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

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

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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2:08.7	Most importantly, you are you. You are here and that makes this stuff. They don't want you to know.
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