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40 Years ago today - Barry Seal gunned down by cartel
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:23 am
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:23 am
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Today in Baton Rouge History
February 19, 1986
Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was an American smuggler of drugs and arms, aircraft pilot, dealer, and money launderer who flew flights for the Medellín Cartel. Seal was employed by the Medellín Cartel as a pilot and drug smuggler and transported numerous shipments of cocaine from Colombia and Panama to the United States. He was eventually arrested and after he was sentence in 1984 and offered to cooperate with the government as an informant. Seal was sentenced to work in public service at the Salvation Army facility on Airline Highway and in revenge for turning on the cartel, he was gunned down by a Medellin drug cartel hit squad today in 1986.
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On the evening of February 19, 1986, Seal was shot to death in front of the Salvation Army Center, three weeks into his probation. When Seal drove into the center's parking lot and parked, a man got out of a car behind the center's donation drop boxes and opened fire with a suppressed MAC-10 submachine gun. Seal was hit six times and died almost instantly
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The Medellín cartel, led by Pablo Escobar, was a major force in the cocaine trade and was responsible for numerous murders, including an estimated 250 judges, dozens of police officers and journalists, and three presidential candidates during a seven-year drug war with the government. The organization used murder as a primary tool to achieve its goals. The cartel's main enforcer and head of its mercenary army, Brances Muñoz Mosquera (nicknamed "Tyson"), was killed by police in 1992. Another high-ranking hitman, a man known as "Popeye," who killed hundreds of people for the cartel, died of natural causes in 2020 while in prison.
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Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:32 am to mylsuhat
I need to get around to reading Roger Reaves book.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:36 am to mylsuhat
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replace the word "cartel" with "CIA" and you've got it
replace them both with Clinton and you have it right.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:37 am to mylsuhat
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replace the word "cartel" with "CIA" and you've got it
This
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:39 am to Shexter
I enjoyed the movie:
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:41 am to winkchance
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replace them both with Clinton and you have it right.
Don't forget George H.W. Bush. Conspiracy theory incoming... I still think there was a deal in place that Clinton would be given a pathway to the presidency by playing ball with Bush and the CIA for the drug smuggling and money laundering operation he let them run in Arkansas.
There's no way that a political nothing like Clinton could be pushed to the front of the line without institutional help from the deep state.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:41 am to Shexter
quote:Polozola put it to him.
Polozola presided over the case of notorious Louisiana drug smuggler Barry Seal, who made countless runs from Central America to the United States, flying thousands of pounds of cocaine and marijuana into the country and making millions of dollars. When faced with criminal prosecution, Seal turned informant for the DEA, but he continued to smuggle drugs into the US. As part of a plea bargain after his arrest, Seal was effectively shielded from serving hard time for narcotic trafficking. On 20 December 1985, Polozola invoked the sentence handed down by a Florida judge as he was required to under the terms of Seal's deal with the government and sentenced Seal to six months' supervised probation, as permitted under federal law. A condition of the sentence was that he had to spend every night, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at the Salvation Army halfway house on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge. Polozola further stipulated that Seal could not carry a gun or hire armed bodyguards as this would be possession or constructive possession of a firearm by a convicted felon - both federal felonies. Seal's attorney, Lewis Unglesby, told Polozola his ruling amounted to a death sentence for his client. However, Seal refused witness protection. Seal told friends that the judge "made me a clay pigeon." At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. As he parked his car, he was approached by a man carrying an automatic weapon. Two quick bursts riddled Seal's head and chest, killing him instantly.[5]
This post was edited on 2/19/26 at 8:46 am
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:42 am to mylsuhat
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replace the word "cartel" with "CIA" and you've got it
Replace those with Judge Frank Polozoa. His sentence requiring Seal to report to Salvation Army to stay every night was a death warrant.
This post was edited on 2/21/26 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:42 am to Shexter
Lewis Unglesby told the judge that if he put Seal in the halfway house on Airline Hwy that they'd kill Seal. Lewis was right.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:43 am to beebefootballfan
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need to get around to reading Roger Reaves book.
His interviews are fascinating.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:06 am to Shexter
Seal lived life to the fullest. Big Balls of Steel!
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:13 am to Shexter
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:14 am to Shexter
LOL @ the cartel.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:17 am to Bigfishchoupique
Not Seal related but good book on that era of CIA frickry
Allegedly Epstein was involved but he is getting attached to just about everything
Allegedly Epstein was involved but he is getting attached to just about everything
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:19 am to LSUFreek
Great movie
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:22 am to Shexter
My aunt worked for LSP at the time in latent fingerprint. She palm printed him right before they put him in the hurst. She said those MAC 10’s basically chopped him in half.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:56 am to RolltidePA
Its more complicated than "Arkansas Bumpkin Becomes President because on an airport at Mena".
Bill C was already in the presidential training class as a Hot Springs teen. At Georgetown U. he worked for Senator J. William Fulbright (D). Then at Yale and as a Rhodes Scholar he was welcomed into the elite club. Born in 1946 he grew up when Arkansas was the private toy of gov Winthrop Rockefeller (R), gov starting in 1953 and started Arkansas Economic Development Commission in 1955. AEDC drew on the talents of Sam Walton. Sam knew a whole lot about logistics, and In 1992 Sam got the Presidential Medal of Freedom from GHW Bush (R).
Quite a rich field for theorists.
Bill C was already in the presidential training class as a Hot Springs teen. At Georgetown U. he worked for Senator J. William Fulbright (D). Then at Yale and as a Rhodes Scholar he was welcomed into the elite club. Born in 1946 he grew up when Arkansas was the private toy of gov Winthrop Rockefeller (R), gov starting in 1953 and started Arkansas Economic Development Commission in 1955. AEDC drew on the talents of Sam Walton. Sam knew a whole lot about logistics, and In 1992 Sam got the Presidential Medal of Freedom from GHW Bush (R).
Quite a rich field for theorists.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:05 am to Tree_Fall
Barry's son Aaron is a close family friend.
He just launched a podcast where they discuss a lot of the whole ordeal.
Poor guy has been wrestling with this thing his whole life.
He just launched a podcast where they discuss a lot of the whole ordeal.
Poor guy has been wrestling with this thing his whole life.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:11 am to Shexter
I'll always think Palozola was on the take.
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