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A review of "The Secret Heartbeat of America" by Allen Comstock
September 13, 1997
Daniel Hopsicker's Brave New World
by Allen Comstock
Daniel Hopsicker's new film, "The Secret Heartbeat of America" is a
key chronicle of official drug corruption in the United States. The
film is well executed and breaks new ground in rendering the
complicated accounts surrounding the astounding story of CIA Drug
entanglements radiating from Mena, Arkansas. Aldus Huxley's "Brave
New World," is a dystopic portrayal of a corrupted social framework.
With frightening parallels to Huxley's classic work, Hopsicker's
"Secret Heartbeat" is a piercing portrayal of the officially
sanctioned drug corruption in Arkansas and throughout our country.
I have communicated with Daniel Hopsicker several times by internet
and by phone. After viewing Daniel's new film, I now feel those
casual correspondences were productive far beyond my expectations. At
one point months ago I was offered an advance copy of the video and I
accepted but I was skeptical the complicated film project could
achieve reality. After viewing the completed film, I believe Daniel
Hopsicker is on his way to establishing himself as a major force in
the conspiracy genre. "The Secret Heartbeat of America" is a major
work. It should be required fare for anyone questioning consensus
reality.
The film considers the premise that US federal agencies run the
illegal drug industry. To quote Hopsicker, "the biggest drug smuggler
in the country . . . is the country." The film then introduces many
of the characters we have grown to know in the scandals around
Arkansas--Dan Lassater the bond king and cocaine baron, Jean Duffey,
the Arkansas prosecuter who would not be quiet when her investigation
began to be suppressed, prosecutor Dan Harmon who recently saw his
tenure as one of Arkansas' most powful attorneys interrupted by
drug-related racketeering convictions, Linda Ives, a mother of a
murdered son who will not give up her search for justice and who has
turned the "train death murders" into a main stream national story,
Russell Welch, the Arkansas criminal investigator who asked
embarrassing questions until he was nearly assassinated by anthrax
poisoning, and many, many others. In addition to a witty and
entertaining narrative, actually seeing these many of these
participants for the first time is continuously fascinating.
Hopsicker adroitly employs many classic film clips from major media
reporting and discussion of the events of the drug smuggling scandal.
For example, Hopsicker makes a grand reprise of President Ronald
Reagan's feigned surprise at the downing of the Hassenfus C-123 air
transport full of weapons in the Nicaraguan jungle. Hopsicker reveals
the duplicity in the official reports and denials of many of the
blatant events related to clandestine US involvement in Nicaragua and
central America during the '70's and 80's. The meticulously scripted
narrative reminds the viewer that US Vice President George Bush was
operating and controlling the intelligence loop while he was in the
White House during both Reagan's and his own administration.
Hopsicker's portrayal makes it obvious that George Bush's involvement
in the drug trade is very profound and has only just begun to be
unravelled. American drug corruption is bi-partisan.
The two hour Hopsicker film manages to organize an enormous range of
material, framing the complexity of the drug scandals and
sophisticated cover-ups littering the rural Arkansas landscape.
Hopsicker acquired sensational news clips from local Arkansas
television stations and blended them with his superior, colorful,
droll narrative to portray the Dan Harmon scandal in its true
ugliness. The anecdotal method used by Hopsicker makes a perfect
satirical vehicle. For example an Arkansas newsman calls Jean
Duffey, the crusading former prosecuting attorney, a "mental case"
for making her claims of official corruption and then we see clips
and interviews displaying Duffey's nemesis, Dan Harmon and other
prime characters candidly discussing their various admitted
involvements.
