David Tensley person
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Claims (6)
DEA removed_from_power
David Tensley documented
“the investigation into the operation went nowhere. The internal investigation led to agents Tensley and Castillo being suspended and later fired by the DEA. After a very long multi-year fight, they had to reinstate them in 2004. So they wer…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 7:17
David Tensley member_of
DEA documented
“quote, I'm having my agents cut him out every chance I can. I don't want him documented. I don't want him in our case file any more than we have to, unquote. Again, this is still in the court papers. The trips to Panama at issue here were c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 32:37
Leo Aragon covered_up
David Tensley book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 51:19
David Tensley recruited
Orlando Sanchez Cristacho documented
“David Tinsley, coordinated with Mr. Cristancho's surrender with numerous authorities within and without DEA to include the CIA and U.S. Attorney's Office. Indeed, the appellate, Tinsley, used the CEA to bring Mr. Cristancho to a chartered a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 30:32
David Tensley ordered_assassination_of
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez guest_asserted
“Fired off his memo about the Vega extortion scheme, Gonzalez also was made a target of the ensuing criminal investigation launched by Tensley, Castillo, and Gonzalez's immediate subordinate, Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Perez. Gonzalez w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 3:42
David Tensley removed_from_power
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez guest_asserted
“involved in the disappearance of 10 kilos of cocaine. After he began pushing for an investigation into the missing cocaine, Gonzalez found himself the target of a series of actions of his supervisors that he claims was designed to intimidat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 5:08
Mentions (32)
▶ 51:19
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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Handler. According to the Kent memo, the sources and other sources that spoke with the author, Erdogan wrote his accusatory memo targeting Vega not long after Tinsley had reported that DEA agents in Bogota were suspected of working with nar…
▶ 52:14
was extorting money from Colombian narco-traffickers by promising them that with the help of supposedly corrupt DEA agents and prosecutors, he could fix their cases. Erdogan also attempted to inoculate the Bogota DEA office against charges …
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So when somebody makes real allegations, oh, that's what we meant over here in this memo over here. You already have that memo, so they're fake. That's literally what they did. That setup was worked both with the FBI and the CIA. The inform…
▶ 54:24
the CIA's trained paramilitary group. Sometime between 98 and early 2000, using his connections to the CIA-trained paramilitary forces, Borgonzali attempted to set up a meeting between one of Tinsley's agents, Castillo, and AUC leader, Carl…
▶ 55:43
The attempt to set up the meeting with Castano, who apparently was seeking to cut a deal with DEA in exchange for cooperating with the Cali Man narco investigation, didn't pan out for reasons that were not clear. For his part, Tinsley confi…
▶ 1:02:11
1999, he received a complaint from an unknown CIA personnel concerning DEA group supervisor Tinsley. According to this CIA agent, Vasquez, the DEA guy Vasquez, the information he received was vague and pertained to Tinsley's unexpected arri…
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had offered to arrange a meeting with high-level Colombian narco-traffickers of the Cali Man operation. And the fact that he, Tensley, was somehow interfering with CIA operations. Huh. The CIA calls the DEA, who's doing the honest investiga…
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Yeah. Later in the report, there was a summary of an interview with a Bogota-based DEA agent named Chris Feistel. F-E-I-S-T-E-L. The CIA came up again. Group supervisor Feistel also stated that he had received information from Miami Divisio…
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who had previously been assigned as a CIA agent in Colombia, that group supervisor Tinsley and special agent Castillo traveled to Cologne, Panama during June of 1999 without obtaining proper clearance. In other words, you didn't tell the CI…
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according to court documents. An administrative law judge who ordered in 2004 that Tinsley be reinstated at DEA in the wake of his firing, related to the investigation prompted by the Araguan memo, alludes to Vega's CIA connections in his A…
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and Roman Suarez were actively involved in negotiations of the surrender and cooperation of the highest level Colombian drug traffickers and fugitives in both Panama and Miami. Vega was a confidential informant of the CIA. As the appellate …
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cut him, Vega, out every chance they can. I don't want him documented. I don't want him in our case files any more than we have to. So there it is. Definitely the CIA. Vega, working for the CIA, was inserted into the legitimate DEA operatio…
