Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Ufocity.Com
• VHS Release Date: October 30, 2000
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305497230
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,660 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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On a sultry August night in Arkansas during 1987, two high school seniors were brutally murdered, their bodies strewn across train tracks to be dismembered by a speeding train. The murders have come to be known as the "train deaths."

Upon further investigation, the evidence of this crime leads to the heart of a massive C.I.A. drug and weapons smuggling operation based in Mena, Arkansas, and raises stunning questions about the C.I.A. and U. S. government involvement in drug and weapons trafficking worldwide.

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Production does not do justice to the sources, December 18, 2000

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This review is from: Conspiracy The Secret History, Vol. 2 - The Secret Heartbeat of America: The CIA and Drugs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For those of us who have been following the Contra/coke/Mena story for awhile, this film is mostly a rehash of material to be found elsewhere, butchered with clumsy editing, and strung together with an annoying, smarmy narration. The film contains a great deal of material which is repetitive or irrelevant, and the narration does little to tie together a film that lacks focus and fails to deliver on it's promises. What is really frustrating about this work is the fact that there is a great deal of interesting material to cover, and the film makers apparently had access to excellent primary and secondary sources - people like Russell Welch, Jean Duffey, Linda Ives, and Billy Bottoms, and others - but failed to present them in a coherent and believable fashion. A good documentary should be carried by the interviews and source material, not by the narration, yet in this film I found many scenes where I wished the narrator would shut up and let the interviewee speak. Many interesting story lines - Welch's illness, Terry Reed's story, Seal's connections to the White House, the story of Seal's assassination - are never developed, and interesting witnesses are introduced, then not interviewed effectively.

5.0 out of 5 stars Didn't realized, June 2, 2010

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This review is from: Conspiracy The Secret History, Vol. 2 - The Secret Heartbeat of America: The CIA and Drugs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For the person who doesn't realize what their government has been up to for so many years. Hate to say to much as I do not want to givr the plot away. A very informative read, about our country.