Barry Seal's Last Words

Barry Seal's Last Words The prearranged agreement with Barry Seal and the FBI about his death.

Oliver North was a busy man in the 1980sDuring that time I was involved with the CIA operation at the military base in A...
12/20/2024

Oliver North was a busy man in the 1980s

During that time I was involved with the CIA operation at the military base in Arkansas and Barry Seals land in Mena Arkansas. I met Pablo Escobar, Noriega, and Oliver North who flew the CIA agent that I spent most of my time with Stephen Shaffer around wherever he had to go. Oliver North flew me to Washington DC and showed me his office because as a kid I didn't believe he was who he said he was. In his office, it was hot with no windows and several computer screens around a desk. He asked me to shred some papers he told me needed to be gotten rid of. When I asked him why he said they might make then-president Ronald Reagan look bad or get into trouble. So he left me in his office shredding papers while he went to see his secretary. There were so many papers that I got tired of shredding them one at a time and began to put more and more papers in the machine until finally the shredder jammed up and stopped. I thought it meant we didn't have to use the shredder anymore but when Oliver North came back he began to unjam and said to keep shredding papers. When he finally called it quits his secretary took some papers and put them in her clothes and all three of us walked out of the building.

Oliver flew me to South America several times and often spoke of having to fly all over the world claiming he was very busy. He told me he was going to Iran after a trip to South America we went on and I asked if I could go because I didn't believe he was going anywhere else but South America. He decided to let me go and sure enough, we went to Iran he had some peace talks to attend and left me with a trustworthy person I stayed with him until he finished and went back to America it was a very long day and I began to see what he meant about being busy he was going to South America sometimes until the sun was going down then he would have to go to Iran occasionally making his schedule difficult to keep up with. Still, he made time to go to South America in his transport plane to give lessons to Barry Seal who flew his Cessna to the same Colombian mountaintop runway where the mercenaries watched over the compound used at the time to house indigenous children given or bought by the cartel that were used in drug production and smuggling. Landing and taking off on the mountain top runway is what he was there to give Barry Seal lessons on. Barry would always be late and when he got there he usually was hung over or too hopped up on drugs to pay attention as close as Oliver North wanted him to. Oliver said he lacked discipline and said if he was a soldier he wouldn't have that problem and would be able to learn and improve his landing that Oliver said was going to take the bottom of the plane off if he kept slamming the transport plane into the runway.

Taking off however Barry was pretty good the transport plane would rev up and set off downhill for the edge of the mountain top runway and be moving about the speed of a bus going down the street then when it passed off the edge it just kept going straight slightly rising at an angle towards the sky and creep up into the sky on slow motion. Oliver and I would stand right near the edge to see the best view of the plane taking off the mountain it was an incredible sight to see. Oliver spent some time modifying his plane in South America working on a door on the floor near the front of the plane to get it to open when he needed it. When the CIA operation training the volunteers from South America became a lost cause the volunteers had to be flown back to South America and because a deal was made with Pablo Escobar and Stephen Shaffer Oliver North ended up flying several trips to South America delivering the volunteers to the mercenaries at the mountain top compound who had the task of distributing the volunteers to other cartel locations nearby but they couldn't get the volunteers to other locations fast enough in the busses and trucks they had only 30 or do at a time would go down the mountain roads to other locations and it took hours to get there and back.

The transport planes delivering the volunteers overwhelmed the mercenaries at the compound and they decided to get rid of the excess people and began to shoot the volunteers as they came out of the back of the transport planes. I was going back and forth with Oliver delivering the volunteers to their deaths and asked him if we could open the door on the floor of the plane so that at least some of the volunteers would have a chance to escape down the mountaintop while the others were being shot running out the back of the plane. He said ok and after telling them what was happening they quickly accepted any help ten to fifteen of them started flooding out the bottom of the plane when the mercenaries began to notice them and became very upset blaming Oliver for letting them go. They began to taunt Oliver and threatened to kill him when one mercenary came to the back of the plane to check if any was still inside and Oliver began to shoot at him with his pistol chasing him out of the plane. The mercenaries had a chain of command that ultimately stopped them from killing Oliver because he was the only one who could fly the plane.

