White Lines, Black Ops

[EndtheMadnessNow]

A guy who worked as an enforcer for a coke dealer in Miami who's suspected of at least 7 unsolved murders was subsequently hired by the CIA, ran the CIA/Blackwater assassination program '04-'06 and went on to become the COO of a Blackwater subsidiary.

In 1982, Prado took an assignment with the CIA's Special Activities Division embedded with the Contras, a brutal anti-communist insurgency intent on toppling the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Prado's assignment entailed training, supplying and fighting alongside the rebels.

In 1983, Congress passed a series of laws that effectively outlawed Prado's job helping the Contras. Undeterred, the Reagan administration continued to provide support for the unconventional war illegally through operations administered by the National Security Council and private companies. Ultimately, the administration's assistance to the Contras was half of the Iran-Contra affair.

In 2010, James Risen and Mark Mazzetti reported that Blackwater Worldwide had built a network of over 30 shell companies and subsidiaries in tax havens such as Barbados to hide their involvement in government contract work.

One of those subsidiaries was Total Intelligence Solutions, whose executive board included three amigos from the CTC: Cofer Black, Robert Richer and Ric Prado. Launched in February 2007, Total Intelligence Solutions offered CIA expertise for private corporate clients. According to reporting from Ken Silverstein in 2006, Blackwater was "aggressively" recruiting Jose Rodriguez, who was the CIA's clandestine service chief at the time. Ultimately, Rodriguez chose a different path.

From 2012 until the time of his arrest, Garcia Luna lived in Florida and operated a security consultancy firm called GLAC with offices in Miami and Mexico City. According to the company's website, GLAC's executive board members as of October 2017 included Raul Roldan, formerly the FBI’s chief representative at the U.S. embassy in Mexico, and Jose Rodriguez, the aforementioned former CIA clandestine service chief.

White Lines, Black Ops

Lengthy article with pics, court transcripts, etc.

I'm guessing that has multiplied geometrically by now. There are more cut throats working for the government than outside it I would wager.  What a vipers nest.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

A guy who worked as an enforcer for a coke dealer in Miami who's suspected of at least 7 unsolved murders was subsequently hired by the CIA, ran the CIA/Blackwater assassination program '04-'06 and went on to become the COO of a Blackwater subsidiary.

In 1982, Prado took an assignment with the CIA's Special Activities Division embedded with the Contras, a brutal anti-communist insurgency intent on toppling the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Prado's assignment entailed training, supplying and fighting alongside the rebels.

In 1983, Congress passed a series of laws that effectively outlawed Prado's job helping the Contras. Undeterred, the Reagan administration continued to provide support for the unconventional war illegally through operations administered by the National Security Council and private companies. Ultimately, the administration's assistance to the Contras was half of the Iran-Contra affair.

In 2010, James Risen and Mark Mazzetti reported that Blackwater Worldwide had built a network of over 30 shell companies and subsidiaries in tax havens such as Barbados to hide their involvement in government contract work.

One of those subsidiaries was Total Intelligence Solutions, whose executive board included three amigos from the CTC: Cofer Black, Robert Richer and Ric Prado. Launched in February 2007, Total Intelligence Solutions offered CIA expertise for private corporate clients. According to reporting from Ken Silverstein in 2006, Blackwater was "aggressively" recruiting Jose Rodriguez, who was the CIA's clandestine service chief at the time. Ultimately, Rodriguez chose a different path.

From 2012 until the time of his arrest, Garcia Luna lived in Florida and operated a security consultancy firm called GLAC with offices in Miami and Mexico City. According to the company's website, GLAC's executive board members as of October 2017 included Raul Roldan, formerly the FBI’s chief representative at the U.S. embassy in Mexico, and Jose Rodriguez, the aforementioned former CIA clandestine service chief.

White Lines, Black Ops

Lengthy article with pics, court transcripts, etc.

I'm guessing that has multiplied geometrically by now. There are more cut throats working for the government than outside it I would wager.  What a vipers nest.

Sounds like it would make a good spin off of "Ozark".