Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939– February 19, 1986) was an American drug smuggler, and aircraft pilot and dealer who flew flights for the Medellín Cartel.
Early life
Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Mary Lou (nee Delcambre) and Benjamin Curtis Seal. He began flying at the age of 15. In 1955, aged 16, he received his airman certificate and joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).
As a commercial airline pilot, Seal flew for TWA until 1974, when he was fired by the company.
Drug smuggler
Seal was employed by the Medellín Cartel as a pilot and drug smuggler. He transported numerous shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the United States and earned as much as $500,000 per flight.
After successful runs into his home base in Louisiana he moved operations to an infamous airport facility in Mena, Arkansas. There he bought, sold, and operated many planes. This includes the C-123 transport plane, supplied to him by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), that was famously used in the Nicaragua sting operation.
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Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States. The operation spawns the birth of the Medellin cartel and almost brings down the Reagan...
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In the movie, the CIA recruit Seal to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions in Central America - but the truth is that Seal never worked for the CIA. In the Real Story, Seal, a prolific drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel flips as a DEA agent after being caught in an elaborate sting. Seal leads the DEA directly to Pablo Escobar - but his mission is sunk when clandestine photos he takes of Escobar loading cocaine are leaked to the press. Seal's identity was revealed to the world and he is abandoned by the system to the cartel's wrath. Inevitably Barry Seal is killed in a hail of bullets.
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Barry Seal amerikai pilóta volt, aki a Pablo Escobar-féle Medellín kartell szállítója lett, és fegyvert és drogot csempészett a repülőin, majd váratlanul beszervezte a CIA, és az amerikai történelem egyik legnagyobb titkos akcióját hajtotta végre.
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Tom Cruise retrouve son réalisateur d’EDGE OF TOMORROW, Doug Liman, dans le film AMERICAN MADE, une escapade internationale,basée sur les exploits incroyables mais vrais de Barry Seal, un pilote arnaqueur recruté de manière inattendue par la CIA afin de mener à bien l’une des plus grosses opérations secrètes de l’histoire des Etats-Unis.
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Source/Further reading:
Real Narcos podcast series (three episodes): https://www.noiser.com/news/2020/4/17/noiser-launches-flagship-podcast-series-real-narcos
Link to the most-recent major book on Seal: https://www.amazon.com/Smugglers-End-Life-Death-Barry/dp/1455621005
Time, the true story behind American Made: https://time.com/4958361/american-made-movie-true-story/
Vice, the story of Barry Seal’s assassination: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w3mvw/an-fbi-agent-tells-story-behind-an-infamous-escobar-cartel-assassination
Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/
History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en
History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration
Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490
Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html
Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/
LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html
Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false
Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair
Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista
In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/
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Source/Further reading:
Real Narcos podcast series (three episodes): https://www.noiser.com/news/2020/4/17/noiser-launches-flagship-podcast-series-real-narcos
Link to the most-recent major book on Seal: https://www.amazon.com/Smugglers-End-Life-Death-Barry/dp/1455621005
Time, the true story behind American Made: https://time.com/4958361/american-made-movie-true-story/
Vice, the story of Barry Seal’s assassination: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w3mvw/an-fbi-agent-tells-story-behind-an-infamous-escobar-cartel-assassination
Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/
History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en
History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration
Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490
Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html
Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/
LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html
Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false
Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair
Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista
In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/
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In the Hollywood blockbuster 'American Made', Tom Cruise stars as legendary 80s drug smuggler Barry Seal. This is the real story. Subscribe to Our History: http...
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In the movie, the CIA recruit Seal to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions in Central America - but the truth is that Seal never worked for the CIA. In the Real Story, Seal, a prolific drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel flips as a DEA agent after being caught in an elaborate sting. Seal leads the DEA directly to Pablo Escobar - but his mission is sunk when clandestine photos he takes of Escobar loading cocaine are leaked to the press. Seal's identity was revealed to the world and he is abandoned by the system to the cartel's wrath. Inevitably Barry Seal is killed in a hail of bullets.
This film was first broadcast: 2017
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In the Hollywood blockbuster 'American Made', Tom Cruise stars as legendary 80s drug smuggler Barry Seal. This is the real story. Subscribe to Our History: https://bit.ly/3v5mKBG
In the movie, the CIA recruit Seal to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions in Central America - but the truth is that Seal never worked for the CIA. In the Real Story, Seal, a prolific drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel flips as a DEA agent after being caught in an elaborate sting. Seal leads the DEA directly to Pablo Escobar - but his mission is sunk when clandestine photos he takes of Escobar loading cocaine are leaked to the press. Seal's identity was revealed to the world and he is abandoned by the system to the cartel's wrath. Inevitably Barry Seal is killed in a hail of bullets.
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Országos bemutató: 2017. augusztus 31.
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Barry Seal was an adventure-loving pilot from Louisiana that lived life according to one simple rule: when a Nicaraguan prison gives you lemons, make lemonade for Pablo Escobar.
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Author - Morris M.
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Executive Producer - Shannon Harris
Source/Further reading:
Real Narcos podcast series (three episodes): https://www.noiser.com/news/2020/4/17/noiser-launches-flagship-podcast-series-real-narcos
Link to the most-recent major book on Seal: https://www.amazon.com/Smugglers-End-Life-Death-Barry/dp/1455621005
Time, the true story behind American Made: https://time.com/4958361/american-made-movie-true-story/
Vice, the story of Barry Seal’s assassination: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w3mvw/an-fbi-agent-tells-story-behind-an-infamous-escobar-cartel-assassination
Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/
History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en
History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration
Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490
Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html
Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/
LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html
Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false
Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair
Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista
In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/
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In the movie, the CIA recruit Seal to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions in Central America - but the truth is that Seal never worked for the CIA. In the Real Story, Seal, a prolific drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel flips as a DEA agent after being caught in an elaborate sting. Seal leads the DEA directly to Pablo Escobar - but his mission is sunk when clandestine photos he takes of Escobar loading cocaine are leaked to the press. Seal's identity was revealed to the world and he is abandoned by the system to the cartel's wrath. Inevitably Barry Seal is killed in a hail of bullets.
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Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (July 16, 1939– February 19, 1986) was an American drug smuggler, and aircraft pilot and dealer who flew flights for the Medellín Cartel.
Early life
Seal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Mary Lou (nee Delcambre) and Benjamin Curtis Seal. He began flying at the age of 15. In 1955, aged 16, he received his airman certificate and joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).
As a commercial airline pilot, Seal flew for TWA until 1974, when he was fired by the company.
Drug smuggler
Seal was employed by the Medellín Cartel as a pilot and drug smuggler. He transported numerous shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the United States and earned as much as $500,000 per flight.
After successful runs into his home base in Louisiana he moved operations to an infamous airport facility in Mena, Arkansas. There he bought, sold, and operated many planes. This includes the C-123 transport plane, supplied to him by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), that was famously used in the Nicaragua sting operation.