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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ From approximately late 1980 through March 1984, Seal used the Mena Intermountai
In March 1984, Seal was arrested with 462 pounds of Medellín cocaine aboard his plane. Facing a potential ten-year sentence, he signed an agreement on March 28, 1984, to become a DEA informant under agent Ernst Jacobsen. He pleaded guilty to his Florida indictment and was released pending performance as a confidential source.
The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] installed concealed cameras in Seal's cargo aircraft. On June 25, 1984, at the Los Brasiles airfield outside Managua, Nicaragua, the cameras photographed [[Pablo Escobar]], José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and Federico Vaughan -- an official of the Nicaraguan Sandinista government -- loading cocaine onto Seal's plane for transport to the United States. This photographic evidence was used by the Reagan administration in its anti-Sandinista campaign; President [[Ronald Reagan]] displayed a copy of the image in a nationally televised address on March 16, 1986.[^2]
The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] installed concealed cameras in Seal's cargo aircraft. On June 25, 1984, at the Los Brasiles airfield outside Managua, Nicaragua, the cameras photographed [[Pablo Escobar]], José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and Federico Vaughan - an official of the Nicaraguan Sandinista government - loading cocaine onto Seal's plane for transport to the United States. This photographic evidence was used by the Reagan administration in its anti-Sandinista campaign; President [[Ronald Reagan]] displayed a copy of the image in a nationally televised address on March 16, 1986.[^2]
On July 17, 1984, the *Washington Times* published details of Seal's infiltration operation, including the photograph, effectively burning him as an undercover source. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's 1988 investigation, chaired by Senator [[John Kerry]], concluded this leak originated with [[Oliver North]].[^3]