The central character and focus of the film is deceased Louisiana
pilot and businessman, Barry Seal, who operated a flying service
heavily connected to Mena. Hopsicker demonstrates Barry Seal was
murdered with possible duplicity and cooperation of both the Medellin
Cartel and rogue elements of the US government. Hopsicker embellishes
his story with interviews and quotes from Barry Seal's brother who
implicates an unstable member of Seal's entourage in the murder. The
film uses many local news clips of Barry Seal in Louisiana and
Arkansas to reveal this chubby, affable fellow as a criminal kingpin
with a story still shrouded in confusing disinformation. "The Secret
Heartbeat of America" provides unparallelled documentation of
factory-like painting and alteration of airplane identification
numbers for to illustrate the scope of Seal's enterprise at the Mena
airport. Later we see, through astonishing interview exerpts from
Barry Seal's attorney, hitherto undisclosed aspects of Seal's murder
and drug operations, linking Barry Seal and his death to the very
highest officials in our government.
You also see in Hopsicker's film former CIA operative Terry Reed
pointing out a duplicate C-123 transport plane used by Seal to
camoflage Mena operations. Barry Seal's famous "Fat Lady" transport
shot down in the Nicaraguan jungle, according to Hopsicker's
documentation, was a double for this identical plane used in mass
quantity drug transport (and owned by a CIA proprietary under the
supervision of Richard Secord). This priceless revelation is one of
many in the Hopsicker production making "The Secret Heartbeat of
America" must viewing.
The scope of the film is so broad and fast paced many vignettes are
presented as anecdotes rather than being completely developed. The
viewer is challenged to fill in logical sequences from the massive
original footage and ironic major-media clips. The film comes to life
with great emotional impact in the telling of the poignant story of
the destruction of Jean Duffey's law career, the mother's agony of
Linda Ives, the horrifying account of an assassination attempt by
spraying an anthrax aerosol in the face of investigator and good
family man Russel Welch, the unexplained murder of then-Arkansas
Governor Bill Clinton's security chief, the probing interviews
revealing the character of Arkansas state coroner, Fahmy Malek and
his convenient insensitivity to the forensic realities of so many
tragic and suspicious Arkansas deaths. The film hammers home the
losses suffered by little people who are making major sacrifices to
raise the alarm about the on-going corruption and consequent
destruction of our country. The viewer can not watch Hopsicker's film
without coming to know good people are being destroyed and callously
murdered wherever the Arkansas drug scandal touches.
After viewing "Secret Heartbeat," it's obvious Daniel Hopsicker
created a dangerous document which opens a necessary perceptual door
for the viewer to begin understanding the dangers our country faces
from corruption run rampant. Hopsicker demonstrates to the drug cabal
how dangerous he is to them and it is obvious those criminal master
minds must now try to shut him up. Intimidation, violence and murder
are the stock in trade of those whom Daniel Hopsicker has embarrassed
and exposed. Publicity and reviews such as this are essential tools
to protect this new Orson Wells who has burst upon us so brilliantly.
"The Secret Heartbeat of America" is a fire alarm. The implicit story
of the making of the film is also sensational.
Key from-the-air footage of the Mena airport and surrounding area
(including the almost mythical Nella airport) was shot from a small
private plane piloted by William Bottoms (aka Billy Bob "Bear"
Bottoms). Bottoms and his story is used by Hopsicker throughout the
documentary as a real-life character in a real life mystery story
complete with surprise plot twists comparable to those of the best
suspense novels. But Hopsicker's story is a documentary and the story
is on-going and reflects the potential for danger for any researcher.
William Bottoms, a Louisiana resident was Barry Seal's
brother-in-law. Bottoms claims he was manager of Barry Seal's drug
organization, possibly the largest drug smuggling operation in world
history. William "Bear" Bottoms claims to be the foremost living
authority on Barry Seal, Mena and related corruption scandals.
Film-maker Hopsicker, on the surface, with subject Bottoms, appeared
to have struck a gold mine with a wealth of first hand information.
William Bottoms was eager to admit on camera to Hopsicker's film crew
his major involvement in Seal's drug smuggling operations. These
candid admissions are notable in that Bottoms is undeniably
connecting himself to the crack cocaine epidemic and the ruination
and premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Bottoms'
admissions are underlined by the fact that he faced no prosecutions
for his admitted heinous crimes. William Bottoms makes it clear that
he wants the truth known, at any cost, about his family member Barry
Seal. William Bottoms, ostensibly, is willing to harm his own
reputation to clear up what he calls "the Mena Myth."
