Hector Barajas person
also: Hector Bareilles, Barillas, Valera, Varela, Valeras, Barreras
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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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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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He had been locked up in a Mexican maximum security prison since his arrest in 2022. After being released from the Mexican prison nearly 10 years earlier, The Guardian reported, quote, longtime drug war reporter Bill Conroy pointed out, and…
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of an American being tortured that the CIA had. How did they get those tapes? And my source indicated there were five tapes, but we, the DEA, only got three from the CIA. In 2013, explosive reporting from Mexican news magazine Prosecco, bas…
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which featured Barillas, other U.S. officials, and three former Mexican federal cops, along with cartel members. The CIA and the former officer in question, Felix Rodriguez, has denied their involvement in the Camarino murder. Felix Rodrigu…
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Rodriguez. Barreras and Jordan, in interviews that the author conducted with them in 2013, also pointed the finger at Felix Rodriguez, a longtime CIA operative. But both Barreras and Jordan said they suspect that proof was likely on the mis…
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that the DEA, CIA was doing arms and drug trafficking through El Salvador. And he's the guy that got put in a closet until he retired. Neither Bareilles nor Jordan or Plumlee were at the house in Guadalajara in February of 85 when Camerino …
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Recordings contain information that implicates the CIA. The revelations made by Plumlee, a known CIA asset and later whistleblower, along with the information dug up by Barillas and Jordan via their DEA sources and investigation, if accurat…
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Quintero. One loose end in Plumlee's story seems to be that he insists he flew Quintero to Guatemala from a ranch in Veracruz, Mexico. Jordan and Bareilles contend that Quintero boarded a plane in Guadalajara in the wake of Camarino's murde…
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Given the international manhunt underway for Quintero at the time, Borrellas told me that Quintero did not leave Mexico after he flew out of the Guadalajara airport with the assistance of the DFS agents. Instead, Borrellas says Quintero fle…
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out of Mexico. Barillas also made another revelation that he considers a key piece of the puzzle in Camarino's murder. As part of the investigation into the DEA's death, Barillas says his team tracked down everyone that showed up on his cal…
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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…
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from the journalist. And then Plumlee reported that to his CIA handlers. And ultimately, that led to Kiki getting picked up for questioning, and they went overboard and killed him. Bareilles can only deal in speculation on that front, but i…