I wanted to go back with Oliver but the mercenaries decided to keep me and forced Oliver to give me up. He told me he needed me to run out the back of the plane to get their attention and to chase me so they would step away from the cargo door and the engines so he could take off. I didn't give it much thought and came running out the back of the plane and they began to chase me then the plane started up and down the runway, and it went before the mercenaries could stop Oliver the way they had planned. When the mercenaries caught me they said they had to beat me for disobeying them and Oliver thought they were going to kill me because that's what they were talking about doing when they forced him to let me go. I knew the mercenaries because I already had been left at the compound before the CIA operation had ended. The mercenaries that caught me told me they had to make it look like they were hitting me and just shoved the buts of their rifles into the ground beside me when Oliver started to shoot his pistol outside the window of the cockpit driving the plane closer to the mercenaries and yelling to them not to kill me they responded saying there's nothing he could do to stop them if they wanted to and Oliver told them if they did he would take off and fly as fast as the plane could and crash it directly into the compound destroying the building and then the mercenaries wouldn't have a compound to use. They doubted him but sensing his concern told him I wouldn't be killed making a truce by agreeing not to go on his plane if he wouldn't get off his plane. Earlier the mercenary that got on the plane to check if anyone else was still inside took a shot at a person who was with Oliver and killed him.

I met up with Oliver North again at Barks Dale AFB when I was in middle school there was a school trip and a church trip that went to Barks Dale AFB for the page group I was in during middle school and they showed a video that you didn't have to watch and I got up during the film and stood outside watching the planes come in when the solider I was talking to mentioned that the next plane was going to be Oliver North's plane landing and I asked him several questions about why he was there and who was flying with him. He said he was going to be the guest speaker after the film was over and talk to everyone inside. He continued to say he was flying by himself and I asked if I could go to his plane but the soldier refused. I waited for my chance and took off running for the plane getting to the cockpit window before the soldier and began yelling at Oliver North to get his attention. After the soldier chased me around the plane Oliver gave in and opened the side door you are only supposed to open during wartime and let me in before the soldier could get in the door causing the soldier to wait for the cargo door to open giving Oliver and I time to talk without interruption from the soldier or the two FBI agents in the car standing outside watching us in the cockpit.

At first, Oliver didn't know who I was but I kept talking about things in South America we did together and he finally got the picture asking if it was me as his face lit up like a bright light surprised to see me and telling me he was sorry for leaving me with the mercenaries that day I'm South America. I quickly told him I didn't blame him and I already knew that I was told to stay there before I got on the plane with him that day so I figured it was like he wasn't responsible for me being left that trip. He asked me if he could make it up to me telling me I could ask for anything and that he wanted to get it for me as a gift. I thought about it and asked him if he was serious he said he was so I asked him to give me the service pistol he used during the time I was left in South America the same one he shot out the cockpit window when I ran out the back of the plane. He quickly responded he couldn't and I told him it didn't have to be then it could be when he retired he said it was too important and he would probably have other plans for his pistol when he retired because of all the other things he used it for during his service. He spoke as if it might go to a museum or collection of some kind. He said I could ask him anything else and he would get it for me claiming he would buy me a 45 of my own and have it engraved for me as a present when I got older but I wanted the service pistol because of the sentimental value of him standing up against the mercenaries he thought was going to kill me. He told me he would give me money and I could buy any pistol I wanted or something else anything but his service pistol. I didn't have any way to tell him that there was nothing else he had that I truly wanted Telling me I could ask for anything and then refused to give what I asked means there's no reason to ask for something else. I understood his guns importance and truly believe it meant something to him and other people as well especially him telling me that it was probably going to end up in some museum being his service pistol however it meant that much more to me because you used it the one day he stood up for me in my life in another country where the CIA left me all of her cared for my life that day and was willing to sacrifice his plane and himself to do it. At least he certainly gave that impression when he spoke to the leader telling him he would crash a plane into his compound if he did kill me after he shot his gun in the air to get his attention.

