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### Viewing cable 09MEXICO133, MEXICAN ARMY MAJOR ARRESTED FOR ASSISTING DRUG

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09MEXICO133 | 2009-01-20 15:03 | 2011-02-21 12:12 | SECRET | Embassy Mexico
Appears in these articles: http://wikileaks.jornada.com.mx/notas/expediente-medico-de-calderon-entregado-a-cartel

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    2009-01-20 15:43:00
    09MEXICO133
    Embassy Mexico
    SECRET

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 MEXICO 000133

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/16/2019
    TAGS: PGOV PINR PREL SNAR MX
    SUBJECT: MEXICAN ARMY MAJOR ARRESTED FOR ASSISTING DRUG
    TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS

    Classified By: Polcouns Charles Barclay. Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

    ¶1. (C) SUMMARY:  A mid-level Mexican army major was arrested
    in late December 2008 for assisting drug traffickers and
    providing them with limited information about the activities
    and travel plans of Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
    According to an informant, the cartels were using the
    information to avoid heightened security around the
    president, not to target him personally.  The arrest
    represents the most serious security breach to date but is
    not surprising given high-level civilian Government of Mexico
    (GOM) corruption charges over the past six months.  While the
    case demonstrates that the Mexican Secretariat of Defense
    (SEDENA) failed to properly investigate and oversee an
    officer who was involved in providing security for the
    president, it nevertheless indicates that the military is
    serious about combating corruption.  Although the major was
    not part of the president's inner circle, it also shows that
    the cartels succeeded in infiltrating a significant area of
    the GOM's security apparatus.  END SUMMARY.

    ¶2. (SBU) Mid-level Mexican Army Major Arturo Gonzalez
    Rodriguez was arrested the week of December 21, 2008, for
    allegedly assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations
    (DTO) for USD 100K a month.  Gonzalez had been assigned to
    the Estado Mayor (Presidential Protective Division), the unit
    responsible for protecting Mexico's president, to secure the
    periphery around the president's location.  Based on
    statements from a former cartel member turned witness
    code-named "Jennifer," PGR has accused Gonzalez of passing
    information related to the activities and travel plans of
    Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the Arturo Beltran Leyva
    organization (ABLO).  Gonzalez also stands accused of leaking
    military intelligence, training ABLO hit men through a
    private security company and supplying military weapons to
    various DTOs, including los Zetas.

    ¶3. (C) In light of high-level civilian Government of Mexico
    (GOM) corruption charges over the past months, this case is
    disturbing but certainly not shocking.  GOM sources sought to
    downplay the seriousness of the breach, but the revelation
    that Gonzalez was providing intelligence and materials to
    ABLO represented a double blow to the GOM.  First, the fact
    that a member of an army unit responsible for protecting the
    president was passing information about presidential
    movements to the cartels exposes a gap in Calderon's security
    detail.  While it is not known what specific information
    Gonzalez had access to, or what exact details he was passing
    to the cartels, this is a significant security breach.  PGR
    Senior Advisor Oscar Rocha told Poloff that, even though
    Gonzalez was not/not one of the president's personal guards,
    he had access to the president's movements to facilitate his
    unit's forward deployments.  However, given that not all
    batallions are deployed at any given event, the major likely
    only had partial information for a relatively short period of
    time about the president's movements.  According to PGR, the
    informant Jennifer has said the cartels were tracking the
    president's movements with the intent of avoiding the high
    level of government security that surrounds the president,
    but had no specific plan to target Calderon.

    ¶4. (SBU) The second unsettling aspect of the case is that
    Gonzalez apparently had been on the cartel payroll since
    2005, during which time he held different positions in the
    government.  As he changed assignments, he was kept on as a
    cartel asset, and the nature of his involvement with the
    cartels changed.  It is entirely feasible that he fed
    information on other departments of the army (not just the
    Presidential Protective Division) over the course of his
    three-year relationship with the cartels.

    ¶5. (S/NF) RSO shared threat information with the Presidential
    Protective Division regarding threats against the life of
    President Calderon from DTOs.  One source advised that
    Calderon's medical file was passed to a DTO by a corrupt
    member of Calderon's inner circle.  Regarding the arrest of
    Major Gonzalez, General Cuevas, the second in command of the
    Presidential Protective Division, was not overly concerned as
    he stated that the major did not have close access to the
    president.  .

    ¶6. (C) COMMENT:  One of the primary reasons the GOM relies on
    the military to fight the cartels is the perception that the
    military is considerably less corrupt than the state and

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    local police forces.  But this case -- along with other
    military corruption arrests in 2008 -- reaffirms that members
    of the Mexican military also are prone to corruption.
    Security expert Raul Benitez told Poloff that this case
    represents an intelligence failure on the part of the
    Secretariat of Defense (SEDENA) as it had cleared this
    individual for the assignment.  On the upside, SEDENA
    ultimately uncovered the criminal behavior and took action.
    According to the Embassy's Defense Attache Office (DAO),
    SEDENA recognizes the danger of corruption in the military in
    its fight against narcotrafficking, particularly in the
    garrisons out in the countryside.  To counter that threat,
    SEDENA administers a program of counter-intelligence
    (excluding the Presidential Protective Division) and has
    begun, under the Calderon administration, rotating units in
    from the outside in joint operations with local units.  Just
    as with other institutions engaged in the drug war, DAO
    believes that the cartels are reaching out to the military
    with offers some cannot refuse.  Although the army major was
    not part of the president's inner circle, this case
    demonstrates that the cartels were able to extend their
    intelligence network to those charged with protecting his
    personal security.  END COMMENT.

    Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at
    http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity and the North American
    Partnership Blog at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap /
    GARZA

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