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All are included as exhibits in the litigation file. And it was in a court case in Miami with Sadalio Gonzalez, which was a former high-ranking supervisor in the DEA Miami office. He happened to be Tensley's supervisor. After Bogota, DEA Ch…
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Fired off his memo about the Vega extortion scheme, Gonzalez also was made a target of the ensuing criminal investigation launched by Tensley, Castillo, and Gonzalez's immediate subordinate, Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Perez. Gonzalez w…
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Or don't. The criminal investigation launched in the wake of Aragorn's memo targeting Gonzalez, Perez, Tensley, and Casillo went nowhere. That's because Vega's extortion scheme was not a criminal plot, but actually turned out to be part of …
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the investigation into the operation went nowhere. The internal investigation led to agents Tensley and Castillo being suspended and later fired by the DEA. After a very long multi-year fight, they had to reinstate them in 2004. So they wer…
▶ 7:45
In Tensley's case, a judge ordered the DEA to put him back on the job with back pay plus interest. Gonzalez also was eventually victorious in his lawsuit, where the documentations related to Calumian and Vega investigation was filed as evid…
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He claims Tensley wanted evidence of the leak. So Vega says that Borgonzoli, in 1999, arranged to purchase information from the U.S. Embassy. He was supposedly getting it on behalf of that Colonel Gonzalez. He says that Gonzalez was able to…
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The Kent memo makes essentially the same allegation about corruption within the ranks of the US law enforcement that Vega is bringing forward. The DEA agents, including Tensley, who sought to expose the alleged corruption, were all accused …
▶ 28:33
In the wake of reporting the leaks, Tensley found himself the target of internal DEA investigations himself. He was suspended and eventually fired, as we've said already in the book. Tensley, in the lawsuit seeking his job back, claimed the…
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As we've said before, it was basically ruled in his favor. The judge ruling in the case includes some very specific details about the activities of this mysterious Vega, who had built a successful career. On the side of being all of these c…
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Additionally, the return of Mr. Orlando Sanchez Cristacho to the U.S. was an extremely high visibility operation within DEA. Witness after witness testified that Mr. Cristacho was a major Colombian drug kingpin and that his surrender to the…
▶ 30:32
David Tinsley, coordinated with Mr. Cristancho's surrender with numerous authorities within and without DEA to include the CIA and U.S. Attorney's Office. Indeed, the appellate, Tinsley, used the CEA to bring Mr. Cristancho to a chartered a…
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Assistant U.S. Attorney and various DEA agents from Group 9 were at the Fort Lauderdale Airport to greet the plane. Note, the use of a chartered plane was one of the main charges brought against Tinsley to fire him. So the CIA arranged for …
▶ 31:34
that Tinsley had done something, spent US government money unauthorized when he was told that was the only way to get him out of the country. That was a charge that they used to fire the good DEA guy in Miami. The appellate Tinsley testifie…
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So that he would be in no position to have to testify regarding the conversations, if any, that took place. Again, this is that entire operation that they were trying to set up. All sanctioned by the bosses and the bosses' bosses. For that …
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50 and 60 documents from the DEA Bogota country office at will. This is in a polygraph. This is not a new revelation to us as we met with DEA Miami group supervisor David Tensley on January 2000, whereas Tensley related to us that he had a …
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The CIA even popped up during the course of Tensley's Cali Man investigation in Columbia. It's going to pop up in every drug if you go high enough. A DEA internal affairs report that the author obtained, quote, DEA Miami Division Special Ag…
▶ 14:32
known CIA personnel concerning DEA group supervisor David Tensley and the fact that he, Tensley, was somehow interfering with CIA operations, unquote. The CIA operations was drug trafficking because Tensley worked in the DEA and was trackin…
▶ 14:54
So if Tensley is interfering with a CIA operation, it had to be drug trafficking because that's his job. In addition, one of the files leaked to the narco trafficker in the Bogota, Columbia, out of the Bogota, Columbia embassy by the DEA wa…
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Vega also says by the events that played out after he was released from his 52-day jail stint stemming from the tax case related to his work with Tensley's DEA group, Vega claims that prior to his arrest on the tax charge, as part of a leas…