US court orders CIA to reveal documents on Pablo Escobar . [View all]
US court orders CIA to reveal documents on Pablo Escobar .
Monday, 20 August 2012 17:51 Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
A US court has ordered the CIA to make public documents concerning links between the anti-Escobar vigilante group Los PEPES and the US government.
The driving force behind the process to make the documents public has been the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which has been engaged in a legal battle against the CIA since 2004 to facilitate the publication of all documents mentioning Pablo Escobar and Los PEPES (People persecuted by Pablo Escobar) from the CIA archives.
IPS claimed the CIA is deliberately concealing information about its connection to Los PEPES, which was founded in 1993 by enemies of the notorious drug lord with the same name.
Many founding members of Los PEPES, such as “Don Berna” and the three brothers Carlos, Vicente and Fidel Castaño, would later move on to create the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, a paramilitary organization guilty of widespread murder and terrorism in its self-proclaimed battle against Colombia’s left-wing FARC and ELN rebels.
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