Enrique Camarena Salazar was a DEA agent who worked in Guadalajara during the first half of the 1980s. At that time, a powerful and universally feared secret police force known by the acronym DFS controlled a significant portion of Mexico’s drug trade. Its officials distributed DFS badges to the biggest traffickers, including Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Miguel Félix Gallardo, and Juan Esparragoza Moreno. In this way, agents of the corrupt secret police and drug traffickers formed an informal alliance that the public later began referring to as the so-called Guadalajara Cartel.
None of them had to fear arrest, because there was no one in the country who would dare cross the terrifying DFS (the Mexican equivalent of the KGB). Moreover, as the documents attached below reveal, drug traffickers also bribed local police units, the federal police, and the army. The only enemies of the drug lords were DEA agents. And from the criminals’ perspective, the most active, most well-known, and most hated agent was Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
From the DEA office in Guadalajara, he managed to uncover a number of gigantic marijuana plantations that Mexican authorities, under pressure from the Americans, were forced to destroy. Due to the substantial financial losses, U.S. anti-drug agents began receiving threats, until the worst finally happened. The final straw for the narcos was Operation Pacífico in November 1984, when the Mexican government was compelled to destroy the largest marijuana plantations in history. Although the DEA office in Guadalajara had nothing to do with the discovery and destruction of the sophisticated fields in the desert of the state of Chihuahua, the leading figures of the so-called Guadalajara Cartel once again blamed Camarena and his colleagues for their losses.
This collection includes 39 documents, most of which were prepared by Enrique Camarena himself. They reveal perverse yet fascinating details about the day-to-day operations of the drug “cartel” under the protection of corrupt sociopaths from the DFS. The final three documents contain transcripts of Camarena’s interrogation after he was kidnapped on February 7, 1985. Corrupt police officers and traffickers led by Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo recorded the entire interrogation, and after it ended, they tortured Camarena to death.
TECS Lookout F-82-0364 placed on N-6277U and Ruben ZUNO-Arce
EPIC FAA L/O F82-0364 GFTB -82-9033
FAA L/O (Results) GFTB-82-9034 (EPIC ALERT NBR F82-0364)
POSSIBLE COMPROMISE OF EPIC LOOKOUT INFORMATION (EPIC FAA L/O F82-0364), GFTB-82-9022
Calls from Fonseca’s home
Requested Subscriber Information
Initiation of Investigation Into the Narcotics Trafficking Activities of Manuel CHAVEZ
Undercover Negotiations with Manuel CHAVEZ Regarding Two Kilograms of Heroin
Smuggling of marijuana via 45′ trailers by Productos Pesqueros de Obregon owned by GAXIOLA-Montoya, Jorge Abel
Locations of Large Marijuana Fields in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
Identification of ÑOÑO, aka Comandante Aparicio. True Name is Felipe APARICIO-Nuñez
Debriefing of (CI)
Trafficking Activity
Intelligence Information on Marijuana Growers Operating out of the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
Intelligence Information on Marijuana Cultivation in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
Movement of 60 AK-47 Rifles from Reynosa, Tamps., to Fresnillo Mexico and Identification of Account Number 354-6 used by Manuel CHAVEZ and Rafael CARO QUINTERO to Transfer Money used to Finance Marijuana Cultivation
Location of Marijuana Fields in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
Radio Frequencies that Marijuana Growers Operating in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico are using to Facilitate Cultivation, Transporting, and Police Protection
Movement of 60 Tons of Fertilizer that are to be Used in the Cultivation of Marijuana in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico by Rafael CARO QUINTERO
Death of DFS Comandante Felipe APARICIO NUNEZ aka Comandante NONO
Verification that Ramiro MIRELES Purchased Rancho El Caminero, Municipio de Banon, Zacatecas, Mexico
Intelligence Information Regarding Rafael CARO QUINTERO
DFS Agent Miguel Angel VIELMA HERAS Replaces ex-DFS Comandante Felipe APARICIO NUNEZ and Arrival of about 150 AK-47 Assault Rifles in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico
Change of G-Dep Identifier from DA5-H2 to DA5-M1
Meeting of Major Marijuana Growers in Guadalajara and the Transportation of 96 Pounds of Cocaine from Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Debriefing of (CI) Regarding Manuel CHAVEZ et al and the Pending Delivery/Sale of Heroin
Arrival of 300 Kilograms of Marijuana Seeds, 10 to 15 Kilograms of Opium Poppy Seeds, and 300 Laborers in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico
Possible Seizure of 30 Tons of Marijuana by the Mexican Army Stationed in Caborca, Sonora, Mexico
Meeting of Marijuana Growers in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico and Transfer of $260,000,000 Pesos by Rafael CARO QUINTERO from Guadalajara to Fresnillo, Mexico
Debriefing of (CI) regarding marijuana cultivation in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
$3,000,000.00 Pesos Pay-Off for Police Protection to the State of Zacatecas, Mexico Director of State Judicial Police J. Refugio PULIDO-Garcia by Manuel Chavez
Negotiation for a sale of several tons of marijuana from Manuel CHAVEZ and Ramiro MIRELES
Issuance of Visas to Juan Jose QUINTERO PAYAN, Under the Name of Antonio RUIZ VASQUEZ, Jose GONZALEZ MARTINEZ and Alfonso QUINTERO HEREIDA in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Intelligence Information re: Juan Jose QUINTERO PAYAN and Possible Location of a 40 Hectare (100 Acres) Field of Marijuana Near Tumbiscatillo, Michoacan, Mexico
Property of Ernesto FONSECA CARRILLO
Debriefing of (CI)
Interrogation of Camarena 1
Interrogation of Camarena 2
Interrogation of Camarena 3