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Julian Dorey Podcast

😯 [VIDEO] - The DEA Agent Who Infiltrated Most Notorious Cartel of All Time | Ken Magee • #140

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6 • 649 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 15 March 2023

ā±ļø 148 minutes

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Support Our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Ken Magee is a former DEA Agent and Author. From 1989 to 1996, he was stationed in Colombia as one of the lead US agents on the Medellin and Cali Cartel cases. His tenure in the country was the longest of any DEA Agent in history. Follow Ken's Page: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedeaguy?lang=en ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Ken’s flight with Pablo Escobar’s family 8:11 - Netflix Show ā€œNarcosā€ & its connection to Ken 12:18 - Ken’s childhood in Michigan 22:31 - Ken’s earliest days as a cop pre-DEA 31:08 - Ken’s personal experiences with dr–gs in his family 37:40 - Dr–g Legal1zation Convo 45:42 - The failure of the war on drugs 54:44 - Empathy for worst criminals 57:33 - Julian tells story of 2 friends who went very different directions; Crime & violence 1:09:15 - Who Pablo Escobar was 1:15:05 - Ken explains why Pablo Escobar’s son’s book is awesome; Escobar’s interesting traits 1:21:47 - Cali Cartel’s deal w/ Escobar’s wife 1:24:21 - Ken’s early case work in the DEA 1:30:48 - Ken starts DEA SWAT Team 1:36:55 - The Colombian Runway Sting 1:45:21 - Operation Dustbuster & Operation Backlash in Colombia 1:51:46 - Ken gets reassigned to Pablo Escobar team 2:00:24 - The suitcase smuggling operation 2:06:46 - Breaking down The Escobar team 2:12:54 - How to maintain cover in Colombia & South America 2:22:57 - Threats to US Agents’ lives in Colombia Intro Credits: Narcos (Netflix) Miami Vice (2006) Drive (2011) American Made (2017) Band of Brothers (HBO) Sicario (2015) Sicario: Day of Soldado (2018) ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: ā€œTRENDIFIERā€): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Music via Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

I'm very excited. thank you to all of you who have already done so and thank you to all of you who are going to do so now. I also want to thank all the people who have already joined our Patreon. Very excited about that

0:25.6

and very grateful for all of you who believe in this show. The link to the Patreon can be found in

0:30.3

the show description above and I'd love to see more of you over there as well. Other than that,

0:35.1

please enjoy this episode with Mr. Ken McGee.

0:38.7

We convinced the Columbians through a series of undercover negotiations that I was in to deliver

0:44.7

a DC-6 filled with marijuana and cocaine from the northern coast of Columbia to a small town

0:53.0

in Down River, Michigan, onto an airport on an island known as Gross Hill.

0:58.0

And they delivered 670 kilograms of cocaine and 9 tons of marijuana that landed at 6 o'clock in the morning on this, what used to be a military base.

1:09.0

Now it was a recreational airport in this small little island, 20 minutes south of Detroit. I'm going to be. So I had no idea until you got in the car today that it was you, who was the DEA agent on the plane with Pablo Escobar's wife and son when they were trying to get to Frankfurt

1:45.5

Germany shortly before he got whacked in 93. That's exactly right. It was me. And before they got

1:51.3

on a flight to Frankfurt, they also had tickets to London. And little people know that. So I didn't

1:56.4

know where I was going until they got on the plane and it was just you there's no one else no

2:02.3

there was two other columbian national police officers that traveled with me plane clothes

2:07.3

obviously yep yep they didn't know who we were they had no idea that DEA was on a plane following

2:12.4

them oh they didn't know that you were no the columbia national police did but the escuars had no

2:17.0

clue no the three of us traveled together, the two CNP officers and myself, and it was interesting,

2:25.3

and nobody really knew we were DEA or police entities on that airplane.

2:31.3

No one, not the flight attendants, no one.

2:33.3

It was just us, And the whole goal there

2:37.0

was to monitor the Escobar movement, get them kicked out of Germany and returned back because

2:42.9

we realize when you chase a fugitive, when you're after a fugitive, the whole key to finding

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