Barry seal biography

Key Facts & Summary

• Barry Seal was one of the most renowned American dealers that smuggled weapons and drugs in the USA
• Barry Seal became an aviator at only 16 years old, and as soon as he received his pilot licence, he started smuggling weapons
• He had strong relations with the Madellín Cartel, i.e.

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  the Colombian drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar

Biography

On July 16, 1939, Adler Berriman Seal – commonly referred to as “Barry” Seal – was born in a ‘typical American family’: his father sold candy, his mother was a housewife, and he had two brothers, Benjy and Wendell (Peet 2002). Since he was a teenaged Seal was intrigued by airplanes and ended up getting a pilot’s licence at the age of 16 in 1955: the same year he took part in a Civil Air Patrol’s summer camp where he met Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie (which will be ‘two principal figures in the assassination of John F.

Kennedy) (Peet 2002). Ferrie convinced Seal to collaborate with him in hi Barry Seal: the American Pilot who Smuggled for Pablo Escobar MYRYC