Lawrence Castillo person
also: Castillo, Castile, former DEA agent
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Claims (2)
DEA removed_from_power
Lawrence Castillo 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
Lawrence Castillo 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
Mentions (13)
▶ 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…
▶ 51:50
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…
▶ 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…
▶ 54:52
He is a close associate of Castano, and because of the relationship, Castano requested Borgonzoli's assistance in arranging a meeting with Mr. Castano. Note that Mr. Castano is the leader of a paramilitary group identified as the UAUC. Mr. …
▶ 55:22
including killing a Colombian presidential candidate. Mr. Borgonzoli acknowledges he delivered a letter and a copy of an email message to Castillo on behalf of Mr. Castano, which expressed his willingness to meet with a DEA agent.…
▶ 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…
▶ 57:14
were running across each other's path and working together on the operation to kill Pablo Escobar. Huh, isn't that interesting? And then he goes on and talks about a document that was found in the National Security Archive that offered evid…
▶ 1:03:11
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…
▶ 1:03:40
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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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…
▶ 6:10
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 …
▶ 7:17
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…
▶ 32:37
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…