Drug Lords and the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA's Master Killer

[Michael Best]

Excerpts from the Kindle edition, description from Amazon.com.

In “How to Get Away with Murder in America,” Evan Wright reveals the story
of Enrique “Ricky” Prado, an alleged killer for a major Miami drug
trafficker who was recruited into the CIA. Despite a grand jury subpoena
and a mountain of evidence unearthed by a federal task force, Prado was
promoted into the agency’s highest echelons and charged with implementing
some of the country’s most sensitive post-9/11 counterterrorist operations,
including the agency’s secret “targeted assassination unit.” All while
staying in close touch with his cocaine-trafficking boss and, evidence
suggests, taking part in additional killings for him.

After Prado retired in 2004 at the rank of SIS-2—the CIA equivalent of a
two-star general—he moved to a senior position at Blackwater, the private
military contractor, where he continued to run the same, now-outsourced
“death squad.” Contrary to government assurances that it was never actually
activated, Wright reveals testimony from one of the Blackwater assassins
that Prado’s unit was indeed carrying out assigned killings. As a former
military intelligence officer told Wright in 2011, “Private contractors are
whacking people like crazy over in Afghanistan for the CIA.”

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Unfortunately, while this book contains many tantalizing seeds it doesn't
provide context for many events. Further muddying the book's account is the
fact that it follows the investigation chronologically, and not the events
being investigated. Additional research is needed to build on what this
book began.

Excerpts posted to:
http://that1archive.neocities.org/excerpts/CIA-Master-Killer.html

Enjoy!

--Mike
That1Archive.neocities.org
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