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Judi Lynn

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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 02:26 PM Jun 2012

Paramilitary emails allege CIA worked with AUC .

Paramilitary emails allege CIA worked with AUC .
Wednesday, 06 June 2012 14:28
Brandon Barrett

An estimated 700 emails from the computer of former AUC commander and drug lord Vicente Castaño revealed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and many top Colombian politicians may have been working with the paramilitary group.

The emails, uncovered by RCN Radio, were delivered to Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office by former AUC member and Castaño confidante, Jesus Ignacio Roldan Perez, alias "Monoleche."

One of the messages revealed that Vicente's brother Carlos, who founded the extreme right paramilitary group the Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU) with Vicente, allegedly spoke with CIA agents to help American authorities capture the leaders of the Cali Cartel, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and Jose Santacruz-Londoño.

Santacruz-Londoño was killed in 1996 while attempting to flee police after escaping from a Bogota prison months before. Rodriguez, who was extradited to the U.S. in 2004, is currently serving a 30 year sentence in Pennsylvania for drug trafficking.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/24455-700-paramilitary-emails-reveal-auc-allegedly-worked-with-cia.html

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