Barry Seal and the CIA Enterprise

The real Barry Seal was much more than a commercial airline pilot recruited by the CIA after being caught smuggling Cuban cigars to make a little extra money on the side. That could not have been farther from the truth yet served as a crucial moment depicted most recently in the Hollywood movie American Made starring Tom Cruise as our leading man. Beyond the generous casting decision, the film almost seemed to purposely fumble the most important revelations in the life story of a man who should have implicated the highest levels of our federal government as being directly involved in the planning and execution of some of the most consequential illegal covert operations in all of American History...Support the show'Silence is Acquiescence'

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