Enrique Kiki Camarena person
also: Enrique Kiki Camarena, Camarena, Camerino, Camarino, Kiki
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CIA covered_up
Enrique Kiki Camarena book_quoted
“I remember when this case, the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985 began because it prompted then DEA supervisor agent Phil Jordan to explain to me that the DEA had been penetrated by the CIA and such agents watched people like Kiki.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 33:22
Juan Mata Ballesteros implicated_in
Enrique Kiki Camarena host_asserted
“To the north in Mexico, meanwhile, the DEA was fighting an ever more violent war with the cocaine cartels. In Mexico, in February 1985, star DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar was tortured and then murdered by the application of a Phillips …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 16:50
Rafael Quintero assassinated
Enrique Kiki Camarena documented
“That guy that was running the Tijuana sector has some weird name. He was on the payroll of the CIA, and he even said that in his trial when Syntac eventually arrested him. One of the chief architects of Camarena's kidnapping, brutal torture…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 40:35
Enrique Kiki Camarena spied_on
CIA guest_asserted
“Camerino had come to Phoenix to interview Plumlee as part of his investigation into covert Contra supply operations in Mexico. Following Plumlee's recollection of what was discussed at the meeting, and this is a quote, I had flown into the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 48:25
Federal Security Directorate spied_on
Enrique Kiki Camarena guest_asserted
“Former DEA commander Jordan spent some time with Camarino in Guadalajara, Mexico in the spring of 84. At that time, Jordan says he realized the Mexican DFS agents were tailing Camarino. Jordan says Camarino told him that that was true and t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 53:45
Enrique Kiki Camarena spied_on
Federal Security Directorate guest_asserted
“and drugs coming back to finance the operation. Kiki had reported this to his people in Guadalajara, asking why they were not moving on this ranch near Villa Cruz that was loaded with weapons. Kiki did not trust the CIA. And I told him, thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 49:52
Enrique Kiki Camarena spied_on
Manuel Buendia speculative
“Brudia could identify the CIA guys behind the covert contra drug for guns operation by name. What information did he provide to Camerino? Berzello asked. I believe Kiki talked to Berita before he was murdered. And I believe Kiki interviewed…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:06:36
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a lawyer of your ability and skill, would ever consider doing this. The judge would later display the same sensitivity to suggested CIA links during one of the trials involving a 1985 murder of a DEA agent by the name of Enrique Kiki Camare…
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To the north in Mexico, meanwhile, the DEA was fighting an ever more violent war with the cocaine cartels. In Mexico, in February 1985, star DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar was tortured and then murdered by the application of a Phillips …
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I remember when this case, the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985 began because it prompted then DEA supervisor agent Phil Jordan to explain to me that the DEA had been penetrated by the CIA and such agents watched people like Kiki.…
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This is crazy. Chapter five, the DEA agent Enrique Kiki Camarena was abducted in early February 1985, shortly after leaving the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico. Now, I want to say this because in that thousand page book that I read on…
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big fight, killing people, dead people all over as part of one of their bust in Guadalajara in trying to track down these narco people with those special syntax teams. So I just wanted everybody to know Guadalajara is a big freaking deal. A…
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of information to his whole story. His tortured, contorted body was found several weeks later, partially decomposed, wrapped in plastic and buried in a shallow grave 70 miles north of the city, which puts him on the coastline between Tijuan…
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That guy that was running the Tijuana sector has some weird name. He was on the payroll of the CIA, and he even said that in his trial when Syntac eventually arrested him. One of the chief architects of Camarena's kidnapping, brutal torture…
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Let's see, that would make it 30. So around the time that this syntax operation was going on. The real story behind Camerina's murder, however, lacks a single villain. Based on interviews the author conducted in October of 2013 with several…
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And he was now retired when the author interviewed him, Hector Bareilles. The other two individuals also knew Camarena personally and were intimately familiar with the U.S. government operations that he was allegedly investigating prior to …
