Mena

Summaries

• The Crimes of Mena - by Sally Denton and Roger Morris, Penthouse, July 1995
  Suppression of the "Crimes of Mena" story:
  
  • Arkansas Drug Expose' Misses the Post - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Electronic Telegraph, January 29, 1995
  • Sally Denton and Roger Morris Interview on the Barry Young radio show, February 1995
  • "Ashtray Conspiracy" - Internet post by Michael Rivero, April 11, 1996
• THE MENA AIRPORT: Why Arkansas's biggest mystery won't die. - by Mara Leveritt, Arkansas Times, August 25, 1995

The Evidence

• Chapters in the Recent History of Arkansas - by Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, February 24, 1992
• Interview with Terry Reed on May 8, 1995 - by Marvin Lee, Washington Weekly, May 15, 1995
• Mena Drug Conspiracy Unravels - by Marvin Lee, Washington Weekly, July 10, 1995
• Interview with L.D. Brown on September 28, 1995 - by Marvin Lee, Washington Weekly, October 2, 1995
• British TV Exposes String of Murders Near Mena, Arkansas - by Marvin Lee, Washington Weekly, November 6, 1995
• Arkansas Case Halted - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Electronic Telegraph, March 17, 1996
• MENA: THE INVESTIGATION OF BARRY SEAL - former Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch, interviewed by Marvin Lee, Washington Weekly, March 25, 1996
• COMPROMISED - Brian Redman speaks with John Cummings, March 25, 1996
• Mena Redux: Will House Banking Committee Probe Get Any Further than Nine Earlier Investigations? - by Anthony Kimery, Sources eJournal, April 1996
• The First National Bank of Mena, Arkansas Under Investigation - by Anthony Kimery, Sources eJournal, April 1996
• Failed Banks: Congressional Investigatores Ignored Links to CIA and White House - by Anthony Kimery, Sources eJournal, April 1996
• The Mena Anthrax Poisoning Case - from the Washington Weekly, April 1, 1996
• Interview of Jean Duffey by John Bennett of Citizens for Honest Government, April 4, 1996
• JEAN DUFFEY interviewed by Randall Terry, May 1, 1996
• Interview of Linda Ives by John Bennett of Citizens for Honest Government, May 1996
• Interview of John Brown by John Bennett of Citizens for Honest Government, May 1996
• Scott Wheeler as interviewed by John Bennett of Citizens for Honest Government, posted to the Internet June 26, 1996
• Clinton 'knew of plan for assassination' - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Electronic Telegraph, August 5, 1996
• Phone call rings Clinton alarm bells - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Electronic Telegraph, October 6, 1996
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard interviewed on Quinn in the Morning Show, WRRK 97 FM, Pittsburgh, PA, October 10, 1996
• John Bennett Interviews Gary Parks - Media Distribution, October 10, 1996
• R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor of The American Spectator, on "Quinn in the Morning" Show, WRRK 97 FM, Pittsburgh, PA, October 18, 1996
• THE MENA SERIES: BARRY SEAL ASSOCIATE SPEAKS OUT - Washington Weekly, October and November, 1996
• The Mena Conspiracy - Fact or Fraud? - by Sharon Churcher, Penthouse, November 1996
• Transcription of Obstruction of Justice - The Mena Connection video
• Murder and Drugs in Arkansas - by J. Orlin Grabbe, posted to the Internet November 20, 1996

Dennis Patrick

• Probe eyes drug-profit laundering - by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, June 9, 1994
• Truck driver may hold key for Starr - by John Crudele, September 8, 1995

Reed v. Young lawsuit

• Terry Reed's Statement, June 3, 1996
• Terry Reed interviewed by Chuck Harder, June 4, 1996

Reports

Politicians' Comments (from the Congressional Record)

Reviews

Commentaries

• Will Whitewater Boil Over? - by Nick Chase, The Contrarian's View, January 27, 1996
• The Super CIA and the Octopus - by Marvin Lee, Washington Weekly, March 11, 1996
• The battle no one can win - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Electronic Telegraph, April 1, 1996
• "At the Bottom of the Barrel" - comments (excerpted) by Duane Roberts, posted to the Internet May 7, 1996
• Some Observations on the Non-News - by J. Orlin Grabbe, posted to the Internet June 17, 1996
• The Clinton Crash - by J. Orlin Grabbe, posted to the Internet July 15, 1996
• The CIA and Mena - by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The American Spectator, November 15, 1996

"Dark Alliance" - Cocaine in California

• This is Your Goverment On Drugs - by Jonathan Vankin, excerpted from Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes, 1991 [pointer, Mena page]
• Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion - by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 18-20, 1996
• Inquiry into CIA link with Contra rebels 'selling cocaine' - by Hugh Davies, Electronic Telegraph, September 23, 1996
• The Coke Was Stored in Hangars 4 and 5 - by J. Orlin Grabbe, posted to the Internet October 2, 1996
• Spooks spooked by Contra drug story - Progressive Review, October 12, 1996
• Contras, Crack, the C.I.A. - by Robert Parry, The Nation, October 21, 1996
• CIA Drugs: The Record Ignored - by Joe Horman , October 22, 1996
• TESTIMONY OF SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK A. BLUM, Senate Intelligence Hearing on Drug Trafficking And The Contra War, October 23, 1996 - Washington Weekly, October 28, 1996
• Those Wild C.I.A./Drug Charges - by Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, November 11, 1996
• Crack Reporting - editorial by David Corn, The Nation, November 18, 1996
• The Contra-Crack Connection (An analysis by FAIR of media coverage of the story) - Progressive Review, December 19, 1996

Other CIA Connections to the Drug Trade

• People of the Opiate (Burma's dictatorship of drugs) - by Dennis Bernstein and Leslie Kean, The Nation, December 16, 1996 (issue)