ROM Confidential

Ok, this is a problem, but so far we are not seeing a lot of professionalism from the current Zetas, although that may change. Notice the original contact was with a Mexican Soldier and a Columbian Soldier during their training in the USA. There where a number of contract vehicles for doing this training most State Department Sponsored. I was an instructor for three different groups, four if you count Northwestern University, for a short time. They bailed out of the program with very little notice, after it was discovered some of our Columbian and other students had or were part of military's units that had very bad human rights problems like torcher and such. . But, most of what we taught was to Police, and I think they learned a lot. The State Department would bring them up for a month or more for training. I doubt we trained any of these folks, it was a while ago. But private training still goes on, CTI trained Mexican Police on wiretapping and bugging systems, to the point they asked our folks to go on a few of their first assignments. Ah the private security world is a strange place at times.

'Zetas Trained by Former Colombian Special Forces' In a testament to the Zetas drug gang's international reach, a handful of former members of the Colombian Special Forces are alleged to be actively involved in training the Mexican criminal group.