Smuggler's end : the life and death of Barry Seal

Hahn, Del, author.

Book 2016

"Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. At the height of his career, he was under investigation by the DEA in Mena, Arkansas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in addition to being under the watchful eye of the FBI. Despite the heat surrounding Seal, he made a drug run to Nicaragua in 1984, where he picked up 1,465 pounds of cocaine and took photos of Sandinista soldiers loading the...

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ISBN:

9781455621002

Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Friendly skies
The natural
First arrest: origin of the CIA myth
The war on drugs
The target and Little Rock
Cocaine airline
Title III wiretap
Seal cuts a deal
The Nicaragua and Las Vegas missions
Continuing criminal enterprises
Counterattacks
The middle district of Louisiana plea agreement
Air Max and Air Rik
Time served
The sentencing: clash of egos
"Murder most foul"
The crimes of Mena
Spooks at Mena
The Cadillac papers and Barry's bank
Congress investigates
"I have no knowledge..."
The Christic institute
Mister Wheaton
Terry Reed versus Time Magazine
"N Number" games
Slopping hogs and FBI containment at Mena
Barry and the boys
Closing thoughts
Where are they now

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2306593

Other Authors:

Aswell, Tom, editor

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