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By March 1986, the CIA had already decided to begin extricating itself from Bill Clinton's Arkansas and move the operation to [[Mexico]] largely based upon two factors (1) the bust of Clinton's brother Roger and others close to Clinton on cocaine charges, and (2) the looting of cash, which was the government's property, by the Clinton's Arkansas political machine. A general air of sloppiness and corruption pervaded the Clinton end of the operation.

By March 1986, the CIA had already decided to begin extricating itself from Bill Clinton's Arkansas and move the operation to [[Mexico]] largely based upon two factors (1) the bust of Clinton's brother Roger and others close to Clinton on cocaine charges, and (2) the looting of cash, which was the government's property, by the Clinton's Arkansas political machine. A general air of sloppiness and corruption pervaded the Clinton end of the operation.

A few weeks after Barry Seal a meeting was held in a bunker at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock. The participants were Bill Clinton, Clinton's aide Bob Nash, Terry Reed, Felix Rodriguez, Oliver North, resident CIA agent Akihide Sawahata and an unidentified man in charge (possibly [[Robert Gates]] or William Barr) who represented himself as the emissary of CIA Director Bill Casey.  

A few weeks after Barry Seal a meeting was held in a bunker at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock. The participants were Bill Clinton, Clinton's aide Bob Nash, Terry Reed, Felix Rodriguez, Oliver North, resident CIA agent Akihide Sawahata and an unidentified man in charge William Barr<ref>Barr served at the time as Chief Counsel for the CIA airline Southern Air Transport, later as [[Attorney General]] under [[George HW Bush]].</ref> who represented himself as the emissary of CIA Director Bill Casey.  

Casey's emissary spoke directly to Clinton,  

Barr spoke directly to Clinton,  

{{Cquote|The deal we made was to launder our money through your bond business but what we didn't plan on was you and your ***** ******* here start taking yourselves seriously and purposely shrinking our laundry.}}

{{Cquote|The deal we made was to launder our money through your bond business but what we didn't plan on was you and your ***** ******* here start taking yourselves seriously and purposely shrinking our laundry.}}

The emissary stated intelligence agencies have the same problem drug traffickers have, laundering cash and finding a bank willing to break the law by not filing required documentation. The bond business gave the state a cash flow that would allow dirty and clean money to co-mingle. The CIA was lacking a dirty banker willing to ignore federal banking laws, but they found it in the Clinton administration. The banker was the [[Arkansas Development Finance Authority]] (ADFA), which was created by and directly under the control of Governor Bill Clinton. Additionally, more than $100,000 was paid by ADFA to the [[Rose Law Firm]] in legal fees, to which his wife [[Hillary Clinton]] was partner.

Barr stated intelligence agencies have the same problem drug traffickers have, laundering cash and finding a bank willing to break the law by not filing required documentation. The bond business gave the state a cash flow that would allow dirty and clean money to co-mingle. The CIA was lacking a dirty banker willing to ignore federal banking laws, but they found it in the Clinton administration. The banker was the [[Arkansas Development Finance Authority]] (ADFA), which was created by and directly under the control of Governor Bill Clinton. Additionally, more than $100,000 was paid by ADFA to the [[Rose Law Firm]] in legal fees, to which his wife [[Hillary Clinton]] was partner.

A state investment bank was [[capital]]ized by cash transfusions the CIA was taking great pains to hide. This solved the dilemma of funding the Contras, but no legal way to deliver it directly. The agency was barred by Congress with the Boland Amendment from converting the cash into weapons and training the Contras.  

A state investment bank was [[capital]]ized by cash transfusions the CIA was taking great pains to hide. This solved the dilemma of funding the Contras, but no legal way to deliver it directly. The agency was barred by Congress with the Boland Amendment from converting the cash into weapons and training the Contras.  

The CIA needed other companies that would be a source of secretly produced weapons which would find their way into the hands of the Contras. Those [[business]]es needed payment to perform these services for the CIA and that cash came to them in an illegal, undetectable manner, through ADFA in the form of industrial development loans.  

The CIA needed other companies that would be a source of secretly produced weapons which would find their way into the hands of the Contras. Those [[business]]es needed payment to perform these services for the CIA and that cash came to them in an illegal, undetectable manner, through ADFA in the form of industrial development loans.  

