Barry Seal Thread: Was he stupid or did the judge screw him, or both?

As I seem to recall, he flipped and was helping the Justice Dept. with their case. The local US Attorney failed to provide the protection Seal was expecting, thereby getting wacked at the Salvation Army on Airline.
After it happened, the US Attorney was transferred to a job in Washington DC until things blew over.
Seal was a ballsy guy, but who has a C-119 as a personal aircraft ?????

Is Reloaded the same but with additional footage?

Square Grouper looks interesting. May have to watch.

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I'd say a judge forcing him to live at the Salvation Army was pretty much a death sentence for ole Barry.

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more than that, he was a huge potential liability to the Reagan/Bush admin for what he could reveal about the Iran/Contra affair, of course the judges ruling could have been a "trickle down(pun for you young'ns,)" order too

This isn't info pertaining to the OP's question but there is a secret landing strip tucked away off of Summerfield Rd in Prairieville on the Amite River that Seal used to bring in the coke. It just sits there and probably will never to used again. Just think that's pretty cool

I heard he was also in the Civil Air Patrol as a teenager with Lee Harvey Oswald.

But I always thought that was just an urban legend.

Yea, I don't know about with LHO.

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Youngest international route captain in TWA at 28-30.

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not that it's relevant to the thread, but I have my doubts about that, TWA was always an old stagnant airline, always on the verge of going broke, barely getting through the winter, and getting saved by vacation fares each year, and perpetually laying people off, which is what happened to Seal, and may have accelerated him towards his new profession
ETA: plus, he had already been furloughed by that age

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Loading it with drugs for the return trip was a brilliant, ballsy move.

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to finance the guns &ammo(and fuel,) to arm the Contras

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don't think anybody knew who Seal worked for. I

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Barry was working for everyone CIA, Medellin cartel, Contras, Op 40'

Double Crossed was the move that I rented years ago at blockbuster. It was the move that showed how he flipped to the CIA to getting gunned down. In one scene of the movie he had his big plane loaded down with so much coke he turned and looked at the camera and said, “I am scared that I have so much weight I won’t be able to climb fast enough to get over those mountains” when he had his plane rigged with all the cameras the cameras were so loud he had to run the planes engines so they would not hear the cameras. that was when he got the pictures of the cartel leaders loading his plane..

Badass movie. worth the watch. “Double crossed”!