https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo/crimen-y-violencia/miguel-angel-felix-gallardo-rompe-su-silencio-vea-la-primera-parte-de-la-entrevista-tmna3902627
This is the comments of DEA agent David Herrera, Hector Berrellez' instructor/trainer at the DEA:
https://www.martinpi.com/kiki-camarena-david-herrera/
The Initiation of Operation Leyenda
The Search for Truth and Justice in the Kiki Camarena Investigation
By David Herrera
The Kidnapping of Enrique Camarena
On Thursday, February 7, 1985, my friend and fellow US Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena was kidnapped shortly after he had departed the US Consulate in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico for a luncheon date with his wife, Mika. Kiki never arrived to that luncheon date even though it was located just a few blocks away from his office. Thugs comprised of corrupt Mexican security officers and Mexican drug traffickers kidnapped him as he exited the US Consulate on the way to his vehicle. They placed him into another vehicle and eventually took him to a residence at 88 Lope de Vega in Guadalajara where after about 24 plus hours of interrogation and torture, he was killed. Shortly thereafter, his body was taken and crudely buried in Primavera Forest until it was exhumed and discovered about 30 days later on a roadside. His wife assumed that Kiki had been called away on official business as the reason for not meeting with her. As the day passed and the night entered, Kiki never arrived back home. Mika fearing the worst notified James Kuykendall that following morning and Kuykendall immediately notified DEA Headquarters where I was stationed and assigned to the Cocaine Desk.
Kiki was my Guadalajara contact as I coordinated the Operation Padrino investigation
I knew Kiki as he was my Guadalajara contact as I coordinated the Operation Padrino investigation which touched upon the cocaine traffic between South America, Mexico and the Western part of the United States. I recall that Friday morning of February 8, 1985 when we received the information and notice that Kiki was missing, I was asked to go into the DEA Administrator’s office and brief him on how some of the personalities in Operation Padrino could possibly fit into what would eventually be named as Operation Leyenda. As investigation proved, many of the principals in Operation Padrino were the leaders and operators in Operation Leyenda. Personally, as far as finding Kiki alive, I feared the worst and hoped it was nothing more than a kidnapping and that the ransom would be an exchange of
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Former DEA Agent James Kuykendall Disputes His Characterization in Amazon Prime Docuseries, “The Last Narc”
Kuykendall was the boss of DEA agent, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, whose 1985 murder is the focus of the series
November 16, 2020 06:56 PM Eastern Standard Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The popular Amazon Prime docuseries, The Last Narc, released earlier this year, inaccurately and unfairly characterizes one of the agents portrayed in the show. The Last Narc, which focuses on the 1985 murder of U.S. DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, wrongly alleges a government conspiracy that includes decorated federal agent, Jaime Kuykendall, according to Kuykendall’s lawyer, Greg Gutzler of DiCello Levitt Gutzler.
>“I will defend my reputation and honor, and the facts will prove that truth. I have retained legal counsel and intend to pursue justice for myself and my fellow agents and their families.”
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“Mr. Kuykendall dedicated his life to law enforcement and was, at all times, unequivocally loyal to his country and to his fellow agents,” Gutzler says. “Amazon and other sources have besmirched Mr. Kuykendall’s character and denigrated his record of service to our country.”
Mr. Kuykendall also issued a formal statement about the series:
“The Amazon ‘documentary’ series, The Last Narc, is riddled with fiction that is camouflaged as ‘fact’. To catch eyeballs, and in knowing disregard of the truth, the Amazon producers falsely painted me as corrupt. That insinuation is patently false – I have always been loyal and faithful in my duties and to my colleagues. The producers were provided ample opportunity to sufficiently research and vet many of the assertions made in the show, yet they preferred sensational conspiracy theories and relied on unreliable witnesses to paint a picture of the events surrounding Enrique Camarena’s death and the subsequent investigations and trials. As a result, Amazon released an inaccurate documentary series, which
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-cia-torture-an-undercover-dea-agent-for-a-mexican-drug-cartel
Narcos: Mexico’s first two seasons revolve around the 1985 murder of undercover DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who was abducted, tortured and slain by the Guadalajara Cartel he was investigating. Mining thrilling drama from reality, the Netflix series is a true story about bravery and villainy that’s overflowing with larger-than-life figures, be it the bold Camarena, the ruthless cartel kingpins Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, or the resolute DEA agents intent on bringing to justice those responsible for their comrade’s killing—the latter group led by Walt Breslin, a take-no-prisoners American tasked with leading the retaliatory mission against the drug lords.
