[narconews] Conroy: Money Laundering & Murder in Colombia
 
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:14:07 -0500 (CDT)


May 19, 2008
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Dear Colleague,

Narco News investigation into alleged DEA corruption in Colombia has
led journalist Bill Conroy to the discovery of several documents, the
most well known to date being the Kent Memo. Now Conroy has
uncovered even more info, utilizing the Freedom of Information Act,
which implicates two former high-level DEA agents in acts of
dishonesty-under-oath that likely brought about the murder of a DEA
informant, a chemist that had blown the whistle on high-tech cocaine
smuggling techniques.

Conroy reports:

Informants working for Group Supervisor Fields Florida agents sent
samples of the cocaine-laced acrylic to the DEA, but the agencys
chemists couldnt figure out how to extract the cocaine. As a result,
the Florida agents decided to have the informants come to the United
States with a sample of the acrylic, so they could walk DEAs
chemists through the extraction process.

But when the informants got to the airport to leave for the U.S.,
they were arrested. A DEA agent in Bogota, it turns out, had told
Colombian officials to lock them (the informants) up and throw away
the key, according to the Kent memo. The Bogota agent then claimed
that he had no idea the Florida agents had given the informants
permission to transport the cocaine.

His misrepresentations were backed by another agent in Bogota,
Kent states in the memo. The informants were imprisoned for nine
months while the accusations flew back and forth. Once it was
determined that the agents in Bogota were lying, the informants were
released. One of the informants was kidnapped and murdered in Bogota
where he had gone into hiding.

Conroy goes on to explain how the DEAs lack of verification to the
Colombian police of a DEA informant eventually led to his death after
being released from prison.

Also learned from the recently obtained FOIA documents is the
connection of another former high-ranking DEA Colombian-branch
official in Colombia, Leo Arreguin Jr., to the infamous right-wing
paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.

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