Kevin Ives and Don Henry murdered by south Americans from a nearby military base who were traveling down the tracks in a...
12/20/2024

Kevin Ives and Don Henry murdered by south Americans from a nearby military base who were traveling down the tracks in a jeep to sell drugs to Billy Jack the westler

Kevin and Don were walking along the woods near the railroad tracks when I first met them. I was walking away from the decommissioned military base used to house and conduct training exercises for a volunteer army of South Americans who were invited and flown to the base by the CIA using military transport planes. The base had barracks that had a yellow painted line inside the building representing a boundary for united states laws and authority. On the other side of the line, the South Americans governed themselves regarding life and death and were also able to store and use things normally deemed illegal in America like large sums of cash, illegal drugs, etc. This was during the time Pablo Escobar was helping the CIA by giving information on cartels in South America. Pablo used the South Americans' training in the volunteer army to store large sums of cash inside the barracks where united states laws and authority could not interfere. Kevin and Don followed me back to the base that day to see the room filled with 7or 8 dead bodies. Once on the base, Barry Seals' wife's brother-in-law approached them and quickly got Kevin and Don's attention and desire to hang around him doing drugs and other things instead of me being a younger boy. I didn't see Kevin and Don till later that night in the room the dead bodies were in. The brother-in-law had brought some people who were interested in taking some of the organs from the dead bodies and Kevin and Don were following them watching. These people had gotten my attention and first asked me to help then forced me to help them by making me eat a piece of an adrenaline gland they had removed from a body to see if it was still good. I became morally compromised and they used me to lure a South American boy who got murdered and had his adrenaline gland taken. This happened before I could return with the Colombians who were in charge of security for the South Americans. They found out what happened and wanted to take revenge on someone for what happened to the South American boy. They wanted to blame the bother-in-law which they disliked very much but decided to kill Kevin and Don as an example. Kevin and Don were wanting to leave earlier but the brother-in-law asked them to wait until they finished getting whatever organs from the dead bodies so everyone could leave through the hole in the fence that I previously brought Kevin and Don through by the railroad tracks. The people who took the organs and the brother-in-law went through the hole first and then walked in the opposite direction of Kevin and Don who were told to not let anyone see them walking on the tracks leading away from the base.