Unlike most of those featured in Netflix’s hit, Walt Breslin isn’t a real person but a composite character based largely on DEA agent Hector Berrellez, the supervisor of the inquiry into Camarena’s assassination. And in Amazon’s new The Last Narc, Berrellez tells his own harrowing tale of taking on Guadalajara’s kingpins—and in the process delivers revelations about the U.S. government’s own culpability in the death of one of their own.
Directed by Tiller Russell, The Last Narc is a four-part docuseries (premiering July 31) about the vast conspiracy that fatally ensnared Camarena. In a dim, empty bar illuminated only by light streaming through a background doorway and window, the candid Berrellez recounts his own involvement in the War on Drugs. Brought up by a tarot card-reading mom (here seen plying her supernatural trade), and compelled to pursue a law-enforcement career after his brother became hooked on heroin at age 12, Berrellez is a bearded, weathered cowboy with a glint in his eyes that says he means business. Forthrightly reminiscing about pulling guns on suspects—and shooting down one dealer during an undercover bust gone awry—he instantly comes across as the real deal, and thus a fascinating tour guide into this sordid cartel milieu.
Berrellez’s career took off once he joined the DEA
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/dea-agent-kiki-camarena-murder-investigation
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating explosive new allegations that a Central Intelligence Agency operative and Drug Enforcement Administration official played a role in the 1985 abduction, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a report claims.
The renewed focus into the grisly killing of Camarena – who is featured in the Netflix series “Narcos: Mexico” – is based on recent statements witnesses provided to U.S. agents and prosecutors, according to USA Today. The Justice Department reportedly started re-examining the case in 2019, two years after a federal court tossed convictions against two suspects.
“I want the truth to be out,” Mika Camarena, Enrique’s widow, told the outlet. “At this point, nothing would surprise me.”
The DEA and Camarena had been utilizing a series of wiretaps to make sizeable drug busts inside Mexico. One of them cost Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero $2.5 billion.
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Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, the DEA agent murdered in Mexico in 1985. (AP)
LARA LOGAN CONFRONTS ALLEGED MEXICAN CARTEL DOCTOR ACCUSED OF TORTURING DEA AGENT
In February 1985, as Camarena left to meet his wife for lunch outside the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, he was surrounded by officers from the DFS, a Mexican intelligence agency that no longer exists.
"Back in the middle 1980s, the DFS, their main role was to protect the drug lords," former DEA agent Hector Berrellez, who led the investigation into Camarena's murder, told Fox News in 2013.
The DFS agents then took Camarena, blindfolded and held at gunpoint, to one of Caro-Quintero's haciendas five miles away.
For more than 30 hours, Caro-Quintero and others interrogated Camarena and crushed his skull, jaw, nose and cheekbones with a tir
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I ran drugs for Uncle Sam ; San Diego pilot Tosh Plumlee flew narcotics for Contras and other warlords - maps, names and dates ; Flew Rafael Caro Quintero on his escape as killer of DEA agent Enrique "KIKI"Camarena ; Landed drugs on U.S. Military Bases; Turn himself in to Senator Gary Hart's office
SETCO air Pilot Robert Tosh Plumee - Flew Drugs and Drug Lords
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1990/apr/05/i-ran-drugs-uncle-sam/#
60 Minutes interview with Tosh plumlee https://youtu.be/UmoEDt6fLo0
Robert Tosh Plumlee has stated in interviews that he smuggled over 40 tons of drugs into the US (in a single year), landing on US military bases. He was assured by his contacts in the IC that this was part of a sting operation. No busts ever went down. Concerned for his safety, He approached Senator Gary Hart in an attempt to turn himself in. https://web.archive.org/web/20200630071754/https://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2013/10/assassinated-dea-agent-kiki-camarena-fell-cia-operation-gone-awry-say-l.html
Former CIA contract pilot Plumlee told Narco News during the course of a series of recent interviews that after Camarena’s murder in early February 1985, he was ordered by his CIA handlers to fly into a ranch located near Veracruz, Mexico.
