Tucked away in the western part of Arkansas is a little town known as Mena. A town of  5,400 people that harbored the airport for one of the busiest drug smuggling in  operations in the world. When a C-123K military cargo plane  crashed in Nicaragua on October 5, 1986 with weapons and CIA employees on board, it was discovered that the plane and its contents came from the Mena airport.

The entire incident unraveled what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Mena was used as a training ground for the contras and a pipeline for illegal drug smuggling.