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Related: About this forumCIA re-hired sacked agent after Colombia terrorism claims: report
by Adriaan Alsema September 28, 2020
US intelligence agency CIA allegedly rehired a previously sacked agent after he was accused of ordering crimes against humanity in Colombia, a prosecutor told newspaper El Espectador.
According to the newspaper, the anonymous prosecution official said he met James Lee Adkins in the US embassy in Bogota in 2003 and was told that the former security chief of US mining company Drummond had again been hired by the CIA while a US court was investigating him for the murder of labor union leaders.
Adkins was fired by the CIA in 1987 over his role in the so-called Iran-Contra affair, Special Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh reported in 1993.
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Former paramilitary fighter Miguel, who assassinated the president and vice-president of Drummonds labor union in March 2001, was sentenced in 2009 after both a US court and a Colombian court that the order had come from the very top of Drummond.
Atkins mentioned that the decision to dismantle the union SINTRAMIENERGETICA was a direct order from Gary Drummond and Mike Tracy. That same day, Jim Atkins verbally gave Jaime Blanco the names of the Drummond unionists: Gustavo Soler, William Liscano, Yuris Pareja, Victor Guerra, Valmore Locarno, Victor Hugo Orcasita, Alejandro Vergara and Raul Sosa.
Miguel
More:
https://colombiareports.com/cia-re-hired-sacked-agent-after-colombia-terrorism-claims-report/
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Declaration of Jhon Jairo Esquivel Cuadrado
I, Jhon Jairo Esquivel Cuadrado, swear under penalty of perjury of the laws of the
United States that what follows is based on my direct and personal knowledge, and
is truthful and correct:
1. My name is Jhon Jairo Esquivel Cuadrado. As I will describe herein, my
alias was El Tigre, and I was the commander of the Juan Andrés Álvarez
Front of the Northern Block of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
(Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) from the middle of 1996 until the
moment of my capture on July 19, 2000. The Front was under the command
of Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias Jorge 40. My Front operated in the
municipalities of Bosconia, El Paso, La Jagua de Ibirico, Becerril, Agustín
Codazzi, San Diego, La Paz, and Chiriguaná. Within these municipalities
we focused our operations especially in the townships of Cuatro Vientos, La
Loma, Loma Linda, Rincón Hondo, Loma Colorada, Casacará, Estados
Unidos, Palizá, Vedecia, and Minguillo. See Exhibit A, map of the region in
Colombia that delineates the operation area of the Juan Andrés Álvarez
Front.
More of his statement:
http://iradvocates.org/sites/default/files/12.03.09%20Decl%20%20El%20Tigre%20ENG-SPA%20+%20Exhs%20FINAL.pdf
Some of the victims
"El Tigre", One of the last faces many people ever saw, victims whom Drummond Coal Company, headquarters Birmingham, Alabama, wanted to go away due to their union organizing.
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