That ranch, he claims and DEA documents show, was controlled by the narco-trafficker Caro Quintero. It also was being used by the CIA — which was operating there using Mexico’s intelligence service, the Federal Security Directorate, as a cover. The Federal Security Directorate, or DFS in its Spanish init
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http://moveablefest.com/tiller-russell-last-narc/
Tiller Russell couldn’t have been thrilled when he first saw the cassette of Hector Berrellez accepting an accommodation from the Federal Bar Association, a crucial turning point in his new miniseries “The Last Narc” when the tape’s wear and tear had made it practically unwatchable.
“When something like that comes in over the transom after years of chasing it and we first look at the tape and it’s like, “God, this VHS looks terrible, we can’t use it,” says Russell, who had seen his fair share of warped things in getting to the bottom of one of the ugliest chapters of the Mexican drug war. “And my instinct is, ‘No, hell yes, we can use it. We’re putting it in exactly like that.’”
After all, Russell knew it wouldn’t be enough for Berrellez to simply describe in words the topsy-turvy world he was about to enter when the medal of honor from the Bar Association led to his promotion to Chief of the DEA Pacific Division, meaning that he would soon oversee the investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, an undercover DEA agent in Guadalajara who had been tracking the cartels. Instituting surveillance that ultimately led to the destruction of Rancho Buffalo, Rafael Caro Quintero’s marijuana field that had become the biggest crop of its kind in the world, Camarena had one very specific enemy, but no obvious suspects in who carried out his kidnapping, leading Berrellez to figure out what the U.S. could not when they took the unprecedented step of shutting down the U.S. border in 1985 following his disappearance and while the decorated agent couldn’t know what was in store for him, the increasingly foggy tracking on the VHS gives some idea.
It’s a stylistic flourish that has become one of the ways in which Russell has taken true crime stories to another level since first tracking the corrupt cops in the sordid NYPD tale “The Seven Five” and later uncovering the crazy story of Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, a Miami-based strip club owner who attempted to broker the sale of a Russian submarine to the Cali drug cartel in “Operation Odessa.” Russell has long kept the circle of people he interviews on camera small, which has been to his films’ benefit when it gives such memorable characters more time to talk, but his work has become more ambitious as his first miniseries for Amazon attests to, with Berrellez breaking his silence on
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https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/gio6om/forbes_rafael_caro_quintero_the_first_billionaire/
DEA Agent Hector Berrellez: $8 Billion never seized from Drug Lord who Killed DEA Agent Enrique KIKI Camarena. Rafael Caro Quintero escaped in a SETCO plane, piloted by a CIA Pilot. CONTRAS trained on Drug Lords Veracruz ranch. US intelligence present during DEA agent's torture
DEA Agent Hector Berrellez: $8 Billion never seized from Drug Lord who Killed DEA Agent Enrique KIKI Camarena. Rafael Caro Quintero escaped in a SETCO plane, piloted by a CIA Pilot. CONTRAS trained on Drug Lords Veracruz ranch. US intelligence present during DEA agent's torture
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Dec 5, 2013,
U.S. Treasury Tracks Secret Bank Accounts of Top Mexican Kingpin
Dolia Estevez
When Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero ordered the kidnapping, torture and assassination of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, he was the leader of a billion dollar criminal empire, according to a former DEA agent. “Caro Quintero had billions of dollars stashed in secret bank accounts in Luxembourg and in Switzerland,” former DEA agent Hector Berrellez told me in a telephone interview. “The one in Luxembourg had $4 billion and the other one had even more.”
Berrellez claimed that he saw with his own eyes those accounts in electronic statements in 1995 while investigating the Mexican trafficker at the DEA headquarters. Berrellez retired in 1996. The U.S. government, he explained, was unable to seize the accounts because of the banking secrecy laws in those countries. He said the accounts were listed under the alien name that Caro Quintero, a major drug trafficker and fugitive from U.S. justice, used to do business with Mexican banks. “To my knowledge they were never confiscated,” Berrellez said.
