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but not charged for the disappearance of the cocaine shipment was removed from his post by President Uribe. According to the Miami Herald, which was infiltrated with CIA as well, quote, Diaz has claimed that he delivered to a DEA office at …
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are used to purchase equipment from sales offices in Colombia or through a series of intermediary operating in the United States. The network command center of the AUC-linked Hinoa Montoya organization was hidden in a Bogota warehouse with …
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The number of militant supporters in Bogota alone were estimated between 2,200 and between 4,000 and 6,000 nationwide. At its peak from the 1990s to the mid-2000s, FARC numbered between 40,000 and 50,000 fighters. The stated objective of th…
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It was described in Fortune magazine in 1988 that the cocaine industry was probably the fastest growing and unquestionably the most profitable industry in the world. As Plan Colombia targeted the FARC, the narco elite concentrated within th…
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and the U.S. Army's Special Operation Command at Fort Bragg. The military group, which is the in-country military group, is a quote-unquote advisory unit, normally under the control of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. SOUTHCOM coordinates deploy…
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U.S. Army Special Operations Command provides the forces, SOUTHCOM coordinates, and the military group links all of the operations, maintaining liaison with the Colombian military. Former members within the Colombian military command, such …
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Local police, explosive experts, and dog squads arrive. Then a much larger bomb explodes, killing them all. The Colombian media adopted the official version of these events from military sources, which blamed the FARC, of course. Some varia…
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So that's how I heard the story. I was in Columbia. I've been there three times. And I was there about that same time. And they were talking about it because we met with the governors of Bogota and Bucuranga. And we were escorted around in …
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Castano was instrumental in bringing down Escobar by collaborating with the CIA while working directly as the leader of the Cali cartel. By 1989, the Cali cartel had become the principal source of information to all of the Colombian securit…
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According to a declassified State Department cable and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Padilla was especially disturbed over the influence of the Cali cartel in numerous levels of government, and as a result, had simply had enough of the situat…
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threat to the oligarchy, right? Is that not what we're going through? This nationalist expression was demonstrated through conflict between industrialists and unions. It reached a climax when Dayton was gunned down in Bogota, April 9, 1948.…
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that that election was all about keeping the communists out of control of Italy. And we are reading yet another example where it had absolutely zero to do with communists and everything to do with keeping oligarchy in power. So while they a…
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In the areas pacified by the state, the campesinos faced repression and ruin, forced off of their land to make room for agricultural exports, and confined mainly to the lowland region, southeast of Bogota. They helped colonize... Sorry. She…
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with its March 23rd weapons seizure. If that were the case, perhaps Alcala saw the writing on the wall. Operation Gideon was doomed. On top of possible reservations in Bogota, a vice investigation later asserted the CIA gained prior knowled…
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of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Office for Foreign Western Hemisphere, as well as assignments directing INI operations in Colombia. Founded in 1978, INL was a division of the State Department that monitored internati…
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in Bogota. Story oversaw the U.S. government's controversial fumigation program in Colombia, which we've talked about, which was supposed to get rid of the coca plants, but actually was getting rid of crops that farmers were using because t…
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After a brief return to the state, Story established a virtual U.S. embassy in Venezuela to Venezuela, housed in a Washington diplomatic office in Bogota. So he went back to Colombia. From there, he managed a command post for Venezuela U.S.…
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In February of 2021, Venezuelan opposition leaders, including Leopardo Lopez and Vecchio, traveled to Colombia's capital to attend a closed-door summit at a local Marriott. There, over the course of several days, they enjoyed valuable face …
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overthrowing the democratically elected president, and then went on to say Venezuela will also one day be free of tyranny. Several months following Story's forecast of regime change in Venezuela, Goudreau's ragtag ban made its way to the co…
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What gave Goudreau the impression that he was working on a State Department contract? Could it have been the State Department representative in the fake Venezuelan embassy in Bogota? Did Story have any knowledge of Operation Gideon? Then th…
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President Trump upgraded stories. His title at the time was charge de l'affaire for Venezuela because they don't actually have an ambassador because they're not actually in Venezuela. But he was nominated to be the ambassador of Venezuela l…
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on their target. They ultimately failed to evade authorities in Caracas who destroyed the drones mid-air after noticing they violated Venezuelans' airspace. What precisely inspired the would-be assassin's confession to the press is unknown.…
