246: Part 2: How He Fooled the World's Most Dangerous Cartel — DEA Undercover Secrets
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Retired DEA Agent Chris Diaz goes deeper than any headline ever will. This isn't about tactics — it's about psychology. How do you infiltrate one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world? You think like them. You talk like them. You become them.
Chris breaks down the exact psychological strategies he used to build trust with high-level cartel targets — how he posed as a major player with access to European drug markets, how he coordinated operations across Romania, Tanzania, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia, and how one wrong word could mean a deadly failure.
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| 0:30.1 | I met the godfather of methamphetamine for New Zealand. |
| 0:35.5 | Wow. |
| 0:36.3 | In a case. |
| 0:39.7 | And we had dinner with his associate. |
| 0:46.0 | And I had portrayed that I was the owner of the restaurant and essentially the everyone in the restaurant was an undercover. |
| 0:47.3 | I ended up standing up and I yelled as loud as I could. |
| 0:50.5 | I was acting as my right hand guy guy of Romanian. Excellent, excellent guy. |
| 0:54.5 | I had whispered to him and I said, can we have one of your guys come over? |
| 0:57.3 | So he called over one of these big bodyguards. |
| 1:00.5 | And he goes, do you mind if we say the word cocaine in the restaurant? |
| 1:07.1 | So then I stood up, I went, cocaine. |
| 1:09.9 | Because I knew everybody in the restaurant |
| 1:11.5 | was an undercover, which made the guy who was a formidable adversary, if you will, his eyes were |
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