I watched Kevin Ives and Don Henry murdered on the tracks after midnight during the early morning hours before sunrise then placed on the tracks covering them up with a tarp to be run over by the train later that morning by Colombians who caught up to them driving a jeep on the tracks as they were walking from the nearby military base used to house a volunteer army from South America that the CIA flew here to train. The Colombians that murdered Kevin and Don were selling drugs to Billy Jack the wrestler that night and came across Kevin and Don on the way to meet Billy Jack who was hiding off the tracks in the woods when the jeep the Colombians were driving approached. The Colombians told them to get in the jeep and that they were going to kill them. Kevin and Don armed with a hunting gun refused and turned to walk away at that moment a Colombian in the group lunges forward with a large knife stabbing the boy holding the gun. With the blade piercing through his back and sticking out his chest as the boy drops the gun and kneels looking down in horror directly at the blade screaming he has been stabbed. Now both boys crying and fearful they load the stabbed boy in the back of the jeep and tell the other to get in which he does without a fight. The Colombians drive on the tracks as much as possible till they get close to the area where they will meet Billy Jack. The stabbed boy is almost dead showing little signs of life as he is thrown out of the jeep onto the tracks. The other boy waits in fear until the Colombians return from the drug sale and because the boy requested not to die by stabbing the Colombians take the hunting gun and bash his skull in after several attempts the first hit knocks him off balance then the second hit knocks him to the ground as he crawls lethargic and attempts to get away the Colombian continues to use the hunting gun breaking it after several hits taking the stock climbing on top of the boy and continues to hit his skull until the boy is dead. Then the Colombians lay the boys on the tracks covering their bodies and wait on a nearby spot off the tracks in view of their bodies slightly above the tracks looking down at the boys until the train approaches and runs over the boys laying dead covered up with several attempts by the train's engineer blowing the horn and the brakes are applied heavily but with no real effect in slowing the train. It becomes clear the train will not stop before it reaches them as several train cars after the engine passes over their bodies the train finally comes to a complete stop. Billy Jack was approached with a bribe to be present with a false story that will not expose the Colombians from the nearby military base as murderers. At first, he refuses then his life is threatened, and finally accepts to tell the false story covering up the Colombians from the military base as the murderers and request the bribe they offered. I speak with Billy Jack and he tells me he has no choice but to do as they say and threatened me not to tell the truth as he feared for his life. I wait till the police begin to arrive and leave Billy Jack on the tracks with his pistol in his hands after talking to me. It takes me all day till dusk to get back to the military base and I go through the hole in the fence around the property a short distance from the railroad tracks. The same hole Kevin and Don came through earlier when I met them on the tracks after walking 30 mins or so away from the base earlier that day. I brought them to a room that had dead bodies stored where a relative of Barry Seals' wife approached them and offered them drugs and other interesting things to do with their time leaving me in the area I brought them to and I wouldn't see them again till later that night just before they decide to leave after a Colombian boy is killed by the people they were following around. I was approached by the Colombians to go with them that night and found out it was not a coincidence because they used me to lure Kevin and Don when the jeep got close to where they were hiding off the tracks waiting for the jeep to move on. Leaving me as a child with a heavy sense of guilt for their deaths at the hands of the Colombians.

Barry Seal was a good guy to me.I remember the first time I met Barry Seal. It was on an Arkansas military base that I w...
12/20/2024

Barry Seal was a good guy to me.

I remember the first time I met Barry Seal. It was on an Arkansas military base that I was visiting tagging along out of town with the company my father worked for P.M. Tank a water tower service. A government job landed me the opportunity to ask my father to go out of town with him during one summer break from elementary school. Barry quickly made his introduction and expressed interest in the company considering doing a job for him on his land in Mena. Once in Mena, a few welding jobs were completed by P.M. Tank and during these small jobs a red-headed CIA clandestine agent named Stephen Shaffer drove up in a car similar to a mid-1980 model Oldsmobile cutlass. Two large metal containers were set up near the runway that went right past an airplane hanger some distance away. The two metal containers were being used as an entrance for the soldiers conducting training exercises that day to drive threw on their way to the airplane hanger. The large military trucks came speeding in and began rushing through the two large metal containers my father wanted to put me somewhere safe and told me to stand atop one of the metal containers. Stephen Shaffer made his way to the metal container I was standing on and introduced himself as a CIA agent. He began to talk about the operation he was working with telling me about a volunteer army flown to Arkansas to train from South America and their ambitions to seize strategic locations over an area in South America stretching through outline borders of existing countries to hold and defend to create a new country long enough for the united nations to recognize and endorse there a new country that was to be governed by democracy and the united states intended to support and help influence the united nations endorsing America's support. As a child, I thought very little of it at first but soon noticed the soldiers were not Americans driving the military trucks that continued through the two metal containers to the airplane hanger and quickly stopped and surrounded the buildings militarily during the exercise giving the impression they were practicing to seize and hold the location.

