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→Posthumous events
When asked about it in 1991, Governor [[Bill Clinton]] said he had authorized financial help for a grand jury investigation. He said his office dropped off the entire investigative file to a congressional committee. Charles Black, the Polk County prosecutor, publicly disputed the Clinton's recollection regarding an offer of financial help. Black said he asked for financial help, but the Clinton's office never followed up on the offer.
When asked about it in 1991, Governor [[Bill Clinton]] said he had authorized financial help for a grand jury investigation. He said his office dropped off the entire investigative file to a congressional committee. Charles Black, the Polk County prosecutor, publicly disputed the Clinton's recollection regarding an offer of financial help. Black said he asked for financial help, but the Clinton's office never followed up on the offer.
On 23 April 1987, two 16 year old boys, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, stumbled upon and witnessed an aerial drop in the area of Bauxite and Alexander, Arkansas.<ref>http://www.idfiles.com </ref> Initial cause of death was claimed to be the result of passing out on a railroad track in Arkansas after smoking [[marijuana]]. The ruling was made by the State medical examiner Dr. Fahmy Malak.
On 23 April 1987, two 16 year old boys, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, stumbled upon and witnessed an aerial drop in the area of Bauxite and Alexander, Arkansas.<ref>http://www.idfiles.com </ref> Initial cause of death was claimed to be the result of passing out on a railroad track in Arkansas after smoking [[marijuana]]. The ruling was made by the State medical examiner Dr. Fahmy Malak.
''The Clinton Chronicles'',<ref>https://youtu.be/vKdPaQnZ1DA </ref> documented the Mena airport as the command post of the biggest drug-smuggling operation in the [[United States]] importing $100 million per month in cocaine into Mena. It alleged that much of that money had been laundered through the Arkansas Deve!opment Finance Authority (ADFA), a bonding agency that Bill Clinton created to help small businesses get started. The video and Mara Leveritt's 1999 book, ''The Boys on the Tracks'' discussed that Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger Clinton, and his bond dealer friend Dan Lasater had gone to prison for cocaine. Richard Garrett had stated on ''Unsolved Mysteries'', a television program which taped informational segments regarding the boys' deaths beginning in 1988, that Saline County and Central Arkansas were overrun with drug-trafficking at a high level that extended to other states and other counties.
''The Clinton Chronicles'',<ref>https://youtu.be/vKdPaQnZ1DA </ref> documented the Mena airport as the command post of the biggest drug-smuggling operation in the [[United States]] importing $100 million per month in cocaine into Mena. It alleged that much of that money had been laundered through the Arkansas Deve!opment Finance Authority (ADFA), a bonding agency that Bill Clinton created to help small businesses get started. The video and Mara Leveritt's 1999 book, ''The Boys on the Tracks'' discussed that Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger Clinton, and his bond dealer friend Dan Lasater had gone to prison for cocaine. Richard Garrett had stated on ''Unsolved Mysteries'', a television program which taped informational segments regarding the boys' deaths beginning in 1988, that Saline County and Central Arkansas were overrun with drug-trafficking at a high level that extended to other states and other counties.
Leveritt also reported that Jack Blum, an investigator for John Kerry's subcommittee probing the Contra drug-smugglers, said that "The Justice Department flipped out to prevent us from getting access to people, records-anything that would help us find out about it." Blum also says the FBI denied the very existence of records relating to Mena. Blum said he uncovered a
Leveritt also reported that Jack Blum, an investigator for John Kerry's subcommittee probing the Contra drug-smugglers, said that "The Justice Department flipped out to prevent us from getting access to people, records-anything that would help us find out about it." Blum also says the FBI denied the very existence of records relating to Mena. Blum said he uncovered a
procedure which was particularly troubling because people would call the customs office in Miami and say, "Stand down, flights are going out, flights are coming in", and then the customs inspections would be stopped. Blum also said that officials at the [[Justice Department]] told US Attorneys "not to talk to us or give us paper." In November 1996, a CIA inspector general's report was declassified which admitted that the CIA had been at Mena for routine aviation related services, that L.D. Brown, an Arkansas State policeman assigned to security at the
procedure which was particularly troubling because people would call the customs office in Miami and say, "Stand down, flights are going out, flights are coming in", and then the customs inspections would be stopped. Blum also said that officials at the [[Justice Department]] told US Attorneys "not to talk to us or give us paper." In November 1996, a CIA inspector general's report was declassified which admitted that the CIA had been at Mena for routine aviation related services, that L.D. Brown, an Arkansas State policeman assigned to security at the
Arkansas' governor mansion, had been a candidate for CIA employment in 1994 at the suggestion of Bill Clinton and the CIA had limited contact with Seal and installed cameras on his plane.
