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Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA

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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.

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!

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!

I read this book twice when it was first published. The deals described in this book anticipate many events, such as the political elevation of George H. Bush's sons (yes, I voted for George W. Bush)and the protection enjoyed by Clinton during his presidency. Terry Reed is an American hero with the guts to reveal the truth.

As I read this work, it became so compelling that I couldn't
wait to wake up to read more. I found myself yelling at Terry
and his wife throughout the book - "No, don't do that!" Knowing
not exactly what was waiting for them in the future - but knowing
it wasn't going to be good.

What was amazing was how they "played his ego", "played his
ambition" and generally opted out when questions that made sense
were asked. Who is ever to know if any or all of this story
is or was true. What is important is: It makes too much sense!

The methodology and policies Mr. Reed explains about the Agency
is terrific. Especially, the Barry Seal flights - which tends
to explain a lot of other "so called" mysterious plane crashes
around the world.

Compromised has changed my life, because it not only brought
lots of new information, but confirmed all my worst fears!

This book is simply amazing. It details the life of a CIA asset, pilot and businessman as he falls further and further into the rabbit hole and learns the truth about the CIA and its control of the government. In the book we find that Bill Clinton, George HW Bush and many other politicians are "compromised" and beholden to the secret government known as the CIA. If you think that there is a difference between political parties, prepare to experience a paradigm shift.

A great book but about 200 too many pages and horrible typography. I have first hand knowledge of many events described and they are acurate. A must read even though a hard read.
This book should be read by every US citizen. However, it will be read by too few, because of the way the book was produced. I suspect that the book was sabotaged by agent/s provocateur at the production level.
This only proves just how bad our "elite" don't want us to know the truth. Learn the truth in spite of them!

This book underscores and confirms Peter Dale Scott's paradigmatic expansion (appearing in his book Deep Politics and the Death of JFK), of the parameters of American politics to the cesspool of secrecy just beneath the waterline of normal everyday political maneuverings.

Here, Air Force Colonel Terry Reed tells the story of being assigned, as an "Operations Officer" in charge of a CIA-run transshipment drop-off-point, disguised as a parking meter manufacturing plant, somewhere out in the boondocks on the periphery of the small Hamlet of Mena, Arkansas.

According to Reed, while operating under various "deep covers" and "cut-outs," he later discovered, that he was in fact working for Oliver North's Nicaragua-Contra "drugs-for-gun" project. Quite by accident he had discovered that his small operation in Mena was a link in a much larger and longer chain of activities that led from Ronald Reagan's NSC, to the Medellin cocaine fields. Apparently, as Reed surmised, cocaine was being picked up and transshipped through Mena, enroute to being laundered for guns (pick up at the Pentagon, paid for out of cocaine proceeds), and sent on to the Nicaraguan "contras."

All of cargo that arrived in Mena was of course carefully concealed in the typical large steel locked-down transport containers. According to Reed (whose job it was to make sure such containers were securely locked and un-tampered with), he, somehow was able to see inside that they were packed full of "one-kilo sized bricks" of cocaine -- one of which he wriggled out to keep as evidence to later either "blow the whistle" on the whole operation, or at the very least, to be used as a hedge against being called a "conspiracy kook and liar" once his revelations were made public. That is the essence of Reed's story.

Well, that theft by the "good old colonel" was a big mistake: For the rest of book is about what happened to him and his family as he was forced to "go on the lam," to avoid being "terminated with extreme prejudice" by his U.S. government handlers and overseers. According to Reed, he and his family are still being pursued all across the U.S., Canada and Mexico in a harrowing odyssey with enough twists and turns in it to make a move that would rival "The Bourne Identity," of Matt Damon fame.

At the time this book went to print, Reed's story seemed like so much "out there" conspiracy theory by the kooks, who were again weaving their familiar and always un-substantiated tales about the "goings-on" of people in power. However, the revelations since the book was published all seem to have produced nothing but a constant stream of cross-confirmation and convergence with Reed's facts. And here I mean the arrest of Eugene Hasenfus shot down in Nicaragua on October 5, 1986; the incredible well-written and revealing book by Gary Webb called "Dark Alliance;" the ultimate expose on the Clintons written by the renown British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard called "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, and the roller-coaster ride down the dark side of American history by Daniel Hopsicker called "Barry & `the boys," about the life and times of the Soldier of Fortune and known CIA agent Barry Seal.

According to Hopsicker, it was none other than the infamous Barry Seal who was piloting the plane that crashed in Nicaragua and who flew all of the other planes on regularly missions both into Colombia for the pick-up and back to Mena for the drop off, and on to Nicaragua with guns for the Contras. Seal in fact even had his own private "financial interests" invested in the whole Mena operation.

And as is by now well known, from Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, it was "Contra cocaine money" that was sold in America's black ghettoes that led to the "crack explosion" and that financed the whole "Reagan Contra" Operation (At the same time that Nancy Reagan was preaching "Just Say No!"). But it is Evans-Prichard's book that tied all these various loose strains together: from Mena, directly to the backdoor of the Clinton White House: Once the then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, got wind that a big CIA drug smuggling operation was taking place on his back porch, in Mena, Arkansas, he wanted "in on the deal" and "wanted his cut." Apparently he got both with a flourish, by utilizing the likes of Dan Lasater (Chapter 19), who became the Arkansas "Cocaine Kingpen," laundering most of his money through the Arkansas Development Finance Corporation (ADFC), which in a very short time became the largest bonding company in the world. The ADFC was such an improbable place for such spike in bonding activity that this activity alone actually triggered the IRS investigation that eventually led to Lasater and others arrest. [There is another whole story of how that investigation was eventually stifled and then completely snuffed out.]