Shaffer explained they had been practicing over and over every day to improve and assess their performance. Shaffer went across to stand on the other metal container across from the one I was standing on and they conducted the exercise again. Later that evening the exercises ended and the volunteer's training returned to a complex being used to house feed and used effectively in their home. Inside the complex were a swimming pool and an area used like a town square with several areas set up to severe the needs of the volunteer's training and the women and children flown to be with them as well. A food area had an indoor gas grill cooking to fill a table with food for anyone hungry for hamburgers or steak. Another area had a clothing booth where old ladies ran sewing clothes needed by anyone. Upstairs in the back of this area lead to the sleeping area with beds for everyone behind a door kept shut for those sleeping. A yellow line was drawn inside the complex that officially separated America's jurisdiction of authority concerning laws and even security for the volunteers training and the people housed in the area giving them responsibility inside the yellow line as their sovereign state. If something happened inside this yellow line America had no say in the matter. For this reason, it was advised not to cross the yellow line unless you were a volunteer. As a child, I had no fear and quickly found out it was easy to be taken advantage of. I soon learned not to stray too far. Stephen expressed interest in the pressure tank the company was using during the job on the military base and persuaded Barry Seal to ask if it could be bought or rented. At first, my father dismissed the idea until financial numbers began to be quoted that made it to the owner and boss of P.M. tank provided another opportunity for me to return this time with the boss for a week at first that turned into two weeks during the summer vacation from elementary school.

During this time I made many friends with the South American children housed inside the complex. I also met Pablo Escobar and Noriega who visited the complex during this time. I mainly followed Stephen Shaffer around who spoke with Pablo who was helping the CIA along with Noriega during the operations. One day my dad's boss and Barry Seal were in the radio room in a building next to the runway talking and drinking passing the time. Pablo Escobar who I didn't know at the time was supposed to arrive. When he did he came through the doorway and I put my hands on him not knowing he would respond with a slap that knocked me away from him. The men inside the radio room did nothing about it and my dad's boss Pete told me he wasn't going to do anything either telling me he was a drug lord. I began to realize that this man Pablo Escobar deserved more respect than I mistakenly gave him. He explained why he hit me and I quickly accepted my mistake. He tried telling me who he was but as a child dismissed his responses as impossible and Pablo took an interest in proving his words to be true. Paolo had asked Stephen Shaffer to fly with him to South America where Pablo planned to show him cartel locations the CIA was interested in collecting information on, but Stephen didn't trust Pablo and figured he would kill him once out of the country. Pablo was upset that Stephen didn't believe him and used this opportunity to prove what he told me about himself earlier. Pablo convinced me to go on a flight with him to visit South America and show me what he was going to show Stephen if he had gone in an attempt to prove to Stephen he wasn't lying. As a child, I couldn't resist because I have been flown to South America before by another man who worked for the government and lived on government-protected land in Georgia that I was introduced to by my Pentecostal pastor at the time Fred J Foster who was a retired photo analysis for the CIA. I knew about the amount of time it would take to get there and happily got on the plane with Pablo Escobar.

When Barry Seal realized what Pablo was doing he began to warn Pablo against flying me out of the country to get off the ground Pablo convinced Barry that we were just going up to circle the runway to prove to me he could fly because I disbelieved what he told me earlier. Once in the air, Pablo headed straight for South America and Barry Seal got on the radio warning very loudly about taking me out of the state much less the country telling Pablo he was kidnapping me and that the FBI wouldn't be able to look the other way about it. During the CIA operation, Pablo was helping with he was given special privileges that let him do anything he wanted within reason. Barry kept speaking louder and louder on the radio and I became upset and afraid of what would happen because Pablo had no intention of turning around. Pablo told me there is nothing to worry about and asked me why I started crying when I said it was because of what Barry kept saying about him kidnapping me he said he can make that stop right now and turned off the radio. Soon he focused my attention on the flight and I stopped worrying about the radio and began to worry about how high we were flying. He flew so high I could see the curvature of the earth and told me to stop looking and lay down on the floor if it was a problem and when he got as high as he intended he cut the engine off and it became very quiet as we coasted towards South America telling me not to worry about that either because he flew this way almost every time identifying it was him. As we coasted down he told me to get off the floor and look outside again that I didn't want to miss what could be seen. It was the Panama Canal and the continent of South America from as high as I ever saw as a child it was very beautiful and he told me would be stopping in Venezuela before we went to Columbia then we would fly to Ecuador.

