Reading up on Barry Seal and his involvement with both the drug running or the CIA and that is one heck of a story in itself.
Yes he was involved in all kinds of shit and was lucky he wasn't dead long before that. He had major ties to about anything imaginable.
And I agree on Rivi, he looks like a dude you see in a bar that you can carry on a conversation with then you see on the news he went nuts and killed someone an hour later.