Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Barry_SealBarry Seal - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. Feb 20, 2024 · The film stars Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, a pilot, turned drug runner, turned DEA agent, turned possible CIA operative. The real story of American Made is so wild, it's almost impossible to make a...

  3. 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."

  4. May 6, 2023 · Barry Seal was one of the biggest drug smugglers in America in the 1970s and ’80s. He spent years working for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín cartel, flying tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States and earning millions of dollars.

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

    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.

  6. Sep 29, 2017 · If it sounds like an exercise in screenwriting excess, it’s not entirely — the film takes as its inspiration the true story of Adler Berriman “Barry” Seal, a TWA pilot who became a drug...

  7. 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.

  8. Oct 9, 2023 · Barry Seal's real-life wife, Deborah Seal, struggled financially after his death, and the true nature of his assassination is still debated.

  9. 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...

  10. 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,...