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Conroy: DEA Corruption Intersects With FBI & CIA Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 11:27 am Opinion: narconews.com

Conroy: Bogota DEA Corruption Allegations Intersect with Covert FBI, CIA Activity in Colombia







March 6, 2006
Please Distribute WidelyAnother piece of the puzzle has fallen into place in Bill Conroy's investigation of alleged massive corruption in the DEA's Bogota, Colombia office. Yet another document in the paper trail has come to light, this one nearly as explosive as the now-famous "Kent Memo" that Conroy revealed nearly two months ago. The document is the final report of the investigation by the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility in response to complaints filed by a former Bogota chief against a Miami agent whose investigation threatened to expose the agency's wrongdoings in Colombia.
 
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The new documents also show how the alleged corruption in the DEA intersected with covert FBI and CIA activity in Colombia. Conroy writes:
"In the late 1990s, Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante, one of the leaders of Colombia's North Valley Cartel narco-trafficking syndicate, became one of the targets of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation called Operation Cali-Man, which was overseen by a DEA supervisor in Miami named David Tinsley.
"In mid January 2000, Gomez Bustamante attended a meeting in Panama to discuss possible cooperation with the DEA. According to one of Tinsley's informants, during the course of that meeting Gomez Bustamante revealed that a high-level DEA agent in Bogota was on the 'payroll' of a corrupt Colombian National Police colonel named Danilo Gonzalez - who was eventually indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on narco-trafficking charges.
"The informant, an individual named Ramon Suarez, later told DEA internal affairs investigators that the U.S. federal agent identified by Gomez Bustamante as being on the "payroll" was Javier Pena, who at the time was the assistant country attache of the DEA Bogota Country Office in Colombia.
"When questioned by DEA internal affairs investigators in 2002, Pena denied the charge. However, he did concede he had a relationship with Colonel Gonzalez dating back to the early 1990s, when Colombian and U.S. law enforcers worked together to hunt down the notorious narco- outlaw Pablo Escobar.
"These remarkable revelations have surfaced in a document recently obtained by Narco News. The document also includes evidence that the DEA, FBI and CIA were each operating covertly in Colombian's narco- trafficking underworld, all using the same informant."
Read the full report, here, in The Narco News Bulletin:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue40/article1662.html
Also, in the Narcosphere, Conroy looks at a new report from the Dallas Morning News on a story he has extensively covered for two years: the "House of Death" in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The house in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, was the location of the torture and murder of at least twelve people over the course of several months. An informant in the pay of U.S. border agencies participated in the series of murders, and despite their knowledge of his activities, Justice and Homeland Security officials did nothing to stop him and later launched a major cover-up of the entire affair. The Dallas Morning News takes credit for many of the facts brought to light first in Narco News, and then completely disregards the existence of the cover-up in its story of the informant "Lalo's" supposedly immanent extradition to Mexico. Read Conroy's commentary here:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/3/5/165154/1751
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The DEA and the FBI in Panama. The Kent Memo Panama version. the murder of Franklin Brewster
The Panama America ^ | Jan 2009 | Adelita Coriat
Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:16:00 PM by arroz con salsita
On July 3rd, 2006, shortly after eating his lunch, Inspector Franklin M. Brewster Chase, the head of the Judicial Technical Police (PTJ) Sensitive Investigations Unit in Panama, the Unit in charge of investigating high profile drugs cases, became sick and was rushed to the Hospital. Sixteen days later, in the early hours of July 19th, he died. The Panamanian Government announced that Mr. Brewster had been poisoned with an organophosphate product. Most likely, an insecticide mixed in his food. A communiqué circulated the next day from an alleged criminal organization, calling this “Operación Factura Roja”, the retaliation for the seizure of tons of cocaine in the "Operation Alamo ll". The note also threatened to assasinate more Panamanian officials who cooperate with the FBI or the DEA. Narcotraffickers advertising after a hit? First time ever. The Panamanian Government asked for help from the FBI. That help came in the form of the Legal Attaché/FBI agent at the Panama Embassy, David Watley. After the FBI investigation concluded in August, a copy of an FBI toxicity report was faxed to the Prosecutor from an office in Panama City. Let´s say that again. A copy of the report was faxed. An original document was not delivered to the authorities in Panama. This is forensic evidence in the high profile murder case of the Chief drug investigator in Panama who happens to be investigating international, multimillion drug organizations together with the DEA. The document came without following any legal or international protocols for these type of matters and without signatures or seals from the US Embassy under Ambassador William Eaton. An original document from the FBI has never been produced. The FBI itself acknowledged at the beginning of this research, in an official letter to the Panama America newspaper, that such document does not exist.

