Barry Seal

Seal pernah bekerja sama dengan Kartel Medellín Cartel sebagai pilot penyelundup narkoba. Dia mengangkut banyak pengiriman kokain dari Kolombia ke Amerika Serikat dan mendapatkan sebanyak $ 500,000 per penerbangan. Setelah berhasil lari ke markasnya di Louisiana dia memindah kendali operasinya ke sebuah fasilitas udara di Mena, Arkansas. Di sana dia membeli, menjual, dan mengendalikan banyak pesawat, termasuk C-123, menyuplai kepadanya oleh U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), yang dikenal digunakan di Nicaragua. Seal ditahan dan diasingkan dengan aktivitas dunia penyelundupan narkoba. In a Florida federal court, he was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. After his sentencing, Seal approached the DEA and offered to cooperate with the government as an informant. Federal officials agreed to use him as an informant and mentioned his cooperation during hearings in which Seal sought a reduction of his sentence. With an agreement reached, Seal began working as a federal informant in March 1984.