August 23, 1987–16 days after my 17th birthday– in a town just south of Little Rock, a pair of cops murdered two teenagers on 
account they had witnessed a police-protected drug drop. The drop was part of a drug smuggling operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas.
The Mena Operation was set up in the early 1980’s by a slick drug smuggler named Barry Seal. In the face of Florida prison time, Seal flew to Washington, D.C., where he agreed to a deal that allowed him to avoid prison by becoming an informant for the government.
Seal testified, in a deposition, that he had worked for the CIA and the DEA. In one federal court case, he testified that his income from March 1984 to August 1985, was between $700,000 and $800,000. This period was AFTER making his deal with the government.
