Ed Fields person
also: Fields, DEA agent Ed Fields
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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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In 2006, in a Miami Herald Spanish affiliate, he was also later identified in U.S. court records. But at the time, all the author had was a name, his sources, a newspaper article, and the memo. And they all pointed to Fields being the agent…
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to cultivate an informant who was a major narco-trafficker then in prison in Columbia. This informant had offered to work with the DEA agents in Miami after approached by the guerrillas from the FARC. They were interested in, as we said ear…
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to be used by the traffickers and to monitor when they were being surveilled. So the Miami DEA agents interested in using Yurego to set up surveillance on the FARC makes a lot of sense in light of his background. Fields and his fellow Miami…
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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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to allegedly providing drug money to Ernesto Samper's presidential election campaign. That was reported in Reuters. Samper survived the scandal and served as president in Colombia. So he was directly tied to the narco-trafficking and become…
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to DEA agents in Columbia, but he also would have opened up a can of worms into the political narco environment in Columbia. The efforts of Fields and the fellow DEA agents in Miami to bring Urego in-house as an informant came to a abrupt e…
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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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operation informants told florida agents that this drug ring was infusing the acrylics that same allegation is laid out in court records per a ruling by the u.s court of appeals for their federal circuit relating to an appeal of a discrimin…
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Fields' June 25, 2001 memorandum set forth a chronology of events related to a smuggling organization in Colombia that was molding cocaine and heroin into various household items for distribution outside the country. According to Fields, th…
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In an effort to back up his claim about being deceived by the Bogota DEA agents, Fields agreed to take a polygraph. Fields took a polygraph test and passed. A representative of DOJ filed the allegations and found that the reporting agent, F…
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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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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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Oh, big surprise. Eureka helped carry out communication stings that played a role in the article that was ran in Miami Herald, where 50 FARC members were charged for narco-trafficking. You can't make it up. Fields, with the help of the NSA,…