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Undercover School, 17
ISI (Pakistan equivalent of CIA), x, 122
Italy, drug trade in, 77, 93, 158, 227
Jackowski, Mark, 50, 101, 107–8, 116, 203, 311, 345
Musella supported by, 126, 287, 312
Jann, Dieter, 167–69
Jantz, Craig, 38
“Jeweler, the.” See Alcaíno, Roberto
Justice Department, U.S., 110, 126, 238, 290, 312, 333, 336, 345
Kadluboski, Linda (Emir’s “girlfriend”), 153, 157, 167, 170–72, 174, 179, 184, 200
Kalashol, Khairi “Harry,” 102–3, 343
Kalish, Stephen, 146
Kennedy, Bobby, 6
Kerry, John, 112, 146, 151, 160–61, 332–36, 345
Khalil, A. R., 273
Khashoggi, Adnan, 115
King, Bill, 15
Kuwait, 100, 145, 273
Ladow, Joe, 116, 267, 289–90
La Forge, Georges, 92
La Mina, 236–37, 316
Lamont Maxwell, S.A., 104
Lance, Bert, 160, 161
Las Vegas, 9, 80, 82, 91–92, 94
Lehman Brothers, 330
Letheran, Bruce, 272
Liberia, 164, 170, 204, 324
Lichtenstein, xiii, 112, 139, 170, 175, 195, 325
Liston, Sonny, 156
Loader, Brian, 265
London: BCCI branch in, 161, 164, 175, 200–201, 204, 330; raided, 297, 312, 328
Mazur testifies at hearings in, 316–18, 323–24
London Times, 279
Loreto, Tommy, 62, 78–79, 219–20, 225, 227–28, 244–45, 249–50
Los Angeles, 27, 35, 41, 102
agents’ briefing in, 55
BCCI branch in, 125, 133–34, 151, 285
cash in, 35, 138; cash pickups, 62, 84
code name for, 42
cops’ aggression in, 57, 63, 65
Ibarra in, 63–64
“the Jeweler” in. See Alcaíno, Roberto
undercover agents in, 45, 61, 86, 110, 120
Los Pepes (“People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar”), 344
Lucas, Frank, 6, 284–85, 291, 296
Luciano, Charles “Lucky,” 3
Luksic, John, 200, 271–72
Luxembourg, 100, 112, 139, 150
BCCI branch in, 88, 90, 175, 204, 319, 326, 328, 330–31
Lydia (chauffeur), 148, 151
Macisco, Tony, 46–47
Madrid, 124
mafia, the, 41
Chaldean, 102–3, 343
Magness, Robert, 272
Maissen, Franz, 170–71
“Mangione, Robert” (cover name), 8, 12, 13
Manrique, Daniel, 328
marijuana. See drug trade
Marta (Don Chepe’s representative), 221, 225, 228, 233–35
Martinez Romero, Eduardo, 155, 183–84, 234, 246–47
Mazur, Robert, ix–x, 3–8, 111, 116, 167, 203
becomes Robert Mangione, 8, 12–13
becomes Robert Musella. See Musella, Robert
identity revealed, x, 298, 300–301, 303–4, 316; new identities assumed, 265, 304–5, 307, 315, 337
“Mazurgrams,” 314
offered promotion, 310–11
testifies before Senate subcommittee, 335–36
threats against, 302–5, 306–9
on witness stand, 317, 320–22, 323
Mazur, Mrs. Robert (Evelyn), 6–7, 13, 28, 34, 106, 180–81, 206, 297, 300, 318
and family safety, 303, 307–8, 309
and finances, 30, 209
Medellín, Medellín cartel, x, 328, 341
and BCCI, 139, 335
clients in, Mora and, 26, 35, 42–43, 52, 54, 61, 70, 98 (see also Colombia)
drug bosses of, 35, 48; access to, 21, 22, 41, 46; intelligence of, 46, (monitoring) 55; money “crowned,” 60
Fortune magazine story on, 212, 213
killings and kidnappings by, 76, 163
low-level workers for, 45, 102
money brokers of, 86
