MEXICO CITY, Oct. 27, 2008
Mexico Drug Spy Allegedly Leaked DEA Info
Man Who Aided Major Drug Cartel Worked At U.S. Embassy, Mexican Official Says
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(CBS/AP)
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Five officials of the Attorney General's Organized Crime unit were arrested on allegations they served as informants for the Beltran-Leyva Cartel, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said, adding there are indications that other spies still work inside his agency.
The Embassy employee, who also worked for Interpol at the Mexico City airport, is a protected witness after telling Mexican officials in Washington that he leaked details of Drug Enforcement Administration operations, an attorney general's official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. He said he was not authorized to speak on the record.
U.S. Embassy officials had no immediate comment, saying they generally avoid discussing internal operating or security issues.
Separately, a U.S. official announced Monday that a high-ranking Mexican immigration official had been caught in Arizona with 170 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle.
The revelations of corruption inside the control centers of the U.S.-Mexican anti-drug effort were a major blow to President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug campaign, in which he has sent tens of thousands of troops and federal police across Mexico to combat violent cartels.
Calderon himself has long acknowledged corruption is widespread in police forces. Monday's case represents the most serious known infiltration of anti-crime agencies since the 1997 arrest of Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, then head of Mexico's anti-drug agency. Gutierrez Rebollo was later convicted of aiding drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
Despite the corruption, Mexico continues to arrest top smugglers. The latest victory came Saturday with the arrest of Eduardo Arellano Felix after a shootout in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. He had allegedly been running the Arellano Felix cartel with his sister since several brothers were arrested or killed.
Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales said two top employees of her organized-crime unit and at least three federal police agents assigned to it may have been passing information on surveillance targets and potential raids for at least four years.
One of the officials was an assistant intelligence director and the other served as a liaison in requesting searches and assigning officers to carry them out.
All but one of the officials were arrested weeks ago.
The agents and officials each received payments of between $150,000 and $450,000 per month for the information, Morales said.
The Embassy infiltrator gave details of his involvement to Mexican officials in Washington, the prosecutors official said, but it is unclear if he is under Mexican or U.S. protection. The official did not give details of the information he allegedly passed on to the cartel.
The newspaper El Universal reported Monday that the man had worked as a "criminal investigator" at the embassy, had received at least $30,000 and may have revealed details about the DEA hunt for American drug suspect Craig Petties, who was later captured here. It cited unnamed sources.
The Beltran-Leyva brothers lead one of the groups that make up northern Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the country's largest drug-trafficking confederation.
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- Legalizing soft drugs like Marijuana and controlling harder drugs would create billions in tax revenue and put the drug cartels out of business but it would also put several U.S. law enforcement agencies into other branches in Home Land security.
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- Ha! HA! HA! Ha! HA! You poor republicans, Sarah Palin has sold her skins for some TV time.
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- Ha! HA! HA! Ha! HA! You poor republicans, Sarah Palin has sold her skins for some TV time.
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You must get quite a thrill passing your lies off as facts. Perhaps getting a girl friend or wife would give you an even greater thrill. Most posters try to present factual information and/or logical arguments. You like to make things up and pass it off as the truth. Pathetic. - Reply to this comment
- It would help to close most of these 45 Mexican consulates which exist in the USA.
These offices seem to act as illegal-enablers, if not much worse. - Reply to this comment
- "''We are taking matters into our own hands,'' the official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids." Syria first, Mexico next.
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- Crime in this country starts from the top down!
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- The drug war is unwinnable. There will always be demand and where there is demand there will be people who will supply.
It''s a big huge waste of money and human life.
legalizing soft drugs like Marijuana and controlling harder drugs would create billions in tax revenue and put the drug cartels out of business but it also put several U.S. law enforcement agencies out of business as well and that means layoffs. So this unwinnable war will just rage on and on. - Reply to this comment
- they all work together anyway.
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Ha! HA! HA! Ha! HA! You poor republicans, Sarah Palin has sold her skins for some TV time.
www.chilitoz.com is reporting that Sarah Palin has signed a deal with PlayBoy Magazine to posed partially exposed in a future release of the famous nudity magazine in exchange, Heffner will run a multi-million dollar anti Obama add a day before the election.- Reply to this comment
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.
