Fox News/Proceso Report on CIA Involvement in 1985 Murder of DEA Agent

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Sunday October 13, 2013 · 2:09 PM PDT

2013/10/13 · 14:09

In February 1985, undercover DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena was surrounded by Mexican DFS agents (DFS is a now- disbanded Mexican intelligence agency) as he went to meet his wife for lunch in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The DFS is known to have worked closely with Mexican drug traffickers in the 1980’s, and the agents blindfolded Camarena and took him to the nearby ranch of Guadalajara Cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero. Once at the ranch Camarena was brutally tortured until he eventually died:

Over 30 hours, Quintero and others crushed Camarena's skull, jaw, nose and cheekbones with a tire iron. They broke his ribs, drilled a hole in his head and tortured him with a cattle prod. As Camarena lay dying, Quintero ordered a cartel doctor to keep the U.S. agent alive.
"At that point he administered lidocaine into his heart to keep him alert and awake during the torture," said Berrellez.

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