The Infiltrator

During Robert Mazur's real life training with the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), before he joined the U.S. Customs Office of Enforcement, Mazur learned an invaluable lesson about creating an undercover alias. "I'll never forget when an IRS special agent told me 'Do as much as you can personally to build your own identity and do not rely on the government'." By way of illustration, Robert Mazur said: "If you let someone in the government get you a credit card, there's going to be a red flag in a file somewhere at American Express saying 'If this card becomes overdrawn, contact Special Agent so and so.' The people I infiltrated had very high-level contacts. They've bought presidents of countries. It would be easy for them to get somebody in charge of American Express to give them information."

Barry Seal was assassinated by Cartel assassins in Baton Rouge in 1986. At the time he was a DEA informant and was never part of Operation C-Chase which was a US Customs operation run out of Tampa.

At the end of the film, there are summaries of subsequent events, as well as that of various principals' fates, alongside photos of both the actors portraying them and the real people. This is followed by the credits proper, accompanied by evidentiary photos.

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