Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA [Hardcover]

Terry Reed (Author), John Cummings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1994

COMPROMISED is the true story of the Faustian pact that Bill Clinton made as governor of Arkansas. It tells how his unbridled political ambitions and his pledge to create jobs for Arkansas led him to compromise his ideals in exchange for support for his presidential candidacy in 1992. By selling out politically to the Reagan–Bush administration, by giving the Agency free rein to operate a secret training base near the tiny western Arkansas of Mena, and by looking the other way as Arkansas factories turned out untraceable weapons parts for the Nicaraguan Contra “freedom fighters,” the young governor helped create an operation that laundered untold millions of dollars and that enriched Clinton’s political friends and helped finance his campaign fund. The Arkansas-CIA connection became Clinton’s darkest secret, and only now is the tiniest shaft of light being shed on what has become known as the Whitewater Scandal. Coauthor Terry Reed, who helped train Contra pilots in rural Arkansas, became the first person to pull back the shroud on the “Arkansas Connection” long before most people ever heard of Clinton cronies like Webb Hubbell, Clinton’s former associate U.S. attorney-general, who became the first major figure to plead guilty in an ever-widening investigation that is confirming Reed’s disclosures. Former National Security Advisor Bud McFarlane also corroborates Reed’s revelation that former spymaster George Bush was in the center of the Iran-Contra loop, and he, like Reed, paints Bush as a cold-hearted powermonger bent on wrestling the White House away from Ronald Reagan. Reed, who was recruited into the Arkansas operation by Oliver North, reveals in this eyewitness account how the “black operations” in Arkansas worked, from the training of Contra pilots and the manufacture of weapons parts—all in violation of a congressional ban on Contra aid—to the airdrops of cash into Arkansas by CIA operative Barry Seal. Seal disclosed to Reed that more than $9 million a week was dropped from planes onto secret drop zones and later laundered through an investment banking firm whose president had close ties with Clinton.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It's damaging in what's said about the Reagan/Bush administrations; it reopens the old wound of Iran-Contra." --The Wall Street Journal

"An underground classic.” --The Washington Post

"Compromised . . . will put to the test Clinton’s remarkable ability to survive." --The Boston Globe

About the Author

Terry Reed is a former Air Force intelligence operative who served in the most secret project of the Vietnam War, Task Force Alpha. In civilian life, he was recruited by the FBI’s counterintelligence division to help combat the illegal sale of technology to the Soviet Union and later became a CIA asset. He is an FAA-certified flight instructor with more than 3,000 hours of flight time. John Cummings is a prize-winning former investigative reporter for Newsday in New York and has coauthored The Heist (1986), Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang (1990) and ‘Til Murder Do Us Part (1993).

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 680 pages
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books (February 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883955025
• ISBN-13: 978-1883955021
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,410,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Tom Clancy for real...and it's scary. April 8, 2002

By Corey R. Barcus

Format:Hardcover

If you like Tom Clancy, here's the real deal. A former Air Force intelligence officer turned manufacturing engineer, pilot, and independent business man is recruited by the CIA (Oliver North) to assist in the training of Contra pilots in Mena, Arkansas. His name is Terry Reed, and does he have an incredible story to tell! This American patriot reveals everything after the CIA tried to screw him after Iran-contra. Plenty of very interesting information about Clinton, Bush, the Arkansas elite, covert CIA operations, CIA super-agent Barry Seal, money laundering, international narcotics trafficking, and CIA influence in the US political system.

44 of 47 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT OUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT! April 19, 1999

By [e-mail]

Format:Hardcover

I found this book to answer the mystery of the Iran-Contra/Mena, Arkansas drug smuggling operation. Having read "Under Fire" by Oliver North and this book I find it quite obvious who's lying. Terry Reed, a CIA operative, who thought he was serving an honest government, is compelled to expose the corruption that he himself encountered. Whereas, Oliver North in his book COVERS it all up. We should be thankful for Terry Reed's courage to bring this information out. This book corroborates the documentary, "Mena Cover-up". A man who follows his conscience should never be bound to secrecy when that secrecy only hides corruption. May more COURAGEOUS men and women who have vowed "to secrecy" STAND up!

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, frightening and disheartening! September 28, 1999

By A Customer

Format:Hardcover

I read this book and walked away disheartened and dismayed not that this goes on but that our Media doesn't tell the truth. The book was way too long with too many details but I appreciate Reed's desire to purge himself of this time in his life. Strangely enough, I even felt bad for Barry Seal. Yes, he was a criminal and out of control but he was set up, hung out to dry and assasinated by our Justice system. Scary!