Money Laundering & Murder in Colombia: Official Documents Point to DEA Complicity

Prior to his lifeless body being thrown from a car onto the hard pavement of a Bogotá road, the informant had been reported missing after embarking on a trip to the airport.

The informant’s death was due to a deceit that has since metastasized inside the DEA and is spreading like a cancer, threatening to undermine any credibility the agency might have gained in the years since its creation in the 1970s.

The core of that deceit is outlined in a memo leaked to Narco News in 2006. That memo, drafted by Department of Justice attorney Thomas M. Kent in December 2004, contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. antinarcotics officers: that DEA agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers’ payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants, and directly involved in helping Colombia’s infamous paramilitary death squads to launder drug money.

To date, officials with DEA — and the Department of Justice under which it is housed — have been content to dismiss Kent’s allegations as being without merit, the product of a simple turf war between rival agents.

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