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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R002500070024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 7, 1994
• Content Type: MEMO

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SG1A 1. Personality profile on
BACKGRaTJND: In an +opan source latter tc a Colombian newspaper,
SG1A - claims to .be serious about a negotiated surrender. He
believes the TJ, S . government must tape part (even if c~r~ly
unofficially) in the negc~t~.ations. He claims his reasons for
surrender include: a) Move of family; b) tc~ demonstrate how
deceived ax's those who have labeled (him? a big drug traffic}~ar
and the "chief" of the Cali cartel; and c) because the law of
nature tells us we moat r$spond fc~r our acti.azxs by surrendering
tca justice, but in no war tC7 injustice, as the general Froseouto:~
SG1A ?f the nation wants.
also claims there has k~sen ~, ge~xerational change in
drug trafficking; that there are many people today under ~~ yew`s
cif age who have no criminal reavxds anal are not known by
~'olombian or IDEA officials who are working in the drug k:us.iness
full time. He also says there are many cartels, not just one,
a.17.-pc~werfr~l, Cali cartel which does everything a~xd of which he
is the ~,,ead.
cur questions
SG1A 1. Haw sincere ig about
su~`rendering?
~ . Tf he does su~'rek~de7r, does he plan to retire from
narcotra~ficking, or merely to maintaizx a "low profile" and still
run the business from behind the scenes'
3. Does he plan to appoint a successor?
~ . Ccl~smbian Drug Submersib~,e
EACKc~Rt~UND: can ~ Sep 94, the Calcambian Cc~aat Guard seized an
abandoned 23 ft submersible vassal in Guachaquita Bay, just
northeast oaf Santa Marta on Colombia'a north coast, This was the
second submersible-type drug vessel seixad in sass than 18
months. {The first craft, seized in May 93, was a sem~.-
submere~.k~~.e, designed to ride 1.c~w in the water, but nc~t submerge;
this second Draft is believed to b~ capable of short, shallow
dives and was als~s designed to be towed, by another vessel.)
HLTMINT sc~urcas indicate both types ar?~ being built xn the
vicinity of Santa Marta, CO. Raport~dly they ors being used to
transport drugs in the Caribbean region.
Cur questions:
~, Cc~noerning the second ~re~ssel (submersible) : haw many are in
e~cistence? Where era they located?
2. Describe the builder. Is the builder also a trafficker ar an
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,independent whc merely builds the craft and sells them to the
:highest bidden?
3. Wk~ere d~ the craft operate? (fan you give specific
routes/departure paints/dest~,~,a~.ions?)
4. What c+~ntrabanc~ deer the craft carry/deliver'? (Cocaine,
herc~~,n, arms, a7,.i~e~x~, e~c,'~)
5. Why aren't we seeing more Qf these vessels in the Caribbean?
(Because they don't ex~.et?; they ax~e~.' ~ Y~eiz~g used a lc~t?;
they're cr~ly used at night?; they are tao stealthy and hard to
detect?; etc.)
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