Reed, Terry and Cummings, John. Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA.
New York: S.P.I. Books (Shapolsky Publishers), 1994. 556 pages.
In the 1980s, Terry Reed was a veteran of air force intelligence
in Vietnam who had since earned his pilot's license and was itching for
adventure, so Oliver North recruited him as a covert operative in his contra
support network. Reed trained contra pilots with Barry Seal in Arkansas,
and helped Seal launder CIA money to FOBs (Friends of Billary) there. Later
he was assigned to Mexico and associated with Felix Rodriguez, the CIA's
contra point man at an airport in El Salvador. Reed had second thoughts
after he discovered that planes flying south with U.S. arms for the contras
were returning north with cocaine. In October, 1986 the entire effort came
unglued when a cargo plane with a U.S. crew was shot down over Nicaragua.
Reed knew too much, so he was set up on mail fraud charges to keep him out
of trouble (he was eventually acquitted).
Reed's story became intertwined with politics during the Clinton
campaign of 1992. Time magazine, where FOB Strobe Talbott was an editor,
smeared Reed in their April 20 issue. But Reed's credibility is also
compromised by his own infatuation with covert cowboy ops -- apparently he
still believes that Vietnam was a fun war that ended because bureaucrats
in suits screwed it up. Nevertheless, this book shows convincingly that
Whitewater is merely the tip of the banana in the Republic of Arkansas.
ISBN 1-56171-249-3
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