But the laundry was shrinking. CIA knew Clinton and his people had not abided by Clinton's agreement with the agency. The emissary remonstrated sternly,

But the laundry was shrinking. CIA knew Clinton and his people had not abided by Clinton's agreement with the agency. Barr remonstrated sternly,

{{Cquote|Our deal was for you to get 10% of the profits, not 10% of the gross...This has turned into a feeding frenzy by your good-ole-boy sharks and you've had a hand in it too, Mr. Clinton ... Our deal with ''you'' was to launder ''our'' money. You get 10% after costs and post-tax profits. No one agreed for ''you'' to start loaning out money to ''your'' friends through your ADFA so that they could buy machinery to build ''our'' guns. Mr. Sawahata tells me that one of ADFA's first customers was some parking meter company that got several million dollars in ... how shall we say it. .. in preferred loans.}}

{{Cquote|Our deal was for you to get 10% of the profits, not 10% of the gross...This has turned into a feeding frenzy by your good-ole-boy sharks and you've had a hand in it too, Mr. Clinton ... Our deal with ''you'' was to launder ''our'' money. You get 10% after costs and post-tax profits. No one agreed for ''you'' to start loaning out money to ''your'' friends through your ADFA so that they could buy machinery to build ''our'' guns. Mr. Sawahata tells me that one of ADFA's first customers was some parking meter company that got several million dollars in ... how shall we say it. .. in preferred loans.}}

The Clinton administration had been caught with its hand in the till. The emissary was referring to the CIA's plans to relocate an existing arms manufacturing firm, Iver Johnson Arms of New Jersey, to Arkansas. What the agency hoped would be a secret operation to manufacture untraceable arms for the Contras became an open secret among Clinton cronies. These insiders, having learned what Iver Johnson was really doing, demanded a piece of the action and blackmailed their way into the covert operation. POM, the parking meter manufacturer, owned by [[Webster Hubbell]]'s father-in-law Seth Ward, leveraged its way into the underground arms-manufacturing loop by manufacturing parts of machine guns without serial numbers so they could not be traced back to the United States government. Hubbell was an attorney with the Rose Law Firm who followed the Clintons to Washington in 1992 and became Associate Attorney General in the [[US Justice Department]].

The Clinton administration had been caught with its hand in the till. Barr was referring to the CIA's plans to relocate an existing arms manufacturing firm, Iver Johnson Arms of New Jersey, to Arkansas. What the agency hoped would be a secret operation to manufacture untraceable arms for the Contras became an open secret among Clinton cronies. These insiders, having learned what Iver Johnson was really doing, demanded a piece of the action and blackmailed their way into the covert operation. POM, the parking meter manufacturer, owned by [[Webster Hubbell]]'s father-in-law Seth Ward, leveraged its way into the underground arms-manufacturing loop by manufacturing parts of machine guns without serial numbers so they could not be traced back to the United States government. Hubbell was an attorney with the Rose Law Firm who followed the Clintons to Washington in 1992 and became Associate Attorney General in the [[US Justice Department]].

Ths total lack of security and intelligence professionalism was why the CIA wanted out of Arkansas. The final loose end that needed to be tied up was the investigation of Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger and his friends.

Ths total lack of security and intelligence professionalism was why the CIA wanted out of Arkansas. The final loose end that needed to be tied up was the investigation of Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger and his friends.

{{Cquote|We are all in this together and let's not forget that the vice-president and Mr. Casey want this operation to be a success. Mr. Seal carried with him a falsely created, high-level profile of a drug runner. All of the cops in the country were investigating a drug operation. They put the police into a position where we could control them. We fed them what we wanted to feed them, when we wanted to feed them. Seal was a diversion. It was perfect until your brother started free enterprising and now we have to shut it down.}}

{{Cquote|We are all in this together and let's not forget that the vice-president and Mr. Casey want this operation to be a success. Mr. Seal carried with him a falsely created, high-level profile of a drug runner. All of the cops in the country were investigating a drug operation. They put the police into a position where we could control them. We fed them what we wanted to feed them, when we wanted to feed them. Seal was a diversion. It was perfect until your brother started free enterprising and now we have to shut it down.}}

It was the arrests of Roger Clinton and Dan Lasater - not the Hasenfus shoot-down months later - that threatened to expose the operation and prompted the CIA to end it. Casey's emissary said of the money investigation,  

It was the arrests of Roger Clinton and Dan Lasater - not the Hasenfus shoot-down months later - that threatened to expose the operation and prompted the CIA to end it. Barr said of the money investigation,  

{{Cquote|Mr. Meese is intervening right now and there will be no money investigation. The United States Attorney's Office in Little Rock is 'getting religion' as we speak.}}

{{Cquote|Mr. Meese is intervening right now and there will be no money investigation. The United States Attorney's Office in Little Rock is 'getting religion' as we speak.}}

Gov. Clinton's reputation as a cad did not go unnoticed by the CIA. The emissary ended the meeting with words of encouragement.

Gov. Clinton's reputation as a cad did not go unnoticed by the CIA. Barr ended the meeting with words of encouragement.

{{Cquote|Bill, you are Mr. Casey's fair-haired boy ... You and your state have been our greatest asset. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you that unless you ****up and do something [[stupid]], you're No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job that you've always wanted. You and guys like you are the fathers of the new [[government]]. We are the new covenant.}}

{{Cquote|Bill, you are Mr. Casey's fair-haired boy ... You and your state have been our greatest asset. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you that unless you ****up and do something [[stupid]], you're No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job that you've always wanted. You and guys like you are the fathers of the new [[government]]. We are the new covenant.}}