![]() “I know and from what I have been told by a former head of the Mexican federal police, Comandante Calderoni, the CIA was involved in the movement of drugs from South America to Mexico and to the US,” said Jordan, according to a transcript of the broadcast. They claimed that Mexican police and agents working for the CIA participated in Camarena’s torture and murder. The three men spoke to Fox News in exclusive interviews broadcast last Thursday. These CIA-connection claims are now being brought to light by Phil Jordan, the former director of DEA’s powerful El Paso Intelligence Center in Texas former DEA agent Héctor Berrellez and Tosh Plumlee, who maintained he was hired to fly covert missions on behalf of US intelligence. El Gato has also been linked to the 1967 ambush of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Bolivia. Another figure has surfaced in the case, Félix Ismael “El Gato” Rodríguez, a Cuban exile who participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. As he lay dying, a cartel doctor was ordered to keep him alert by administering drugs.īut new revelations suggest that Caro Quintero may have not been the only one responsible for the gruesome murder. He was kidnapped at gunpoint in Guadalajara, blind-folded and taken to a ranch house outside the city where he was tortured over a three-day period his skull, jaw, nose and cheekbones were crushed with a tire iron. In retaliation, the drug cartel ordered his capture and murder. The now 62-year-old Caro Quintero is still wanted by US authorities, but has since disappeared.īefore his death, Camarena, 37, had broken a gigantic marijuana ring operating from a ranch called Rancho El Búfalo, where Mexican soldiers destroyed some 1,000 hectares of cannabis in 1984. Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the founders of the so-called Guadalajara cartel, was given a 40-year-sentence for Camarena’s murder, but on August 9 he was freed on a legal technicality after only serving 28 years. The popular Mexican norteño folk band Los Broncos de Reynosa had alluded to this allegation 25 years ago in one of their well-known narcocorridos – drug ballads that are played in local nightspots – but many dismissed it as another legend made up over shots of tequila. ![]() For years, there had been rumors that the CIA was involved in the murder.
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