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Daniel Feder <danfeder@...> wrote:

To: narconews@yahoogroups.com
From: Daniel Feder <danfeder@...>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:34:55 -0500
Subject: [narconews] Colombia's Secret Narco-Police

April 29, 2006
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleague,

Though it has barely registered in the U.S. press, a national scandal
is currently unfolding in Colombia, where a jailed high official of
the Administrative Department for Security (DAS) has been speaking
freely with journalists about the extensive collaboration between the
secret police agency and right-wing paramilitary groups.

Rafael García lost his post as DAS' information technology chief
after being charged with taking bribes from rightwing paramilitaries
and narcos (often, one and the same). He now claims that DAS has been
working for years, at least since Uribe's 2002 election, in
conjunction with the "paras" and their narco allies, sharing
documents and intelligence to help kill and intimidate activists and
unionists, help powerful drug traffickers avoid prosecution and
murder informants. And investigative journalists in Colombia have
verified and shed more light on a number of these claims.

Sound familiar? Narco News for the past four months has been
uncovering a web of corruption linking the U.S.'s own DEA agents and
other law enforcement personnel with drug traffickers and
paramilitaries in Colombia. The new allegations about paramilitary
and narco infiltration of the DAS make the "Kent Memo" (the internal
Justice Department document claiming corruption in the DEA's Bogotá
office) all the more believable. They give a picture of a war on
"drugs and terror" in Colombia that is corrupt to the core, and in
which the most powerful narcos are seasoned experts at working with
the same law enforcement entities charged with bringing them down.

Read a full report here, in The Narco News Bulletin:

http://www.narconews.com

From somewhere in a country called América,

Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com
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