18-10-2012, 06:35 AM
a synopsis on this book by Terry Reed and John Cummings, S.P.I. Books, 1994
When Terry Reed met "John Cathey" he was a man on the move. He had led an elite black op intelligence unit in Viet Nam with commendations. After his military service he ended up as a VP of a machine tool manufacturing company, Northwest Industries. In his spare time paid for his own flying lessons which included single engine, multi-engine, and jet aircraft certifications. While at NWI, he was approached by the FBI to become an asset and report on his contacts with one of their partners in Hungary who were KGB agents.
His entire life to this point seemed to him to have led up his recruitment by CIA agent "John Cathey" aka Oliver North in 1982. His first assignment was to be an asset in the investigation of the Toshiba Corporation in selling illegal technology to the USSR. He would soon be recruited by North to be a contract CIA asset in Arkansas using his new ultralight aircraft company as cover. He was thrilled to be serving his country again and this time he might make some real money. He was now a spook in Arkansas and it would ruin his life.
This is the beginning of the story his story as told in Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA by Terry Reed and John Cummings. This 556 page book is filled with detail, adventure, and intrigue. I think the book is well worth the read. What follows is a brief synopsis with a long quote that has to be read in full to be appreciated.
I do not know the literature on Mena, AR scandal involving in the murder of Barry Seal. But this is Reed's view: the CIA had the run of the state as if it were a banana republic. They trained Central Americans to fly C-123 cargo airplanes to supply the Contras in Nicaragua. Airplanes for the training were stolen from any source available. (Reed realized even his own airplane disappeared into the program to some other place in the world.) The Mena airport was a kind of wild west operation. Airplanes were given new numbers, retrofitted with illegal or at least uninspected equipment, smuggling, etc. The CIA bought an arms manufacturing company and moved it to Arkansas to produce untraceable arms made from stolen parts from the Arkansas National guard. The guns were smuggled on "special" barges up the Mississippi river to lock 13 where they were trucked to Mena for crating and smuggling out of the country by air often by Barry Seal. One of the manufacturing cutouts was making untraceable printed circuit boards for stinger missiles. Reed personally witnessed the dropping of duffel bags stuffed with cash and sometimes cocaine to the Triple S Ranch, owned by Governor Bill Clinton cronies. The dirty cash was laundered in the Arkansas Industrial Development Corporation. This was made especially easy through the little Wall Street bond underwriting business that Clinton controlled. The CIA could do what they wanted without any interference as long as Clinton and the State got their cut (10%).
At one point Reed asked one of his handlers what his politics were. He answered that he was an political atheist. "[The] Agency is politics. Everything else is just puppets, a big game." He was soon to get the ultimate lesson.
From the CIA point of view, working in Arkansas with its good 'ol boy network was just not working. The final straw was the Clinton demand for a bigger cut while at the same time cheating the CIA out of some of its funds.
The scheme to bypass Clinton's Arkansas was bold. Reed's stock with the Agency was sky high at the time. He had it all. He was approached by North about starting a turnkey arms manufacturing company in Mexico under cover of another company he would also would start. Operation "Centaur Rose" (pilot training) was to be shut down and "Jade Bridge" (arms manufacture and smuggling) was to be outsourced to Mexico under Reed as operation "Screw Worm."
In March of 1986, one month that Reed's handler, close friend, mentor and flying partner was murdered, Reed was called to a meeting in a WWII bunker with top Arkansas officials, Oliver North, and the personal spokesperson for DCI Casey, a "Robert Johnson," who Reed had only talked to on the phone. Reed only knew by word of mouth from Seal that Johnson was running a much bigger operation out of Florida. The purpose of the meeting was to tie up the loose ends and to calm down a furious Bill Clinton, who by the way was the surprise guest at the meeting!
And so, Reed was to hear Robert Johnson dress down a panicky Clinton. After all, he was to lose the funding for the core of what had fueled his popularity -- bringing jobs to Arkansas. So what if it meant selling out his own Party and engaging in a wide range of criminal activity.
Johnson said to Clinton:
Clinton left mentally bruised but intact. Another participant at the meeting, Felix Rodriguez, expressed his disgust with commie lover Clinton. Johnson answered:
North interjected:
The remainder of the book is devoted to the collapse of Terry Reed's world as he became a "live liability." He was disgusted that his operation "Screw Worm" was being used to traffic huge amounts of drugs. He was on the run for over a year with his family and makes for quite the thriller.
I understand that Reed's location is unknown at this time.
When Terry Reed met "John Cathey" he was a man on the move. He had led an elite black op intelligence unit in Viet Nam with commendations. After his military service he ended up as a VP of a machine tool manufacturing company, Northwest Industries. In his spare time paid for his own flying lessons which included single engine, multi-engine, and jet aircraft certifications. While at NWI, he was approached by the FBI to become an asset and report on his contacts with one of their partners in Hungary who were KGB agents.
His entire life to this point seemed to him to have led up his recruitment by CIA agent "John Cathey" aka Oliver North in 1982. His first assignment was to be an asset in the investigation of the Toshiba Corporation in selling illegal technology to the USSR. He would soon be recruited by North to be a contract CIA asset in Arkansas using his new ultralight aircraft company as cover. He was thrilled to be serving his country again and this time he might make some real money. He was now a spook in Arkansas and it would ruin his life.
