Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force organization
also: task force
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“After these debriefings on July 17th, 1987, Croson Anderson pulled the plug on the task force investigation. It had lasted less than seven months and had accomplished nothing except for to provide cover for Menendez and a CIA associate to v…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 31:14
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▶ 7:58
Crossin Anderson, to take the case to an entity that had been set up called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. It was a special Justice Department unit that was put together from agents across law enforcement agencies to go af…
▶ 8:21
The prosecutor agreed to offer the case to the task force, which was very selective about the cases it adopted. I wonder why that is. I'll tell you why it is, but we're going to go on with the story. They had to be big ones so they could co…
▶ 15:46
But it appears there were other factors behind the DEA's sudden urge to insert Menendez and the CIA agent into Blanton's organization. That was to avoid the embarrassment of Menendez falling into the hands of Costa Rican police, and more im…
▶ 31:14
After these debriefings on July 17th, 1987, Croson Anderson pulled the plug on the task force investigation. It had lasted less than seven months and had accomplished nothing except for to provide cover for Menendez and a CIA associate to v…
▶ 27:49
Powers started out in the mobile home business in Houston, according to an investigator who worked on organized crime with the FBI. Powers received his initial financing from a New York company associated with the mob. A lawsuit filed in fe…