From: [t--ub--o] at [shore.net] (Theodore Dubro)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.libertarian,rec.drugs.cannabis,rec.drugs.misc
Subject: DEA Implicated In Colombia
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 13:58:03 -0400

        BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A Colombian politician on Wednesday 
accused U.S. drug agents of plotting against the government and 
read what he said were transcripts of taped conversations of agents 
discussing Colombia's political crisis.  
        Relations between the United States and Colombia have soured 
amid allegations that President Ernesto Samper's 1994 election 
campaign took money from the Cali drug cartel.  
        Rep. Carlos Alonso Lucio read alleged transcripts of Anthony 
Seneca, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Bogota, and 
another agent discussing the crisis. The presentation was made 
during a congressional session broadcast live on national 
television.  
        Lucio, a former member of a leftist guerrilla group, also played 
a tape of what he said was a conversation between Seneca and the 
brother-in-law of a former cartel accountant who is now cooperating 
with the DEA in the United States.  
        Lucio said the tapes and transcripts prove the DEA helped Cali 
cartel accountant Guillermo Pallomari get out of Colombia, where he 
is wanted on several charges.  
        ``This is a conspiracy,'' he said.  
        The U.S. embassy in Bogota refused to comment. Lucio did not say 
how he got the tapes, who was tapping the DEA's phone calls, or 
when the conversations were recorded.  
        Meanwhile, Heyne Mogollon, a congressman heading an 
investigation into allegations that Samper's election campaign took 
drug money, is facing allegations of financial wrongdoing during 
his own campaign.  
        In an audiotape of a telephone conversation released Wednesday, 
a man identified as Mogollon is heard asking a bank branch 
president to lie about a $20,000 loan granted to Mogollon. Bogota's 
El Espectador newspaper reported two weeks ago that Mogollon 
illegally used the money in his campaign.  
        It is not clear who taped the call, or when it was recorded. It 
was broadcast by Noticiero Nacional, a television news program.  
        In the conversation, Mogollon assures the bank president that 
for his help he will be ``in good with the president,'' an apparent 
reference to Samper.  
        During an interview on an evening news show, Mogollon called the 
tape a fake.  
        Prosecutors have jailed three of Samper's campaign leaders, and 
one has testified Samper knew about contributions from the Cali 
cartel, the world's largest drug gang.  

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