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That's the Explorers Podcast.

Welcome to Spycast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum.

I'm your host, Sasha Ingber.

And each week I take you into the shadows of espionage, intelligence, and covert operations across the globe.

Keith Bulfan was a banker, not a spy.

But he says that one day a special client came along,

a supposed coffee importer who turned out to be a banker for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.

Soon, U.S. authorities were knocking on Keith's door.

And as he tells it, he ended up behind bars of a maximum security prison, where he was tasked

with befriending leaders of drug cartels.

When he got out, he says he became their private banker while secretly feeding

intelligence to the U.S. government. Keith's story is a descent into a world that few see

and fewer survive. Keith, when the U.S. government approached you, was it through coercion?

Yes, it was.

It was a knock on the door at 7 o'clock in the morning, and it was 20 police, you know,

Australian federal police, state police, there was the Mexican federal police, there was the

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