Bottoms eagerly met on camera with Russell Welch, a key investigator
who doggedly pursued the Seal organization at Mena. Bottoms' comments
seemed to belie the stories of Terry Reed, L.D. Brown and Chip Tatum,
all high ranking intelligence officers who have previously come
forward with confirming stories about the massive Mena-related
smuggling activities, including drugs and guns, sponsored and
protected by the US government. William Bottoms, as a co-conspirator,
wanted to make clear that Barry Seal was never involved with the CIA.
Bottoms is a drug smuggler turned DEA informant Bottoms claims he has
no lasting connection or involvement with the CIA in his drug-flying
career. Bottoms wanted to "set the record straight" and Hopsicker
skillfully used the Bottoms account to show the conflicting
complexities of the Mena story.
Midway through the film the plot twists and Hopsicker begins
revealing who Bear Bottoms really is. Eyewitness after eyewitness are
revisited and contradict the Bottoms account. Bottoms is ultimately
shown to be a long-term CIA agent embroiled in a disinformation
campaign. The documentary revelation is sensational. Not only is the
viewer treated with hitherto undisclosed facts, there is a
fascinating unravelling of the processes of disinformation. If
Bottoms was a non-government drug smuggler in the 1980's, how could
he then fly super-secret military and intelligence missions in the
Gulf War years later? How close was the relationship between Barry
Seal and Bottoms when Seal's brother suggests Bottoms may have been
involved in Seal's murder? Why has there been little historic
reference by any of the major earlier researchers to the role of
William "Bear" Bottoms either in the Mena story or the Seal
operations? If Barry Seal were not involved with CIA, why was the
private direct line telephone number of Vice-President George Bush
found in Seal's vehicle after his murder? Hopsicker raises these and
many other issues as to the William Bottoms account.
Hopsicker's viewers realize from this highly crafted, path breaking
documentary Bottoms' whole involvement with the project was for
purposes of disinformation. Bottoms is revealed as an insideously
evil character and could reasonable be suspected to be the
antichrist. But upon consideration of Bottoms' slovenly demeanor and
clear lack of intelligence it becomes clear that he could not
formulate such a scheme through his own wit. A more likely conclusion
is William Bottoms is a highly managed sacrificial asset of secret
persons with agendas to suppress or distort the truth about the drug
smuggling scandal in Arkansas. Again the potential for danger to
producer Hopsicker is apparent when one realizes the profile of
William "Bear" Bottoms is that of the lone gunman profile such as Lee
Harvey Oswald or James Earl Ray. What we have with Bottoms is a
potential back water John Hinkley. At one climactic point Hopsicker
reveals from intelligence sources, confirmed by other reports, that a
lapse of Bottoms' programmed discipline alleged drove him to commit
unnatural acts for which a middle East government is seeking him for
trial on a capital offense punishable by decapitation. As the
audience realizes the full implications of William Bottoms' agenda
and character as to the drug smuggling story it takes no leap of
faith to realize that Hopsicker's life is in danger after boldly
releasing this project to the public.
As a prolog, reliable reports indicate William Bottoms has been
involved in a concerted effort to threaten and intimidate Daniel
Hopsicker during the first weeks after the release of the film.
Others involved in discussing and reviewing the film have also come
under similar attack on the internet and in the real world. Hopsicker
has made William Bottoms into an icon representing the Machivellian
suppression of free inquiry and a warning to those who seek to
uncover the conspiratorial nature our highest officials. William
Bottoms set out to distract and disrupt inquiry concerning Mena.
William Bottoms in Hopsicker's film ends up exposed as a minion of
evil.
"The Secret Heartbeat of America" is a brilliant effort by Daniel
Hopsicker explaining the many tentacles of the Arkansas drug
corruption scandal. This writer can only hope that future work
Hopsicker's embodies similar authority. I urge every reader to
secure multiple copies to distribute to their friends and circle of
influence. The film is excellent. You will not be disappointed.
Allen Comstock
Note: for purchase information,
Daniel Hopsicker
Executive Producer
http://www.MadCowProd.com
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