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initial aircraft for the Flying Tigers, which became the Civil Air Transport, which became the main drug thoroughfare. He's behind all of that. So to find out that he sits on, I just about fell out of my chair when I first got this book. An…
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And these books articulate exactly what happened. But unfortunately, most people's never read them. And a lot of them are out of print. They're very difficult to find in some cases. If you find them, they're on somebody's entered them on ar…
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off my back and I can get these ships out of my harbor so my people don't starve. The CIA used Xi to label them a communist. Now this gives them the authority to do whatever the hell they want if somebody is labeled a communist. And they wi…
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last night about the fact that this book used so many references to personnel issues, having a large amount of experience in personnel. I do believe from a researcher's perspective, that's an untapped treasure trove of information. Because …
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Latin America, Miami office that was trying to do some good and the Colombian offices that kept thwarting them. The author goes on in a new section called Another Puzzle Piece and said, despite the U.S. Justice Department's basically ignori…
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Vega claims that corrupt U.S. agents that were part of what was called the Bogota connection revealed in the Kent memo seriously compromised his role as an asset, adding that a number of his informants and cooperating sources in Colombia we…
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When Vega reached out to him for the first time in March of 2006 to provide his assessment of what the author had been collecting on the Bogota connection. That was in the immediate aftermath of him writing about the Kent memo. Vega claims …
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As a result, Vega contends that he had intimate knowledge of all of the corruption that was mentioned in the Kent memo. Vega told the author that between 1997 and 2000, the FBI and DEA each employed him as an informant in separate investiga…
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were investigating, which is something that we came across repeatedly in this research, is that the government officials, US government officials, will leak this information so they can either move their labs or not be there or whatever. Th…
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That happens to be a CIA asset, so he's very leery about listening to Vega's story. Law enforcement sources had told the author that Vega was in a position to know a lot of things, which is precisely why so many U.S. agencies were relying o…
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made startling revelations concerning the DEA agents in Bogota, which is exactly what the Kent Memo says. They alleged that they were assisted by the narcotics activities of the Bogota agents. Specifically, they said that the agents provide…
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In the wake of reporting the leaks, Tensley found himself the target of internal DEA investigations himself. He was suspended and eventually fired, as we've said already in the book. Tensley, in the lawsuit seeking his job back, claimed the…
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And as stated previously, at least one classified DEA cable was prepared and was kept under lock and key in the Miami Special Agent in Charge safe to safeguard the information because it had Vega's name in it. So he was definitely not the r…