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Bill Bottoms' new moniker has to be "Bare." He has bared his bottom for sure
on his website. Has anyone else read that balderdash?
Daniel, our friend Del Hahn was ready to get on the band wagon until he
talked to Bare. Bare definitely has a way with words. Sort of reminds me of
another good-ole Loozianna boy: Jimmy Swaggart. Why use one adjective when
you can use two? Bare accuses Terry Reed and John Cummings of "fabricating
AND lying." I think he and Swaggart must've attended the same school: Dufroq
(pronounced "Doof rock") Elementary, where they studied math AND arithmetic.
But, enough ad hominem stuff.
May I make a few observations? Thanks. Bare claims, essentially, that because
he was Barry Seal's brother-in-law for a few years, that qualifies him as an
expert on all aspects of Seal's life. But notice one interesting point he
makes: "I was a Navy pilot from 1974 to 1980. I got out [of the Navy] not
long after Barry was released from prison in Nicaragua." How long is "not
long"? Better yet, how long was Seal in jail in Nicaragua? It's difficult for
me to believe that he and Camp were in there longer than a couple of weeks,
although I must admit I don't have any information to confirm that.
Bare does admit (although it isn't written as an admission) that Seal began
smuggling arms and drugs after he was fired by TWA in 1974. So, here we have
Seal smuggling armaments, ordnance, and opiates, for at least 6 years, while
Bare is flying for the Navy. If the information I have is correct, Seal was
developing his organization during that time frame. In fact --- and Daniel
correct me if I'm wrong --- Seal was establishing ties to Mena as early as
1978 (which roughly corresponds to the time frame of the Bert Lance bailout,
meetings with Jackson Stephens and BCCI president Hassan Abedi, and some very
serious drug money laundering operations in Arkansas). Where was Billy? Where
was Billy? (Everybody chant) Maybe he had been to see his wife, who was the
joy of his life, but was a young thing and could not leave her mother.
Bare says, matter-of-factly, "Barry Seal was never CIA." Oh, really? I wonder
why the former U.S. Attorney told you and me that "Seal was CIA," and that
the "Ark" (on North Street) was a "safe house"? Did Bare bother to discuss
these things with Mr. Bardwell?
He also gets his dates wrong regarding the sting operation in Miami. And the
DEA was not after the "Prime Minister" of the Turks and Caicos. Granted,
Norman Saunders and Stafford Missick (the two main targets) were high-ranking
government officials in the islands, but neither was the "Prime Minister."
The DEA dragnet also included Aulden Smith (a cop in Grand Turk), and
businessman Andre' Fournier. Fournier had helped Hassan Abedi establish a
BCCI branch in Grand Turk, which Seal frequented to do a little "personal
banking" from time to time. Seal also housed airplanes there.
Moreover, Bare maintains that Seal was in the federal "witness protection
program." That is absolutely false. Seal specifically chose not to be in the
WPP. He was just an informant. If Bare had bothered to look, he might've
found out a great deal by reading the trial transcripts in "United States v.
Norman Saunders, et al." (Cr. No. 85-165-Spellman, U.S.D.Ct., S.D.Fla.).
In September 1985, Seal testified at that trial (Seal was there as a witness
only; not as a defendant), that the DEA had allowed him to make $6 to
$700,000 from drug smuggling while he acted as an informant. The DEA also
allowed Seal to pay Emile Camp and other pilots, like Roger Reeves, out of
the money he got from smuggling drugs. (All of that information is from pages
506-508 of the transcript of Seal's cross examination in U.S. v. Saunders.)
Herb Graves also says that Seal did a lot of flying himself, contrary to
Bare's assertions that, "I did all the flying; Seal only handled the work on
the ground." Graves also told me that Seal had arranged for him to fly to NYC
in 1982, where Graves was transported from a rooftop heliport to somewhere
north of White Plains, in a bird owned by Seagrams. Graves was just a
delivery boy on that trip, giving a locked leather briefcase to "a big guy
with greasy black hair, dark sunglasses, and a dark suit." (Hmm, sounds like
one of the Little Sisters of the Poor.)
I don't believe that even 1% of the endless colloquy between Terry Reed and
Seal, quoted in Reed's book "Compromised," is true, but I do know that Seal
smuggled arms and drugs in his airplanes, and he did use the Mena facility.
Bare has truly bared his ignorance. He should be ignored.
Odom
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