What is Going On at the DEA?

The DEA is pretty much a full on spook organization. Way back, NSA dreamt of being able to go to a country, demand access to their communications networks, and then being allowed to go in and wire whatever they wanted into the backbone of it. One day, they discovered that countries like Colombia, who which would tell NSA to get lost, welcomed the DEA with open arms, because they feared narco-fueled rebel movements threatening their hold on power. Whereas they saw NSA as a rival to their own intelligence networks, DEA was a vital ally who would help them hold onto power.

No fools, NSA began cozying up to DEA, getting NSA executives hired on into positions of authority in DEA, those executive would then fill the ranks of DEA with agents loyal to NSA. NSA also began providing free training and technical support to DEA, so NSA guys had access to what DEA guys had access to, and so on. Pretty soon, DEA was being called NSA’s little brother, and anytime a DEA technical services team went in to take over a foreign communications network, NSA was piggybacking on their access, and gaining exactly the type of free and easy access that they previously could only dream of.

I find it hard to believe DEA and NSA melded to that extent, without DEA ending up a first class intel operation, and the operators they send to the hotspots in the drug war I would imagine are first class professionals. And yet, we have this – DEA Have Sex Parties in Columbia with Cartel-Provided Hookers. Was this all carelessness, or did these agents, knowing what they know, conclude that it did not matter, because the cartels were not a threat?

We are in very strange times, and they just seem to keep getting stranger and stranger. It is getting to the point that I would believe anything.

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Phelps
8 years ago

That IS first class. The “professionalism” of the NSA is a myth. They are just another bunch of computer nerds, only underpaid because they are on the general civil service scale.

Mark Minter
Mark Minter
8 years ago

First though, you gotta know something about Colombia. And about the origination of this report.

Here is the report. It is a feminist hatchet job, all designed to punish men who use hookers in foreign countries where prostitution is legal.

http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/2015/e1504.pdf#page=1

This occurred 2005-2009 and from what I gathered in Tolima at the Tolemada Air Base outside Melgar. This town is sort of a smallish place down along the Magdelena River which is the main river than runs the spine of the country, south to north and empties into the sea at Barranquilla. It mostly is kind of a hot weather destination for people from Bogota, two hours away. There are lots of houses with pools for rent by the day. And it is hot as hell there. And a touch backwards. I ate in a typical chicken place and the only cooling was from fans up high on the wall.

There are multiple levels of legal hookers in Colombia, from brothels where you go in the living room and they parade out girls for you to pick one, to classifieds, and there are these sorts of clubs, like topless clubs, except all the girls are pros. You pay a bar fine to take them out. Some of them you might “pay” like a hooker, some set fee. Others she “parties” with you, leaves with you, you just sort of keep her with you and the girl stays as long as it is “profitable” for her to do so. If you have fun stuff to do, a nice place to stay, decent food, going out to party, she hangs around. Then at some point she makes up some reason to go, and then some urgent need for cash, to pay rent, sick mother, etc. And it is all some sob story and besides you like her so you hand her 200-300 bucks. This latter regime is as common as anything. This informal party girl escort thing. It is sort of the Colombian version of GFE.

And also, by 2005, there was no “cartel” as people have it in mind, some Pablo Escobar organization. That shit had been broken up a long time ago and there was quite a lot of confusion as to who was who. There was still a civil war going on. A real civil war between leftists and rightists, throw in some drug runners who leaned right but often had deals with the FARC. Especially in the Melgar area. It was “safe” due to the concentration of military and US stuff down there. the US stuff being to both spray and to run radars that tracked planes. And Tolemada was the main place, the biggest Air Base closest to Bogota. So all kinds of US came in and out of there. DEA, CIA, contractors, US military.

The issue noted in the report was that DEA agents had brought the “party” from one of these clubs back to their apartment and were quite raucous. And normally in Colombia, people party and others tolerate it much more than in the US. But this one caused the management of the property to end up reporting the behavior to the authorities at the Air Base and ultimately it made it to the local bosses of the DEA.

The report also notes that the DEA agents “should have known that there was the possibilities that the women were paid for by the Cartel.”

And this a a joke. It has been noted that “Narco” as a prefix to things is ridiculous in the Colombia of that time. Narco-Terrorism. Fuck you might as well have said Narco-Supermarket, Narco-Bus Company, Narco-Construction Company because drug money was so much a part of the economy.

Prior to 9/11, the USG was loathe to support the Colombian government in its fight with the FARC. Things blew up in their faces in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. And nobody in Pentagon wanted to get hauled in front of Congress. Already this notion of Human Rights Violations had become issues with the Colombian Military. Leftist groups would send “Observers” to make reports and these would get raised with the various NGOs and the US government. Any aid could be denied to areas and organizations that had the taint of one of these allegations. And US careers would be ruined via association.

With 9/11, that all changed. Narco-Terrorism became a workable watchword for the Bush government who has more than willing to lend aid if shown connection to “Terrorism” could be shown. So then “Narco” began to get tossed around quite a bit. And given DEA and DOJ attempts to throttle money laundering, then there were side effects. And it became hard to draw a line between clean and Narco in just about any business sector.

And a lot of Colombian drug profits have nothing to do with anything about the US. Colombians use a lot of drugs. Pot is ever present. It is nothing for someone to pull out a joint and light it up, You can go to any park and see guys standing around and selling pre-rolled joints. Outside of any major store there are usually street vendors and the one selling the little pipes usually also has pot. You can pick up coke and recreational stuff like X in most major night clubs. And there is also money made in the production and transportation of Cocaine.

