Searching soon for the Treasure of Paradise-any help appreciated

[Combat K]

I am off today to see ‘Made in America’ starring Tom Cruise. The subject of this story was a guy named Barry Seal whom in the early to mid 1980’s worked for (variously) the Medellin Cartel, DEA, CIA and of course himself. He smuggled god awful big loads of coke from Columbia into the US and was often associated with Mena, Arkansas. They called him El Gordo and for his treachery (from their point of few) was murdered. His most famous connection to all of us however was his work for the CIA and what would become known as the Iran-Contra scandal. It’s a long story but those who are old enough and interested in current events would certainly remember. I sure did and I believe sincerely Barry Seal was not the only contract agent flying ‘guns south, dope north’ for our notorious spooks. There was at least one more and his name was Jerry Strickland who lived in Paradise, Calif. Strickland was in the air in his two engine Aero Commander returning from Nicaragua, loaded to the gills with cocaine having just off loaded a ton of weapons when disaster struck. The Sandinistas had shot down the CIA’s C-123 (allegedly owned by Seal). Strickland however hadn’t heard but soon he and the world learned all and the jig was up.
But was it? That is what I am now attempting to discover because when I was sentenced to five years in 2008 for growing pot here in Arkansas and sent to Lompoc Fed. Prison Camp I met a guy we called ‘Lencho’ a career marijuana smuggler, grower, adventurer. This is what he told me: he had met Strickland at the Mexico City airport (outer area) where he was getting his own plane serviced as Strickland was also. They became friends and this man eventually offered Lencho a job doing what he was doing, ‘guns south, dope north.’ Strickland claimed he was making 2 million dollars a week in the time he had been at this, accumulated $175,000,000 in cash ‘but mostly gold’ and buried it on his ten acre spread along Clark Rd. in Paradise. Too my knowledge Jerry Strickland was never seen again and those in the know figure—well you know how touchy spooks are regarding ‘plausible deniability. ’I shouldn’t have to paint a picture here.
I hope to fly out to Calif. in January and begin my investigation. I have a general idea of where along Clark Rd. to look and plan on accumulating some addresses for research into previous owners. I may contact the CIA by mail as well just to see what they have to say. I may even offer the state of Calif. first dibs on the Treasure of Paradise because they would be in a position to scout the area by air with the latest ground scanning equipment etc. Who knows? I think the treasure was there once but can’t say for sure about now. Today, with gold doubling since then the horde could be around half a billion dollars. That’s what I hope to discover. This treasure story goes to the heart of those tumultuous times and may shed light on the crack epidemic as well and may indeed unearth a truly big ass haul of gold. Any suggestions on my quest is certainly appreciated.

 

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[Russoca]

Tread lightly...Having been through the Sonoma Co fires of 2017, folks don't take to kindly of strangers waving a metal detector around. In addition, local LE had a heightened suspicion of folks wandering around that didn't appear local. Not trying to scare you, just be careful and up front if approached.

Good luck in your search, the posts I read sounded interesting.

 

[Red James Cash]

Having Cruise just killed it.It will be full of B.S.