Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It is believed that the men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Closest to the camera on the left is Felix Rodriguez. Next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal. Tosh Plumlee is attempting to hide his face with his coat. Others in the picture are Alberto 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right).

Yeah, I can see it, that that's Porter Goss, who went on to be appointed CIA Director by George W. Bush.

I bet you they knew each other pretty darn well. That is, I bet Porter Goss knew W's father pretty darn well. 

Yes, I can see that too. Both are Barry Seal.

This is from Spartacus International:

Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Seal became obsessed with aircraft and took his first solo flight at the age of fifteen and was soon making a living towing advertising banners. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in Baton Rouge. Soon afterwards Seal took part in a CAP joint training mission with the New Orleans unit that was run by David Ferrie. According to John Odom, a fellow CAP member, Seal met Lee Harvey Oswald during this training.

Tosh Plumlee claims that Barry Seal began working for the Central Intelligence Agency in the mid 1950s: "Barry Seal was involved with military intelligence in the early days... Military intelligence was the real game, with the CIA just acting as logistical people. Barry was a peripheral player back then, but he was a CIA 'contract' pilot all the way back to 1956 or 1957."

In 1958 Seal began ferrying weapons to Fidel Castro fighting against the the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba. At the time a section of the CIA was supporting the overthrow of Batista. However, the policy changed soon after Castro gained power and Seal is said to have taken part in air attacks on the new government.

The following year Barry Seal became a CIA pilot in Guatemala. It is also believed that Seal was involved in training Cuban exiles on No-Name Key in Florida and on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. He also ran a couple of companies based in Baton Rouge: Seal Sky Service and Aerial Advertising Associates and had an office in the International Trade Center run by Clay Shaw.

Gerry Hemming claims that Barry Seal was a member of Operation 40 in the early 1960s. Hemming told author, Daniel Hopsicker: "Yeah, Barry was Op 40. He flew in killer teams inside the island (Cuba) before the invasion to take out Fidel." In December, 1962, Seal joined the 21st Special Forces Group and attended the Fort Benning Jump School. In May 1963 he was assigned to company D Special Operations Detachment of the 20th Special Forces Group Airborne. Seal also seems to have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to his wife, Deborah, "Barry Seal flew a getaway plane out of Dallas after JFK was killed."

Look at the parallels between Barry Seal and Jack Ruby. Both worked for the CIA in the 1950s running guns to Cuba, first to Castro and then against Castro. But, it is a mistake to think that Jack Ruby was involved in killing Kennedy. Jack Ruby, like Oswald, was a patsy. And the first rule of patsification, what they teach you in Patsification 101, is to keep the patsy in the dark. I think they decided early-on that they would frame Ruby for shooting Oswald. They knew about his amphetamine use, his mental problems, his tendency to have blackouts and blankouts. And they knew about his ardor for the Dallas Police, that they were his cause-celeb. MK-ULTRA was ramped up during the 1950s. Ruby was a different kind of patsy than Oswald. Oswald was out of the country until June 1962, which was less than a year and a half before the assassination. Plus, he returned with a wife and a child. If he had returned alone and had been the classic loner, they may have cultivated him differently, that is, per MK-ULTRA. But no, Oswald was manipulated, but he never underwent mind control as per MK-ULTRA. He was definitely in possession of his mind at the time of the assassination, and he did alright by himself. He did a lot of damage the last two days of his life, and had he lived, he would have destroyed them in court. It's why they had to kill him pronto: because he had his mind. They couldn't even let him see a lawyer. But, Jack Ruby was gone mentally. He really was a basket case. I really do think they killed him too in 1967, but that's because he won a new trial, and they just were not going to go through that again with him. He just might wake up and realize that he didn't do it.