Musella and, 45, 50, 54, 77–78, 96, 104–5, 114–15, 119, 159; as middle man, 101–2, 119; mistrust of, 278–79; wiretapped, 136
Noriega paid off by, 109
Ospiña as key to, 142–43; reveals phone numbers, 138
plans for penetrating, 27–28; sting feared, 73
profits of, 77
shipments made through Mexico, 65, 284, 341
after takedown, 301
Meros, George, 15–17, 19–20
Merrill Lynch firm, 38, 330
Mexico, 11, 305
cartel shipments made through, 65, 284, 341
Miami, 273
BCCI in, 89, 97, 112, 152, 158, 175, 204, 326; raided, 297, 328
cases overlap with Tampa, 110
cash in, 35, 219; smuggled out, 140
code name for, 42
Colombian neighborhoods of, 31
drug trade in, 10, 27, 41, 65, 120, 138, 284; crossroads of, 152
undercover agents in, 45, 110, 116–17, 120, 231; Musella’s confidant in, 91
Middle East Bank, 324
Milan, Conrad, 55, 57
Miller, Dayne, 66, 87
Miller, Mike, 26–27
Mineroff, Saul, 25, 240
Moeller, Jürgen, 342
Molina, Luís Carlos, 78
Moncada, Gerardo. See Don Chepe
money-counting machines, 46–47, 93
money-laundering, xiii, 9, 101, 109, 114, 116, 119, 183, 322
by Alcaíno, 53, 57–68
by BCCI. See BCCI
FBI and Scotland Yard exposure of, 280
by Federal Reserve Bank, 339
hawala system, 280
by Musella’s organization, 55–56, 138, 146, 155, 195, 202, 228, 244, 283; competition, 236–37
for Noriega, 91, 116, 335, 341
suspicious leaks treated, 225
turnaround time for, 139
ubiquity of, 327–28
Monte Carlo: BCCI branch in, 115, 278
Montevideo: BCCI branch in, 158, 204
Mora, Fabio, 99
Mora, Gonzalo Sr., 31–33
Mora, Gonzalo Jr., 26, 27–28, 31, 46, 81, 85, 94, 169
Bruno as code name for, 43
deal with Musella, 34–44, 50–54, 55–63, 66–67, 69–71, 233, 240; alarmed, 86; cash pickups, 45, 48; as Colombian contact, 98, 187, 226, 228; in Costa Rica, 136–37, 142–44; Don Chepe and, 231–32, 245–47; Emir and, see Abreu, Emir; information from, 53, 154–55, 234–35; meetings recorded, 153, 240; money, money problems, 93, 95–96, 98–99, 114, 137; news of New York bust, 249
as Musella’s guest, 157, 245; photographs, 97, 144; “wedding” guest, 37, 292; at world championship fight, 156–57
and Ospiña, 162, 167
at Paris meetings, 182–86, 189–91, 193, 199–200
takedown of, 295, 314; deported, 343–44
Mora, Mrs. Gonzalo Jr. (Lucy) and Gonzalo children, 95, 96, 136–37, 142–44, 153, 156, 183, 245
Mora, Jaime, 31, 55–58, 61, 63
Morgan, Craig, 147
Mulkerns, Larry, 288
“Musella, Robert” (cover name), ix, xii
code name (“Maximo”) for, 43
code used by, 157
credibility of, 40, 46, 48–51, 54, 59, 132; final test, 181
establishing identity, 8, 11, 17–18, 20–25, 27, 303; clothes, 29–30, 56–57, 167, 173–74; cover time running short, 242; passport problems, 56, 69–70, 268–69, 270–72; real identity revealed, ix, 298, 300–301, 303–4, 316; second and third identities, see Mazur, Robert
“fiancée,” “wife” of, 69, 81, 118; engagement ring, 128, 133; (see also “wedding plans” and “wedding,” below; Ertz, Kathy)
money-laundering by organization of. See money-laundering
Moras (Sr. and Jr.) meet, 31–33; deal arranged with Jr., see Mora, Gonzalo Jr.