Testimony in Camarena murder blocked by judge Rafeedie
Witness Says Drug Lord Told of Contra Arms
By HENRY WEINSTEINJULY 7, 1990 12 AMTIMES STAFF WRITER
A prosecution witness in the Enrique Camarena murder trial testified Friday in Los Angeles federal court that Mexican drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo told him that he believed his narcotics trafficking operation was safe because he was supplying arms to the Nicaraguan Contras.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-07-mn-149-story.html
Informant Puts CIA at Ranch of Agent’s Killer
By HENRY WEINSTEIN JULY 5, 1990 12 AM TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Central Intelligence Agency trained Guatemalan guerrillas in the ear
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Watching netflixs narcos mexico season 2 I became curious about the history of Operation leyenda but I didnt find a satisfing Source or book on this topic so I am also very glad about book recommendations. Thanks!
http://ososcience.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13379611/enrique_camarena_crime_scene_case_study.pdf
The Enrique Camarena Case: A Forensic Nightmare
Description of the crime scene, evidence recovered, trial exhibits.
https://isgp-studies.com/DL_1985_DEA_agent_torture_with_Mexican_officials_present
https://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/honduras-elites-organized-crime-juan-matta-ballesteros/
Part 1 of 33 Rogue Narc interview of Berrellez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-60D-X67WU&t=89s
Past 2 of 33 John massaria interview of Berrellez
Informant Puts CIA at Ranch of Agent’s Killer
By HENRY WEINSTEIN JULY 5, 1990 12 AM 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.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-05-mn-131-story.html
On Feb. 9, according to the report, Harrison told DEA agents Hector Berrellez and Wayne Schmidt that the CIA used Mexico's Federal Security Directorate, or DFS, "as a cover, in the event any questions were raised as to who was running the training operation."
Harrison also said that "representatives of the DFS, which was the front for the training camp, were in fact acting in consort with major drug overlords to ensure a flow of narcotics through Mexico into the United States."
At some point between 1981 and 1984, Harrison said, "members of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police arrived at the ranch while on a separate narcotics investigation and were confronted by the guerrillas. As a result of the confrontation, 19 {Mexican police} agents were killed. Many of the bodies showed signs of torture; the bodies had been drawn and quartered."
In a separate interview last Sept. 11, Harrison told the same two DEA agents that CIA operations personnel had stayed at the home of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, one of Mexico's other major drug kingpins and an ally of Caro Quintero. The report does not specify a date on which this occurred.
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The same DEA / CIA people covering up Camarena's murder were running drugs through Costa Rica with the help of Norwin Meneses, the drug lord who supplied Oscar Danilo Blandon and Freeway Ricky Ross in the DARK ALLIANCE Book. By Gary Webb. Same Judge and Same cops. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12163674/
The top management of the DEA ran drugs or were involved in the cover up. See part 9 below.
Dark Alliance Complete Book in HTML
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/04/part-1-dark-alliancethe-ciathe-contras.html
[https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-2dark-alliancewe-were-firstthe.html](https://exploringrealhistory.blo
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FoxNews 2/28/2020: US probing claims that CIA operative, DEA official betrayal led to 1985 murder of DEA agent Enrique "KIKI" Camarena: report by Greg Norman- Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dea-agent-kiki-camarena-murder-investigation
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating explosive new allegations that a Central Intelligence Agency operative and Drug Enforcement Administration official played a role in the 1985 abduction, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a report claims.
https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hgxdie/national_gary_webb_day_august_31_2020_garys/
August 31 is National Gary Webb Day.
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-8-dark-alliancethis-guy-talks-to.html
FoxNews 2/28/2020: US probing claims that CIA operative, DEA official betrayal led to 1985 murder of DEA agent Enrique "KIKI" Camarena: report by Greg Norman- Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dea-agent-kiki-camarena-murder-investigation
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating explosive new allegations that a Central Intelligence Agency operative and Drug Enforcement Administration official played a role in the 1985 abduction, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a report claims.
