CLASSIC: Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Join Ben, Matt and Noel for a Classic conspiracy episode, which only grows more relevant as the years wend on: Across the course of his strange and checkered career, pilot and smuggler Barry Seal was called many things: An informant, a criminal, an asset for America's alphabet soup of intelligence agencies and more. He met an ignoble end in February of 1986, when he was fatally shot outside the Salvation Army facility where he'd been ordered to work in court-mandated public service. However, it turns out the official explanation of his death hasn't convinced everyone -- to this day, journalists, theorists and more continue to ask: Who really killed Barry Seal?

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0:00.0	Welcome to tonight's classic episode.
0:02.9	You know what three flavors go great together?
0:06.6	Contras, obviously, cocaine, great addition, and our good friends at the CIA.
0:12.9	Yum, yum.
0:14.4	And Tom Cruise, apparently, because he starred in the movie about this guy that we're going to talk about today.
0:19.7	Oh, that's right.
0:20.6	What was the movie called?
0:21.6	It's about like a plain smuggling operation, right?
0:24.7	It's called American Made.
0:26.3	That's the one.
0:27.2	Yes, yes.
0:28.3	And this is the true story of pilot and smuggler named Barry Seal.
0:35.7	Let's get to it.
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