A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a covert operation by the US that sent undercover operatives to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases.
  • clever_banana@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership

    Was this done in the 19th century? Seriously, why send a human there wearing a wire when they could just hot-mic their phones remotely?

    • huf [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      it's an upstairs/downstairs type comedy where the butler is the DEA agent. there is a running gag that he keeps trying to eat his mcdonalds burger in secret but keeps getting interrupted and has to hide the burger to avoid blowing his cover.