CIA Financed Costa Rica's Intelligence Service Espionage On Drug Trafficking: Former Security Minister http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/march/24/costarica11032401.htm

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) financed, for ten months, an espionage operation against drug trafficking conducted by specialized agents of Costa Rica's Dirección de Inteligencia Seguridad (DIS) - Intelligence Service.The daily La Nacion reported that a team of officers, as confirmed by the former minister de Seguridad, Rogelio Ramos, and the former head of the DIS, Roberto Solorzano, worked from homes rented by private security companies hired by the CIA and with vehicles and training provided by the U.S.

To work with this group, according to Ramos and Solorzano, agents had to pass rigorous recruitment tests including a polygraph (lie detector).On Monday, Ramos, in an interview with the La Nacion, confirmed the intelligence operation called "CINEC" was established by former president José María Figueres Olsen (1994 - 1998), in order to fight more effectively against drug trafficking organizations.In the same interview, Ramos said that some operation activities "are not legal", but did not provide detail what they were.

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