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(374 posts)Ex-DEA officials: CIA operatives involved in 'Kiki' Camarena murder
By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times
Posted: 10/19/2013 09:50:26 AM MDT
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Enrique "Kiki" Camarena (Times file photo)
Reporter: Diana
Washington Valdez
Former local DEA officials Phil Jordan and Hector Berrellez are alleging that CIA operatives killed the late DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.
This week's bombshell and widely publicized allegation, which come two months after Mexico's release of kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero from prison, set off a firestorm. Caro Quintero and two other high-level drug-traffickers had been sentenced to 40 years for their roles in Camarena's kidnapping, torture and murder
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_24343140/ex-dea-officials-make-bombshell-allegations-about-kiki
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Camarena's Abduction and Torture Described : Courts: Former bodyguard says ranking Mexican officials were at the house where U.S. drug agent was killed.
December 10, 1992|JIM NEWTON | TIMES STAFF WRITER
A former Mexican policeman who became a bodyguard to a drug kingpin testified Wednesday that two defendants, along with an array of high-ranking Mexican government officials, were at the Guadalajara house where an American drug agent was being tortured and killed in 1985.
Among those in the living room, according to Lopez, were Defense Minister Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alvarez del Castillo, Mexican Federal Judicial Police Director Manuel Ibarra Herrera and Mexican Interpol Director Miguel Aldana Ibarra.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-10/local/me-2364_1_ranking-mexican
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http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/ernesto-fonseca-carrillo
Informant Puts CIA at Ranch of Agent's Killer
July 05, 1990|HENRY WEINSTEIN | TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Central Intelligence Agency trained Guatemalan guerrillas in the early 1980s at a ranch near Veracruz, Mexico, owned by drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the murderers of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report made public in Los Angeles.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-05/news/mn-131_1_cia-operations
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Witness in Camarena Case Describes Life in Mexican Drug Ring : Trial: Man holds jury spellbound with tales of raucous parties. He does not implicate defendants in agent's death.
December 05, 1992|JIM NEWTON | TIMES STAFF WRITER
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-05/local/me-1255_1_mexican-drug
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-07/news/mn-3854_1_made-public