Devil's Bargain: A Former Medellin Cartel Official Has Been A DEA Informant For 27 Years. Now He Wan

[Judi Lynn]

Devil's Bargain: A Former Medellin Cartel Official Has Been A DEA Informant For 27 Years. Now He Wants Out.

Nick Wing Huffington Post
Posted: 04/09/2015 12:34 pm EDT Updated: 04/14/2015 2:59 pm EDT

“You're lying to me," the man said. Carlos Toro took a gulp of wine and tried to maintain his composure. For years, he had dreaded hearing those words.

It was February 2011, and Toro, who was then 61, had come to this upscale steakhouse in Madrid expecting a casual meal between two friends with business to discuss. His companion was a South American diplomat and high-level cocaine trafficker eager to break into the European drug market, where a kilo purchased for less than $1,000 wholesale back home could sell for more than $40,000 on the street. Toro was a onetime top official in the Colombia-based Medellín cartel, which dominated the global cocaine market in the 1970s and '80s.

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For well over two decades, Toro had been a confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration -- and a very effective one at that. But now the diplomat had stumbled across a piece of incriminating evidence: Toro's airline contact wasn't real. When the diplomat analyzed their email correspondence, he discovered that the messages from Toro and the airline employee originated from the same IP address. If the airline contact really was a Spaniard living in Barcelona, why did he appear to be with Toro in the United States, sending emails from Toro's computer?

"What are you talking about?" Toro replied, trying to sound confused. The man stood up. "Who are you working for?" he snarled. "Are you working for the DEA?"

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[Hydra]

1. Crazy to think that many of the people he was digging intel up on may have been CIA

It's a very strange world the RW built as their utopia.

[MisterP]

2. heck, Panama turned in Cali cartelists to the DEA, leaving the road clear for Medellin

while Cali was the RWers and Medellin the pseudo-populists
DEA offices were shuttered and opened at whim to protect Medellin