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Even when Mena's gun-running operation was shut down after 1986, Mena continued to be used for illegal narcotics smuggling into the United States and the profits pocketed by locals under then Governor [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/08/26/the-boys-on-the-tracks-are-back </ref> In 1989 Clinton received petitions from Arkansas citizens demanding he convene a state grand jury and investigate Mena.<ref>[http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19920501&articleKey=19920501021 Clinton Turned Blind Eye to Arkansas Contra Connections], ''High Times'', May 1992, p. 21 </ref> Winston Bryant made Mena an issue in his successful bid for state [[Attorney General]] in 1990. A year later Bryant turned over state files involving Mena to Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but Walsh did nothing with the reams of evidence.
Even when Mena's gun-running operation was shut down after 1986, Mena continued to be used for illegal narcotics smuggling into the United States and the profits pocketed by locals under then Governor [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/08/26/the-boys-on-the-tracks-are-back </ref> In 1989 Clinton received petitions from Arkansas citizens demanding he convene a state grand jury and investigate Mena.<ref>[http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19920501&articleKey=19920501021 Clinton Turned Blind Eye to Arkansas Contra Connections], ''High Times'', May 1992, p. 21 </ref> Winston Bryant made Mena an issue in his successful bid for state [[Attorney General]] in 1990. A year later Bryant turned over state files involving Mena to Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but Walsh did nothing with the reams of evidence.
==The fair haired boy==
==The fair-haired boy==
In March of 1986 a meeting was held in a bunker at Camp Robinson located in North Little Rock between Bill Clinton, Clinton's aide Bob Nash, Terry Reed, Max Gomez, Felix Rodriguez, Oliver North, resident CIA agent Akihide Sawahata and an unidentified man in charge (possibly [[Robert Gates]] or William Barr) who said he was the emissary for CIA Director Bill Casey.
In March of 1986 a meeting was held in a bunker at Camp Robinson located in North Little Rock between Bill Clinton, Clinton's aide Bob Nash, Terry Reed, Max Gomez, Felix Rodriguez, Oliver North, resident CIA agent Akihide Sawahata and an unidentified man in charge (possibly [[Robert Gates]] or William Barr) who said he was the emissary for CIA Director Bill Casey.
directly under the control of Governor Bill Clinton. More than $100,000 was paid by ADFA in legal fees to the [[Rose Law Firm]].
directly under the control of Governor Bill Clinton. More than $100,000 was paid by ADFA in legal fees to the [[Rose Law Firm]].
A state investment bank was [[capital]]ized by large cash transfusions that the CIA was taking great pains to hide. This solved the CIA's dilemma of funding the Contras, but no legal way to deliver it directly. The agency was barred by Congress with the Boland Amendment from
A state investment bank was [[capital]]ized by large cash transfusions that the CIA was taking great pains to hide. This solved the CIA's 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.
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 conveniently 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 conveniently in an illegal undetectable manner through ADFA in the form of industrial development loans.