
Barry Seal
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Search complete. 20 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Barry Seal".
Sep 15, 2026
The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar
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12:39Sean WilliamsHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah, way under 10.
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12:40Sean WilliamsHOST
I mean, like Barry Seal, the pilot, and then I just l- found out about Greg Pahoulas, but that, that is a story for another day.
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12:48Sean WilliamsHOST
Do you know about this guy?
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12:50Danny GoldHOST
I, I do not know about this guy.
Griselda Blanco: The Cocaine Godmother
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6:58speaker_0ADVERTISER
Yet
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6:58Simon WhistlerHOST
it worked just as well as anything Barry Seal ever cooked up.
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7:02Simon WhistlerHOST
So many girls got these bras through customs that NYC was soon flooded with white powder.
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7:07Simon WhistlerHOST
In just a couple of years, Blanco and Brava had so cornered the market that even the Mafia couldn't compete.
Escobar: Rise of the Colombian Cartel
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17:14Katie DukeADVERTISER
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17:26Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Another prominent associate during this time was Barry Seale.
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17:30Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Seale was an airline pilot from Baton Rouge in the southern American state of Louisiana.
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17:35Juan NaulaNARRATOR
Like Jung, he had first become involved in drug trafficking in the mid-1970s by bringing in consignments of marijuana from Mexico, but like Jung and later, he had quickly realized that there were far greater profits to be made in bringing in the more valuable and more compact Kirkane.
1407 9/11: THE QUESTIONS THEY WOULDN’T ASK—AND THE EMAILS THAT VANISHED
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17:01Richard SyrettHOST
His biography said he'd worked as a Learjet captain in connection with a DEA operation targeting Pablo Escobar and and the Medellin Cartel, and that he later became involved in aviation connected to the covert arming of the Nicaraguan Contras.
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17:16Richard SyrettHOST
And then there is Barry Seal.
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17:18Richard SyrettHOST
If you know anything about the murky history of the 1980s, that name should ring a bell.
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17:23Richard SyrettHOST
Seal was a pilot, smuggler, and DEA informant who became entangled in the extraordinary overlap among narcotics trafficking, intelligence operations, and the Contra War in Central America.
‘Notting Hill Carnival - Should you go?’’ | Elliot and Jamali’s Drivetime Show
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5:25Jamali MaddixHOST
to fund the Nicaragua because the communists were taking over Nicaragua.
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5:32Jamali MaddixHOST
The people they were funding, what they would do to run guns into the countries, they would go to people like Barry Seal,
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5:37Elliot SteelHOST
who
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5:37Jamali MaddixHOST
were pilots and stuff.
Ep. 253: Did Farmers get what they voted for?
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73:48Logan HanksHOST
How much money do you think he made in eight hours? I don't know.
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73:51Logan HanksHOST
oh million dollars 1.5 million hired barry seal this is the guy tom cruise played in the movie american made in 10 years he made 60 million dollars he was shot down twice in central america lost in amazon 11 days he was in prison 26 times across seven countries four continents and 33 years he escaped five times It says Escobar Detail.
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74:19Logan HanksHOST
At peak, Escobar was reportedly making $420 million a week and spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to bundle the cash.
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74:27Bobby Lee HanksHOST
Yep.
The Boys on the Tracks: The Unsolved Murder of Don Henry and Kevin Ives
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12:13Kris CalvertHOST
So weapons were flown out in the same planes that brought back cocaine, and there was secret training of the Contra Gorillas happening nearby.
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12:22Kris CalvertHOST
Now, whenever a local sheriff or someone would try to get involved and stop Barry Seal, someone from higher up would call and put the kibosh on it.
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12:32Rob PottorfHOST
Hmm.
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12:33Kris CalvertHOST
The DEA would call and say that what Barry was doing was very valuable to them.
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13:10Kris CalvertHOST
Okay?
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13:10Rob PottorfHOST
I'll try not to email you.
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13:13Kris CalvertHOST
The official story is that Barry Seal was caught and indicted in Florida through an investigation called Operation Screamer.
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13:22Kris CalvertHOST
And when he's caught trying to import a large shipment of cocaine, and I believe it was Quaaludes, he cut a deal with the DEA.
TBB 100: THE AWARDS SHOW!!!!
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5:10Morgan HarrisHOST
They're like, "Okay, if you had to tell, like, what case were you most passionate about?" I will give you the run-of-the-mill.
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5:15Morgan HarrisHOST
I'll say Barry Seal, I'll say BTK, 'cause if they're asking for a true crime.
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5:20Morgan HarrisHOST
A Vatican girl.
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5:21Morgan HarrisHOST
What's another one?
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5:26Morgan HarrisHOST
Well, you d- most of these you d- did with me.
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5:29Taylar JaneHOST
Okay.
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5:29Morgan HarrisHOST
Barry Seal we did together.
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5:31Morgan HarrisHOST
BTK we did together.