see, 

for example, *Compromised* by Terry Reed and John Cummings -- a 

book, by the way, that *New Federalist* has praised highly.

 

{9} "...a climate building which could finally result in the 

first full investigation of the crimes of George Bush, etc." With 

a Republican Congress, the Republicans are gonna let Bush and his 

gang get investigated?? I have major doubts.

 

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