00:00In February 1985, a federal agent was tortured to death over 30 hours while a doctor kept him
00:05alive on purpose. His name was Enrique Camarena. He was a DEA agent working in Guadalajara, Mexico.
00:12He had spent years building a case against one of the most powerful drug networks in the world.
00:17Then someone told the cartel he was coming. He was grabbed outside the U.S. consulate in broad
00:21daylight. What followed was recorded. The tapes existed, and when investigators finally traced
00:26who was in that room during those 30 hours. Some of the names they found were connected to
00:31American intelligence. Not the cartel. American intelligence. Camarena had been getting close to
00:37a drug operation that some investigators believe was quietly funded by elements of the U.S.
00:42government, used to finance off-books operations during the Cold War. The full file has never been
00:47released. Dozens of documents remain classified to this day. A DEA agent may have been handed to his
00:52killers by the people he worked for, and the government has never fully explained why.
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