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Satellite images, for example, are useful in the war on drugs to pinpoint airstrips, processing plants and storage areas operated by narcotics cartels in Colombia. Once the drug operations are located, intelligence teams intercept radio messages from the installations and send agents in to scout the area on the ground. When the Colombian military acted on one such U.S. tip, it moved in and seized 26 people, six planes and 20 tons of cocaine...
...period in Mexico -- or allowed himself to be seduced by the other side. But he did make one contact that would change his life: Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy, a cultural attache at the Colombian embassy. "She was efficient and stood out because of her intelligence," says Noemi Sanin, Colombia's Foreign Minister. "We are investigating her activities now, but initially they seem all normal." According to the affidavit released last week by U.S. prosecutors, the CIA began to court her in June 1982. Ten months later, she went on the CIA payroll...
Joseph Peeples, a museum contributor who wasreached in Bogota, Colombia, yesterday said he wasplanning to give the royalties from his upcomingbook to the museum...
...Colombia's cocaine lord is gone -- but the trade flourishes...
Billionaire cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shoot-out with soldiers and police in Medellin, Colombia. Police found his hideout by tracing a phone call he made to his wife and two children the day after his birthday. The death of Escobar is not expected to reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., since his influence on the drug trade significantly diminished during his 16 months as a fugitive...