HOUSE BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION - ADDENDUM (W/ATTACHMENTS)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: SEAL BARRY
• Keywords: MENA ARKANSAS
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001289675
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 26
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2009
• Case Number: F-2002-01499
• Publication Date: September 8, 1995

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Response and House Banking and Financial Services Committee Investigatio
- Addendum
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Adraryn 1. uyer
House Banking and Financial Services
Committee Investigation - Addendum
REFERENCE: A. DI/IRO Memorandum, 7 September 1995
B. OCA 95-2244, 31 August 1995
1. Reference A advised that the DI would forward
comments re Tab B (reference B) under separate cover.
Attached is a memorandum and accompanying background
information which was forwarded by the DCI Crime and
Narcotics Center in response to Tab B.
? 2. Although the CNC memorandum addresses the request
for comments to Tab B, it may have implications for the
Agency's response to the request for record searches in Tab
A.
 SUBJECT: House Banking and Financial services committee
Investigation - Addendum
4. Your attention is also drawn to CNC's comments and
clarification regarding an earlier response provided to
ORM's July search request.
5. If you have any questions, please call me on
 SUBJECT: House Banking and Financial Services Committee
Investigation - Addendum
 8 September 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR: DI Information Review Officer
SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and
Related Topics
REFERENCE: DI/IRO memo, dated 31 August 1995,
w/attached EXDIR memo, dated
31 August 1995
1. Referenced memo requested that CNC search for
records responsive to referenced Tab A and that CNC review
and comment on referenced Tab B. On 6 September 1995 CNC
sent you a memo stating we had located no responsive records
to the subjects identified in Tab A.
2. This memorandum addresses the request for comments
to Tab B, the 21 July 1995 draft memorandum of record
prepared by Chairman Leach's staff concerning questions and
agency responses on Mena/Systematics. CNC has reviewed Tab B
and offers the following comments.
3. While CNC has no documents or records
to "Barry Seal",
 SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and
Related Topics
5. During 1984, there was high policymaker interest
in assessing the role of the Cuban and Nicaraguan government
in the drug trade.
 SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and
Related Topics
6. In 1988, the Foreign Relations Committee was
examining drug trafficking in Central America, especially
the role of Panama, and requested all finished intelligence
related to these issues. Attached is a list of the
documents provided to the SSCI for Senators Pell and Kerry
and cleared staff on 29 March 1988. The two papers
discussed above were included among the documents provided
to the SSCI on that date.
7. CNC has no documents or written records pertaining
to the installation of cameras on Seal's C-123 aircraft.
However, to the best of our understanding, CIA's OTS may
have installed cameras on the aircraft used in the 1984
operation. Therefore, we suggest that you recommend to the
DO that it check with OTS or other components regarding the
following inquiry in the draft memorandum:
? "Did the CIA have any involvement in, or knowledge
of, the installation of cameras on Seal's C-123K
transport plane for use in a 1984 "sting" operation
against the Sandinista official Frederico Vaughan?
While CNC does not have any documents or written
records that pertain to "Barry Seal",
 SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and
Related Topics
9. If you have any questions please call me at
 SUBJECT: Records Searches: Mena, Arkansas and
Related Topics
CNC/ODIR I(8 Sept 95)
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