Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas person
also: Jose Urega, Jose Nelson Urega, Jose Nelson Yorrego Cardenas, Yorago, Urega, Eureka, Eurego, Yurago, Ureger
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Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas member_of
North Valley Cartel documented
“which helped piece together a long-running DEA, ICE, and CIA operation that involved Panama, Colombia, and Mexico. Urega was a notorious narco-trafficker, according to the DEA's own records. He had been doing work for major Colombian drug o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 9 @ 2:54
Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas laundered_money_for
Medellin Cartel documented
“and the North Valley cartels. He also was a money launderer for them and a communications expert that helped them set up communication equipment. Urega was arrested previously in Colombia in 1998 for narco-trafficking and landed in Bogota's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 9 @ 3:25
Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas member_of
Operation Mayan Jaguar book_quoted
“The Colombian citizen, who we've talked about throughout this book, that has a long association with the CIA, confirmed during an interview with the author that the Gulfstream II was part of an operation led by ICE. DEA sources told the aut…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 9 @ 1:50
Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas front_for
North Valley Cartel documented
“in Panama for at least three years until his arrest last week. Urega, 53, was arrested on Chaparra Island off the Pacific coast. Police said he was working as a communications chief for the Colombian North Valley cartel, unquote. Urega clai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 9 @ 14:47
Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas carried_out_attack
FARC book_quoted
“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,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 9 @ 9:38
Jose Nelson Urega Cardenas carried_out_attack
Gulfstream II Crash guest_asserted
“with the knowledge of the U.S. government. Because again, in that system where they code these people, they code whether or not they're an informant. Vega says that in the case of the Gulfstream, Eureka played a key role in organizing a syn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 9 @ 21:31
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In late September 2007, they arrested the island's owner, who happened to be a middle-aged Colombian, Jose Nelson Yorrego Cardenas, and his 20-year-old girlfriend. They also found a sophisticated communication center on the island.…
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Wonder what he was doing with that. Wonder where he got it. It was a clue as to what Yorago was doing and his connection to the CIA-linked Gulfstream 2 that we talked about yesterday. Communication equipment, island off the coast of Panama,…
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The Colombian citizen, who we've talked about throughout this book, that has a long association with the CIA, confirmed during an interview with the author that the Gulfstream II was part of an operation led by ICE. DEA sources told the aut…
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Vega, in early 2008, offered a key revelation about the aircraft that connects it to cocaine on board and the U.S. government via an informant, Eurego. In addition, press reports in Latin America actually validated some of what Vega had sai…
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which helped piece together a long-running DEA, ICE, and CIA operation that involved Panama, Colombia, and Mexico. Urega was a notorious narco-trafficker, according to the DEA's own records. He had been doing work for major Colombian drug o…
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and the North Valley cartels. He also was a money launderer for them and a communications expert that helped them set up communication equipment. Urega was arrested previously in Colombia in 1998 for narco-trafficking and landed in Bogota's…
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A U.S. State Department report described Urega in the wake of his arrest in the 1990s. DEA in Colombia and Colombian National Police conducted a joint investigation and resulted in the arrest in Colombia of former Lanero target Jose Urega, …
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Cardenas was charged with cocaine trafficking and is currently incarcerated in Colombia. He is a Colombian multi-ton cocaine trafficker and money launderer who was mentioned in over 80 DEA cases dating back all the way to 1982. Isn't that 8…
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Urega's role as a communications chief in the Colombian narco-trafficking network detailed in the following report in Business 2.0 magazine, which is owned by Time. This is a quote. Urega's network command and control was hidden in a Bogota…
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That would go up to 40 feet tall. It also had 15 to 20 computers networked to servers and a small mainframe computer. The same kind of state-of-the-art setup existed in communication centers at Eureka's Ranch in Medellin, at the island reso…
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that Urega or his associates had recently bought roughly $100,000 worth of Motorola gear, 12 base stations, 16 mobile stations installed in trucks and cars, 50 radio phones, and eight repeaters to boost the signal over long distances. The r…
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in the upper half of South America. He and his operatives used it to send text messages to laptops in dozens of planes and boats to inform their pilots when it was safe to go and to receive confirmation when loads were dropped or retrieved.…
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was intercepted by U.S. spy planes, unquote. That's physically impossible, just so that you guys know. Physically impossible. So Eureka, obviously, was not a small fish. So why did Colombian authorities release him from jail in September 20…
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Big fish in the narco-trafficking. According to Vega, it's because the US government recruited Urega as an informant in exchange for the promise of a better deal related to narco-trafficking charges he was facing at the time in the United S…
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And now he's protected. For years, he was in charge of negotiating deals with dozens of Colombian traffickers. Vega was the guy that his next tier down had approached those guys to get them deals with the United States. That's how Vega know…
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The DEA sources also confirmed that Eureka was under indictment at that time in the United States. But don't go looking for paperwork on that because you won't find it. It is not an uncommon practice for court records of high-value U.S. coo…
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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,…
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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…
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agent, asset, while also doing work for the DEA, because of course he did. Urega is the man behind the cocaine on board that Gulfstream 2 that crashed in Mexico. In the wake of his arrest on his island sanctuary, also in September 2007, Ure…
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to include the FBI and DEA. The entire time he was in Panama. If the Panamanian government charges against Urrega are true, they suggest that he was making huge sums of money in drug trafficking and money laundering while being monitored by…
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supposedly was intercepted by the United States intelligence network that scours that area with a fine-tooth comb. That's crazy. From a September 20th, 2007 article in the Panama newspaper El Siglo, quote, Jose Urega, communication chief fo…
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cartel, North Valley cartel, implicated U.S. security agencies and stated that several U.S. officials gave him satellite phones to use against insurgent groups in his country or just to protect himself. During his 40-page statement, which l…
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DEA and FBI gave him the most sophisticated, hard-to-detect devices. Urega's statements confirm the allegations published yesterday by this newspaper, in which he explains the DEA agents traveled to Panama to install the communication equip…
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Buy U.S. spy planes. Really? Pandemonium authorities raided Eureka's home on the island off the coast on September 15, 2007. That was only nine days before the Gulfstream jet with a CIA-associated tell number crashed in Mexico. He was arres…