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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-30-mn-1305-story.html

Tape Shows Israelis Training Cartels’ Killers

Aug. 30, 1989

BOGOTA, Colombia — Experienced Israeli instructors trained private paramilitary units whose members included a leader of the Medellin drug cartel’s death squads, blamed in the killings this month of four judges and nine court workers, according to a videotape prepared by the Israelis themselves.

The 48-minute color videotape clearly showed former Israeli army Col. Yair Klein running military and assassination training exercises for about 50 men, including one known as Vladimir. Other foreigners speaking Hebrew were shown and heard on the videotape.

Vladimir, whose real name is Alfredo Vaquero, is identified by Colombian authorities as the leader of the Medellin cartel’s paramilitary organization. He was arrested 10 days ago and charged with murder in the slayings of the judges and court workers.

In addition to Vladimir, the security authorities identified at least four key figures in Colombia’s massive drug trade as attending a graduation ceremony at the end of the training program.

A secret report prepared for a government security agent also disclosed that the trainees in the film had been recruited at the behest of Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, two leaders of the Medellin cartel.

The video was prepared by Klein as a promotion for a company, The Spear of Glory, that he had established to train paramilitary groups, according to Gen. Miguel A. Maza Marquez, head of the Administrative Security Department, Colombia’s equivalent of the FBI.

Maza said in an interview with two American reporters that the film, captured in a raid on the house of an alleged recruiter for the death squads, Henry Perez, “is undeniable evidence” that the Israelis have trained the drug cartels’ forces.

And, according to Maza, Vladimir has told interrogators that “his instructors were Israelis.”

At one point in the interview, the general declared that “I know we can make the connection” between the Israeli-trained drug forces and the murder Aug. 18 of Luis Carlos Galan, the leading candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential election. It was Galan’s murder that initiated the current drug crackdown in Colombia.

Maza said a witness to the assassination, himself a former member of a drug-sponsored paramilitary group, asserted that three suspects now under arrest in the killing of Galan had trained with him under Israeli instructors.