personal life while undercover, 107, 180–81, 206, 209
photographs of, 97, 144, 156
surveillance of, 83–84, 136, 145
Swiss safe-deposit box of, 171–72
“wedding plans” and “wedding,” xii, 211–12, 223, 250, 265, 285; gifts, 291–92, 294, 298, 301; invitations, 37, 276, (accepted) 200, 215, 224, 234, 243–44, 248, 262, 281, (Chinoy declines) 279, 291; news coverage, 289–90, 296; and takedown, xiii, 184–85, 292–96, 314
Naqvi, Swaleh, 277, 279, 331, 335, 344
Nassau, 243
BCCI branch in, 204, 241, 326, 328, 344
Nasser, John, 155–56, 224, 244, 251, 253
National Bank of Georgia, 147
National Journal, 457
Nayfeld, Boris, 342
NBC (National Broadcasting Company), 301
NBC News, 266, 268, 289–90, 296, 312
New York City, 57, 273
code name for, 42
control of organized crime in, 41
drug trade in, 65, 72, 101, 163, 284; anchovy shipments, 245, 248–49; cash involved, 35, 122, 138, 158, 219, 222, 227; by Moncada (Don Chepe), 343; money-laundering, 36, 55, 225–26; pickups in, 62, 84; territory handed over, 209–10
meetings at World Trade Center, 38, 64
undercover agents in, 45, 110, 225, 228, 278; supervisor, 219–20
New York Post, xii
New York Stock Exchange, 139, 149
New York Times, xii
Nicaragua, 144
Nicesea Shipping Ltd., 190, 191
Nixon, Richard, 156, 161
Nolexand (Panamanian company), 328
Nomura Securities, 330
Noriega, General Manuel, 48, 175
Awan and, 108–9, 114, 147, 221; manages funds, x, 101, 122, 260–62, 275, 330–31
bank records of, 297, 312, 324; hidden fortune, 214, 275
money-laundering for, 91, 116, 331, 335, 341
threatened, 158, 159, 276; by Ochoa family, 131, 134, 137, 147, 234
U.S. pressure on, pursuit of, 101, 110, 121, 183, 260, 319; investigated by Senate, 260, 262, (indicted) 112, 114, 146, 331
North, Oliver, 115
NSA (National Security Agency), 199, 305
NYPD (New York Police Department), 6
NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), 39, 40
Oakes, Orin, 325
O’Brien, Paul, 14, 16–17, 24, 26, 27, 106
OCDETF (Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force), 55
Ochoa, Guillermo, 70
Ochoa Vazquez, Fabio, 55, 68, 97, 155, 246, 329
as Alcaíno’s partner, 70–71, 131, 237, 281
clandestine lab of, 257, 259
Ochoa Vazquez, Jorge, 131, 134, 137, 147, 154, 246
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, 11
Oman, xiii, 272, 274
Operation C-Chase, xii, 50, 151, 310, 340, 343, 345
Operation Greenback (Tampa), 7, 8, 38
Operation Just Cause, 319
Operation Pisces, 65–66, 67, 73, 88, 139, 140
Operation Starwatch, 265
organized crime, BCCI connections with, 161–62
Orrick, Bentley, 316
Ospiña, Javier “Javier Mina,” 96–97, 102, 135–44, 154, 162, 167, 344
in Paris, 182–87, 194; excluded, 189–90, 192, 193, 196–97, 226
Pakistan, 122, 145, 147, 184, 263, 280, 341–43, 344
president and other officials assassinated, 239, 240
Palmer, Kevin, 147
Palm State Bank, 23
Panama: DEA disapproves Musella’s trip to, 109
drugs transported to, 77
money-laundering in, 221–22; secret records, 261
U.S. currency in, 327
U.S. troops sent to, 319
Panama City, 327, 330
Panamanian banks, xiii, 48, 51
Banco de Occidente, 137–38, 146, 155, 158–59, 183
BCCI. See BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International)
U.S. money in, 62, 90–91, 112; accounts frozen, 121
Panamanian Defense Forces, 330
Paraguay, 123, 327
Paris: BCCI branch in, xi, 159–61, 164, 177, 182, 184, 196, 265; cracked open, 198; money-laundering by, 180; money transferred through, 114, 150, 277–78; raided, 297; U.S. currency backed up in, 124
Ospiña proposes meeting in, 140, 141
trip to, meetings in, 172–81, 182–202
Parker, Judge (British court), 323–24
Passic, Greg, 168
Patricia (Alcaíno’s girlfriend), 281
Perez, Alvaro and Gladys, 280–81, 283–84, 290–91, 299
Perez, Angel, 258–60
Perez, Diego, 263–64
Perlowin, Bruce, 9, 10–14, 17, 68, 79, 101
Pharaon, Gaith Rashad, 273
Philadelphia: code name for, 42
drug trade in, 138, 140, 226, 248–49, 258, 280–81; pickups in, 84
undercover agents in, 110
Philadelphia Daily News, 264
photographs, 97, 144
Pindling, Sir Lynden, 243
Pisces (Undercover DEA Operation). See Operation Pisces
Powell, Robert, 273
Powers, Mike, 295, 323, 331, 336
Private Aircraft Reporting System, 161
Profaci-Colombo crime family, 41
Puri, Sushma, 272
