The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History

by Daniel Hop­sicker
2001, Mad Cow Press
ISBN 0970659105
518 pages.

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This is the story of Barry Seal, the biggest drug smug­gler in Amer­i­can his­tory, who died in a hail of bul­lets with George Bush’s pri­vate phone num­ber in his wallet...

The Wall Street Jour­nal called Barry Seal “the ghost haunt­ing the White­wa­ter probe.” He was far more than that.

Based on a 3-year long inves­ti­ga­tion, Daniel Hop­sicker dis­cov­ered the ‘secret his­tory’ the Amer­i­can Press was afraid to tell… Seal, the most suc­cess­ful drug smug­gler in Amer­i­can his­tory, was also — and not coin­ci­den­tally — a life­long CIA agent, one of the most famous who ever lived, active in every­thing from the Bay of Pigs to Water­gate to the Kennedy Assas­si­na­tion. And all this before becom­ing famous for import­ing tons of cocaine through Mena, Arkansas in the Scan­dal that won’t go away.

The story of Barry Seal is the story of what hap­pens when guys we pay to pro­tect us — CIA guys — go into busi­ness with guys we’re pay­ing them to pro­tect us against.

“Made” guys. Mob­sters… Orga­nized Crime.

You’ll dis­cover why a pho­to­graph taken by a night club pho­tog­ra­pher in a Mex­ico City nightspot ten months before the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion holds the key to the shad­owy orga­ni­za­tion respon­si­ble for the mas­sive cor­rup­tion in Bill Clinton’s Arkansas twenty years later.

Com­ment­ing on the CIA’s affair with the Mafia, L.B.J.’s press sec­re­tary, Bill Moy­ers said, “Once we decide that any­thing goes, any­thing can come home to haunt us.”

After you’ve read Barry and ‘The Boys’ you’ll under­stand what he meant.

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