Jose Nelson Yurrego person
also: Yurego, Urego
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Ed Fieldsperson · 5Miamiplace · 4FARCorganization · 2Thomas Kentperson · 2North Valley Cartelorganization · 1
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Jose Nelson Yurrego member_of
North Valley Cartel book_quoted
“The informant being wooed by the DEA agents in Miami, the author's sources said was Jose Nelson Yurrego. He was a major player in the North Valley Cartel, narco-trafficking organization in Colombia. Yurrego might be considered a techno-geek…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 38:36
Jose Nelson Yurrego financed_via
Ernesto Samper book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 40:03
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▶ 38:09
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…
▶ 38:36
The informant being wooed by the DEA agents in Miami, the author's sources said was Jose Nelson Yurrego. He was a major player in the North Valley Cartel, narco-trafficking organization in Colombia. Yurrego might be considered a techno-geek…
▶ 39:07
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…
▶ 40:03
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…
▶ 41:01
Cultivating Urrego as an informant, the political calculations became very intricate. They also, because they're funding the now president in Bogota, likely involved the White House as well as the CIA. No, duh. Not only were Urrego in a pos…
▶ 41:34
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…
▶ 44:56
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…