Borderland Beat: Raided Mexican Ranch Linked to U.S. Drug War Corruption

Comment: This article is about bleed-over and internal corruption on the US side of the border. The piece also highlights the need for a strong, vibrant counterintelligence (CI) program. For those unfamiliar with CI, CI focuses on targeting threats that conduct espionage, sabotage, terrorism and subversion. The common thread to all four activities revolves around infiltration in order to develop access to their objectives or targets...hence nodes for infilitration e.g. person, place or thing should be targeted. Infiltration and subversion are best conducted by the enemy via the use of indirect approaches, meaning subtle pressure/force, persistence, etc all while being low-key in order to not tip off your target or adversary.  This achieves surprise. 

1. Adapt, Die or Be Irrelevant 
2. Boyd, Infiltration and the Ambush 
3. The Mask of Subversion - A Snap Shot

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Article Excerpt:

The recent raid of a stash site on the Mexican side of the border suspected of containing a cache of guns and/or drugs is drawing attention once again to the U.S. border town of Columbus, N.M. — where 11 people, including the mayor, police chief and a village trustee, were recently indicted on gun-running charges.The Mexican stash site was raided this past Wednesday evening, June 15, according to former CIA contract pilot and New Mexico resident Tosh Plumlee, who was present at the scene taking photos.The stash site — actually two warehouse buildings on a ranch just south of the border and some 20 to 30 miles east of Palomas, Mexico, which borders Columbus — was allegedly raided by the Mexican military in cooperation with a U.S. military special-operations task force, Plumlee asserts. That Pentagon task force has been active inside Mexico and along the border region for several years and provided intelligence and other unspecified support for the recent raid, according to Plumlee.

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