Colombian spies cause trouble in Europe Is the EU turning a blind eye to Colombians spying on its soil? http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/colombia/100630/spy-espionage-eu-colombia-farc

Belgian citizen Paul-Emile Dupret believes the U.S. government has designated him as a "terrorist" and is refusing to let him enter the U.S. in collaboration with Colombia's intelligence agency, the DAS. DAS files, recently unsealed, show Dupret and other Europeans were targets of the secret service due to their work with opposition activists in Colombia. 

According to previously secret documents used in Colombian proceedings, Operation Europe’s objective was to “neutralize the influence” of the European Parliament's Human Rights Sub-Committee, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, European NGO workers and other activists critical of President Alvaro Uribe’s human-rights record.

In Brussels, a group of DAS victims has now decided to take the Colombian agency to court, and might decide to do so in Colombia as well as in Belgium, where preparations are already under way.Meanwhile, a small number of European lawmakers are demanding that the European Union’s free-trade agreement with Colombia, initialed in May by heads of state but awaiting legislative approval, be frozen at least until more facts are known about DAS activities on this continent.