As one of many postscripts to Reed's expose. Barry Seal was released to a halfway house in Baton Rouge, La, with a bulls-eye painted on his back, and the predictable happened: He was gunned-down in a hail of bullets from a Uzi, presumably by Colombian hit men. The May 23, 1992 (?) Washington Post entitled "Iran-Contra Figure Shot Down Again (by Guy Guliotta) relates how a Congressional Bill to award Eugene Hasenfus $805,209 for his injuries, was shelved: Bill Clinton had written Hasenfus' lawyers in Arkansas, saying that "he would not look favorably on the bill." In the mean time, Oliver North, who lied to Congress, almost won a Senate seat in Va., and then went on to lucrative book deal and an additional lucrative deal as a Rightwing Talk Show Host. Elliot Abrams, who also lied to Congress, did 100 hours of community service and wrote a book about how the Democrats had scape-goated him.

If this does not confirm Peter Dale Scott's theories, I don't what will. Five stars.

THIS HAS TO BE MADE INTO A MOVIE!!!! A MUST READ. TERRY REED, A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN, DISCOVERED AN ILLEGAL CIA GUN RUNNING AND COCAINE SMUGGLING OPERATION, CONNECTED WITH THE IRAN CONTRA SCANDAL (RUN BY OLLIE NORTH, WITH COOPERATION OF THE ARKANSAS GOVERNOR!). THE TRUTH AS DISCLOSED IN THIS BOOK WAS COVERED UP BY THE MEDIA DURING THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. MR. REED WAS SLANDERED BY TIME MAGAZINE AND PROSECUTED ON BOGUS CHARGES TO SHUT HIM UP.

Terry Kent Reed joined the Air Force while in college. He soon learned that "the government and the military had to deceive the American public to accomplish its national security objectives" (p.18)! The CIA relied extensively upon Air America to conduct their unstated objectives (p.20). What happened to our MIAs? POW camps were bombed by the Air Force (p.22)! The newspapers and government lied about Southeast Asia (p.23). After leaving the Air Force TKR got a commercial pilot's license and worked as a salesman in the machine industry. TKR became an asset for the FBI, then the CIA, on international sales. In 1983 he began to work for the CIA. "Insurance losses" would be used to raise untraceable funds (p.43). What happened to those old traditional values (p.14)?

A NJ arms company was bought and shipped to Arkansas to build receiver housings that converted a civilian AR-15 to a military M-16, and had no tracable serial number. The Rose Law Firm's specialty was brokering deals (p.55). Governor Bill Clinton was disliked because of his attempts to attract out-of-state businesses, and for trying to improve the state educational system (p.56). Page 86 explains how stolen aircraft are laundered if you have Government connections. Mena airport specialized in illegal modifications to aircraft. Barry Seal was used by the Reagan Administration, then thrown away (pp.97-98). Payoffs were made to Arkansas state officials (p.125). The CIA is above the law (p.133). Pages 212-4 tell how the Arkansas governor's friends and relatives were dirtied-up. Does the CIA decide who will become President (pp.231-6)? The BCCI and First American Bank were used by Arkansas banking (p.245). When dirty money is deposited in the Netherlands Antilles, it can be laundered and taxes avoided (p.249). Things went well for TKR until a C-123 was shot down (pp.289-90).

The Mexican Enterprise began Phase 2. The elite of Mexico, like in Arkansas, opposed any change unless they personally benefited. They suppressed any attempt to empower a middle class(p.330). Then TKR discovered his business was being used to ship pure cocaine to the States; the US Govt. was the biggest cocaine smuggler (p.343)! What powerful men owed their fortune to CIA drug traffic (p.346)? Was the crew on that downed C-123 killed before the crash (p.356)? Page 390 tells how a false crime can be created to destroy the credibility of a witness. The Reeds went underground with hidden identities, and traveled the country.

After the case went to trial, the judge declared Terry Reed not guilty due to a lack of evidence (p.459). This kept the story of drug trafficking hidden from the public. The Reeds tried to sue for their false prosecution, but no lawyer would take their case after the judgment against the Christic Institute (p.470). A famous legal expert took their case on contingency. Page 502 tells of the smear story created by 'TIME' magazine. Iran-Contra was not an issue in the 1992 election because both Bush and Clinton were involved! Terry Reed discovered the CIA counsel was now Attorney-General!

The Epilogue claims the Dept of Justice perverted itself under Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. I think Bush picked Clinton as an opponent because Clinton would not prosecute Bush for drug trafficking; then Bush Jr to continue the cover-up. Congress failed to expose Iran-Contra (p.545) because of a pay-off. (Like the Senate failure to impeach Clinton?) The book ends by asking why Barry Seal was bumped off. Did he threaten very powerful people with exposure? Page 240 tells how dirty drug money ended up in Attorney-General Meese's personal bank account. Do these 'Black Operation' flights still continue? [The book has too many pages.]