American Embassies and Consulates In Mexico Working With Cartels To Fast-Track Visas

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1. DEA has 81 Foreign Offices in 61 countries. One of them is Mexico City.

   We have a long history there . On February 1985 DEA agent Kiki Camarena was kidnapped by police officers hired by the Guadalajara Cartel. After being brutally tortured for information, Camarena was eventually killed.

   I know many agents who served in Mexico . They were all straight arrows. Except one one who Internal Affairs arrested for taking money from an informant in a convoluted investigation.

   I believe that a lot of the Visa tasks at the US Embassy and Consulates are generally carried out by locals but a US Consular officer has final approval authority . Over 53,000 locally hired employees do staff work across US missions globally.

   This allegation could be true and deserves to be investigated.

   1. I hope it IS, in fact, investigated, Fred. I just shake my head that this kind of thing can be happening within American government.

2. I have a friend who retired from DEA. He began his second career with American Airlines
   overseeing security at all AA stations world wide. Prior to 9/11 he would hire locals do do the screening of passengers. Backgrounds were done by the station chief. My friend was stationed in London and put in 12 years before retiring again. He is convinced that his system was just as good as TSA.

   1. I have no doubt, Fred, that there are better ways to do airline security than the TSA.

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