Barry Seal was an adventure-loving pilot from Louisiana that lived life according to one si→’s assassination: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w3mvw/an-fbi-agent-tells-story-behind-an-infamous-escobar-cartel-assassination Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/ History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490 Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/ LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/