US embassy took part in DEA plot to discredit Colombia's war crimes tribunal

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema December 14, 2020

A US Embassy official was actively involved in a DEA conspiracy to discredit Colombia’s war crimes tribunal last year, evidence released by Noticias Uno showed.

In a letter, Special agent Craig M. Michelin of the DEA’s Country Office asked his liaison at Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in February last year to provide $500,000 for an illegal operation against the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).

Local media previously implicated Michelin in a conspiracy that led to the arrest of former FARC ideologue “Jesus Santrich” that sunk Colombia’s peace process in crisis in April 2018.

The criminal conspiracy to extradite Santrich began failing in October after which a DEA agent flew in for a second conspiracy to entrap the JEP’s chief prosecutor, Giovanni Alvarez, and magistrate Ivan Gonzalez.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/us-embassy-took-part-in-dea-plot-to-discredit-colombias-war-crimes-tribunal/

[captain queeg]

1. In case you thought the spooks were all idle under trump

DEA still Screwing around in other countries.