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...Administration agent Enrique Camarena turned up on a roadside near Guadalajara in March 1985, one month after he had been kidnaped, the Mexican government quickly pinned the blame on Rafael Caro Quintero, a flamboyant 29-year-old kingpin of the Guadalajara drug cartel. But Camarena's comrades in the DEA did not believe that the reckless, illiterate "Rafa" had acted alone. The agents suspected the brains behind the complex crime were members of Mexico's power elite, who had everything to lose from the relentless probing of Camarena and his partners into the muck of the Mexican narcotics trade...
Ibarra and Aldana were stars of President Miguel de la Madrid's "permanent campaign" against drugs. But DEA agents believe that they, along with other top law-enforcement, intelligence and military officials, orchestrated the Camarena kidnaping because they feared that the DEA was about to expose their involvement in trafficking. Entries in Camarena's work diary show that at the time of his death he was following leads linking Aldana to the cartel...
Supporting Noriega became steadily more difficult as he rigged elections, was accused of ordering the murder of opponents, and was subjected to journalistic exposes of his drug running and arms smuggling. But the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration stood by him, even as the DEA developed the evidence leading to his indictments. The State Department was split between a get-Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that...
...money one step ahead of the agents. Vives called a British banker and told him to move several million dollars, fast, to an account in Luxembourg. If the bank were to delay, his Colombian client would kill him, Vives pleaded. The banker refused, and British authorities cooperating with the DEA froze the account. Not all countries were as helpful. U.S. agents said they tracked Rodriguez's money to the Cayman Islands, Spain and Montserrat, but local authorities said they could not cooperate, citing rigid bank-secrecy laws as an excuse...
...which beams the latest sales techniques to 4,000 car dealers. LETN is betting on a long, successful run and, like any other network, hawking its new fall shows. Trumpets an LETN program guide: "Coming in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Crackdown, a new weekly program with DEA instructors, field-action footage, investigative insights, survival tips and management strategies." The show premieres this week. Stay tuned...