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 Lana
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 The Technology Secrets of Cocaine 
#849490 - 08/28/02 02:42 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is a very interesting article, I'm only posting part of it, but you should go read all of it, here's one of my favorite passages.
"They (the druglords) track the radar sweeps of drug surveillance planes to map out gaps in coverage. They even use a fleet of submarines, mini-subs, and semisubmersibles to ferry drugs -- sometimes, ingeniously, to larger ships hauling cargoes of hazardous waste, in which the insulated bales of cocaine are stashed. "Those ships never get a close inspection, no matter what country you're in," says John Hensley, former head of enforcement for the U.S. Customs Service"
I've included a link so you can go read the rest.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,41206,FF.html
Have fun,
Lana
The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.
Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before.
By Paul Kaihla, July 2002 Issue
On a rainy night eight years ago in the Colombian city of Cali, crack counter-narcotics troops swarmed over the first floor of a low-rise condominium complex in an upscale neighborhood. They found no drugs or guns. But what they did find sent shudders through law enforcement and intelligence circles around the world.
The building was owned by a front man for Cali cocaine cartel leader Jos? Santacruz Londono. Inside was a computer center, manned in shifts around the clock by four to six technicians. The central feature of the facility was a $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe, the kind once used by banks, networked with half a dozen terminals and monitors. The next day, Colombia's attorney general secretly granted permission for U.S. agents to fly the mainframe immediately back to the United States, where it was subjected to an exhaustive analysis by experts from the Drug Enforcement Administration and various intelligence agencies. The so-called Santacruz computer was never returned to Colombian authorities, and the DEA's report about it is highly classified. But Business 2.0 has ferreted out many of its details. They make it clear why the U.S. government wants the Santacruz case kept quiet.
According to former and current DEA, military, and State Department officials, the cartel had assembled a database that contained both the office and residential telephone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Colombia, along with the entire call log for the phone company in Cali, which was leaked by employees of the utility. The mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software. It cross-referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the phone numbers of American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law enforcement officials. The computer was essentially conducting a perpetual internal mole-hunt of the cartel's organizational chart. "They could correlate phone numbers, personalities, locations -- any way you want to cut it," says the former director of a law enforcement agency. "Santacruz could see if any of his lieutenants were spilling the beans."
They were. A top Colombian narcotics security adviser says the system fingered at least a dozen informants -- and that they were swiftly assassinated by the cartel. A high-level DEA official would go only this far: "It is very reasonable to assume that people were killed as a result of this capability. Potential sources of information were compromised by the system."
The discovery of the Santacruz computer gave law enforcement officials a chilling glimpse into the cartels' rapidly evolving technological sophistication. But here's what is truly frightening: Since the discovery of the Santacruz system in 1994, the cartels' technological mastery has only grown. And it is enabling them to smuggle more dope than ever before.
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Re: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine [Re: Lana]
#872128 - 09/09/02 09:19 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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thats tight, thanks
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Re: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine [Re: Lana]
#881324 - 09/13/02 12:44 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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If I remember correctly the same cartel also had a submarine seized from them. Im not sure of all the details of it, but basicly they had a oceanfront property in which they built an underground annex. In that they built their own submarine(non nuclear of course). But that is devotion to smuggling coke around.
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Re: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine [Re: Lana]
#885053 - 09/16/02 05:53 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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>>>>> "Those ships never get a close inspection, no matter what country you're in," <<<<<
That is because the CIA / USA is behind the drug iradication efforets in other countries.. This drives up prices and the US cashes in on it by importing drugs from their own dealers.
Do you really think that such a cash crop would go untaped by the government?
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