Tom Burghardt: America's Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartelsy

In a story which should have made front page headlines, Narco News investigative journalist Bill Conroy revealed that a "high ranking Sinaloa narco trafficking organization member's claim that US officials have struck a deal with the leadership of the Mexican cartel appears to be corroborated in large part by the statements of a Mexican cartel appears to be corroborated in large part by the statements of a Mexican diplomat in email correspondence made public recently by the nonprofit media group WikiLeaks." A series of some five million emails, The Global Intelligence Files, were obtained by the secret spilling organization as a result of last year's hack by Anonimous of the Texas based "global intelligence" firm Stratfor. Bad trade-craft aside, the Stratfor dump offers readers insight into a shadowy world where information is sold to the highest bidder through a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss bank accounts and prepaid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world. One of those informants was a Mexican intelligence officer with the Centro de Investigacion y Seguridad Nacional, or CISEN, Mexico's equivalent to the CIA. Dubbed "MX1" by Stratfor, he operates under diplomatic cover at the Mexican consulate in Phoenix, Arizona after a similar posting at the consulate  in El Paso, Texas. His cover was blown by the intelligence grifters, when they identified him in their correspondence as Fernando de la Mora, described by Stratfor as being molded to be the Mexican tip of the spear in the US. In an earlier Narco News story, Conroy revealed that US soldiers are operating inside Mexico as part of the drug war and the Mexican government provided critical intelligence to US agents in the now discredited Fast and Furious gin running operation, the Mexican diplomat claimed in email correspondence.