A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is still the truth even if no one believes it. - Reply to this comment
- RE : tmittelstaed __ If you like them so much - Join Them ! !
The Political-Criminal FBI
The Vanguards of Democracy - The Vanguards of Civil Rights
The same Organization That :
Allowed Massive Bank Fraud and Massive Bank
Embezzlement To Take place for Eight (8) Years
The Same Organization That :
Delivers Young Boys For S*E*X (Franklin Coverup)
The Same Organization That :
Allows Under-aged Congressional Pages To be
S*e*x*ually Stalked and S*e*x*ually Assaulted
The Same Organization That :
Assists in "Rape - CHILD SODOMY Torture and Murder
of Prisoners (Guantanamo)
The Same Organization That
Paid a Law Suit for the Seven (7) Year Chronic and
Habitual Intimidation, Harassment and Hounding of
scientist Bruce Ivins. Until he committed suicide.
The Same Organization That :
Refused to acknowledge and allowed : 801,840 Suicides
(1981), (Murder/Homicide through Medical Neglect)
of Vietnam Combatants To go Unreported.
The Same Organization That
Took Part in The Child S*e*x Slave Operations, Child Sexual
Molestation, Child S*e*x*ual Assault, Child S*e*x*ual Torture,
Child Torture and Child Murder of : Incarcerated children.
(The Monarch Project MKULTRA)
The Same Organization That :
Utilizes Electronic Surveillance Equipment as a weapon,
Because of the History it has of causing Fatal Cancers
(First Degree Premeditated Murder) - Reply to this comment
- The US government and the Mexican government, combined, have far, far more money than the Mexican drug cartels. This is a war that the cartels are doomed to lose. The FBI has also had extensive experience in this area that they gained from ejecting the Mob from the casino skim in Vegas in the 70''s and 80''s. The cartels will always be present in Mexico, but it''s only a matter of time before they are cleaned out of the government.
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- Who knows more about Helping the illegal drug Trade other than the
Federal Government, The CIA (Cocaine Import Agency) and
The Political Criminal : FBI
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
EU Officials: Investigate CIA Plane Used in Renditions
Caught with 4 Tons of Cocaine
The CIA Drug Plane Scandal grew exponentially last week
when European Union officials broke an official 40-year-long
silence on the previously-taboo subject of the CIA%u2019s worldwide
involvement in drug trafficking.
Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner
was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine,
A major International scandal is brewing over a
SECOND DRUG TRAFFICKING Incident in Mexico''''s Yucatan
Involving an American-registered jet owned by a dummy front
company of the kind usually associated with the CIA.
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In - Oct 2005 __ FBI Director Robert Mueller Announced :
The FBI would begin to hire people. Who had a history of using Marijuana
The FBI Needs People Who are SYMPATHETIC to :
The Federal Drug Smuggling - Drug Manufacturing and
The Federal Drug Money Laundering Operations
(stock market investments
Who knows more about Helping the illegal drug Trade other than the
Federal Government, The CIA (Cocaine Import Agency) and
The Political Criminal : FBI - Reply to this comment
- Instead of sending helicopters across the Iraq/Syria border, why not hit the processing and shipping sites in Mexico?
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- With the amount of money available to the Cartels for corruption, the only way to defeat them is to simply have an "all out" effort to crush them.
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- I am not going to vote for Obama. DEA and ONDCP can both rot in hell
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Ha! HA! HA! Ha! HA! You poor republicans, Sarah Palin has sold her skins for some TV time.
www.chilitoz.com is reporting that Sarah Palin has signed a deal with PlayBoy Magazine to posed partially exposed in a future release of the famous nudity magazine in exchange, Heffner will run a multi-million dollar anti Obama add a day before the election.- Reply to this comment
- If US citizens working at the US embassy (Officially US soil) are arrested will they go to trial under US law or Mexican law?
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I think it depends on where the crime is committed. - Reply to this comment
- DEA can rot in hell
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- DEA can rot in hell
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