From: Daniel Hopsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Richmond,
You're absolutely right.
Bottoms is completely ignorable.
What i'm wondering is, who they'll send to take his place?
They've got lots slicker people out there.
One of the things I felt sure I could have proven--given the time and money--
was that Bottoms' release from the Navy coincided with the beginnings
of Seal's Bill Casey involvement in drugs.
In other words, Bottoms was released through CIA intercession to fly with Seal.
As to Barry's Mena invovlement: you'll all be shocked to hear that it began no
later than...1969.I've got three sources for this.
I didn't believe it myself when I heard it first, from a charming
Mob guy from Plaquemine Parish who told me all about ol Leander Perez...
two of whose helicopters Seal moved up to Mena.
As for Seagrams/Bronfman: I believe you're correct, given Seal's big-time
Montreal connections.
I'm glad, though, that i didn't interview Graves for my book.
i'm gonna have enough trouble getting it published as it is, without
drawing down the powers that be at MCA/Universal.
But did you see the part where he says i'm not really me, but some
guy named Hofstetter?
I think he might be confusing me with the former Raiders quartback or
something.
An easy thing to do.
We both have thick files.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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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