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The late Inspector Brewster

International probe, political fallout, rumors in PTJ inspector’s death

by Eric Jackson, mainly from other media

On the afternoon July 3, shortly after eating the coconut rice and fish lunch that he had brought from home, Inspector Franklin M. Brewster Chase, the head of the Judicial Technical Police (PTJ) Sensitive Investigations Unit, fell ill and was rushed to the Arnulfo Arias Hospital Complex. Sixteen days later, in the early hours of July 19, he died there. In the meantime lab tests had determined that Brewster had been poisoned with a powerful insecticide.

Brewster had played key roles in a number of the highest-profile investigations of recent years, including the Panama’s participation in the recent dismantling of the Rayo Montaño drug ring, the captures of key members of Colombia’s FARC guerrilla and AUC paramilitary groups in Panama and money laundering prosecutions against Colombian drug cartels. President Torrijos described him as “untouchable” and anti-drug prosecutor Patricio Candanedo, who quit shortly after Brewster’s death, described the inspector as his “right hand.”

The investigation of the poisoning focused immediately on the people who worked with Brewster at the PTJ who would have had access to the place where he left his lunch and upon people in the inspector’s household. After Brewster died the Panamanian government asked the FBI to join in the investigation, and that assistance was immediately given.

In an anonymous statement claiming credit for the poisoning that was sent to many of Panama’s news organizations, a purported group called the poisoning part of an “Operacion Factura Roja” in retaliation for the seizures earlier this year of six tons of cocaine and threatened further assassinations against Latin American officials who cooperate with the US DEA and FBI. The communiqué also alleged that the same group that killed Brewster has agents in many high places, including close to President Torrijos. Police are investigating the claim, and Candanedo told La Prensa that although he doesn’t know what happened to Inspector Brewster, he can say that it was a “systematic attack” that has caused great fear among law enforcement officials.

Torrijos called the situation “very grave” and lashed out at the PTJ in general, saying that “it hasn’t been very effective.” He called for a purge in that institution, which under Panama’s governmental structure isn’t under his control, and advocated greater use of pretrial incarceration without bail.

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Organophosphate poisoning
Classification and external resources
Phosphoric acid
ICD-10	T60.0
ICD-9	989.3
eMedicine	article/1009888

Many organophosphates are potent nerve agents, functioning by inhibiting the action of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in nerve cells. They are one of the most common causes of poisoning worldwide, and are frequently intentionally used in suicides in agricultural areas.

Contents [hide] 1 Examples 2 Effects 3 Treatment 4 Potential effects of environmental organophosphates 5 Ginger Jake 6 Effects 7 Governmental review 8 See also 9 References

[edit] Examples

• Insecticides including malathion, parathion, diazinon, fenthion, dichlorvos, chlorpyrifos, ethion
• Nerve Gases including soman, sarin, tabun, VX
• Ophthalmic agents: echothiophate, isoflurophate
• Antihelmintics such as trichlorfon
• Herbicides including tribufos [DEF], merphos are tricresyl phosphate–containing industrial chemicals.

