Who Is Infiltrator Based on?

Opening in the theaters today: The Infiltrator is based on the true story of Robert 'Bob' Mazur, a federal agent who goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene. It was the late-1980s when Mazur spent five years posing as slick money-laundering businessman Bob Musella.

Is The Infiltrator based on a true story?

Bryan Cranston is The Infiltrator in Brad Furman's new thriller based on the true story of an undercover US Customs cop who helped smash the money laundering wing of Pablo Escobar's 1980s cocaine empire.

How much of The Infiltrator was true?

The Infiltrator and Mazur's story are actually 100% real. In fact, the film is based on a book written by Mazur titled The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel, published in 2009.