Why the CIA Killed Barry Seal

Terry Reed was a former-CIA spook who by his own account was employed to train Nicaraguan pilots in Iran Contra, then involved in production of shipping weapons to them, but claimed originally not to have known about the trafficking of cocaine back to USA. In 1994 he published a best-selling book, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA and in 1995 produced a film, The Mena Connection, which were both exposes based on his experience working for The Cabal.

He fought for eight years in the Vietnam War, and was chosen as a member of Task Force Alpha, which he described as "the deniable link between authorized military operations and the unauthorized activities of the Central Intelligence Agency". He set up and ran a machine tools front company in USA, then in Mexico for the CIA, connected to production of weapons without serial numbers for distribution to the Contras in Nicaragua. Terry Reed was recruited into Iran-Contra by Oliver North (operating under the alias of 'John Cathey') in 1982. His initial brief was to help raise money and secure airplanes for the Nicaraguan Contras. Later, Reed trained Nicaraguan pilots at a rural airstrip at Nella, Arkansas and was relocated to Mexico where he became involved in manufacturing weapon parts without serial numbers to be sent to Nicaragua.

When he discovered that his warehouse was being used for the transshipment of tonnes of cocaine to Mena, Arkansas, he decided to quit.

In The Mena Connection he tells how he and his wife then spent about 6 months on the run after his handlers accused him of drug trafficking and claimed that he and his wife were both armed and dangerous. Later they spent 2.5 years going through the US justice system before both being found innocent.