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Plumlee told the author during the course of a series of interviews that after Camarino's murder in early February 1985, that he was ordered by his CIA handlers to fly into a ranch located near Veracruz, Mexico. That ranch, Plumlee says, at…
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via arms sales to Iran to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Part of the scandal also implicates the CIA and the national security staff in narcotic and arms trafficking. Investigative Gary Webb further bolstered the claims of the U.S. government's i…
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was a major figure in the Colombian cartel and was involved in the murder of DEA agent Enrique Catamarina. Mata was extradited to the U.S. in 1988 and convicted of drug trafficking. Plumlee also had a connection to slain DEA agent Camarino.…
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Camerino had come to Phoenix to interview Plumlee as part of his investigation into covert Contra supply operations in Mexico. Following Plumlee's recollection of what was discussed at the meeting, and this is a quote, I had flown into the …
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This information, discussed with Camerino at the cafe, launched a series of field reports back to the DEA via Camerino and the CEA because he reported to both. Plumlee did. And Washington for follow-up information to confirm the rumor that …
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and drugs coming back to finance the operation. Kiki had reported this to his people in Guadalajara, asking why they were not moving on this ranch near Villa Cruz that was loaded with weapons. Kiki did not trust the CIA. And I told him, thi…
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Some weeks later, he and his pilot were kidnapped. Plumlee, during the period, was already talking to then Senator Gary Hart's office about the drug and weapons shipment. He was being ordered to carry out as part of a U.S. government-sancti…
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The following is a summary of the testimony Plumlee provided to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in August 1990. Quote, documentations provided by Mr. Plumlee and other testimony from pilots and operatives indicate Plumlee flew many b…
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interest, unquote. That's on record in the Senate. Plumlee's testimony also included a reference to a 1990 DEA report marked secret. It discusses information the late Mexican journalist Manuel Bodina had uncovered that exposed the CIA's all…
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as well as information that would expose high-ranking members of the Mexican political party, PRI, because they were assisting the CIA in the arms and drug trafficking. Bodino was murdered in 1984 after leaving his office in Mexico City for…
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Former DEA commander Jordan spent some time with Camarino in Guadalajara, Mexico in the spring of 84. At that time, Jordan says he realized the Mexican DFS agents were tailing Camarino. Jordan says Camarino told him that that was true and t…
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Jordan says DEA agents managed to catch up with Quintero at the airport in Guadalajara, but were prevented from apprehending him because Quintero was protected by DFS agents that were also connected to the CIA. Jordan, who says he has two t…
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But Borrellas, who spent some five years of his life investigating Camarino's murder while working for the DEA, contends that the DFS agents did play a major role in his abduction and interrogation. Besides the individuals in the car used t…
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Present at the house in Guadalajara, where Camerino was held after his kidnapping, Varela said were narco-traffickers like Quintero, his partner, Ernesto Ferseco Carrillo, and members of their organization. At the house were DFS agents, as …
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Valera says that he has sources who were at the house when Camerino was being tortured and later became government witnesses that have confirmed those facts. The goal of abducting Camerino, Valera believes, was not to kill him, but rather t…
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Valeras, as well as Jordan and Plumlee, say they believe it was likely Camerino was abducted on the orders of powerful individuals who were calling the shots in the CIA-supported Contra supply operation, individuals who ultimately reported …
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Valeras also claims Camerino played a key role in helping DEA successfully ramp up interdictions of the proceeds of drugs, therefore threatening the funding source for the CIA, which was another incentive for ferreting out his sources of in…
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Camerino had been tortured to the extent that he needed to be hospitalized, and that risk could not be taken by his abductors, so the decision was made to kill him. Ultimately, it was a quote-unquote botched operation that spawned a cover-u…
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Reporting for The Guardian in July of 2025 revealed that the U.S. Justice Department planned to turn over audio recordings of the 1985 torture and killing of Camerino to Caro Quintero's defense team as part of discovery in his then pending …