Terry Reed, CIA Drug Operations in Mena Arkansas
Terry Reed, author of Compromised, describes his transition from Air Force Intelligence in Southeast Asia to a covert CIA operation in Mena, Arkansas. Reed alleges that while serving as a flight instructor for the Reagan administration's efforts to support the Contras, he witnessed Governor Bill Clinton interacting with CIA elements. He claims his discovery of a drug pipeline led to him being labeled a liability by superior officers after he attempted to report the activity.
terry reed· cia· mena arkansas· bill clinton· oliver north
00:00 Alright, this is Jeff Davis again with the Jeff Davis Show in Dallas Texas Preparedness Expo. This time we're interviewing Terry Reed. Terry I appreciate you taking the time here. Can I show a couple of your little books? Sure thing! He is the author on the book Compromised Bush Clinton and The CIA and he's also got some videos out, The MENA Connection which I'm absolutely fond of, at least parts of the Plato-Weinstein program. And also vanishing jobs! I'm going to kind of interview you a little bit... First off your prior CIA operatives? That's right. Okay and when did you first start finding out that you could gather information on the CIA and drug money? Well actually as I lived
00:54 This wasn't a situation of investigating something from the outside, but actually being involved in the covert operation that included the drug pipeline. Discovering it and then wrestling with what to do about it and ultimately reporting into my superior officers and then realizing that they didn't want to hear this. And of course instantly I was labeled potential liability and persona non grata, pretty much devoured by my own guys. What's your actual claim? Now the main thing is that from the information you've gathered
01:37 Well, go ahead and briefly end your story as far as what you've discovered. I guess it's coming out of me, Arden, so... Yeah my story really begins in Southeast Asia if i'm gonna touch on that just briefly and uh worked over there in Air Force Intelligence as a young intelligence officer worked at a highly classified operation that involved direct air support material support to CIA in Laos and Cambodia. And that put me in a position to meet some of the people that later surfaced in the Iran-Concord scandal Those guys sort of track you through life, once you audition well in uniform. Sorta put you in a position to be recruited for later operations as a civilian and that's what happened with me I got out of the military after 8 years of honorable service Went into an industry that was full of KGB agents just by accident That forced or caused me to be recruited by the FBI's counterintelligence division
02:39 That led to me being introduced to Oliver North and the CIA back when North was a major, and back when no one knew who he really was. That put me in an interesting position to be briefed about the Reagan administration's efforts to bypass Congress and support the Consulates I was told that all this would be taking place in Nena Arkansas and being a former Vietnam veteran, and person who assisted the Cambodians in Laotians in fighting their war I was asked to become flight instructor for this operation in MENA. So I did that, and it put me into really interesting position to observe then Governor Bill Clinton interacting with elements of CIA that were in Arkansas