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Because I asked him if he knew about Operation Gladio and the Gray Wolves when he brought up Turkey and he did not. Right. And then, of course, Central and South America, I asked him to start naming countries and he said pretty much every o…
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A document he obtained as a correspondence for Knocker News makes those questions not hypothetical. In one document, the DOJ attorney Thomas Kent claims that federal agents with the DEA office in Bogota, Colombia, were the corrupt players. …
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On December 19th, 2004, Thomas Kent, an attorney in the wiretap unit of the DOJ narcotics and dangerous drugs section, sent off a memo to his chief at the narcotic and dangerous drug section. That memo was leaked to the author. He reported …
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told the author that a number of other high-level officials in the DOJ and DEA soon received copies of that same memo. In it, Kent raised serious corruption allegations centering on the DEA office in Bogota. Kent says his claims are support…
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Having been failed by so many before and facing tremendous risk to our career and their safety and the safety of their family, they were understandably hesitant to reveal the information I requested, including the names of those directly in…
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Well, we know the answer to that. Remember that all of these allegations come strictly from Kent's memo. Although law enforcement sources have corroborated much of this information, Kent wrote his memo in late 2004. Kent alleges that one of…
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Sometime in 2004, discussing criminal activity related to a paramilitary group called United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Its Spanish initials is AUC. The group at the time was widely recognized to be involved in narco-trafficking and a…
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The AUC also committed over 100 massacres in 2001, a tactic it used to displace large portions of peasant populations to grow coca, unquote. Kent also said that during the wiretap, the corrupt Bogota DEA agent discusses his involvement in l…
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Despite being caught on tape admitting to helping the most murderous political forces in the hemisphere today to launder the money from a narco-trafficking operation, the agent faced no punishment. In fact, Kent said the agent was promoted.…
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That call had been documented by the DEA and that agent is now in charge of numerous narcotics and money laundering investigations, unquote. Is it the guy that was just arrested? Kent in the memo also alleges that the DOJ officials shut dow…
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DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility after it discovered that an IG agent was investigating the Bogota corruption and related money laundering. This is a quote. In June 2004, OPR and DEA, the two agencies embarrassed by the prior all…
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demanded that my IG case agent turn all of the investigation information over to them. Kent states in a memorandum, one week after submitting the information to OPR in the DOJ money laundering investigation, it was shut down, unquote. Kent …
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persecuting and conspiring to kill Colombian informants who threatened to unreveal their operations. The corrupt allegations involved cases launched in 1999 and 2000, but which resulted in investigations carried out for months or years. All…
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During the course of an investigation into Colombian narcotrafficking operations, a group of DEA agents in Florida had zeroed in on several targets. With the help of several Colombian informants, once the targets were identified as being pa…
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Specifically, they said that the agents provided them with information on investigations and other law enforcement activities. So the DEA is giving the people heads up that someone else other than the corrupt ones are coming to look at them…
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that every time they started looking into something and had informants that the DEA was heading off the targeted people in Columbia. The traffickers eventually gave the Florida agents copies of confidential DEA reports, which the Bogota age…
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After the Florida agents turned these documents over to the DEA OPR and IG, one of them was put on administrative leave. While the Florida agent was out on leave, the Bogota DEA agent set up a meeting with one of the informants. As the info…
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for the identity of them from the DEA agents in Bogota, Colombia. Allegation number two, Bogota DEA agents imprisoned and possibly conspired to murder informants to prevent their travel to the U.S. A separate DEA group, also based in Florid…
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that they could walk into the DEA chemist and watch the extraction process. The agents contacted the Bogota country office to discuss the informant's planned travel and bringing cocaine out of Colombia infused in acrylic. They were advised …
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The DEA agent in Bogota, it turns out, had told the Colombian officials what they were doing. They locked them up and threw away the key. The Bogota agent then claimed that he had no idea that the Florida agents had requested their travel. …
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While this investigation eventually ended up in the hands of NSA, from the beginning it appeared to be related to drug trafficking. The Florida DEA agents decided to investigate. Agents from Bogota office promised to help. One of them assur…
