EXCLUSIVE: True story of Tom Cruise's new role as a 280lb drug smuggler - he plays cocaine and gun runner who turned federal informer then died in a murky hit after telling his wife he lived in fear of the CIA
Barry Seal is being played by Tom Cruise in Mena, an action movie which is currently being filmed
280lb pilot became the Medellin cartel's top smuggler and was nicknamed 'El Gordo' - The Fat Man- by his bosses
He became the Drug Enforcement Administration's most important witness in the 1980s telling them of the Colombian drugs industry
Conspiracy theorists suggest CIA turned blind eye to drug running as long as he helped their secret efforts to oust Nicaraguan government
He was gunned down near Louisiana home by 11-strong Colombian gang - but one of them has told his wife there was more to killing than that
His widow tells Daily Mail Online: 'The authorities made him a sitting duck. I want to find out the truth about what happened to him
The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American actionthriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Based on the novel The Eiger Sanction, by Trevanian,[N 1] the film is about an art history professor and mountain climber who doubles as a professional assassin and is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend
College art history professor Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a retired government assassin who performed "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. He also has a reputation as one of the world's top mountaineers.
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