MENA

APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: 28-Sep-2009 //. % i =9 July 1995 Note to: Acting DCI From: Acting Director of Public Affairs Subject: Mena The August issue of The American Spectator takes up the Mena story in a way that is likely to resonate on the Hill (see attached article). It alleges, explicitly and implicitly, that an aircraft operated by a CIA front company in 1984 used the airfield at Mena, Arkansas, as a staging point for weapons supply flights to the Contras in Nicaragua; on the return fligh...