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Barry Seal
American smuggler of drugs and arms, airplane pilot, and money launderer.
Born July 16th, 1939 in Baton Rouge.
Died February 19th, 1986 at 46 years old in Baton Rouge (ballistic trauma).
Barry Seal (6 August 1939 - 19 February 1986) passed away on 19 February 1986 at the age of 46. Barry Seal was an aviator and drug trafficker, and an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In the 1970s, he became a notorious drug smuggler for the Medellin cartel and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Although he sought to control the contents of the smuggled items, he was eventually convicted in 1983 of drug smuggling, earlier acquitted of similar charges, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Seal was later released for his cooperation with the DEA in providing evidence about drug trafficking organizations in Central America. Barry Seal left behind a wife and three children at the time of his death.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde