Befriending a capo in the Medellin Cartel: How an undercover unit infiltrated the global drug trade By Peter Walsh for Gangsters Inc.
In the early 1990s, British law enforcement launched a new method of infiltrating the criminal underworld. The Investigation Division of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise – the UK’s equivalent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration – began to train a small, elite squad of officers to work undercover. In this exclusive book extract from his new and revealing autobiography, The Betrayer, Guy Stanton describes how he met a capo in Colombia’s Medellin Cartel and how they struck up an unlikely friendship.
