From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My brother John was one of Barry Seal's best friends in hi school. We lived two blocks from each other. They were in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) together. One morning, in 1959 or '60, John and Barry flew a Piper Cub to Lacombe (a small private airport on the north shore of L. Pontchartrain, in the New Orleans metro area). David Ferrie (one of Garrison's key witnesses) -- an Eastern Airlines pilot and CIA deep-cover operative -- was there training his own CAP unit (the New Orleans unit) on the tarmac. My brother also says there was, what appeared to be 3 or 4 platoons of "Cuban-looking" soldiers assembled nearby. Barry later told John that they were anti-Castro guerillas who were training there to go after the Cuban dictator. Seal met with Ferrie for about 15 minutes, then returned to the plane. On the flight back to Baton Rouge, Seal essentially invited my brother to work for Ferrie, making about $400 a week to fly "light cargo" to Central America. At the time, our dad made about $800 a month, and we weren't poor. John later learned that Ferrie was CIA, and that Seal had flown as a contract pilot for the Agency. He never accepted Seal's offer because he wanted to be naval aviator, and was studying hard to earn an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. Ferrie was a homosexual, and used the Civil Air Patrol to lure teenagers to his French Quarter apartment for gay orgies. During that same timeframe, one of Ferrie's more notorious CAP members was a boy named "Lee." On November 22, 1963, when my brother was a junior at Annapolis, he remembered Lee, because Lee was being accused of assassinating the president. Lee's full name was Lee Harvey Oswald. You can read more about this in my new book, "Sold Out: The Clinton Legacy." But Daniel Hopsicker is writing a book exclusively about Seal, Mena, and the CIA's dirty involvement in drug trafficking. Daniel's book will go into a lot more detail than mine. What I mainly deal with is my brother's memories of his days with Seal, and what I've learned about Clinton's connections with the Mena operation. I would also highly recommend renting Oliver Stone's "JFK" on video. A lot of what's in the film is extremely accurate. Hope you found this interesting. Odom --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- GRAB THE GATOR! FREE SOFTWARE DOES ALL THE TYPING FOR YOU! Tired of filling out forms and remembering passwords? Gator fills in forms and passwords with just one click! Comes with $50 in free coupons! <a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/gator4 ">Click Here</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
