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Mexican Army Officers Implicated in Spying for Drug Lords
 Terra
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December 28, 2009
Mexico's Attorney General (PGR) has testimony indicating that Mexican Army personnel forewarned the Arturo Beltrán Leyva group of federal operations against them.
According to the testimony, the soldiers performed espionage tasks in order to notify the capo [Beltrán] of forays, raids on safe houses, and operations that sought his capture.
On several occasions, due to these leaks, Beltrán and several of his hit men were able to evade the actions against them.
Refroma had access to the statement of a detainee who worked for Beltrán and revealed these links.
Furthermore, Navy sources confirmed to Refroma that, in this criminal collaboration, a colonel and two majors assigned to the Cuernavaca-headquartered 24th Military Zone were involved.
They affirmed that the protection network extended to municipal, state, and ministerial police, and a number of Regional Federal Security Police.
According to Navy sources, the PGR has the information on the alleged protection by soldiers and police officers.
They added that parallel to the PGR investigation, the Navy will continue to collect data that strengthens the investigation. As of yet, no criminal charges have been filed against any military personnel in this case.
Refroma has also learned that since May 8 of this year the Deputy Attorney General's Office of Specialized Investigation into Organized Crime [SIEDO] has gathered information and evidence showing personnel of the Second Section [S-2: Military Intelligence], presumably attached to the 24th Military Zone, in collusion with drug traffickers.
When the Navy stormed the Altitude apartment complex [in Cuernavaca] on December 16, in the action that brought down Arturo Beltrán Leyva, the Army did not participate until after the death of the drug trafficker.
In previous operations carried out in Puebla and Morelos, where federal agents and military personnel were involved, Beltrán managed to escape despite being surrounded.
According to testimony in the inquiry, the pursued gunmen escaped and evidence disappeared from at least 12 safe houses and dwellings in Morelos.
According to testimony of an agent nicknamed "Blackie," a prisoner in Ensenada, in a sworn statement on May 8, brothers Mario and Alberto Pineda Villa, now deceased, were in contact with soldiers of the intelligence group named "GISES" [plural for GIS: geographic information system].
Mario Pineda was known as "MP," and he became Beltrán's main operator in Morelos. [Cuernavaca is the capital of the State of Morelos.]
The Beltrán [gang] also had a hit man nicknamed "Turruntuntún" in their ranks, a former soldier who had two informants in the Army in Morelos.
According to "Blackie," members of the criminal group operated out of four houses in Jojutla [south of Cuernavaca].
"Two of them were already checked by the Army, but they told us that so that we might withdraw before arriving there. There are two contacts with the Army, in Morelos, that inform. It is the intelligence group called GISES.
"I do not know [them] physically, but they are in contact with 'Turruntuntún' (...), and they are working for Señor 'Deleted/Erased,' a brother of MP. Another contact is the 'Sexton,' or 'The Priest' — he is known by two nicknames. They notify him of what the Army is going to do in Morelos," Blackie declared.
Terra-México, December 24, 2009, with information from the Reforma Group; translation MexiData.info (edited)
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