Judicial Watch recently obtained new documents related to mysterious Mena Airfield in Arkansas.
In 1996, the House Banking Committee asked the CIA to report on its involvement at Mena and whether it had any connection to money laundering, narcotics trafficking, or arms smuggling in the area.
Responding to Freedom of Information pressure from Judicial Watch, the CIA released a highly redacted version of the full Mena Report.
The report notes that "Certain Arkansas state and local officials were informed" about CIA activities at Mena.
For the first time, we learn that an unnamed official "Personally briefed the supervisor of the Arkansas State Police district" for Mena, "The Mayor of Mena," "The Mena Chief of Police or the county sheriff, and the person responsible for operating Mena Intermountain Airport" about the joint-training exercise with the CIA. Now, in Arkansas in the 1980s, Gov. Clinton was famously wired in to everything happening in the state.
Despite extensive redactions, aficionados of mysterious Mena learn a few things from the CIA report.
So we've asked the CIA to conduct an official declassification review of the Mena Report.
In 1996, the House Banking Committee asked the CIA to report on its involvement at Mena and whether it had any connection to money laundering, narcotics trafficking, or arms smuggling in the area.
Responding to Freedom of Information pressure from Judicial Watch, the CIA released a highly redacted version of the full Mena Report.
The report notes that "Certain Arkansas state and local officials were informed" about CIA activities at Mena.
For the first time, we learn that an unnamed official "Personally briefed the supervisor of the Arkansas State Police district" for Mena, "The Mayor of Mena," "The Mena Chief of Police or the county sheriff, and the person responsible for operating Mena Intermountain Airport" about the joint-training exercise with the CIA. Now, in Arkansas in the 1980s, Gov. Clinton was famously wired in to everything happening in the state.
Despite extensive redactions, aficionados of mysterious Mena learn a few things from the CIA report.
So we've asked the CIA to conduct an official declassification review of the Mena Report.
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