ABC15.com news report - Posted November 30, 2011

by Corey Rangel and Maria Tomasch

"The threat that border corruption poses to national security ---it's by far the greatest threat that we're trying to address." - FBI

* 134 current or former U.S. border agents arrested or indicted

for corruption in the past seven years.

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Tribune Washington Bureau - March 19, 2012

by Richard A. Serrano

"Gun-tracking operation caught top suspect, let him go"

* ATF released gun smuggler Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta after

he agreed to provide continuing information against Mexican

drug cartel members linked to Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman.

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Tribune Washington Bureau - March 21, 2012

by Richard A. Serrano

"Drug lords targeted by Fast and Furious were FBI informants"

* Federal agents released alleged gun trafficker Manuel Fabian

Celis-Acosta to help them find two Mexican drug lords. Emails

reveal that the two drug lords were secret FBI informants.

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CBS5.com news report - Posted January 17, 2014

by Jonathan Lowe

"DEA accused of giving immunity to Sinaloa cartel"

* Pinal County (AZ) Sheriff Paul Babeu accused DEA of allowing

the Sinaloa cartel to smuggle drugs into the U.S. for 12 years in

exchange for information against a rival Mexican drug cartel.

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Wikipedia.org:

*Ramon Eduardo Arellano Felix - Leader of the Tijuana drug cartel

a.k.a. the Arellano Felix Organization (AFO).

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The Arizona Republic - June 19, 2020 Page 6A (azcentral.com)

"Nation + World Watch" section:

"US offers $10 million for arrests of 2 Colombian rebel chiefs"

* United States offering reward for two former rebel chiefs who are

members of Colombia's congress wanted by the DEA for continued

drug trafficking.