Nov 4, 2016 · In efforts to discredit someone familiar with the Mena operation, Buddy Young made his calls from Bill Clinton’s mansion. Young and Baker have admitted to entering Reed’s hangar three times...

Jul 19, 2020 · An "extensive joint investigation" by the FBI, Arkansas State Police and IRS revealed that Barry Seal used the Mena airport for "smuggling activity" from late 1980 until March 1984, according...

Jun 29, 2020 · Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. Evidence emerged suggesting that the CIA was operating in the area in the early 1980s; that a major cocaine and gun smuggler was based at the airfield; and that the U.S. military was somehow involved.

Aug 19, 2002 · When a C-123K military cargo plane crashed in Nicaragua on October 5, 1986 with weapons and CIA employees on board, it was discovered that the plane and its contents came from the Mena airport. The entire incident unraveled what became known as …

Aug 25, 1995 · A recent spate of activity is bringing Mena’s little mountain airport near the Arkansas-Oklahoma border back into the limelight.

Jul 30, 1994 · Yet repeated attempts to bring the Mena affair before grand juries in Arkansas, Gov. Bill Clinton and federal authorities all failed, meeting a wall of obfuscation and obstruction.

Jan 1, 1997 · This revealing documentary contains rare and unauthorized footage of a C-123 code-named “The Fat Lady” – The plane that nearly brought down the Reagan/Bush Administration when it was shot down in Nicaragua loaded with …

Jan 8, 2021 · It alleges, explicitly and implicitly, that an aircraft operated by a CIA front company in 1984 used the airfield at Mena, Arkansas, as a stating point for weapons supply flights to the Contras in Nicaragua; on the return flights from Honduras, the aircraft allegedly carried illegal narcotics to Mena.

The trail winds back to another slightly bruited but obscure name - a small place in western Arkansas called Mena. Of the many stories emerging from the Arkansas of the 1980s that was crucible to the Clinton presidency, none has been more …

May 21, 1992 · In 1982, when police at the little town of Mena, on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border, learned that a major international drug smuggler was using the city’s airport, they called in the Arkansas State...