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The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal which was revealed in November 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration. It began as an operation to increase U.S.-Iranian relations, wherein Israel would ship weapons to a moderate, politically influential group of Iranians opposed to the Ayatollah Khomeini; the U.S. would reimburse Israel for those weapons and receive payment from Israel. The moderate Iranians agreed to do everything in their power to achieve the release of six U.S. hostages, who were being held by Hezbollah.
The plan eventually deteriorated into an arms-for-hostages scheme, in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages, without the direct authorization of President Ronald Reagan. Large modifications to the plan were conjured by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985. In North's plan, a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua. While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause,there has not been any evidence uncovered showing that he authorized this plan.

At that time Iran was holding hostages and the freedom fighters needed arms to over throw the government of Iran and free the hostages. They did not have any money to pay for arms , so the United States Government under the advice of Vice President Bush using Oliver North as the CIA go between decide to sell used arms to the Freedom Fighters in exchange for Cocaine.

Under a Secret Service and CIA covert operation while Bill Clinton was Governor ofArkansas. Allowed a Military base in mena Arkananas .After the weapon sales were revealed in November 1986, Ronald Reagan appeared on national television and stated that the weapons transfers had indeed occurred, but that the United States did not trade arms for hostages. The investigation was compounded when large volumes of documents relating to the scandal were destroyed or withheld from investigators by Reagan administration officials.

On March 4, 1987, Reagan returned to the airwaves in a nationally televised address, taking full responsibility for any actions that he was unaware of, and admitting that "what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages. Many investigations ensued, including those by the United States Congress and the three-man, Reagan-appointed Tower Commission. Neither could find any evidence that Reagan himself knew of the extent of the multiple programs In the end, fourteen administration officials were charged with crimes, and eleven convicted, including then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. They were all pardoned in the final days of the George H. W. Bush vice presidency.

Iran Contra Affair
When most people think of US Arab relations, the Iran Contra affair comes to mind along with Saddam Hussane, the Gulf War and the price of oil. The issue started in 1985 when guns and other weaponry were secretly sold to Iran. Although it was first stated that the goal of the sale was to improve relations with Iran, it was later disclosed in hearings by President Ronald Regan that the arrangement had turned into an arms-for-hostages swap. Many Americans were distraught over the sale of guns to a hostile Iranian government, especially when the integrity of the US was threatened by dealing with terrorists.

Barry Seal — gunrunner, drug trafficker, and covert C.I.A. operative extraordinaire — is hardly a familiar name in American politics. But nine years after he was murdered in a hail of bullets by Medellin cartel hit men outside a Salvation Army shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he has come back to haunt the reputations of three American presidents.

Seal's legacy includes more than 2,000 newly discovered documents that now verify and quantify much of what previously had been only suspicion, conjecture, and legend. The documents confirm that from 1981 to his brutal death in 1986, Barry Seal carried on one of the most lucrative, extensive, and brazen operations in the history of the international drug trade, and that he did it with the evident complicity, if not collusion, of elements of the United States government, apparently with the acquiescence of Ronald Reagan's administration, impunity from any subsequent exposure by George Bush's administration, and under the usually acute political nose of then Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.

The newly unearthed papers show the real Seal as far more impressive and well-connected than the character played by Dennis Hopper in a made-for-TV movie some years ago, loosely based on the smuggler's life. The film portrayed the pudgy pilot as a hapless victim, caught in a cross fire between bungling but benign government agencies and Latin drug lords. The truth sprinkled through the documents is a richer - and altogether more sinister - matter of national and individual corruption. It is a tale of massive, socially devastating crime, of what seems to have been an official cover-up to match, and, not least, of the strange reluctance of so-called mainstream American journalism to come to grips with the phenomenon and its ominous implications - even when the documentary evidence had appeared.The trail winds back to another slightly bruited but obscure name -
a small place in western Arkansas called Mena. To read the report visit

Terry Reed a CIA Operative and Flight Trainer in Central American was involved in the Central American Arkansas Covert Resupply Operation . Terry Reed was told to go to Central American as a Flight Trainer and while walking around with blinders on came upon the Transfer of Cocaine to Mena Arkanas in crates that stated Animal Feed and that there were B-52 Bombers departing from Mena Arkanas at 1:00 am to 2:00 am in the morning and arriving in Central America under cover and transfering these Animal Feed Crates and replacing them back on the plane and transported back to Mena Arkanas .

While Terry Reed was walking threw the warehouse came upon a broken crate at noticed alot of white powder in bags and decided to have the powder tested and found pure Cocaine. He confronted Oliver North and as a result his whole life was destroyed by the Bush and all his cronies and speaks out in retaliation. Watch This and other Videos on the matter at hand. The United States is Taking your Rights away one at a time..