Colombia ‘peace talks hacker’ blows whistle, implicates military and Uribe in spy scandal
Colombia ‘peace talks hacker’ blows whistle, implicates military and Uribe in spy scandal
Aug 25, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
Colombia’s military, its intelligence agency under former President Alvaro Uribe, and the family of former presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga were all directly involved with illegal spying on the ongoing peace talks, the alleged spy said in an interview on Sunday.
Computer engineer Andres Sepulveda was arrested in May, weeks before the elections, and accused of illegally spying on the peace talks that are held between the government and rebel group FARC in Cuba.
In an interview with weekly Semana, Sepulveda admitted to the spying and clarified he worked closely with “Andromeda,” a covert spying operation run by members of Military Intelligence that was discovered and apparently shut down by prosecutors in February.
Military commanders sold information
“Andromeda had everything. What we did with Andromeda was buy information favorable to the objectives of the Oscar Ivan Zuluaga campaign and follow up on the instructions” to counter the peace talks.
Uribe, the president of Colombia between 2002 and 2010, “had been leading” this campaign opposing the peace talks “using different pawns,” said Sepulveda.
The former president had been supported by members within the military loyal to the former commander in chief, and who opposed efforts by current President Juan Manuel Santos to negotiate peace with the country’s largest and longest-living rebel group.
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