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Man Claims CIA Tied to Speed Ring
Dallas Morning News
September 13, 1989
By Lee Hancock
A methamphetamine ring based in Mesquite was set
up by a CIA operative to funnel money to the
Nicaraguan contras, one of the alleged participants
has testified in federal court.
The testimony came during a hearing in Tulsa,
where Loran Eugene Hall, Jr. appeared Monday to plead
guilty to drug charges.
He told the court that his father, Loran Eugene
Hall, Sr. of Mesquite was a CIA agent who recruited
him and others to manufacture speed to raise money for
the contras, said Jack Morgan, assistant U.S. attorney
for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
A CIA spokesman declined to comment Tuesday on Mr.
Hall's case.
"We do not generally acknowledge the employment of
either covert or overt employees," said Mark
Mansfield, an official at CIA headquarters in McLean,
Va. "I would add that the agency does not sanction
violations of U.S. law."
A federal drug conspiracy indictment handed down
in Tulsa in July names Loran Eugene Hall, Sr., 59; his
daughter, Barbara Ann Marteney, 34, of Mesquite; and
his sons, Michael Stephen Hall, 36, of Burns, Kan.,
and Loran Eugene Hall, Jr., 34, of Derby, Kan; and two
other Kansas residents. The indictment charges that
the elder Mr. Hall led the ring, which manufactured
methamphetamines between October 1987 and February
1989.
Loran Hall Jr. and Michael Hall pleaded guilty
Monday. Their father and sister remain at large.
Court documents indicate the ring was broken when
the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics investigators
and Mesquite police trailed Loran Hall, Jr. after he
purchased glassware and chemicals at a Grand Prairie
chemical store.
Mr. Hall and another man were arrested in Noble
County, Okla., as they were carrying those items and
several high-caliber forearms to Kansas in a stolen
truck, according to the indictment....
Mr. Morgan, a Mesquite police investigator and
defense attorney representing Hall family members all
said there was evidence suggesting that Loran Hall,
Sr. worked for the CIA in some capacity.
"He has a long history of involvement with the CIA
attempts to overthrow Castro," Mr. Morgan said. "He
was involved in the ill-famed Bay of Pigs invasion. In
1961, he got arrested with a truckload of guns in
Texas, and he was transporting them from California to
Florida for that invasion."
His name also has surfaced in congressional
investigations of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
The elder Mr. Hall was described in a 1979 House
Select Committee on Assassinations report as a onetime
resident of Cuba with ties to anti-Castro groups in
the United States and organized crime on both
countries.
And, Mr. Morgan said, his name is the subject of a
chapter in the book Coup d'etat in America, which
speculates about CIA involvement in a plot to kill
President Kennedy. The chapter, titled "Loran Hall and
the Free Cuba Committees," details allegations of CIA
financing and orchestration of a plot by anti-Castro
groups to kill President Kennedy."
"In the last few years, he supposedly was involved
with CIA attempts to overthrow the Nicaraguan
government," Mr. Morgan said.
Loran Eugene Hall, Jr. has told investigators that
his father was a 17-year CIA employee most recently
involved in running guns to Central America, Mr.
Morgan said.
The son also has told investigators about
incidents in which helicopters appeared at his
father's Kansas farm bearing men who carried automatic
weapons and answered to military titles such as
colonel and major, Mr. Morgan said.
"It may be true. There's quite an extensive
history on his father's CIA involvement," Mr. Heflet
said. "My client told me that a lot of his dad's
involvement, specifically in the Kennedy
assassination, has been sealed up, and we never may
find out what it was."
Mr. Morgan said federal officials believe the
elder Mr. Hall may be hiding in Kansas, Honduras or
Costa Rica.
"This is a pretty strange case all around," Mr.
Morgan said.
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