There are few “large” cartel type groups, one the last ones was the AUC, who had ripped areas of it away from the FARC in order to starve them of income and also to use that money in funding their counter-insurgency activities. Usually some drug group was just some guys and it lasted as long as it lasted, which often was particularly long.

But one of the key ways to clean the money was to open a business that was cash oriented and two types of these were often key. Bars and Motels. A motel in Colombia is sort of an “hourly” hotel, often nicer than commercial hotels. Most Colombians live in multigenerational houses with grandparents, parents, kids all in the same domicile. And these motels fill the need for privacy. And the are used by cheating wives and husbands, hookups, pickups, one night stands, and to meet up with hookers. Part of the reason they are so nice is that many are built with drug money. And they are private. Many have big gates with a guard outside, and then closed garages. You drive into the walls surrounding the property and drive around until a garage door opens in front of you. You pull in and that is your room. It is attached to the garage. So no one ever knows you stayed there. You can pay in cash and many do so as not to leave a record. And many Colombians do not have any sort of debit or credit cards. So it is a perfect laundry.

The same can be said of bars. Especially these strip club or hooker bars. And some bars have no real formal association with escorts. It is just known as the place to find them. You go, they are there. You drink, you dance with them. Then you leave with them. Everything is assumed, implied. There is no “You pay 200 dollars”.

And it takes a while down there to get a grip on all the temptation that is available. And for many Americans on their first trip, they have no clue what is what. They are lead around by locals. And the locals in this case, back in 2005, wanted the Americans to help them in their war with the FARC. And also they wanted the Americans to think favorable of them and of Colombia. And often, the locals aren’t doing anything wrong by local customs. So they never have a clue that they could be exposing the Americans to some shit where some Feminist screamer might get pissed that some guy fucked a girl that turned to be paid to be there by someone else.

Fuck back then, every girls in the country was friendly with Americans. And many of these DEA guys back in the day were former soldiers, masculine guys, and mostly, White. This gives them at least a 2 point SMV bump down there. And we know how girls like foreign guys if they are the right kind of foreign and to a Colombian girl in 2005, back before all the sex tourism and gringos had run the place into the ground, and especially in Melgar, a white American received an attention he never had gotten before. I recalled it like being 32 again. To go into a club and every woman stares at you and follows you as you walk to a table. To be warmly received at any attempt at conversation is weird for an American guy in this day and age of bitchy mean feminist American women.

And the age of consent in Colombia is 14. Any one can fuck her. Even her dad. There is no incest law there. There are some grey areas, you can’t trick them. And there is some grey area about getting them drunk if they are under 18. The law says they are not supposed to work for hooker places until 18, but that is something that is easily ignored. They might ask the girl, “How old are you.” and she says “18” and they say “Fine.” There is no ID check. There is no Alcohol police going around busting clubs especially in Melgar.

You could ask any cabbie to find you a young hooker and he could find 14 year olds, maybe younger standing on some street corner in some known part of town. And these Americans down there, back in that time, often for some short trip as advisors, sort of took what they found as OK, legal. When a girl is walking around in a bar, they assumed she is OK to be there. When she sits at their table and drinks, he figures somebody thinks its OK or nobody gives a fuck. And nobody did.

And also in Colombia, there is no liquor by the drink, usually. You buy bottles and they bring over whatever mixer you want with some lemons, limes, and other stuff. You make you own drinks. And Americans get too drunk. You gotta couple of bottles of rum, some tequilla, and this Colombian stuff Aguardiente on the table. And you make your drinks too strong. And everyone fucks up and gets their own bottle.

And it takes you a few trips to learn how to deal all this shit. You learn to get the small bottle of aguadiente, to eat the stuff they bring out with the mixers, too dance more. But on your first trips, when you got a hot young girl who is hanging on your every word, and every one is drinking, and the girl gets closer. And its hot and exotic. And you are just doing what is done around you, when you don’t speak a lot of spanish, you don’t recognize anything about the culture. And is the girl a hooker if no talk of money comes up? You don’t know about the party girl thing where the hook comes later, when she goes to leave. You have no clue how she is there, why she is there. She is just there and willing.

And really nobody thought anything was going on that was wrong. And so the DEA local heads and even the higher ups figured fuck it. And not until some liberal shrike, some do gooder, perhaps a woman, that informer mentioned in the report, or some white knight wishing to curry favor escalates what is a normal Saturday night in Colombia.

It was so normal, that even when you go in the club, they have wands they scan for weapons. So then the local cops have them and the bar owner says, No guns and alcohol. And the guys hand over their weapons and they are held in an office or in the front and some young Colombian cop stays by them and the door to keep watch over both the weapons and the door.

They know this is Colombia and shit happens. I knew a kid, a young National Policemen who was about to get off his shift who was standing on the side of the street waiting to be picked up from his post. His partners had gone to check out a wreck and since he was due to get off, stayed and waited. A motorcycle pulls up and they shoot him first in the arm by his side arm and then in the eye. He used his cell phone to call his mother as he was dying. So every cop has his gun, but the bar is a bar, so they make arrangements and the US guys do what they do. It is like saying “Here let me take your coat.” Same thing.

So now some bitch who is annoyed that men actually get to fuck women when they leave the US, is imposing a code of conduct on US men in foreign countries that the long arm of the matriarchy can even control their behavior there.

This is more a story about political opportunism than any moral breakdown in the DEA.

Jeff
Jeff
8 years ago

To Mark Minter,
That was an amazing response. Thanks.