Drug running in the old days via airplane

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...Drugs here, American blue jeans in the Soviet Union - any prohibition is a money-maker for someone, somewhere.

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but American jeans were a big-earner for Americans working here on the
North Sea oil-rigs. The'd have suitcases packed with them and sell them to British co-workers for a profit.
Further profit was obtained as they passed down the chain, but the limited access and the inflated cost in the
high street still made it worth it.

(Just to get the thread back on track, I think Tom Cruise's movie 'American Made' made a mockery
of the whole Barry Seal situation. The film came off as a half-comedy on a topic about drug-smuggling,
not quite the type of laughable material!)