Espionage
Israeli Intelligence Trained Mexican Forces in Body Disposal and Surveillance Technology
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"The acid, basically, bath that they learned from, again, Israeli specialists way back when, when some of the initial parts of this struggle were kind of kicked off and they were hiring people to show them ways of doing what they do. We had a lot of Israeli instructors and a lot of Israeli specialists in technologies basically being employed and taught to and put out during my time active."
Calderon disclosed that Israeli specialists trained Mexican counter-narcotics forces in caustic acid body disposal techniques and provided early surveillance technology, including BlackBerry cracking tools. This training was later adopted by cartels themselves, revealing how Israeli intelligence tradecraft proliferated to criminal organizations through the Mexican security apparatus.
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