Re: Mena

[Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>]

Wall Street Journal, 5/3/94:

"Our sources agree ... on a number of things:  
There was most likely a CIA-sponsored Contra operation run out of Mena, 
as well as a huge parallel cocaine-smuggling operation, money laundering 
and a Justice Department coverup.  Much of this happened on Mr. Clinton's 
watch as governor."

[...]

"Mr. Clinton was asked by a state prosecutor for help to pursue the case ...
Help was promised but never arrived."

[...]

"Mena is a perplexing and difficult story.  There is a trail - tens of 
millions of dollars in cocaine profits, and we don't know where it 
leads.  It is a trail that has been blocked by the National Security 
Council."

- letter from Bill Plante, CBS News Correspondent and
              Michael Singer, Producer, CBS News



On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, John Young wrote:

>    The Washington Post, August 7, 1996, p. A6. 
>  
>  
>    CIA Probed in Alleged Arms Shipments 
>  
>       Reports Claim Agents Involved in Arkansas-Nicaragua Drug 
>       Swaps 
[...]
>  
>    Clinton has said he had nothing to do with any activities 
>    at Mena. "Mena is the darkest backwater of the right wing 
>    conspiracy industry," said White House spokesman Mark 
>    Fabiani. "The allegations are as bizarre as they are 
>    false." 
>  
>    [End] 
>  
>  
>