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The second life of a Nazi war criminal: German documentary reveals how 'butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie became a fixer for drug lords when he went on the run in South America
Barbie became known as Klaus Altmann when he went on the run in 1945
He worked as a druglord fixer in Latin America and met with Pablo Escobar
General Luis García Meza was helped into power in Bolivia by drug money
Barbie tortured top French resistance operatives and is estimated to have been directly involved in the deaths of 14,000 people
By Allan Hall In Berlin For The Daily Mail
Published: 09:59 EST, 28 July 2015 | Updated: 02:41 EST, 29 July 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3177385/The-second-life-Nazi-war-criminal-German-documentary-reveals-butcher-Lyon-Klaus-Barbie-fixer-drug-lords-went-run-South-America.html
https://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/06/hitlers-shadow-reaches-toward-today/
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-hrsp/legacy/2011/02/04/08-02-83barbie-rpt.pdf
http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/when-the-king-of-cocaine-built-the-general-motors-of-drug-trafficking/trafficking-drug-kingpin-roberto-suarez/c1s10252/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/08/1282812/-The-Butcher-of-Lyon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11087225
http://www.lalkar.org/article/849/klaus-barbie-nazi-butcher-and-cia-agent
http://www.asadismi.ws/whiteout.html
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DEA agents kept jobs despite serious misconduct
Brad Heath and Meghan Hoyer, USA TODAY 3:15 p.m. EDT September 27, 2015
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed its employees to stay on the job despite internal investigations that found they had distributed drugs, lied to the authorities or committed other serious misconduct, newly disclosed records show.
Lawmakers expressed dismay this year that the drug agency had not fired agents who investigators found attended sex parties with prostitutes paid with drug cartel money while they were on assignment in Colombia. The Justice Department also opened an inquiry into whether the DEA is able to adequately detect and punish wrongdoing by its agents.
Records from the DEAs disciplinary files show that was hardly the only instance in which the DEA opted not to fire employees despite apparently serious misconduct.
Of the 50 employees the DEA's Board of Professional Conduct recommended be fired following misconduct investigations opened since 2010, only 13 were actually terminated, the records show. And the drug agency was forced to take some of them back after a federal appeals board intervened.
In one case listed on an internal log, the review board recommended that an employee be fired for distribution of drugs, but a human resources official in charge of meting out discipline imposed a 14-day suspension instead. The log shows officials also opted not to fire employees who falsified official records, had an improper association with a criminal element or misused government vehicles, sometimes after drinking.
If we conducted an investigation, and an employee actually got terminated, I was surprised, said Carl Pike, a former DEA internal affairs investigator. I was truly, truly surprised. Like, wow, the system actually got this guy.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/27/few-dea-agents-fired-misconduct/72805622/
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MOVIE REVIEW: ART IMITATES LIFE.
SICARIO (2015) The U.S. Government would rather put the Medellin Cartel back in power to deal with a single entity and put a semblance of order in the drug world.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_%282015_film%29
https://www.facebook.com/SicarioMovie/
Plot
During an FBI raid of suspected kidnappers in Chandler, Arizona, idealistic agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), her partner Reggie Wayne (Daniel Kaluuya), and their team discovers dozens of corpses hidden within the walls of the house. While the team investigates the crime scene, an improvised explosive device in the backyard shed explodes, killing two officers. Afterwards, Kate's boss, Dave Jennings (Victor Garber), recommends her to Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), a CIA Special Activities Division undercover officer and Department of Defense adviser leading a team of SFOD-D operators who are searching for the men responsible, one of them being cartel boss Manuel Díaz. Kate volunteers to join the team.
On the plane to El Paso, Texas, Kate meets Matt's partner, Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro), and learns that they are going to Juárez, Mexico, where they will extradite one of Diaz' top men, Guillermo, and his brother. While crossing back into the United States over the Bridge of the Americas, Matt, Alejandro, and their team realize that cartel thugs are attempting to intercept them in a traffic jam, and the team kills the cartel men when they attempt to capture Guillermo. After interrogating and torturing Guillermo, Matt and Alejandro learn the location of Díaz's hideout.
While Alejandro and Matt question a group of Mexican migrants for information, Kate calls Reggie to join her. With the help of several migrants who know the border well, they tell Alejandro and Matt the whereabouts of a tunnel that the cartel uses to get its drugs into the United States. Matt tells them that their goal is to cause such a disruption in Díaz's drug operations that he will be called back to Mexico to meet with his boss, drug lord Fausto Alarcón (Julio Cedillo). Matt follows Díaz's money launderers to a bank, where they deposit his money and are arrested. Díaz's accounts are then frozen. Kate, believing they can arrest Díaz with this information, gets records of the transactions, but Matt forbids her from going forward, telling her that they are working toward a greater goal than simply arresting Díaz.
Later at a bar, Reggie introduces Kate to one of his colleagues, a local cop named Ted (Jon Bernthal). After a night of drinking and dancing, they end up back at her apartment, where she discovers a rubber wristband in his possessionthe same type used to bundle Díaz's laundered money. Sensing that she knows he is corrupt, Ted struggles to subdue her and nearly chokes her to death. Alerted by the noise, Alejandro stops him at gunpoint and beats him up. After Alejandro and Matt threaten the lives of Ted and his family, he reveals the names of other local corrupt cops working for Díaz.
The next morning, Matt and his team prepare to follow Díaz, who has been called back to Alarcón. Their raid on the tunnel serves as a distraction so that Alejandro can sneak through to the Mexican side. Once there, he kidnaps one of Díaz's mules, a corrupt Mexican police officer named Silvio (Maximiliano Hernández). Kate follows and attempts to arrest Alejandro, who shoots her in her bulletproof vest and tells her to return to the United States. Threatening Silvio at gunpoint, Alejandro forces him to pursue Díaz in his Mexican police car. Meanwhile, Kate demands answers from Matt, who explains that their goal is to restore power to the Colombian Medellín Cartel. Returning control of the drug trade to a single cartel will restore some semblance of order.
Alejandro with Silvio driving catches up with Díaz's Mercedes, upon which Alejandro kills Silvio and wounds Díaz. Díaz then drives Alejandro to Alarcón's estate, where Alejandro kills Díaz and Alarcón's guards before finding Alarcón and his family. Alarcón, who murdered Alejandro's wife and daughter when Alejandro was a prosecutor in Juárez, mocks Alejandro, who shoots Alarcón's wife and two sons to death in front of him, then kills the drug lord. The next morning, Alejandro sneaks back into Kate's apartment and gives her a waiver to sign stating that everything they did together was "by the book". Kate relents when Alejandro puts a gun to her head. After he leaves, Kate goes to her balcony, points her gun at him and hesitates, and then watches him walk away. Sometime later at a football field in Mexico, Silvio's widow watches her son's soccer game, which is briefly interrupted by gunfire in the distance.