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The 2017 film American Made is a fictionalized telling of the story of Barry Seal, a pilot and Medellín Cartel drug smuggler who based his operations in Mena, Arkansas. [50] The 2017 FX television show Snowfall features CIA involvement in introducing cocaine and crack to Los Angeles, California. [51]
Troopergate, using Arkansas State Police officers to facilitate sexual liaisons and intimidate accusers; Misuse of funds with the Arkansas Development Finance Authority; Using Bank of Credit and Commerce International to launder money; Profiting from drug smuggling at the Mena Airport. Protecting Barry Seal's drug smuggling activities
This drug trafficking was linked to the operations of Barry Seal and the Mena Airport in nearby Polk County. The 1994 conspiracy-theory movie The Clinton Chronicles blamed the cover-up of the murders on Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas at the time and was accused to have known about the drug trafficking in his state. [11]
Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport covers an area of 667 acres (270 ha) at an elevation of 1,080 feet (329 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 9/27 is 5,485 by 100 feet (1,672 x 30 m) and 17/35 is 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).
During his time as governor in the 1980s, Arkansas was the center of a drug smuggling operation through Mena Airport. CIA agent Barry Seal allegedly imported three to five billion dollars worth of cocaine through the airport, and the operation was linked to the Iran-Contra affair. [7]
The executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was shot Tuesday as federal agents arrived at his home to serve a search warrant, police said.
ATF agent injured in shootout at home of Little Rock, Arkansas, airport executive director. March 19, 2024 at 3:24 PM. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal agents were involved in a shootout early ...
In his memoir, Smuggler (2016), Reaves claims that Seal paid millions in bribes to the Clintons when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas in order to land planes carrying cocaine at Mena, Arkansas. [3] Reaves served over thirty cumulative years in prison and escaped five times.