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Claims (3)
Thomas Kent covered_up
Abraham Bolden documented
“He also claims that he raised the assassination attempt. But Thomas Kelly corroborated that aspect of it, that he did actually investigate allegations of drinking by the agents in his 1978 interview. After Abraham Bolden did that, he claims…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 1:21:36
Thomas Kent exposed
DEA book_quoted
“included former government officials, even a few insiders in the DEA. Kent's memo contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. quote-unquote anti-narco officers, that DEA agents on the front lines of the war in Col…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 7:26
Garrison Courtney covered_up
Thomas Kent host_asserted
“revealing all of that information. That means in the wake of the narco news story, the DEA in fewer than nine days reviewed the extensive charges of corruption and the alleged coverup of the DEA and found no evidence. Nine days. They didn't…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 35:09
Mentions (29)
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Bolden spoke with Mark Lane as he was writing Rush to Judgment, which came out in 1966. More importantly, he spoke with the Secret Service Inspector General Thomas Kelly and raised his two concerns. First, that some of the people on the Whi…
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He also claims that he raised the assassination attempt. But Thomas Kelly corroborated that aspect of it, that he did actually investigate allegations of drinking by the agents in his 1978 interview. After Abraham Bolden did that, he claims…
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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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Kent also says that the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility and elements of the DOJ and IG have worked to keep a lid on the corruption charges. According to Kent, these offices, which are supposed to serve as watchdog agencies, inst…
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Quote, as discussed in my prior memo dated December 13th, 2004, several unrelated investigations, including a wiretap operation called Operation Snowplow, identified corrupt agents within DEA. As further discussed in my memo, OPR's handling…
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They agreed to reveal the names to me on the condition that I not further disseminate these for the time being. They are prepared to provide statements to public integrity section with the names and everything in the files. And then some, i…
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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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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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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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was identified as a narco-trafficker with several agents, DEA agents, on his payroll, was eventually brought to Florida to take a polygraph. Kent says that the narco-trafficker passed the lie detector test in Florida at which he was asked w…
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ordered the polygrapher not to report the test. He was instructed to say the test never took place. Although the charges raised by Kent in his 2004 memo have now passed before many eyes, they still have not ever been addressed. Instead, the…
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He was transferred to Nashville, according to his records. The chief that he reported to, whom Kent had addressed the memo to, was Jody Abergin. Only months later became the chief of staff of then DEA administrator Karen Tandy. So she was p…
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to chief of staff, and chief of staff, for those of you who don't know, is like the number three person in the DEA. You have the director, you have the deputy director, and then the chief of staff. They're the gatekeeper of everybody that g…
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If we were unable to arrange for a sit down between the reporting agents and those attorneys within the DOJ who are tasked to ensure that corrupt agents and officials are held accountable, then I firmly believe that we will watch from the s…
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of the DEA and the Office of Professional Responsibility. Their attempt to do so led to retaliation. The cracks in the lid of the DEA and Office of Professional Responsibility was an attempt to put the lid back together. Weeks after the Nar…
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That was based on Kent's expose of Kent's memo. So the DEA, so Kent, it reminds me of this letter that I, or this article that I found from James Angleton saying, debunking Gladio. So there's an expose that gets written about in Columbia an…
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The DEA agent behind two of the corrupt allegations outlined in the Kent memo, the author discovered, is a whistleblower named Ed Fields. He uncovered that bit of information from other sources, including a CIA asset with detailed knowledge…
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Pointing that out to make sure everybody's staying with us. The Kent memo indicates that fields in the Miami agents work closely with Bogota DEA agents in attempting to cultivate Yurego. But that certain agents in Bogota went to great lengt…
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Eventually, however, the NSA stepped in, allowing the surveillance operation targeting the FARC to move along. Fields, according to the author's sources, contend in court pleadings verify also that the DEA agent mentioned but not named in K…
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Yurego and the acrylic cocaine cases, according to Kent's memo, he was targeted for retaliation. One of the agents fields who reported the corruption found himself as a target of the Office of Professional Responsibility investigation. So a…
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was overseen by the same DEA supervisor in Miami who counted Suarez as an informant. The DEA group supervisor, David Tensley, one of the whistleblowers in Kent's memo. The Araguan memo prompted an internal investigation targeting Tensley, T…
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The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money laundering for that same organization, …
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Government satellite phones with the FARC leadership. According to a leaked memo drafted by the DOJ's attorney, Kent, that's the same leaked memo. The CIA also would have been involved in monitoring the operations, especially recordings. In…