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Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939 – February 19, 1986) 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.
Feb 20, 2024 · Tom Cruise's 'American Made' movie is inspired by a true story but doesn't reveal what really happened to Barry Seal's family.
Sep 22, 2017 · In the American Made movie, Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) crash lands a plane in a suburban neighborhood in an effort to escape the DEA who ordered him to land. Barry emerges from the plane covered in cocaine. He hands wads of cash to a kid on a bike, telling the boy, "You never saw me."
Sep 2, 2015 · The man who made Baton Rouge headlines in the mid-1980s for the machine-gun killing of drug informant Adler "Barry" Seal died in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Aug. 25, Louisiana...
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.
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.
Sep 29, 2017 · The true story of Barry Seal, a TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler and government informant, played by Tom Cruise in "American Made." Separating fact from fiction in Tom Cruise's...
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.
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...
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 ...