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The Bogota agent seemed obsessed with stopping the informant from working with the Florida agents and began doing everything in their power to make sure they couldn't talk to anyone down there. As the two sides argued back and forth, the in…
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That confirmed the informant's story. The agents in Bogota complained that what the informant and DEA group in Florida had done was illegal. What? And they would be unable to use it to get the release. The Florida agents kept trying to inve…
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Eventually, the informant was released from prison and tried to start working with the Florida agents again, but an agent from Bogota office traveled to Washington, D.C. and managed to convince the DEA main office to stop it. When the infor…
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The investigation was halted. Again, the Bogota agent was called on his claim and could not provide a single drop of evidence of the pedophile accusation. The Bogota agent then switched tactics, arguing the DEA could not work with the infor…
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had identified him as a narco-trafficker. The Bogota agent was unable to dissuade those involved in the investigation, and it finally took off with the assistance of NSA. The investigation continued until the informant was faxed a document …
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All are included as exhibits in the litigation file. And it was in a court case in Miami with Sadalio Gonzalez, which was a former high-ranking supervisor in the DEA Miami office. He happened to be Tensley's supervisor. After Bogota, DEA Ch…
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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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area vega alleges that agents in the dea office in bogota as well as someone within u.s customs was leaking information about ongoing law enforcement investigations to key players of the colombian national police vega says that the colombia…
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At the same time, the information provided by the Sinaloa cartel to the U.S. agencies against their rivals assured a steady flow of drug busts for headlines in U.S. media. It was Bengon Zoli who initially told Vega that his DEA handlers wer…
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He claims Tensley wanted evidence of the leak. So Vega says that Borgonzoli, in 1999, arranged to purchase information from the U.S. Embassy. He was supposedly getting it on behalf of that Colonel Gonzalez. He says that Gonzalez was able to…
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Vega says the file contained detailed information of the narco traffickers, including phone numbers, addresses, family trees, and photographs. The Kent memo, if you remember, also alleges that corrupt DEA agents in Bogota were leaking class…
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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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50 and 60 documents from the DEA Bogota country office at will. This is in a polygraph. This is not a new revelation to us as we met with DEA Miami group supervisor David Tensley on January 2000, whereas Tensley related to us that he had a …
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The polygraph report states that the DEA performed a lie detector test on the confidential source and asked how he came in possession of the DEA classified documents housed at the American Embassy. The confidential source stated that the DE…
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about the DEA office in Bogota passing classified information to known drug traffickers to keep those known drug traffickers, which they were working with and supposedly on their payroll, they were getting kickbacks from the whole thing. Th…
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In 2003, DEA polygraph specialists hooked his machine up to a Colombian narco-trafficker who also worked as an informant for the DEA Bogota office. The narco-trafficker informant status, however, was a two-way street. It seems, given his DE…
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in the Office of International Operations from 95 to 98. He's very familiar with the DEA operations. Gonzalez is very upfront about his assessment of whether the U.S. Embassy leaks led to the downing of the aircraft. His comments were, quot…
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that the author did with him for Narco News, conceded that the radio show is likely a major contributing factor to his name being invoked. In November 25th, 2009, in a State Department cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia to…
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Allegations of U.S. law enforcement corruption, such as those that surfaced in Bogota connection in the Kent memo, leads us to believe that this is a fairly common occurrence of aircraft leaving Columbia with narcotics on it. So what exactl…
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and the North Valley cartels. He also was a money launderer for them and a communications expert that helped them set up communication equipment. Urega was arrested previously in Colombia in 1998 for narco-trafficking and landed in Bogota's…
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Urega's role as a communications chief in the Colombian narco-trafficking network detailed in the following report in Business 2.0 magazine, which is owned by Time. This is a quote. Urega's network command and control was hidden in a Bogota…
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Vega says he initially approached Eureka in the late 90s on behalf of the U.S. government to give him one of those deals. After several setbacks due to interference of allegedly corrupt federal agents in Bogota, DEA agent Ed Fields finally …
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You were bringing up a lot of valid points, especially when you hit around South America, which is that's when I was assigned to go down to Bogota, Colombia and see what the CIA is doing and verify what we already knew. And it was because t…