Robert Mazur - The Betrayal
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Robert Mazur delivers again with The Betrayal. As with its predecessor, The Infiltrator, Mazur artfully takes the reader through the harrowing account of life as an undercover cop embedded in the drug cartels. In my career I take on characters in life-or-death situations, but I just cant imagine how Mazur does it for real! Read it and find out. I highly recommend it.
Bryan Cranston, star of Breaking Bad and winner of Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards for best actor
The Betrayal details the malicious world of drugs and money laundering and the danger of being a DEA undercover agent infiltrating these organizations. A book you cant put down, nor will you.
Joseph Pistone a.k.a. Donnie Brasco, author of Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
The Betrayal is a page-turning thriller about a courageous agents simultaneous journey through a deadly vise of internal corruption and the ruthless threat of cartel killers. This is the unfortunate reality of the underworld.
Michael S. Vigil, former DEA chief of international operations and author of Deal
FATF was created to help governments follow the money and reduce the harm caused by drug traffickers and terrorists. Robert Mazur repeatedly put his life on the line to do just that. This isnt fiction. Its the real deal and scary as hell.
David Lewis, former executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog against money laundering ii
No one in law enforcement is more lethally vulnerable to the betrayal of those they depend on for support and protection than the deep-cover agentthe unarmed operative who, like human bait, places themselves into isolated situations where the only thing protecting them from an instant death is their acting ability. As opposed to what popular fiction and movies show, very few people in law enforcement actually perform this work. Some of us, like Robert Mazur and a few others whom we both know, for reasons I still dont fully understand, like rock climbers without ropes, spent our careers challenging an instant and lonely death, over and over. And those of us who were betrayed at our most vulnerable by those we depended on for support and protectionoften for political or corrupt reasonsfound ourselves with no recourse other than to write. It is the story of my professional life and that of Roberts. This book is a must-read.
Michael Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Cover and The Big White Lie
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In solemn remembrance of the more than twenty-two thousand US law enforcement officers who made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty and are honored on the marble walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC
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The events referenced in this book occurred. The names of several of the characters have been changed to protect their identities. While I was writing this book, many of the individuals referenced consented to interviews, and in some cases, recorded interviews. Through numerous Freedom of Information Act requests and other legal processes, I obtained copies of undercover meeting transcripts, recordings, and reports related to this story. The majority of the conversations quoted are verbatim, but in instances where the transcript dialogue rambled or I had no transcript, I took literary license and re-created conversations from my recollection, references in reports, the recollection of individuals I interviewed, and my experience as an expert in money laundering and drug trafficking. x
The following are primary characters in The Betrayal.
A full glossary of all names appears after the epilogue.
Emir Abreu: US Customs special agent who was Robert Mazurs partner in the US Customs undercover operation known as Operation C-Chase
Dominic: Italian American informant who worked undercover with DEA special agent Robert Mazur
Juaquin Quino Gonzalez: DEA Task Force officer assigned to work undercover with DEA special agent Robert Mazur
Jorge Krupnik: Former close associate of General Manuel Noriega and prominent businessman in Panama, involved in drug-money laundering
Rinaldo Laguna: Panamanian attorney who introduced money launderers to Robert Mazur while Mazur posed undercover as Robert Baldasare xii
Luis Fernando Latorre: Cali cartel money broker, launderer, and drug trafficker
Elvin Al Melendez: DEA Task Force officer who worked undercover with Robert Mazur
Steven Richards: DEA confidential source who worked at Avid Investment Group, Robert Mazurs undercover business operated in Sarasota, Florida
Pedro Rodriguez-Castro: Bogot-based money launderer and drug trafficker working with the Cali cartel, partner of Luis Latorre
Gilberto Rodriguez-Orejuela: Coleader of the Cali drug cartel with his brother, Miguel
Miguel Rodriguez-Orejuela: Coleader of the Cali drug cartel with his brother, Gilberto
Antonio Ruiz: Undercover identity used by DEA Task Force officer Juaquin Quino Gonzalez while working undercover with DEA special agent Robert Mazur
Jorge Sanz Jr.: Money launderer working with the Cali drug cartel. Son of Jorge Sanz Sr.
Jorge Sanz Sr.: Freighter captain trafficking in cocaine and laundering money on behalf of the Cali drug cartel
Gilbert Straub: High-ranking associate of Robert Vesco and US fugitive who fled to Panama and provided money-laundering services xiii
Edith Uribe: Money launderer and drug trafficker operating in New York City and Tampa
Harry Uribe: Money launderer based in Tampa
Mario Uribe: Drug trafficker based in Tampa
Jaime Vargas: Primary DEA-controlled source from Bogot who worked undercover with DEA special agent Robert Mazur in Operation Pro-Mo
Julio Hilaro Vicuna: Money launderer for the Cali drug cartel operating houses of exchange in Houston, Texas xiv
September 24, 1993
A cool shower rolled in from the surrounding mountains, dousing Panamas scorched streets. Through a mist of steam, Robert Baldasare and one of his bodyguards approached their offices at Chartered Management Group. Baldasares mission was to meet with Luis Latorre, a friend and launderer for the leaders of the Cali cartel. Baldasare had won Latorres trust nearly two years before, at a meeting in a Doral Beach Hotel penthouse when both men took the chance of revealing their secret lives. Through a dizzying maze of import/export transactions funneled through the hands of dozens of dirty bankers, Latorre managed a team of launderers that made the return of the cartels drug fortune into Colombia appear to be the innocent repatriation of export revenue from hundreds of front companies.
Years of Baldasares enchanting the Mafias of Colombia and Panama had convinced them he was one of them, a serpentine professional feeding off the profits of the drug world. In Panama City, he shared offices and trust with Gilbert Straub, a notorious US fugitive who, with his close friend Robert Vesco, had stolen hundreds of millions from unsuspecting Americans. Straub may have fled the United States for Panama, but he took with him his relationships with Mafia royalty, drug dealers, bagmen for politicians, and even Russian KGB officers.
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