Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. May 6, 2023 · Barry Seal was a pilot from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who worked as a drug smuggler for the Medellín cartel before becoming a key informant for the DEA.

  2. Mar 27, 2016 · Barry Seal made a killing selling drugs for the Ochoa brothers, but after being outed as a key DEA informant, he was a marked man.

  3. Tom Cruise ‘s latest vehicle American Made, directed by Doug Liman, sees the A-lister play the infamous Barry Seal: a pilot who became a drug smuggler, who in turn became an informant, finding...

  4. www.wikiwand.com › en › Barry_SealBarry Seal - Wikiwand

    Barry Seal. Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was an American commercial airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials.

  5. Sep 29, 2017 · American Made: Directed by Doug Liman. With Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons. The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.

  6. Sep 29, 2017 · Barry Seal (played by Cruise) was the most notorious cocaine smuggler of the 1980s and his involvement with Columbian kingpin Pablo Escobar had significant implications in America’s war on drugs. My own brief experience with this story more than 30 years ago prompted me to explore the connection between illegal commerce and the growth of ...

  7. In the mid-1970s, Seal had a booming profession as a smuggler. He focused on moving cocaine as it was more profitable than marijuana. Seal was arrested and jailed while smuggling drugs from Ecuador to Honduras. The “misfortune” led to even bigger drug smuggling jobs for Seal.

  1. People also search for