"He worked primarily on salary as a contract operative for the FBI, with additional jobs for the Customs Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, IRS, U.S. As the flight began, Silvia announced they were going to Curacao, an island off the coast of Venezuela.After landing, Source Two says, he and Silvia met Durazo at a hotel and urged him to return with them to Puerto Rico, then fly to Los Angeles and seek asylum. During the early 1970s, he was approached there by a Colombian government official offering $250,000 for help with a cocaine-smuggling operation.Source Two said he has always hated drugs and terrorists, so he went to federal prosecutors and agreed to be the front man for an undercover sting. El Negro and FARN became founding constituents of Edén Pastora's During the FDN's Operation Marathon in late September 1983, Chamorro led the FARN in an action at El Espino. Durazo was said to be in Spain, Cuba, Brazil, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Tahiti, France, Canada and Los Angeles. The plot, based in Los Angeles rather than Mexico, placed Mike Rothmiller as a minor character.
Durazo was convicted in Mexico and sentenced to 25 years. "Portions of Source Two's account are substantiated not just by FBI records, but by Albert Zapanta, now president and CEO of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. Within months, one of his top aides published a bestselling book, "Lo Negro del Negro Durazo" (The Dark Side of Blacky Durazo), which in chilling detail revealed the former chief's role in murders, bribery, drug dealing and other crimes.By early 1983, with rumors spreading through Mexican media that Durazo would face criminal charges, he went underground. '"A week later, Source Two had a follow-up conversation with the Durazo relative about who might finance the assassination, the FBI report says.
)Against that backdrop, Rothmiller finally acted on his curiosity about El Negro, filing public-records requests with the FBI, State Department and other federal agencies. Source Two said he was told El Negro would pay.In official reports, some FBI agents questioned Source Two's trustworthiness. Rothmiller, now living in Prescott, has written a book about his findings.
Both entered government service. The questions remained unanswered for years, overshadowed for Rothmiller by career developments. Marshals Service and local law enforcement.
After the Mexico trip, he continued planning Olympic security, aided by a pair of Durazo's police colonels, plus the Colombian operative.Over time, Rothmiller says, those sources assured him Durazo was, in fact, tied to the CIA, and they alluded to U.S. government involvement not just with Nicaraguan rebels, but with drug smugglers.Although skeptical, Rothmiller developed an appreciation for his informer's savvy and his connections.The operative had once served as a police officer in Bogota, and seemed to have tentacles everywhere. "The weapons running." On March 6 of that year, the FBI Terrorism Section in Los Angeles asked bureau headquarters for permission to launch a sting.The application said an undercover agent would be introduced to a Durazo relative in Canada to "discuss and plan recruitment of mercenaries" to carry out the assassination. "How many lives could have been saved if the U.S. government elected to do their job and arrest Durazo while visiting the United States? Long live the flipper. In his book Rothmiller contends El Negro was "an integral player in this top-secret operation. Rothmiller discussed the story at his home in Prescott.Former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates in 2008.Miguel De la Madrid visits a maquiladora factory in 1987.Former Mexican President Jose Ernesto López Portillo.Arturo Durazo Moreno's tangled and crony network included prominent American politicians, judges, police chiefs and federal agents, as well as officials overseas.Mike Rothmiller, a former Los Angeles Police Department detective, has devoted years to researching former Mexico City police chief Arturo "El Negro" Durazo Moreno.