"Defrauding America" page 456: That Mena, Arkansas was a key CIA transshipment point for cocaine coming into the United States on return flights from Central America delivering guns to kill people in Nicaragua in President Reagan and President Bush's alleged honorable war against the people of Nicaragua.
At one time, thinking that Oliver North did not know about the cocaine trafficking, upon returning to Palmerola Air Base, Tatum called Washington and advised North of the cocaine discovery. North told him, "The Sandinistas are manufacturing cocaine and selling it to fund the military. It was bound for the world courts as evidence."
Tatum was assigned to fly helicopter flights in Honduras and Nicaragua, working CIA missions, and under orders of Oliver North, CIA operations Amiram Nir and Felix Rodriguez. In carrying out these orders and missions, he associated with William Barr, George Bush, General Manuel Noriega, Mossad agent Michael Harari. The control word for the missions that he flew was Pegasus. This operation was secretly embedded in an Army medical unit (3/498th Medical Company from Fort Riley, Kansas). He said that CIA agent Henry Hyde was responsible for the finances of the unit, including arranging lines of credit.