From the 4T, accomplices of US espionage?
Three weeks ago, US spying on Mexican politicians and drug traffickers stopped being a covert operation… at least partially.
On Donald Trump ‘s orders , the Pentagon deployed its technological might in planes and ships to listen, visualize and fully understand how the “intolerable alliance” of the 4T with organized crime operates. Also how and where they are given refuge, as was denounced in a post from the White House.
Just over a week ago, Will Freeman , a researcher specializing in Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote an article in The New York Times entitled “Trump Needs to Understand the Cartels to Weaken Them” in which he points out that the problem with the US president’s plan to confront them is that it is not tough or serious enough.
He explains that “the cartels are not terrorist groups like Al Qaeda or ISIS. Cartels like Mexico’s two largest, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, do not seek to overthrow the state or reshape society in their image. They have a less ambitious goal: unlimited profits. That has made them even more powerful than the terrorists: illicit multinational corporations with almost unlimited resources. Simply sending more soldiers to the border is unlikely to make a dent in their business model.”
Yet the Trump administration is making progress on spying, which is nothing new.
An operation by Joe Biden ‘s government that caused a scandal in Mexico was revealed in early October 2022 when millions of electronic communications from the Ministry of National Defense were made public, which became known as the Guacamaya Leaks and was attributed to an alleged group of hacktivists , but which was actually carried out by the CIA, as I made known in this space .
Just there for the little government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to “feel” its neighbor to the north.
EyeNet
Another scandal involving US spying on Mexican politicians, in this case on the corrupt gang of thieves then headed by Enrique Peña Nieto , came to light in October 2013, thanks to Edward Snowden leaking hundreds of records from the National Security Agency, or NSA, to the public.
There were then suspicions, which were confirmed as reality in this Political Index , that Mexicans participated in that operation, perhaps blackmailed because the NSA had discovered that from Mexico these collaborators were also spying on US territory.
Here I asked, under the title Spies without conflict , if the Peña administration really wants to find the Mexican co-responsible for the NSA spying on high-level officials of this and the previous Administration?
First, it should locate the equipment through which the Americans were allowed to listen to, record and analyze telephone conversations, as well as to interfere with electronic communications to and from Los Pinos.
I am going to give a little help to the investigators who are dependent on Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong , to whom the President himself entrusted the task. So, gentlemen, take your vehicles and head towards the avenue of the capital, Avenida de los Constituyentes, where the facilities of the Federal Public Security Secretariat are located.
Are you there yet? Now head straight to the basements where all kinds of electronic equipment is stored to supposedly track “the bad guys from Malolandia.”
There are plenty of black boxes, the size of DVD players, but the ones you are interested in are more or less hidden, mixed in with the other equipment, in one of the corners of the large room.
The equipment that has to search is called EyeNet . It collects and reconstructs –according to the website of its manufacturers– all network traffic, including, of course, those that Los Pinos and/or the headquarters of the then PRI presidential candidate acquired as “encrypted.”
They were not. They were bought, at the time, by the ineffable Genaro García Luna . He used them for a long time. Different targets: his boss Felipe Calderón , for a start. The PAN candidate, Josefina . The PRI candidate, Peña Nieto. And several more.
But on the night of November 30, 2012, he turned them off. There they are, not working.
If they turn them back on — they will have to find them first, of course — Mr. Osorio Chong’s investigators will most likely find traces of everything that García Luna ordered to be tapped, recorded and “analyzed.” They just need to update the software.
However, do not expect that the new person in charge of cyber affairs at the federal SSP, who is a long-time employee of the same agency, Ramón Eduardo Pequeño García , will help you in the task of locating EyeNet .
You remember him. He climbed almost all the positions in the federal SSP with the help of García Luna. And there he is. He stayed. It even seems that García Luna left him “planted” so that his many misdeeds would go unpunished, don’t you think? So that he and his people could be spies without conflict.
Eye on the net
Here’s what the gadget you’re supposed to be looking for to find the accomplices of American espionage does: “EyeNet records and immediately reconstructs (electronic) network traffic, which is collected so that its content can be viewed and analyzed. It is a highly scalable infrastructure that allows users to monitor data for an entire country or corporation from a single location.
“It is a powerful solution that allows users to view, analyze, investigate, monitor, alert and report on any activity or criteria of concern…”
Very possibly, also hidden there in the basements of the Constituyentes building, you will also find one or another device from the company SS8 and whose manufacturers recommend for “police agencies that require a monitoring and analysis solution that leaves no packet untouched, storing traffic based on interception standards, building relationships between targets and associates, planning target activities, assigning locations and generating evidentiary reports and media.
“SS8 provides law enforcement with the capabilities to correlate relevant communications intelligence from call detail records to IP data, webmail and web search records for social media use — all designed specifically for law enforcement,” they pertinently clarify.
And what do they do? Take a look:
“Cyber monitoring. SS8 enables proactive monitoring of specific behavior within cyber communications that matches LEA — or targeted intelligence — requirements. These capabilities can serve the needs of the monitoring center or the broader needs of IP data intelligence and law enforcement analysis teams;
“Visualization and reconstruction. SS8 provides accurate reconstruction of intercepted voice, text, and Internet activity, such as social media, microblogging and chat, webmail, exactly as they were created — in real time;
“Analysis. SS8 enables the correlation of intelligence from Internet Protocol Data Records (IPDRs) and Call Detail Records (CDRs) to the full content of communications”
There are the data, dear investigators. All that remains is to find the equipment and, of course, those who managed it during Felipe Calderón ‘s administration .
The question today is whether there will also be officials of the 4T, also blackmailed by US agencies — such as the DEA, ICE, ATF and the NSA itself — collaborating with the espionage of politicians that the Trump government might have evidence of being “intolerable allies” of the Mexican cartels.
Who says “me!”?
Clues
Genaro García Luna also bought, with taxpayers’ money, a dozen encrypted phones. Everything indicates that he took them. They are nowhere to be found. Where are they? Who kept them? Does Felipe Calderón still have one of them? * * * That’s all for today. Please accept my gratitude for having read this text. I also wish you good thanks and many, many days!
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