[edit] Effects

The effects of organophosphate poisoning are recalled using the mnemonic SLUDGEM (Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, Defecation, Gastrointestinal motility, Emesis, miosis)^[1]
These side effects occur because of the excess acetylcholine that results from blocking acetylcholinesterase. In addition, bronchospasm, blurred vision and bradycardia may result.
An additional mnemonic is DUMBELLS: Diarrhea, Urination, Miosis, Bradycardia, Bronchoconstriction, Emesis, Lacrimation, Salivation, Sweating, Secretion.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Treatment

Atropine can be used as an antidote in conjunction with pralidoxime or other pyridinium oximes (such as trimedoxime or obidoxime),^[2] though the use of "-oximes" has been found to be of no benefit, or possibly harmful, in at least two meta-analyses.^[3][4] Atropine blocks the parasympathetic nervous system, both vagal effects on the heart.

[edit] Potential effects of environmental organophosphates

The use of the organophosphates in aviation lubricating oils and hydraulic fluids and its impact on health and flight safety is currently being researched. Aerotoxic Syndrome is a medical condition allegedly caused by exposure to contaminated bleed air.
Purdey (1998) suggested that organophosphates, in particular Phosmet, induced the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy epidemic of BSE.^[5] A European Union food safety Scientific Steering Committee examined the evidence and did not find a link.^[6]
As opposed to the two examples given above, the toxicological literature on persistent chronic toxicity from acute poisonings or long-term low level exposure is quite extensive. The phenomenon of OPIDP (organophosphate induced delayed polyneuropathy, also OPIDN), which causes degeneration of the peripheral nerves, has been noted to occur several weeks after exposure to some organophosphates. ^[7]

[edit] Ginger Jake

Main article: Ginger Jake

A striking example of OPIDN occurred during the 1930s Prohibition Era when thousands of men in the American South and Midwest developed arm and leg weakness and pain after drinking a "medicinal" alcohol substitute. The drink, called "Ginger Jake," contained an adulterated Jamaican ginger extract containing tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate (TOCP) which resulted in partially reversible neurologic damage. The damage resulted in the limping "Jake Leg" or "Jake Walk" which were terms frequently used in the blues music of the period. Europe and Morocco both experienced outbreaks of TOCP poisoning from contaminated abortifacients and cooking oil, respectively.^[8]

[edit] Effects

Other studies suggest a link between chronic low level organophosphate exposure and neuropsychiatric and behavioral effects. Jamal has suggested the term COPIND, or "Chronic Organophosphate-Induced Neurologic Dysfunction,"^[9] and Abou Donia the term, OPICN, or Organophosphate-Induced Chronic Neuropathy for describing these effects.^[10]
Low-level effects on the developing brains of fetuses, infants, and children have been documented as well^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Governmental review

The U.S. Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), passed in 1996, designated the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a 10 year review process of the health and environmental effects of all pesticides, beginning with the Organophosphates. The process has taken longer than expected, but was recently concluded and eliminated or modified thousands of uses. ^[11]
Many non-governmental and research groups, as well as the EPA's Office of Inspector General, have published concerns that the review did not take into account possible neurotoxic effects on developing fetuses and children, an area of developing research. OIG report. A group of leading EPA scientists sent a letter to the chief administrator, Stephen Johnson, decrying the lack of developmental neurotoxicity data in the review process. EPA Letter EHP article New studies have shown toxicity to developing organisms during certain "critical periods" at doses much lower than those previously suspected to cause harm.^[12]

[edit] See also

• Nerve agent

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/167726-overview

EXCERPT: 

Introduction

Background

Organophosphate (OP) compounds are a diverse group of chemicals used in both domestic and industrial settings. Examples of organophosphates include insecticides (malathion, parathion, diazinon, fenthion, dichlorvos, chlorpyrifos, ethion), nerve gases (soman, sarin, tabun, VX), ophthalmic agents (echothiophate, isoflurophate), and antihelmintics (trichlorfon). Herbicides (tribufos [DEF], merphos) are tricresyl phosphate–containing industrial chemicals.