Qatar, 113
Ráfico (murdered partner of Alcaíno), 93
Rebozo, Charles “Bebe,” 161
Rendon, Mono, 296–97, 314
Republican National Convention (1972), 156
Rivera, Andreas, 325
Rizvi, Dildar, 327
Rockwell International, 260, 273
Rodríguez Gacha, José Gonzalo “El Mexicano,” 68, 132, 224, 330
ROIs (Reports of Investigation), 50
Rojas, Sugar “Baby,” 120, 152, 156–57, 204
Roman, Gil, 120, 152, 153, 156–57, 204
Rome, U.S. currency backed up in, 124
Romrell, Larry, 273
Rosenblatt, William, 266–67, 289, 310–12, 334, 345
Ross, Brian, 312
Rozanski, Rita, 38
Russian organized crime, 342
Salazar, Augusto, 86
Salazar, Rafael Cardona, 90
San Francisco, 8–10, 11, 12
San Francisco Examiner, xii
Santería (Afro-Cuban religion), 131, 156, 223, 224–25
Saudi Arabia, 160, 214, 273–74, 276
banks owned by, 147, 263, 318; BCCI, 112–13, 145
Schumer, Charles, 333
Scotland Yard, 280
search warrants, 125–26, 134
Senate subcommittee investigations, 112, 151, 160–61, 238, 260–62, 263, 281
on end of undercover operations, 332–36
testimony before, 146, 324, 332; by Mazur, 335–36
Serra, Frank, 46–47, 227
Shafi, Saad, 241, 242–43, 260, 344
Sherman, Laura, 61, 69–70, 101, 151, 203, 209, 227, 265
and Detroit bust, 211–12, 217
Silverman, Ira, 266, 312
Skolnick, Morris, 5, 6
Slyman, Joe, 9
Social Security Administration, 18
softball game, 16
Sommerhalder, Samuel, 169–70
Sonja (Alcaíno’s girlfriend), 93, 281
Sonja (courier), 84–85
South America, 326, 328, 342
Spain, drug trade in, 77, 93, 119, 157, 227
Strike Force Group (IRS), 6, 50
Summers, Anthony, 11
Sunbird Airlines, 38
Switzerland, xiii, 15, 16, 104, 164
BCCI in, 319, 326; Geneva and Zürich, 204, 208
drug trade in, 170; funds routed through Geneva, 112, 114, 150, 151
meetings in Zürich and Geneva, 164, 167–73
money-laundering in, 327–28
takedown. See undercover work
Taliban (formerly Afghan Freedom Fighters), x, 122
Tammey Jewels, 53, 146, 147, 298
Tampa, 46, 51
BCCI branch in, 99–100, 169; raided, 297
Customs in, 302; Musella’s contact with, 7–8, 136
DEA in, 332
drug trade in, 15, 26
grand jury in, 287
mob ties in, 23
Mora and Alcaíno visit, 36–37, 52–53, 71
ROIs from, 50
undercover agents in, 61, 69, 95, 106, 107, 116; meetings of, 103, 110, 125; after takedown, 301, 305
U.S. District Court in, ix
Tampa Tribune, 316
Tasón, Marcela, 108
Telecommunications, Inc., 272–73
Thailand, 10, 11, 12
Thomas, John, 156
Tiffarri Jewelers, 127, 128
Tischler, Bonni, 106, 116, 169, 180, 212, 345–46
and Detroit bust, 125–26, 217
Musella’s report to, 203, 211
obstructive tactics of, 110–12, 266–67, 311–12
and the takedown, 288–90, 296
and threats against Mazur, 306–8
Tobón, Francisco, 153
Tobón, Juan, 130–33, 153, 244, 292
and John Nasser, 155–56, 224, 251, 253
and Santería, 156, 223
seeks partnership, 226, 228
and takedown: Alcaíno’s arrest, 251, 253, 257, 263–64, 281, 283; arrested, 249, 299, 314; deported, 344
Tobón, Mrs. Juan (Clara), 131–32, 224, 244, 251, 253, 292
Toronto, U.S. dollars in, 103
Treasury Department, U.S., 164, 267, 268
“T-shirts,” 45–46, 47, 84
Turbay Ayala, Julio César, 326
undercover operations. See Operation C-Chase; Operation Greenback; Operation Pisces; Operation Starwatch
undercover work: agent captured and tortured, 71
agents picking up cash, 94 (see also cash pickups)
contact agent, importance of, 107
families of agents, 180–81
female agents, 61, 69–76, 77, 78–82 (see also Asqui, Adella; Ertz, Kathy; Kadluboski, Linda; Sherman, Laura)
finances for. See Customs Service, U.S.
instruction in, 7–9; IRS and Customs Undercover schools, 17
language code used in, 157
meetings of, 110, 203, 293
by pilots, 145, 147
sting operation, 265; sting feared by drug lords, 73
surveillance agents, 102–3, 125, 220, 228; risks created by, 84–86, 229–31, 236, 249
takedown by, xii–xiii, 184–85, 287, 288–300, 314 (see also Alcaíno, Roberto; Giraldo, Jaime and Norberto)
See also Customs Service, U.S.; DEA; Los Angeles; Miami; New York City; Philadelphia; Tampa; Washington, D.C.
United Arab Emirates, 274, 325
United States: BCCI and, 104–5, 160; barred from U.S., 336; BCCI correspondent in, 104–5
cash in, 176; money moved from, 62, 90, 91, 103, 112, 121, 139, 278
currency backed up in BCCI branches, 124
currency used abroad, 214, 327
