CIA • 1996

REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS RELATING TO POSSIBLE AGENCY KNOWLEDGE OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES IN OR AROUND MENA, ARKANSAS

(bl61 (b131 APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: 23-Sep-2009 IG 96-0302 26 February 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration Deputy Director for Intelligence Deputy Director for Operations Deputy Director for Science and Technology Comptroller Director of Congressional Affairs General Counsel Director of Public Affairs Executive Secretariat FROM: Frederick P. Hitz Inspector General SUBJECT: Request for Documents Relating to Possible Agency Knowledge of Certain Activities in or Around Mena, Arkansas 1. In response to a request from the Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and with the concurrence of the Director of Central Intelligence, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has initiated an inquiry relating to the following core issues: Whether CIA, or anyone acting.on CIA's behalf, has carried out any activities in Mena, Arkansas, or the area north of Mena, known as Nella, Arkansas, and if so, did CIA brief, or otherwise communicate this information to Arkansas state officials in the 1980s; What was the nature and extent of CIA's contact or relationship with Adler Berriman Seal(AKA Barry Seal, A...