Arkansas' governor mansion and his driver, had been a candidate for CIA employment in 1994 at the suggestion of Bill Clinton and the CIA had limited contact with Seal and installed cameras on his plane.
Brown noticed an ad in the paper for CIA employment and discussed it with Bill Clinton who encouraged him to apply. Bill Clinton even suggested the topic of the essay he was to write, drug smuggling in Central America, and edited the essay for him. An individual at the CIA headquarters in [[Dallas]] interviewed him and told him that he would be getting a phone call from someone he needed to meet and that phone call was from Barry Seal who invited him to come to Mena. Seal invited him to take an airplane flight on a C-123 in 1984 which he did and on
this flight, some [[Hispanic]]s threw some containers out of the plane and at the end of the
flight they loaded duffel bags and flew them back to Mena. Seal showed Brown that there was cocaine in the duffel bag.
In March 1998, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' quoted the CIA inspector general, Frederick Hitz, that dozens of people and companies connected to the Contra program were involved in drug trafficking. The report also said that there was an agreement in 1982, between the Attorney General and the CIA, that agency officers were not required to report allegations of drug trafficking involving non-employees, defined as paid and non-paid assets, pilots who ferried supplies to Contras, as well as Contra officials and others.
===The boys on the tracks===
In April 1988, Kevin's body was exhumed, and another autopsy was performed, this one by Atlanta medical examiner Dr. Joseph Burton who discovered that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don Henry's body was exhumed and discovered to have been stabbed in the back prior to being placed on the tracks. The deaths were indeed homocides.
Arkansas State Police files of the investigation report the area where the two boys' bodies were found was a drop zone for drugs. Another report was that on the night the boys were killed, a witness saw two [[police]] officers beat up two boys and throw them in the back of a
police car a short distance from where the bodies were found.
A federal investigation was begun, but the Assistant United States Attorney, Bob Govar, reported that the FBI and DEA did not seem interested and did not furnish much help. Other reports in the state police file revealed that residents had complained about frequent low-flying planes in the area around the tracks.
In November 1996, Linda Ives, Kevin Ives mother, got a call from Philip Weiss who told her
In November 1996, Linda Ives, Kevin Ives mother, got a call from Philip Weiss who told her
he had been asked to prepare an article in the ''New York Times Magazine'' about people who hated Clinton. Weiss explained that Mark Fabiani, a White House lawyer, provided him with a set of news clippings about people who oppose the president and among those was a story about the "boys on the tracks." Linda Ives called Micah Morrison, an editorial page writer for the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', who had written an article about her earlier in the year, inquiring about Phillip Weiss, and telling Morrison that Weiss talked about a packet of press clippings Weiss got from Fabiani including the article Morrison had written. Morrison then made wrote an article in the ''Wall Street Journal'', January 6, 1997, in which he broke the news that the White House was distributing to reporters packets of news clips to attack victims claiming it to be "conspiracy theories and innuendo."<ref>http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1115427-clinton-the-communication-stream-of-conspiracy.html </ref>
he had been asked to prepare an article in the ''New York Times Magazine'' about people who hated Clinton. Weiss explained that Mark Fabiani, a White House lawyer, provided him with a set of news clippings about people who oppose the president and among those was a story about the "boys on the tracks." Linda Ives called Micah Morrison, an editorial page writer for the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', who had written an article about her earlier in the year, inquiring about Phillip Weiss, and telling Morrison that Weiss talked about a packet of press clippings Weiss got from Fabiani including the article Morrison had written. Morrison then made wrote an article in the ''Wall Street Journal'', January 6, 1997, in which he broke the news that the White House was distributing to reporters packets of news clips to attack victims claiming it to be "conspiracy theories and innuendo."<ref>http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1115427-clinton-the-communication-stream-of-conspiracy.html </ref>
==See also==
==See also==