Pablo turned on the engine and soon we landed on a dirt runway he got out of the plane telling me to stay inside and wait till he returns. He walked over to a couple of people nearby and an argument began that led to a terrible end for those who started it as they were killed Pablo got back on the plane asking me what I thought about what happened and congratulating me on staying on the plane saying lots of people would have tried to run away when someone is being killed. I told him I had seen people killed before and remembered that running away doesn't help but I stayed in the plane because the people being killed running around weren't trying to get in the plane so I figured I was safe where I was as long as Pablo returned. He said the argument was about him bringing me with him there. We took off from Columbia to housing being used for daycare of sorts that children abandoned by their parents from most big cities in several countries in South America sent their children once they reached a certain age usually 4 or 5. He said they would grow up there until they could be used in the drug trade picking coca leaves or transporting drugs walking from one border to another. He also said they were provided for better there than if they would be on the streets of a city if abandoned. Further explaining that many parents have children this way raising them from a baby to four or five and sending them there to work for the cartel then have more children and repeat the process. The children were all alike and didn't seem to mind being there because everyone there had the same story they accepted being sent there and made the most of it enjoying games and playing in the fenced-in protected housing on top of a southern mountain in Columbia.

We stopped at several places after that first to a cartel location where Pablo showed me how co***ne was produced from a coca leaf through the process into a powder that was being packaged for transporting wrapped up kilos at a time sealed with a wax marker resembling a scorpion. Then we went to his mansion where he showed me his hippos and took me inside his mansion to his business room where he had a huge desk and nice chair he set in and did some paperwork and called several people while I quietly walked around looking outside at his beautiful grounds surrounding the mansion. Then he took me to a nightclub during the day and he assured me people would be there. It was mainly filled with joyful Columbians who were having a good time. He told me I had to stay with them there while he went somewhere and within an hour or so he would return to get me. I got along well with the Columbians and about an hour later Pablo returns. He said we had to go to a soccer game that was fixing to start and told me I should stay with the players in the locker room because he had to speak on the field before the match began and it would be filmed the CIA didn't want me to be filmed.

A soccer player was shot by Pablo during an argument before the game and he scolded the other players for what happened. After that, I asked if I could just follow him on the field I didn't want to stay in the locker room after a player was shot. He told me I might be filmed and he didn't care but the CIA didn't want me to because they didn't tell me I followed Pablo onto the field struggling to keep up with all the people. Pablo left me briefly while he went to speak to the crowd with a microphone and then quickly returned and soon we returned to the plane. He said we would be going back to America now and I was feeling very good about the awesome day he took me on apologizing for not believing him earlier about who he was.

Forgetting all about technically being Internationally kidnapped by Pablo Escobar he said it'snot kidnapping of I bring you back. When we returned there was a big argument about it that Pablo got fed up with and flew away this time without me. Stephen Shaffer wanted to know everything and asked if after school starts if I would go back this time with him and Pablo to show me e everything I told him Pablo showed me thinking nothing about Pablo mentioning to me earlier about how I should remember that he brought me back when he took me to South America and that Stephen planned to ask me to go again and he was going to leave me in South America as if it was planned. Pablo had told me the truth the entire day but I couldn't believe that Stephen Shaffer planned to leave me if I went back and sure enough Stephen asked me to go back after school started in about two weeks. I agreed to go. Two weeks after school started Stephen Shaffer shows up at Central elementary school in Calhoun Louisiana where I attended and checked me out of my Ouachita parish school drove me out of the state to a military base in Arkansas where Pablo soon landed and Stephen Shaffer Pablo Escobar and I took off for South America again not knowing this time I would be left for several weeks before I would finally be flown back by my Pentecostal pastor Fred J Foster who was a retired CIA photo analyst. When Barry Seal learned I was left he attempted several times to come to get me but each time he approached the mountain top housing location the security force would shoot at his plane forcing him to turn away.

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