This all became apparent in a couple of plane crashes, one of them being flown by Barry Seals, friend of G.H.W. Bush, and former pilot in the Golden Triangle trafficking called Operation Phoenix. Opium explains the nomer 'Poppy' Bush.
These pilots came home and some were recruited into forming the Hell's Angels, named after a movie about W.W. II pilots. Their acts earn them their 'wings'. They were used to traffick drugs, collection agent and enforcement arm for TPTB.
Thanks my fren, digging into Barry Seals paints a remarkable picture:
From Grok:
Connection to the Iran-Contra affairIran-Contra involved the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran (to free hostages) and diverting the proceeds to fund the Contras—bypassing a congressional ban (the Boland Amendment). Seal’s role was indirect but notable in the broader anti-Sandinista efforts:The 1984 Nicaragua sting operation: As a DEA informant, Seal flew a camera-equipped C-123K cargo plane (with reported CIA technical assistance on the cameras) into Nicaragua. He obtained photos purporting to show Sandinista officials helping load cocaine from the MedellĂn Cartel. The Reagan White House (including Oliver North, the key Iran-Contra figure) used these images in public statements and briefings to portray the Sandinistas as drug traffickers and build support for the Contras. The photos were leaked to the press (the Kerry Committee later blamed North for politicizing the operation).
The C-123K “Fat Lady” plane: One of Seal’s C-123K cargo planes (which he had used in the sting and later traded/sold) ended up in the hands of Oliver North’s covert Contra resupply network. On October 5, 1986, this exact plane was shot down over Nicaragua while delivering arms to the Contras. Survivor Eugene Hasenfus was captured, and documents in the wreckage linked the operation to the U.S. government. This incident was the spark that blew the Iran-Contra scandal wide open.
Mena, Arkansas operations: Seal based some smuggling and plane modification work at Mena Intermountain Airport. FBI records confirm he used it for cocaine smuggling in the early 1980s. Allegations (investigated but never fully proven in court) claim the CIA tolerated or used similar routes for arms to the Contras, with drugs coming back—tying into broader Iran-Contra-era claims of U.S. government complicity in drug trafficking to fund the rebels. Official probes (like the Kerry Committee) examined CIA-drug links but found no conclusive high-level conspiracy involving Bush personally.
So Barry Seal was instrumental in Reagan admin being able to help the contras, but was also instrumental in blowing the fuse to the whole operation.
AND, he was part of the Mena, Arkansas drug smuggling - some interesting dig about that as well.
This all became apparent in a couple of plane crashes, one of them being flown by Barry Seals, friend of G.H.W. Bush, and former pilot in the Golden Triangle trafficking called Operation Phoenix. Opium explains the nomer 'Poppy' Bush.
These pilots came home and some were recruited into forming the Hell's Angels, named after a movie about W.W. II pilots. Their acts earn them their 'wings'. They were used to traffick drugs, collection agent and enforcement arm for TPTB.
Thanks my fren, digging into Barry Seals paints a remarkable picture:
From Grok:
So Barry Seal was instrumental in Reagan admin being able to help the contras, but was also instrumental in blowing the fuse to the whole operation.
AND, he was part of the Mena, Arkansas drug smuggling - some interesting dig about that as well.
Barry Seal mysteriously 'died suddenly' just before his scheduled testimony, and yes, the Mena story would blow it all wide open.