He'd been recruited for Special Ops because of the Cuban thing.' In 67 and 68 he was with Air America in South Vietnam and Laos during Search and Destroy and Special Ops with Ted Shackley's boys. Tosh Plumlee claims that Barry Seal also worked for Ted Shackley and the CIA: 'Barry Seal did a lot of damn good stuff in the late 60s. According to his biographer, Daniel Hopsicker ( Barry and the Boys), Seal 'becomes first the youngest 707 Captain, and then later the youngest Captain of a 747.' Soon afterwards he went to work for Howard Hughes and the TWA Corporation. In 1964 Seal joined the 245th Engineer Battalion based in St. According to his wife, Deborah, 'Barry Seal flew a getaway plane out of Dallas after JFK was killed.' Seal also seems to have been involved in the assassination of John F. In May 1963 he was assigned to company D Special Operations Detachment of the 20th Special Forces Group Airborne. In December, 1962, Seal joined the 21st Special Forces Group and attended the Fort Benning Jump School. He flew in killer teams inside the island (Cuba) before the invasion to take out Fidel.'Īssassination of John F. Hemming told author, Daniel Hopsicker: 'Yeah, Barry was Op 40. Gerry Hemming claims that Barry Seal was a member of Operation 40 in the early 1960s. He also ran a couple of companies based in Baton Rouge: Seal Sky Service and Aerial Advertising Associates and had an office in the International Trade Center run by Clay Shaw. It is also believed that Seal was involved in training Cuban exiles on No-Name Key in Florida and on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. The following year Barry Seal became a CIA pilot in Guatemala. However, the policy changed soon after Castro gained power and Seal is said to have taken part in air attacks on the new government. At the time a section of the CIA was supporting the overthrow of Batista. In 1958 Seal began ferrying weapons to Fidel Castro fighting against the the Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba. Barry was a peripheral player back then, but he was a CIA 'contract' pilot all the way back to 1956 or 1957.' Military intelligence was the real game, with the CIA just acting as logistical people. Tosh Plumlee claims that Barry Seal began working for the Central Intelligence Agency in the mid 1950s: 'Barry Seal was involved with military intelligence in the early days. According to John Odom, a fellow CAP member, Seal met Lee Harvey Oswald during this training.

Soon afterwards Seal took part in a CAP joint training mission with the New Orleans unit that was run by David Ferrie. In 1955 Seal joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in Baton Rouge. Seal became obsessed with aircraft and took his first solo flight at the age of fifteen and was soon making a living towing advertising banners. Seal's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Barry Seal, the son of a candy wholesaler, was born in Baton Rouge on 16th July, 1939.

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