This is the beginning of the story his story as told in Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA by Terry Reed and John Cummings. This 556 page book is filled with detail, adventure, and intrigue. I think the book is well worth the read. What follows is a brief synopsis with a long quote that has to be read in full to be appreciated.
I do not know the literature on Mena, AR scandal involving in the murder of Barry Seal. But this is Reed's view: the CIA had the run of the state as if it were a banana republic. They trained Central Americans to fly C-123 cargo airplanes to supply the Contras in Nicaragua. Airplanes for the training were stolen from any source available. (Reed realized even his own airplane disappeared into the program to some other place in the world.) The Mena airport was a kind of wild west operation. Airplanes were given new numbers, retrofitted with illegal or at least uninspected equipment, smuggling, etc. The CIA bought an arms manufacturing company and moved it to Arkansas to produce untraceable arms made from stolen parts from the Arkansas National guard. The guns were smuggled on "special" barges up the Mississippi river to lock 13 where they were trucked to Mena for crating and smuggling out of the country by air often by Barry Seal. One of the manufacturing cutouts was making untraceable printed circuit boards for stinger missiles. Reed personally witnessed the dropping of duffel bags stuffed with cash and sometimes cocaine to the Triple S Ranch, owned by Governor Bill Clinton cronies. The dirty cash was laundered in the Arkansas Industrial Development Corporation. This was made especially easy through the little Wall Street bond underwriting business that Clinton controlled. The CIA could do what they wanted without any interference as long as Clinton and the State got their cut (10%).
At one point Reed asked one of his handlers what his politics were. He answered that he was an political atheist. "[The] Agency is politics. Everything else is just puppets, a big game." He was soon to get the ultimate lesson.
From the CIA point of view, working in Arkansas with its good 'ol boy network was just not working. The final straw was the Clinton demand for a bigger cut while at the same time cheating the CIA out of some of its funds.
The scheme to bypass Clinton's Arkansas was bold. Reed's stock with the Agency was sky high at the time. He had it all. He was approached by North about starting a turnkey arms manufacturing company in Mexico under cover of another company he would also would start. Operation "Centaur Rose" (pilot training) was to be shut down and "Jade Bridge" (arms manufacture and smuggling) was to be outsourced to Mexico under Reed as operation "Screw Worm."
In March of 1986, one month that Reed's handler, close friend, mentor and flying partner was murdered, Reed was called to a meeting in a WWII bunker with top Arkansas officials, Oliver North, and the personal spokesperson for DCI Casey, a "Robert Johnson," who Reed had only talked to on the phone. Reed only knew by word of mouth from Seal that Johnson was running a much bigger operation out of Florida. The purpose of the meeting was to tie up the loose ends and to calm down a furious Bill Clinton, who by the way was the surprise guest at the meeting!
And so, Reed was to hear Robert Johnson dress down a panicky Clinton. After all, he was to lose the funding for the core of what had fueled his popularity -- bringing jobs to Arkansas. So what if it meant selling out his own Party and engaging in a wide range of criminal activity.
Johnson said to Clinton:
Quote:Calm down and listen....We are all in this together. We all have our personal agendas...but let's not forget, both the Vice President and Mr. Casey want this operation to be a success. We need to get these assets and resources in place and get them self-sustaining and prospering on their own while we have the chance. This is a golden opportunity. The timing is right. We have communists taking over a country in this hemisphere. We must all pull together and play as a team. This is no time for lone wolves. Mr. Seal is an example of what happens to lone wolves. They just don't survive in the modern world of intelligence.
I'm not here to threaten you. But there have been mistakes. The Mena operation survived undetected and unexposed only because Mr. Seal carried with him a falsely created, high-level profile of a drug runner. All the cops in the country were trying to investigate a drug operation. That put the police in a position where we could control them. We fed them what we wanted to feed them, when we wanted to feed them; it was our restaurant and our menu. Seal was himself a diversion. It was perfect until your brother started free-enterprising and now we have to shut it down....
Bill, you are Mr. Casey's fair-haired boy. But you do have competition for the job you seek. We would never put all eggs in one basket. You and your state have been our greatest asset. The beauty of this, as you know, is that you're a Democrat, and with our ability to influence both parties, this country can get beyond partisan gridlock. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you that unless you fuck up and do something stupid, you're No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job you've always wanted.
That's pretty heady stuff , Bill. So why don't you help us keep a lid on this and we'll all be promoted together. You and guys like us are the fathers of the new government. Hell, we are the new covenant.
Clinton left mentally bruised but intact. Another participant at the meeting, Felix Rodriguez, expressed his disgust with commie lover Clinton. Johnson answered:
Quote:You need to realign your thinking about black and white, good and bad, us and them. Under our new plan we all get along for the advancement of the common goal.
North interjected:
Quote:...We are all hand-chosen by the highest office in the land to be entrusted with this mission. We should all feel honored to be here. Our objective is two-fold. One, to rid this earth of the evil communist element we've been trained to seek out and destroy. The other is to set in place a true self-sustaining and modern black operations division worldwide, as Mr. Casey envisioned....
The remainder of the book is devoted to the collapse of Terry Reed's world as he became a "live liability." He was disgusted that his operation "Screw Worm" was being used to traffic huge amounts of drugs. He was on the run for over a year with his family and makes for quite the thriller.
I understand that Reed's location is unknown at this time.
"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl