Mena Murders Revisited
Author: Rick Gordon
In August 1987, the bodies of 2 boys, Don Henry 16-years old Kevin Ives 17-years old were run over by by a cargo train in Alexander, Arkansas as they lay on the tracks. Don Henry had been stabbed in the back, Ives skull had been crushed. The train driver was unable to stop, the trains momentum carried it over the bodies. The out-of-state pathologist determined they died before their bodies were placed on the tracks, when the engineer saw them lying motionless side by side, they were partially covered by a green tarp.
Authorities tried to claim it was an accident and that the boys had been sleeping on the tracks due to being stoned. The families insisted on a second autopsy, after which it was ruled a likely homicide. Don Henry had apparently been stabbed, while still alive.
A week before the boys were killed, a man in military fatigues was spotted in the area, not far from where the boys were killed. A Police officer [Danny Allen] attempted to stop him and was fired upon, the man disappeared into the darkness. The same man, or one in similar attire was spotted on the night the boys died.
The usual theory involves drug trafficking. The theory is that the boys came upon a drug drop and were murdered. Dan Harmon, a prosecutor of the case was arrested in 2010 for dealing drugs, and he is believed to have been involved in the murder.
Keith McKaskle, who was allegedly a witness to the murders, turned over information he had about the boys' murders to Richard Garrett. Unfortunately for McKaskle Garrett was more than likely involved in the drug operation [If that's what it was]. McKaskle, after realizing he had spoken to the wrong people actually made his own funeral arrangements, said goodbye to family and was murdered within a few days - stabbed 113 times. His murder remains unsolved. [source]
Mena, as it turns out, was one of the worlds busiest drug smuggling hubs in the world. In 1986 a C-123K military cargo plane crashed in Nicaragua with weapons and CIA personnel on board, it was discovered that the flight had origionated at Mena airport. Arkansas, at the time was not unlike the coconut kingdoms and banana republics of Latin America, anything and just about anyone could be bought for the right price. It was a state politically monopolized by Democrats and Bill Clintons Arkansas Crime Syndicate was at the top of the food chain.
Judicial Watch Discloses Secret CIA Report
Author : Micah Morrison
Judicial Watch recently obtained new documents related to mysterious Mena Airfield in Arkansas. They shed more light on what happened at Mena and what then-Governor Bill Clinton knew about it.
Strange events unfolded at Mena, a small city in remote western Arkansas, in the 1980s. When Bill Clinton became president, Mena got a closer look. Evidence emerged suggesting that the CIA was operating in the area in the early 1980s; that a major cocaine and gun smuggler was based at the airfield; and that the U.S. military was somehow involved. Conspiracy theories sprouted. The Clinton Administration batted away concerns about Mena as the rantings of its right-wing enemies.
At a 1994 news conference, in his only statement about Mena, President Clinton dodged a question about what he knew when he was governor. Federal authorities “didn’t tell me anything about it,” he said, noting that the events “were primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction.” He added, “we had nothing—zero—to do with it.”
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. The CIA report was given a “Secret” classification and not released to the public. In a brief public statement, the CIA said it had no connection to illegal activities in the region, but it did participate in a classified “joint training operation with another federal agency” and conducted at Mena Airfield “routine aviation-related services on equipment owned by the CIA.”
And that’s where the official government response ended.
Until now.
Responding to Freedom of Information pressure from Judicial Watch, the CIA released a highly redacted version of the full Mena Report. You can read the secret report obtained by Judicial Watch here..
The big takeaway: Bill Clinton almost certainly knew more about Mena than he suggested in 1994. Clinton said that federal authorities “didn’t tell me anything about it.” That turns out to be a clever dodge. The report notes that “certain Arkansas state and local officials were informed” about CIA activities at Mena. That’s new.
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. You can bet that the state police supervisor, the mayor, the police chief, the county sheriff, or the airport manager was quickly on the phone to the governor. Probably all of them were.
What did that unnamed official tell local authorities? Sorry, that’s redacted on national security grounds.
Another significant takeaway from the report: the other federal agency involved in that joint training exercise in the Arkansas woods? It was the Defense Department. That’s new, too.
The report states that the “CIA participated in a Department of Defense (DoD) training exercise.”
When did this happen? Sorry, the date is redacted on national security grounds.
What exactly went on during that training exercise? Sorry, that information also is redacted on national security grounds.
In fact, practically the entire seven pages of the CIA report describing the joint Defense Department exercise is redacted.... Read More