American Made movie

**FromMyColdDeadHand** · 10-04-17, 07:42

Originally Posted by Moose-Knuckle

This is on my rent list.

Very interested in the back story of this film. Kind of a hobby of mine.

Smuggling drugs in airplanes?

**Moose-Knuckle** · 10-04-17, 12:34

Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand

Smuggling drugs in airplanes?

Not so much, more like I read up on everything CIA especially their engagement in "illegal" activities. Visiting the CIA Museum is on my bucket list but it is not open to the public so I probably will never be able to scratch that itch.

**elephant** · 10-04-17, 14:10

Im trying to compare American Made to Blow featuring the story of George Jung. Both Barry Seal and George Jung had similar roles in the transportation of white powder in the 1980s. Obviously the CIA is responsible for Seals death for leaking photos of him. I think Jung recently got released from prison. Not sure though.

**Moose-Knuckle** · 10-08-17, 06:15

Originally Posted by elephant

Im trying to compare American Made to Blow featuring the story of George Jung. Both Barry Seal and George Jung had similar roles in the transportation of white powder in the 1980s. Obviously the CIA is responsible for Seals death for leaking photos of him. I think Jung recently got released from prison. Not sure though.

In 1990 Mel Gibson and Robert Downing Jr. made a film called Air America, it was about the CIA dummy corporation by the same name that did this sort of thing in SE Asia during the Vietnam War.

If your interested in this subject matter research Garry Webb, a journalist who committed suicide by shooting himself in the head twice.

They made a movie about him as well.

**Outlander Systems** · 10-08-17, 09:13

Were Don Henry or Kevin Ives in the plot of the film?

**Bulletdog** · 10-08-17, 11:30

Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand

Smuggling drugs in airplanes?

You just made me blow milk out of my nose and back into my cereal...

**The_War_Wagon** · 10-08-17, 11:53

Didn't Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. make this movie already - about 30 years ago?

**Amicus** · 10-08-17, 12:32

I don't think you can tell the whole cold war air transport story in a movie, or even in a single book. Among the players were:

Flying Tiger Airlines: Founded by ex-AVG pilots from the China theater in WWII; later bought by FedEx. It had both civilian and military charter duties.

Civil Air Transport (CAT, a/k/a China Air Transport): Founded by Claire Chennault of the AVG. Performed numerous air supply duties (including at Dien Bien Phu) for decades.

Air America: Owned/controlled by the CIA, supposedly. Some say it was the partial successor to CAT, and some say had 6000 aircraft at one time, making it by far the largest airline in the world (the Wiki entry gives it '80+', but I call BS). I am pretty sure that no one really knows how large it was or everywhere it operated. Probably most famous for SE Asia operations using the Pilatus Porter STOL aircraft.